Catûm, or the Strong; but it did not answer to its name, for in the first battle in which the. prophet used it, he drew it with such force that he broke it in pieces. In general, he used the . Arabian kind of bow, with appropriate arrows · and lances, and forbade his followers to use. those of Persia. Mahomet now sought no longer to conciliate . the Jews; on the contrary, they became objects of his religious hostility. He revoked the regulation by which he had made Jerusalem the Kebla or point of prayer, and established Mecca in its place; towards which, ever since, the Mahometans turn their faces when performing their devotions. The death of the prophet's daughter Rokaia had been properly deplored by her husband Othman. To console the latter for his loss, Omar, his brother in arms, offered him, in the course of the year, his daughter Hafza for wife. She was the widow of Hobash, a Suhamite, eighteen years of age, and of tempting beauty, yet Othman declined the match. Omar was indignant at what he conceived a slight to his daughter and to himself, and complained of it to Mahomet. "Be not grieved, Omar," replied the prophet, "a better wife is destined for Othman, and a better husband for thy daughter." He in effect gave his own daugh |