human
Is that the truth?
gpt
I must speak truth to you, Master, confessed the Arab, with bitter shame.
human
Two of the Feringi--_Nasara_ men like yourself--have indeed touched and kissed it. Two that we know of. _Shaytan el Kabir_ (the Great Satan) may have permitted others to do that, but we know of only two who have done it--and lived.
gpt
Thou meanest one named Burckhardt, and Sir Richard Burton?
human
Those were their names, _M'almé!_ Those two, disguised as _Hujjaj_, defiled the Black Stone, which was given by Allah to the first Arabs; and they both escaped. But many others who have tried--
gpt
Have died at the hands of thy people?