[FN#292] A purely imaginary King.

[FN#293] The Bresl.  Edit. (ix. 370) here and elsewhere uses the word “Nutiya"=Nauta, for the common Bahriyah or Mallah.

[FN#294] Arab.  “Tawaf,” the name given to the sets (Ashwat) of seven circuits with the left shoulder presented to the Holy House, that is walking “widdershins” or “against the sun” ("with the sun” being like the movement of a watch).  For the requisites of this rite see Pilgrimage iii. 234.

[FN#295] Arab.  “Akh”; brother has a wide signification amongst Moslems and may be used to and of any of the Saving Faith.

[FN#296] Said by the master when dismissing a servant and meaning, “I have not failed in my duty to thee!” The answer is, “Allah acquit thee thereof!’

[FN#297] A Moslem prison is like those of Europe a century ago; to think of it gives gooseflesh.  Easterns laugh at our idea of penitentiary and the Arabs of Bombay call it “Al-Bistan” (the Garden) because the court contains a few trees and shrubs.  And with them a garden always suggests an idea of Paradise.  There are indeed only two efficacious forms of punishment all the world over, corporal for the poor and fines for the rich, the latter being the severer form.

[FN#298] i.e. he shall answer for this.

[FN#299] A pun upon “Khaliyah” (bee hive) and “Khaliyah” (empty).  Khaliyah is properly a hive of bees with a honey-comb in the hollow of a tree-trunk, opposed to Kawwarah, hive made of clay or earth (Al-Hariri; Ass. of Tiflis).  There are many other terms, for Arabs are curious about honey.  Pilgrimage iii. 110.

[FN#300] Lane (iii. 237) supposes by this title that the author referred his tale to the days of the Caliphate.  “Commander of the Faithful” was, I have said, the style adopted by Omar in order to avoid the clumsiness of “Caliph” (successor) of the Caliph (Abu Bakr) of the Apostle of Allah.

[FN#301] eastern thieves count four modes of housebreaking, (1)picking out burnt bricks; (2) cutting through unbaked bricks; (3) wetting a mud wall and (4) boring through a wooden wall (Vikram and the Vampire p. 172).

[FN#302] Arab.  “Zabbat,” lit. a lizard (fem.) also a wooden lock, the only one used throughout Egypt.  An illustration of its curious mechanism is given in Lane (M.  E. Introduction)

[FN#303] Arab.  “Dabbus.”  The Eastern mace is well known to English collectors, it is always of metal, and mostly of steel, with a short handle like our facetiously called “life-preterver " The head is in various forms, the simplest a ball, smooth and round, or broken into sundry high and angular ridges like a melon, and in select weapons shaped like the head of some animal. bull, etc.  See Night dcxlvi.