continued:—So I gave my shop in charge to a lad and followed her without
her seeing me; nor did I cease to keep her in sight, hiding behind her,
till she left Cairo and came to the Wazir’s Gardens. Then I hid myself
whilst she bandaged the porter’s eyes and followed her again from place
to place till she came to the mountain[430] and stopped at a spot where
there was a great stone. Here she made the porter set down his crate,
and I waited whilst she conducted him back to the Wazir’s Gardens, after
which she returned and, taking out the contents of the basket, instantly
disappeared. Then I went up to that stone and wrenching it up entered
the hole and found behind the stone an open trap-door of brass and a
flight of steps leading downwards. So I descended, little by little,
till I came to a long corridor, brilliantly lighted, and followed it,
till I made a closed door, as it were the door of a saloon. I looked
about the wall-sides near the doorway till I discovered a recess, with
steps therein; then climbed up and found a little niche with a bulls-eye
giving upon a saloon. Thence I looked inside and saw the lady cut off
the choicest parts of the lamb and laying them in a saucepan, throw the
rest to a great big bear, who ate it all to the last bite. Now when she
had made an end of cooking, she ate her fill, after which she set on the
fruits and confections and brought out the wine and fell to drinking a
cup herself and giving the bear to drink in a basin of gold. And as soon
as she was heated with wine, she put off her petticoat-trousers and lay
down on her back; whereupon the bear arose and came up to her and
stroked her, whilst she gave him the best of what belongeth to the sons
of Adam till he had made an end, when he sat down and rested. Presently,
he sprang upon her and rogered her again; and when he ended he again sat
down to rest; and he ceased not so doing till he had futtered her ten
times and they both fell to the ground in a fainting-fit and lay without
motion. Then quoth I to myself, “Now is my opportunity,” and taking a
knife I had with me, that would cut bones before flesh,[431] went down
to them and found them motionless, not a muscle of them moving for their
hard swinking and swiving. So I put my knife to the bear’s gullet and
pressed upon it, till I finished him by severing his head from his body,
and he gave a great snort like thunder, whereat the lady started up in
alarm; and, seeing the bear slain and me standing whittle in hand, she
shrieked so loud a shriek that I thought the soul had left her body.
Then she asked, “O Wardan, is this how thou requitest me my favours?”
And I answered, “O enemy of thine own soul, is there a famine of
men[432] that thou must do this damnable thing?” She made no answer but
bent down over the bear, and looked fondly upon him; then finding his
head divided from his body, said to me, “O Wardan, which of the two
courses wouldst thou take; either obey me in what I shall say and be the
means of thine own safety”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and
ceased saying her permitted say.
Now when it was the Three Hundred and Fifty-fifth Night,
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that quoth the lady, “O
Wardan, which of the two courses wouldst thou take; either obey me in
what I shall say and be the means of thine own safety and competency to
the end of thy days, or gainsay me and so cause thine own
destruction?”[433] Answered I, “I choose rather to hearken unto thee:
say what thou wilt.” Quoth she, “Then slay me, as thou hast slain this
bear, and take thy need of this hoard and wend thy ways.” Quoth I, “I am
better than this bear: so return thou to Allah Almighty and repent, and
I will marry thee, and we will live on this treasure the rest of our
lives.” She rejoined, “O Wardan, far be it from me! How shall I live
after him? By Allah, an thou slay me not I will assuredly do away thy
life! So leave bandying words with me, or thou art a lost man: this is
all I have to say to thee and peace be with thee!” Then said I, “I will
kill thee, and thou shalt go to the curse of Allah.” So saying, I caught
her by the hair and cut her throat; and she went to the curse of Allah
and of the angels and of all mankind. And after so doing I examined the
place and found there gold and bezel-stones and pearls, such as no one
king could bring together. So I filled the porter’s crate with as much
