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Mohammed was buried there , and it stands next to Mecca as the holiest city of the world to the followers of Islam . But I will not purloin the professor 's thunder . On the other side of the Red Sea is Berenice , the seat of the Egyptian trade with India in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus ; but there is not much besides ruins there at the present time . '' The conference met at four o'clock , and the map of Arabia still hung on the frame . The professor took his place , and pointed out Yembo on it , adding that Medina was two hundred and seventy miles north of Mecca . `` When I suspended my remarks this morning , Mohammed had failed to improve his fortunes by emigration , had returned to Mecca , and had married again , '' the professor began . `` At his death he left nine wives , and how many more he may have had I am not informed . ''