And left him there to feed all alone,
In the honey cells of his golden hive;
Never a prayer, nor a cry, nor a groan,
Was heard from those massive walls of stone,
Nor again was the Caliph seen alive.
[447] Freeman, op. cit., p. 132.
[448] “Tamerlan fit passer au fil de l’epée tous sea Habitants, n’ epargnant ni age, ni sexe, ni condition et fit raser rez pied, rez terre tous ses principaux bätimens.” D’Herbelot, op. cit., s. v. “Timour.”
[449] Cf. Gibbon, op. cit., Chap. LXV. “The ground which had been occupied by flourishing cities was often marked by his”—Timour’s—“abominable trophies—by columns or pyramids of human heads.” Ibid., Chap. LXV. “The people of Ispahan supplied seventy thousand human skulls for the structure of several lofty towers.” Ibid., Chap. XXXIV.
[450] Howorth, op. cit., Part III, p. 1.
[451] Cf. Benjamin of Tudela, op. cit., p. 98 et seq. According to the Babylonian Talmud which “became the main factor in the history and development of Judaism,” the Jews of Babylon passed for a purer race than those of Palestine.