as I could carry and covered it with the clothes I had on me. Then I
shouldered it and, going up out of the under-ground treasure-chamber,
fared homewards and ceased not faring on, till I came to the gate of
Cairo, where behold, I fell in with ten of the body-guard of Al-Hakim
bi´ Amri´llah[434] followed by the Prince himself, who said to me, “Ho,
Wardan!” “At thy service, O King,” replied I; when he asked, “Hast thou
killed the bear and the lady?” and I answered, “Yes.” Quoth he, “Set
down the basket from thy head and fear naught, for all the treasure thou
hast with thee is thine, and none shall dispute it with thee.” So I set
down the crate before him, and he uncovered it and looked at it; then
said to me, “Tell me their case, albe I know it, as if I had been
present with you.” So I told him all that had passed and he said, “Thou
hast spoken the truth,” adding, “O Wardan, come now with me to the
treasure.” So I returned with him to the cavern, where he found the
trap-door closed and said to me, “O Wardan, lift it; none but thou can
open the treasure, for it is enchanted in thy name and nature.”[435]
Said I, “By Allah, I cannot open it;” but he said, “Go up to it,
trusting in the blessing of Allah.” So I called upon the name of
Almighty Allah and, advancing to the trap-door, put my hand to it;
whereupon it came up as it had been of the lightest. Then said the
Caliph, “Go down and bring hither what is there; for none but one of thy
name and semblance and nature hath gone down thither since the place was
made, and the slaying of the bear and the woman was appointed to be at
thy hand. This was chronicled with me and I was awaiting its
fulfilment.”[436] Accordingly (quoth Wardan) I went down and brought up
all the treasure, whereupon the Caliph sent for beasts of burden and
carried it away, after giving me my crate, with what was therein. So I
bore it home and opened me a shop in the market. “And” (saith he who
telleth the tale) “this market is still extant and is known as Wardan’s
Market.” And I have heard recount another story of
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Footnote 429:
A regular Fellah’s name also that of a village (Pilgrimage i. 43)
where a pleasant story is told about one Haykal.
Footnote 430:
The “Mountain” means the rocky and uncultivated ground South of Cairo;
such as Jabal al-Ahmar and the geological sea-coast flanked by the old
Cairo-Suez highway.
Footnote 431:
A popular phrase = our “sharp as a razor.”
Footnote 432:
_i.e._ are men so few; a favourite Persian phrase.
Footnote 433:
She is a woman of rank who would cause him to be assassinated.
Footnote 434:
This is not Al-Hakim bi´ Amri´llah the famous or infamous founder of
the Druze (Durúz) faith and held by them to be, not an incarnation of
the Godhead, but the Godhead itself in propriâ personâ, who reigned
A.D. 926-1021: our Hakim is the orthodox Abbaside Caliph of Egypt who
dated from two centuries after him (A.D. 1261). Had the former been
meant, it would have thrown back this part of The Nights to an earlier
date than is generally accepted. But in a place still to come I shall
again treat of the subject.
Footnote 435:
For an account of a similar kind which was told to me during the last
few years see “Midian Revisited,” i. 15. These hiding-places are
innumerable in lands of venerable antiquity like Egypt; and, if there
were any contrivance for detecting hidden treasure, it would make the
discoverer many times a millionaire.
Footnote 436:
_i.e._ it had been given to him or his in writing, like the book left
to the old woman before quoted in “Midian,” etc.
THE KING’S DAUGHTER AND THE APE.
There was once a Sultan’s daughter, whose heart was taken with love of a
black slave: he abated her maidenhead and she became passionately
addicted to futtering, so that she could not do without it a single hour
and complained of her case to one of her body-women, who told her that
no thing poketh and stroketh more abundantly than the baboon.[437] Now
it so chanced one day, that an ape-leader passed under her lattice, with
a great ape; so she unveiled her face and looking upon the ape, signed
to him with her eyes, whereupon he broke his bonds and chain and climbed
up to the Princess, who hid him in a place with her, and night and day
he abode there, eating and drinking and copulating. Her father heard of
this and would have killed her;——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day
and ceased to say her permitted say.
