The Nāṣirī Generations 294.1

294.1

Trustworthy persons of ’Arab and ’Ajam have related on this wise, that, during the period of three months that the son of Hulau carried on hostilities before the gate of the fortress of Mayya-farikin, [the contents of] every catapult discharged against that fortification from the infidel army came back again, and fell upon the heads of the infidels themselves, until they brought a famous catapult from Mausil. On the first day [after it was brought], they prepared within the fortress fire of naft [naphtha]. and discharged it [the composition] along with the stones of their catapults, and burnt that other catapult.