The freedom of his countrymen disdained the laws of justice; they proudly indulged the spontaneous impulse of pity and benevolence.
[Footnote 39: Arrian, in the second century, remarks (in Periplo Maris Erythraei, p.

12) the partial or total difference of the dialects of the Arabs.

Their language and letters are copiously treated by Pocock, (Specimen, p.

150-154,) Casiri, (Bibliot.

Hispano-Arabica, tom.i.