Now when it was the Three Hundred and Fifty-sixth Night,
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the Sultan
heard of this work he would have slain his daughter; but she smoked his
design; and, disguising herself in Mameluke’s dress, mounted horse after
loading a mule with gold and bullion, and precious stuffs past all
account; then carrying with her the ape, she fled to Cairo, where she
took up her abode in one of the houses without the city and upon the
verge of the Suez-desert. Now, every day, she used to buy meat of a
young man, a butcher, but she came not to him till after noonday; and
then she was so yellow and disordered in face that he said in his mind,
“There must indeed hang some mystery by this slave.” Accordingly (quoth
the butcher) one day when she came to me as usual, I went out after her
secretly, and ceased not to follow her from place to place, so as she
saw me not, till she came to her lodging on the edge of her waste and
entered; and I looked in upon her through a cranny, and saw her as soon
as she was at home, kindle a fire and cook the meat, of which she ate
enough and served up the rest to a baboon she had by her and he did the
same. Then she put off the slave’s habit and donned the richest of
women’s apparel; and so I knew that she was a lady. After this she set
on wine and drank and gave the ape to drink; and he stroked her nigh
half a score times without drawing till she swooned away, when he spread
over her a silken coverlet and returned to his place. Then I went down
in the midst of the place and the ape, becoming aware of me, would have
torn me in pieces; but I made haste to pull out my knife and slit his
paunch and his bowels fell out. The noise aroused the young lady, who
awoke terrified and trembling; and, when she saw the ape in this case,
she shrieked such a shriek that her soul well nigh fled her body. Then
she fell down in a fainting-fit and when she came to herself, she said
to me, “What moved thee to do thus? Now Allah upon thee, send me after
him!” But I spoke her fair for a while and pledged myself to stand in
the ape’s stead in the matter of much poking, till her trouble subsided
and I took her to wife. But when I came to perform my promise I proved a
failure and I fell short in this matter and could not endure such hard
labour: so I complained of my case and mentioned her exorbitant
requirements to a certain old woman who engaged to manage the affair and
said to me, “Needs must thou bring me a cooking-pot full of virgin
vinegar and a pound of the herb pellitory called wound-wort.”[438] So I
brought her what she sought, and she laid the pellitory in the pot with
the vinegar and set it on the fire, till it was thoroughly boiled. Then
she bade me futter the girl, and I futtered her till she fainted away,
when the old woman took her up (and she unconscious), and set her parts
to the mouth of the cooking-pot. The steam of the pot entered her slit
and there fell from it somewhat which I examined; and behold, it was two
small worms, one black and the other yellow. Quoth the old woman, “The
black was bred of the strokings of the negro and the yellow of stroking
with the baboon.” Now when she recovered from her swoon she abode with
me, in all delight and solace of life, and sought not swiving as before,
for Allah had done away from her this appetite; whereat I marvelled——And
Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
Now when it was the Three Hundred and Fifty-seventh Night,
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the young man
continued:—In truth Allah had done away from her this appetite; whereat
I marvelled and acquainted her with the case. Thereupon I lived with her
and she took the old woman to be to her in the stead of her mother,
“and” (said he who told me the tale) “the old woman and the young man
and his wife abode in joy and cheer till there came to them the
Destroyer of delights and the Sunderer of societies; and glory be to the
Ever-living One, who dieth not and in whose hand is Dominion of the
world visible and invisible!”[439] And another tale they tell is that of
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Footnote 437:
Arab. “Kird” (pron. in Egypt “Gird”). It is usually the hideous
Abyssinian cynocephalus which is tamed by the ape-leader popularly
called Kuraydati (Lane, M. E., chapt. xx.). The beast has a natural
penchant for women; I heard of one which attempted to rape a girl in
the public street and was prevented only by a sentinel’s bayonet. They
are powerful animals and bite like greyhounds.
