Chapter 285

1965 Words

[FN#285] In Night xxxv. the same occurs with a difference. [FN#286] The old rite, I repeat, has lost amongst all but the noblest of Arab tribes the whole of its significance; and the traveller must be careful how he trusts to the phrase "Nahnu m á lihin" we are bound together by the salt. [FN#287] Arab. "Al á ma" = Al á -m á = upon what ? wherefore ? [FN#288] Arab. "Mauz"; hence the Linnean name Musa (paradisiaca, etc.). The word is explained by Sale (Koran, chaps. xxxvii. 146) as "a small tree or shrub;" and he would identify it with Jonah's gourd. [FN#289] Lane (ii. 446) "bald wolf or empowered fate," reading (with Mac.) Kaz á for Kattan (cat). [FN#290] i.e. "the Orthodox in the Faith." R á shid is a proper name, witness that scourge of Syria, R á shid Pasha. Born in 1830, of the Ha

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