[Footnote *: Major Price, who writes with the authority of
one widely conversant with the original sources of Eastern
knowledge, and in a very candid tone, takes a very different
view of the prophet's death. "In tracing the circumstances
of Mahommed's illness, we look in vain for any proofs of
that meek and heroic firmness which might be expected to
dignify and embellish the last moments of the apostle of
God. On some occasions he betrayed such want of fortitude,
such marks of childish impatience, as are in general to be
found in men only of the most ordinary stamp; and such as
extorted from his wife Ayesha, in particular, the sarcastic
remark, that in herself, or any of her family, a similar
demeanor would long since have incurred his severe
displeasure. * * * He said that the acuteness and violence
of his sufferings were necessarily in the proportion of
those honors with which it had ever pleased the hand of
Omnipotence to distinguish its peculiar favorites Price,
vol. i. p. 13. - M]
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