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A well at Mecca, the water of which is carried away by pilgrims. It is said to be supplied from Paradise.

Footnote 97:

The angel of death. As soon as a man yields his last breath, Azrael is sent by Allah to strike the balance between the deceased's good and bad actions.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Punctuation and some spelling has been normalized.

Variations in hyphenation and accentuation were maintained.

Italicized words and phrases are presented by surrounding the text with _underscores_.

End of Project Gutenberg's The Horses of the Sahara, by Eugene Daumas