ABSTRACT
It is also to be noted, that Machmet has forbidden wine to Infidels, because as the Infidels say : One day he was passing, with his servants, a public-house, in which were many people making merry. He asked why those people were so merry; one of his servants told him it was caused by wine. Machmet said : " Is it such a drink that people become so merry from it!" Now in the evening Machmet went out again, and there was a great noise because a man and his wife were fighting, and two persons were killed. He spoke and asked what was the matter ? One of his servants said that the people who were merry have now lost their senses, because they have taken too much wine, and they knew not what they did.