Footnote 438:
Easterns, attribute many complaints (such as toothache) to worms,
visible as well as microscopic; which may be held a fair prolepsis of
the “germ-theory” the bacterium, the bacillus, the microbe.
Nymphomania, the disease alluded to in these two tales is always
attributed to worms in the vagina.
Footnote 439:
Bestiality, very rare in Arabia is fatally common amongst those most
debauched of debauched races, the Egyptian proper and the Sindis.
Hence the Pentateuch, whose object was to breed a larger population of
fighting men, made death the penalty for lying with a beast (Deut.
xxvii. 21). C. S. Sonnini (Travels, English translation, p. 663) gives
a curious account of Fellah lewdness. “The female crocodile during
congress is turned upon her back (?) and cannot rise without
difficulty. Will it be believed that there are men who take advantage
of the helpless situation of the female, drive off the male, and
supplant him in this frightful intercourse? Horrible embraces, the
knowledge of which was wanting to complete the disgusting history of
human perversity!” The French traveller forgets to add the
superstitious explanation of this congress which is the sovereignest
charm for rising to rank and riches. The Ajáib al-Hind tells a tale
(chapt. xxxix.) of a certain Mohammed bin Bullishad who had issue by a
she-ape: the young ones were hairless of body and wore quasi-human
faces; and the father’s sight had become dim by his bestial practice.
END OF VOLUME IV.
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INDEX.
Abbás = the grim-faced, 138
Abd al-Kádir of Gilán (founder of the Kádiri order), 41
Abd al-Malik bin Marwán (Caliph), 7
Abdullah bin Abí Kilábah, 113
Abdullah bin Málik al-Khuzá´i, 181
Abraham (Place or stone of), 148
Abu al-Muzaffir = Father of the Conqueror, 166
Abu Nowas (Pr. N. = father of the side-locks), 55; 264
Abu Hassán al-Ziyádi, 258
Abu Yúsuf (the Lawyer), 153
Adam’s loins, 111
Adi (son of Hátim al-Táyyí), 95
Adl = just (ironically), 271
Adm (Udm) = any relish, 128
Ahmad al-Danaf (Pr. N. = Calamity-Ahmad), 75
Akkám = cameleer, caravan-manager, 40
Alá al-Din (Aladdin) Glory of the Faith, 29; 33
Aláma = alá-má = upon what? wherefore, 201
Alast (day of), 111
Al Dáud (David’s family), 50
Alfi = one who costs a thousand, 225
Ali al-Zabak (Pr. N. = Mercury Ali), 75
Alif-like stature, 249
Ali Shar (Pr. N.), 187
Allah (His name pronounced against the evil eye), 34
Allah (swearing by, forbidden), 175
—— is all-knowing (= I don’t know), 283
Amáim (pl. of Imámah) = turbands, 100
Amín (Al-) = the Trusted of Allah, 261
Amír and Samúl = Jones, Brown and Robinson, 106
Amrú (pronounced Amr) and Zayd = Tom, Dick or Harry, 2
Ana fí jírat-ak = I crave thy intercession (useful phrase), 83
Anbár (pronounced Ambár), town on the Euphrates, 152
Antar (Romance quoted), 41
Antiochus and Stratonice, 10
Apple(-wine), 134
—— (many a goodly one rotten at the core), 187
Ark al-Haláwat = vein of sweetness, sugar stick, for penis, 51
Armaníyah (Armenia), 182
Arm-pits (taking a dismounting person under the, a sign of respect), 24
Artál (_see_ Rotl)
Asídah (custard, pap), 37
Aslán (Pr. N. probably for Arslán = lion), 78
Asma´i (Al-), author of Antar, 159
Aun (of Jinns, etc.), 88
Awwádah = a lute-player, 142
Ayat (Coranic verset, sign, miracle), _ib._
Ayyás (Issus of Cilicia), 76
