[FN#22] Sed vitam faciunt balnea, vine, Venus! The Hammam to Easterns is a luxury as well as a necessity; men sit there for hours talking chiefly of money and their prowess with the fair; and women pass half the day in it complaining of their husbands' over-amativeness and contrasting their own chaste and modest aversion to camel congress.
[FN#23] The frigidarium or cold room, coolness being delightful to the Arab.
[FN#24] The calidarium or hot room of the bath.
[FN#25] The Angel who acts door-keeper of Hell; others say he specially presides over the torments of the damned (Koran xliii. 78).
[FN#26] The Door-keeper of Heaven before mentioned who, like the Guebre Zamiy á d has charge of the heavenly lads and lasses, and who is often charged by poets with letting them slip.
[FN#27] Lane
