[FN#25] Arab. "Y á Kisrawi!"=O subject of the Kisr á or Chosro ë ; the latter explained in vol.i.,75.[Volume 1, Footnote # 128] "Fars" is the origin of "Persia"; and there is a hit at the prodigious lying of the modern race, whose forefathers were so famous as truth-tellers. "I am a Persian, but I am not lying now," is a phrase familiar to every traveller.
[FN#26] There is no such name: perhaps it is a clerical error for "Har j á h"=(a man of) any place. I know an Englishman who in Persian called himself "Mirza Abdullah-i-H í chmak á ni"=Master Abdullah of Nowhere.
[FN#27] The Bresl. Edit. (loc. cit.) gives a comical description of the Prince assuming the dress of an astrologer-doctor, clapping an old book under his arm, fumbling a rosary of beads, enlarging his turband, lengthening his
