[FN#316] The game is much mixed up after Arab fashion. The "Tufat" is the Siy á hgosh= Black-ears, of India (Felis caracal), the Persian lynx, which gives very good sport with Dachshunds. Lynxes still abound in the thickets near Cairo
[FN#317] The "Sons of Kaht á n," especially the Ya'arubah tribe, made much history in Oman. Ya'arub (the eponymus) is written Ya'arab and Ya'arib; but Ya'arub (from Ya'arubu Aorist of 'Aruba) is best, because according to all authorities he was the first to cultivate primitive Arabian speech and Arabic poetry. (Caussin de Perceval's Hist. des Arabes i.50, etc.)
[FN#318] He who shooteth an arrow by night. See the death of Antar shot down in the dark by the archer Jaz á r, son of J á b í r, who had been blinded by a red hot sabre passed before his eyes. I may
