[FN#430] i.e. "High of (among) the Kings." Lane proposes to read 'Ali al-Mulk = high in dominion.
[FN#431] Pronounce Mu'inuddeen = Aider of the Faith. The Bresl. Edit. (iv. 266) also read "Mu'in al-Riy á sah" = Mu'in of the Captaincies.
[FN#432] Arab. "Sh ú m" = a tough wood used for the staves with which donkeys are driven. Sir Gardner Wilkinson informed Lane that it is the ash.
[FN#433] In Persian we find the fuller metaphorical form, "kissing the ground of obedience."
[FN#434] For the Shaykh of the Sea(-board) in Sindbad the Seaman see vol. vi. 50.
[FN#435] That this riding is a facetious exaggeration of the African practice I find was guessed by Mr. Keightley.
[FN#436] Arab. "Kummasra": the root seems to be "Kamsara" = being slender or compact.
[FN#437] Lane translates, "by reas
