Ben Hamed: or, The Children of Fate

Ben Hamed, or The Children of Fate by Sylvanus Cobb is about the Syndic of the money-changers, Elkader, and his black slave Marouf. Elkader sends his black slave to give the most beautiful jewels to the charming and beautiful Morgiana, which has lasting consequences on the Syndic of the merchants. Excerpt: «ON all hands the arms of the sons of Islam had been victorious, and the close of the eighth century, and the opening of the ninth, saw the Arabian dominion at its zenith of power and splendor. The followers of Mahomet had not only established one of the most mighty governments of earth, but they had drawn wealth and refinement, and other adjuncts of national power from conquered nations.»