[FN#329] Arab.  “Mal,” here=Badawi money, flocks and herds, our “fee” from feoh, vieh, cattle; as pecunia from pecus, etc., etc.

[FN#330] The litholatry of the old Arabs is undisputed:  Manat the goddess-idol was a large rude stone and when the Meccans sent out colonies these carried with them stones of the Holy Land to be set up and worshipped like the Ka’abah.  I have suggested (Pilgrimage iii. 159) that the famous Black Stone of Meccah, which appears to me a large aerolite, is a remnant of this worship and that the tomb of Eve near Jeddah was the old “Sakhrah tawilah” or Long Stone (ibid. iii. 388).  Jeddah is now translated the grandmother, alluding to Eve, a myth of late growth:  it is properly Juddah=a plain lacking water.

[FN#331] The First Adites, I have said, did not all perish:  a few believers retired with the prophet Hud (Heber ?) to Hazramaut.  The Second Adites, who had Marib of the Dam for capital and Lukman for king, were dispersed by the Flood of Al-Yaman.  Their dynasty lasted a thousand years, the exodus taking place according to De Sacy in A.D. 150-170 or shortly after A.D. 100 (C. de Perceval), and was overthrown by Ya’arub bin Kahtan, the first Arabist; see Night dcxxv.

[FN#332] This title has been noticed:  it suggests the “Saint Abraham” of our medaeval travellers.  Every great prophet has his agnomen:  Adam the Pure (or Elect) of Allah, Noah the Najiy (or saved) of Allah; Moses (Kalim) the Speaker with Allah; Jesus the Ruh (Spirit breath) or Kalam (the word) of Allah.  For Mohammed’s see Al-Busiri’s Mantle-poem vv. 31-58.

[FN#333] Koran (chaps. iii. 17), “Verily the true religion in the sight of Allah is Islam” i.e. resigning or devoting myself to the Lord, with a suspicion of “Salvation” conveyed by the root Salima, he was safe.

[FN#334] Arab.  “Sa’ikah,” which is supposed to be a stone.  The allusion is to Antar’s sword, “Dhami,” made of a stone, black, brilliant and hard as a rock (an aerolite), which had struck a camel on the right side and had come out by the left.  The blacksmith made it into a blade three feet long by two spans broad, a kind of falchion or chopper, cased it with gold and called it Dhami (the “Trenchant”) from its sharpness.  But he said to the owner:—­

     The sword is trenchant, O son of the Ghalib clan,
     Trenchant in sooth, but where is the sworder-man?

Whereupon the owner struck off the maker’s head, a most satisfactory answer to all but one.

[FN#335] Arab.  “Kuta’ah”:  lit. a bit cut off, fragment, nail-paring, and here un diminutif.  I have described this scene in Pilgrimage iii. 68.  Latro often says, “Thy gear is wanted by the daughter of my paternal uncle” (wife), and thus parades his politeness by asking in a lady’s name.

[FN#336] As will appear the two brothers were joined by a party of horsemen.

[FN#337] “Four” says the Mac.  Edit. forgetting Falhun with characteristic inconsequence.