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of the cave, with my face to the east, resigning myself to the secret influences of the Prophet, and expecting illumination from above. One morning after my nocturnal vigil, just as I perceived the horizon glow at the approach of the sun, the power of sleep became irresistable, and I sunk under it. I imagined myself still sitting at the entrance of my cell that the gawn increased, and that as I looked earnestly for the first beam of day, a dark spot appeared to intercept it. I perceived that it was in motion; it increased in size as it drew near, and at length I discovered it to be an eagle. I still kept my eye fixed stedfastly upon it, and saw it alight at a small distance, where I now discried a fox, whose two fore-legs appeared to be broken. Before this fox the eagle laid part of a kid, which it had brought in its talons and disappeared. When I awaked, I laid my fore-head upon the ground, and blessed the Prophet for the instruction of the morning, I reviewed my dream, and said thus to myself, 'Cofrou, thou hast done well to renounce the tumult, and business and the vanities of life:
