[FN#105] The Bresl. Edit. adds that the seal-ring was of stamped stone and iron, copper and lead. I have borrowed copiously from its vol. vi. pp. 343, et seq.
[FN#106] As this was a well-known pre-Islamitic bard, his appearance here is decidedly anachronistic, probably by intention.
[FN#107] The first Moslem conqueror of Spain whose lieutenant, T á rik, the gallant and unfortunate, named Gibraltar (Jabal al- Tarik).
[FN#108] The colours of the Ban ú Umayyah (Ommiade) Caliphs were white, of the Ban ú Abb á s (Abbasides) black, and of the Fatimites green. Carrying the royal flag denoted the generalissimo or plenipotentiary.
[FN#109] i.e. Old Cairo, or Fustat: the present Cairo was then a Coptic village founded on an old Egyptian settlement called Lui- Tkeshroma, to which belonged the tan
