[FN#266] Which made him expect a heavy haul.
[FN#267] Arab. "Urk ú b" = tendon Achilles in man hough or pastern in beast, etc. It is held to be an incrementative form of 'Akab (heel); as Kur' ú b of Ka'b (heel) and Khurt ú m of Khatm (snout).
[FN#268] Arab. "Karm ú t" and "Zakz ú k." The former (pronounced Garm ú t) is one of the many Siluri (S. Carmoth Niloticus) very common and resembling the Sh á l. It is smooth and scaleless with fleshy lips and soft meat and as it haunts muddy bottoms it was forbidden to the Ancient Egyptians. The Zakz ú k is the young of the Sh á l (Synodontis Schal: Seetzen); its plural form Zak á zik (pronounced Zig á zig) gave a name to the flourishing town which has succeeded to old Bubastis and of which I have treated in "Midian" and "Midian Revisited."
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