The danger and escape of Abdallah is a tradition rather than a fact, (Gagnier, Vie de Mahomet, tom.i.p.

82-84.)] [Footnote 53: Suillis carnibus abstinent, says Solinus, (Polyhistor.

c.
33,) who copies Pliny (l.viii.c.

68) in the strange supposition, that hogs can not live in Arabia.

The Egyptians were actuated by a natural and superstitious horror for that unclean beast, (Marsham, Canon.