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61.0 -0.25
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[EN#1] The word is explained in my “Itineraries,”
part ii. sect. 3.
[EN#2] See Appendix IV. “Botanical Notes.”
[EN#3] “Opens,” i.e. the door for
a higher price: it is the usual formula of refusing
to sell.
[EN#4] Chap. XVI.
[EN#5] The Saturday Review, in a courteous notice
of my first volume (May 25, 1878), has the following
remarks:—“The Arabs talk of some
(?) Nazarenes, and a ‘King of the Franks,’
having built the stone huts and the tombs in a neighbouring
cemetery (’Aynunah). But there can be no
local tradition worth repeating in this instance.”
Here we differ completely; and those will agree with
me who know how immutable and, in certain cases, imperishable
Arab tradition is. The reviewer, true, speaks
of North Midian, where all the tribes, except the
Beni ’Ukbah, are new. Yet legend can survive
the destruction and disappearance of a race:
witness the folk-traditions of the North-Eastern Italians
and the adjacent Slavs. Here, however, in South
Midian we have an ancient race, the Baliyy. And
what strengthens the Christian legend is that it is
known to man, woman, and child throughout the length
and breadth of the land.
[EN#6] In Sinai “Shinnar” is also applied
to a partridge, but I am unable to distinguish the
species—caccabis, Desert partridge, (Ammoperdix
heyi, the Arab Hajl), or the black partridge (Francolinus
vulgaris).
[EN#7] Chap. IX. has already noticed Ptolemy’s
short measure.
[EN#8] Chap. XVII.
[EN#9] Helix desertorum (Forsk.) and Helix (sp. incert.)
[EN#10] See “The Gold Mines of Midian,’’
Chap. II.
[EN#11] So in Moab the ruins of “Meron”
or Merou of the Greeks has degenerated into Umm Rasas,
“the Mother of Lead.”
[EN#12] Their names will be given in Chap. XIII.
[EN#13] A. G., p. 24. See “The Gold-Mines
of Midian,” Chap. XI. Sprenger spells
the word either with a Zad or a Za: I have discussed
the question in my “Itineraries,” part
ii. sect. 4.
[EN#14] See the end of this Chapter for a list.
[EN#15] See Chap. XIV.
[EN#16] “Irwin’s Voyage,” 1777.
[EN#17] This was probably a misprint originally, but
it has been repeated in subsequent editions.
Hence it imposed upon even such careful workmen as
the late Lieutenant Henry Raper, “The Practice
of Navigation,” etc., p. 527, 6th edition.
[EN#18] See an excellent description of the phenomenon
in that honest and courageous work, “Through
Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot,” by Arthur
J. Evans, B.A., F.S.A. London: Longmans,
1877.
