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Vizier, The King of Hind and his, ii. 105. Vizier Er Rehwan, King Shah Bekht and his, i. 215. Vizier's Daughters, The Two Kings and the, iii. 145, Viziers, Story of King Dadbin and his. i. 104. Viziers, The Ten, i. 61. Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor, The Seventh, iii. 224. Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor, The Sixth, iii. 203.

Wasteful Son, The Rich Man and his, i. 252. Weaver who became a Physician by his Wife's Commandment, The ii. 21. Wife, The King and his Chamberlain's, ii. 53. Wife, The Old Woman and the Draper's, ii. 55. Wife, Firouz aad his, i. 209. Wife, The Fuller and his, i. 261. Wife and the Learned Man, Khelbes and his, i. 301. Woman accused of Lewdness, The Pious, ii. 5. Woman of the Barmecides, Haroun er Reshid and the, i. 57. Woman, The Thief and the, i. 278. Woman and the Draper's Wife, ii. 55. Woman , the Merchant and the King, i. 265. Women's Craft, ii. 287.

Young Men, El Hejjaj and the Three, i. 53.

Zubeideh, El Mamoun and, i. 199

The End.

Tales from the Arabic, Volume 3 Endnotes

Breslau Text, vol. xii. pp. 50-116, Nights dcccclviii-dcccclxv.

Babylon, according to the Muslims, is the head-quarters of sorcery and it is there that the two fallen angels, Harout and Marout, who are appointed to tempt mankind by teaching them the art of magic, are supposed to be confined.

i.e. "my lord," a title generally prefixed to the names of saints. It is probable, therefore, that the boy was named after some saint or other, whose title, as well as name, was somewhat ignorantly appropriated to him.

i.e. one and all?

i.e. a foretaste of hell.

Lit. he loaded his sleeve with.

A mithcal is the same as a dinar, i.e. about ten shillings.

Masculine.

Princess of the Fair.

i.e. Ye are welcome to.

i.e. the place in which those accused or convicted of crimes of violence were confined.

i.e. a youth slender and flexile as a bough.

i.e. sway gracefully. A swimming gait is the ideal of elegance to the Arab.

An Arab of Medina, proverbial for faithlessness.

Joseph is the Mohammedan prototype of beauty.

For the loss of Joseph. Jacob, in like manner, is the Muslim type of inconsolable grief.

Uncle of the Prophet.

First cousin of the Prophet.

i.e. cut off her head.

When asked, on the Day of Judgment, why he had slain her.

i.e. that some one of the many risings in Khorassan had been put down.

Lit. fry. The custom is to sear the stump by plunging it into boiling oil.

Lit. of those having houses.

i.e. from God in the world to come.

I look to get God's favour in consequence of thy fervent prayers for me.

Provided for ablution.

i.e. if you want a thing done, do it yourself.

i.e. put on the ordinary walking dress of the Eastern lady, which completely hides the person.

This is apparently said in jest; but the Muslim Puritan is often exceedingly punctilious in refusing to eat or use anything that is not sanctified by mention in the Koran or the Traditions of the Prophet, in the same spirit as the old Calvinist Scotchwoman of popular tradition, who refused to eat muffins, because they "warna mentioned in the Bible."

i.e. a leader of the people at prayer.

Koran ii. 168.

i.e. I have eaten largely and the food lies heavy on my stomach.

"The similitude of Paradise, the which is promised unto those who fear . Therein are rivers of water incorruptible and rivers of milk, the taste whereof changeth not, and rivers of wine, a delight to the drinkers, and rivers of clarified honey."--Koran xlvii. 16, 17.

The ox is the Arab type of stupidity, as with us the ass.

Syn. wood .

i.e. my pallor and emaciation testify to the affliction of my heart and the latter bears witness that the external symptoms correctly indicate the internal malady.

Lit. he is the deposit of God, then thy deposit.

Or "by."

i.e. made him Chief of the Police of Baghdad, in place of the former Prefect, whom he had put to death with the rest of Noureddin's oppressors.

For affright.

Breslau Text, vol. xii. pp. 116-237, Nights dcccclxvi-dcccclxxix.

i.e. A member of the tribe of Sheiban. No such King of Baghdad as Ins ben Cais is, I believe, known to history.

The cities and provinces of Bassora and Cufa are generally known as "The Two Iraks"; but the name is here in all probability used in its wider meaning of Irak Arabi and Irak Farsi .

i.e. all those languages the knowledge whereof is necessary to an interpreter or dragoman . Or quaere is the word terjemaniyeh here a mistranscription for turkumaniyeh .

i.e. gilded?

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