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1 Pre    | pilgrimage. Once, indeed, in answer to the pressing invitation
2 Pre    |     not in my neighbour? The answer is not in the Bible (this
3 Pre    |  heard him give a favourablc answer to the same prayers. Again
4 Pre    |     they have discovered the answer to all human demands when
5 II(*)  |       but its breezes cannot answer him; finally, he concludes
6 III(*) |      near them and hear what answer they make. And the lapwing
7 V      |     unwelcomed the bitterest answer fell~From lips where the
8 XXIV(*)|   the day on which he was to answer the charge against himself,
9 XXX(*) |     in reading the Koran. In answer to Ibn Batuta's questions,