[Footnote 118: Church Missionary Intelligencer, 1887, p. 653.]
[Footnote 119: See Church Missionary Intelligencer, April, 1888.]
[Footnote 120: Over against Canon Taylor's glowing accounts of this broad and gentle charity we may place the testimony of Palgrave in regard to the remorseless rapacity practised by the Wahábees upon the Shiyaées of Persia while passing through their territory in their pilgrimages to a common shrine. He tells us that "forty gold tománs were fixed as the claim of the Wahábee treasury on every Persian pilgrim for his passage through R'ad, and forty more for a safe conduct through the rest of the empire—eighty in all….
"Every local governor on the way would naturally enough take the hint, and strive not to let the 'enemies of God' (for this is the sole title given by Wahábees to all except themselves) go by without spoiling them more or less….
"So that, all counted up, the legal and necessary dues levied on every Persian Shiyaée while traversing Central Arabia, and under Wahábee guidance and protection, amounted, I found, to about one hundred and fifty gold tománs, equalling nearly sixty pounds sterling, English, no light expenditure for a Persian, and no despicable gain to an Arab."—Palgrave's Central and Eastern Africa, p. 161.]
[Footnote 121: Dodds: Mohammed, Buddha, and Christ, p. 118.]
[Footnote 122: Church Missionary Intelligencer, November, 1887.]
[Footnote 123: Church Missionary Intelligencer, February, 1888, p. 66.]
[Footnote 124: Church Missionary Intelligencer, April, 1888.]