Báb al Lúk (of Fustát), 259
Báb al Salám (of the Al-Medínah Mosque), 288
Babes of the eyes, 246
Baboon (Kird), has a natural penchant for women, 297
Badawi (bluntness and plain-speaking of), 102
Badrah = 10,000 dirhams, 281
Baháim (pl. of Bahímah = Behemoth) applied to cattle, 54
Bahramáni = Brahman, 101
Bakh Bakh! = well done!, 121
Bandage eyes (before beheading), 145
Banquets (royal), 212
—— (daintily devised), 226
Banú Isráíl, 283
—— Shaybán (Badawi tribe), 233
Barsh (Bars), commonest form of Bhang, 31
Bath, coming out of, shows that consummation has taken place, 244
Bawd (admirably portrayed), 4
Bean-eating in Egypt, 160
“Ben” of an Arab shop as opposed to the “but”, 93
Bestiality (fatally common amongst Egyptians), 299
Bhang (preparation of), 31
—— (drugging with = tabannuj), 71
Bier the (bulging = Hadbá), 63
Birkah = pool of standing water, 270
Black-mail (paid to the Badawin of Ramlah), 76
Blue-eyed (frequently = fierce-eyed), 192
Boccaccio quoted, 36
Body-guard (consists of two divisions), 62
Bread and Salt (to be taken now “cum grano salis”), 200
Breeze (rude but effective refrigerator), 199
“Brother of the Persians”, 12
Brow (like Nún), 249
Budúr = moons, 249
Buka´at al-Dam = place of blood (where it stagnates), 68
Burckhardt (fable anent his death), 78
Cairo (_see_ Misr).
—— (Chaff), 215
—— (Slang), 75
Calligraphy, 196
Camel-slaughtering (Nahr), 95
Capo bianco, Coda verde, 36
Catamites (rising to highest rank in Turkey), 225
—— (in Turkish baths), 226
Chastity (merchandise in trust from Allah), 43
Child of the nurse, etc. = delicately reared, 34
China (kingdom), 175
Chinese Shadows, 193
Cider (Arab. Sharáb al-Tuffáh), 134
City of Brass (Copper), 176
Claimant of blood-revenge, 109
—— and Defendant, 150
Cloth of frieze and cloth of gold, 145
Clothes (tattered, sign of grief), 158
Consul (Shah-bandar), 29
—— (Kunsul), 84
Cowrie (shells, etc., for small change), 77
Crenelles = Sharáríf, 165
Crow-claw and Camel-hoof, 217
Cutting bones before flesh = “sharp as a razor”, 295
Dalak = footrasp, 254
Danaf (Al-) = the Distressing Sickness, 75
Darb al-Asfar = the Street called Yellow, 93
Darr al-Káil = divinely he spoke who said, 20
Darrij = Let them slide, 220
Deity of the East despotic, 118
—— after the fashion of each race, 267
Depilation (Solomon and Bilkís), 256
Dinghy (Kárib), 168
Divining-rod (dowsing-rod), 73
Dogs (clothed in hot-damp countries), 266
Dream (Speaker in a), 239
Dress (Scarlet of a King in anger), 72
Drop (black, of the heart), 251
Drunk (with one’s own beauty), 34
Dukhúl = going in to the bride, 30
Durká’ah = lower part of the floor (opposed to Liwán), 71
Eating (gives rights of guestship), 214
—— (superstitious belief in its power), 218
Efendi (Turkish title = our esquire), 53
Egyptian vulgarism, 107
—— characteristic, 260
Embracing (like the Lám embraceth the Alif), 243
Emerald (white?), 164
Eunuchs (driving the people out of a lady’s way), 126
—— (who have studied the Harím), 228
Euphemy (announcing death), 61
—— (thou shalt die), 90
—— (all is well), 138
—— (the far one is a Nazarene), 215
Exaggeration characteristic of The Nights, 273
Eye (the Evil) on children, 37
—— (babes of the), 246
Eyes (bandaged before beheading), 145
—— (blue), 192
—— (one-eyed men), 194
Faces (on the day of Judgment), 249
Far off one (the, shall die), 90
Farkh Akrab (vulgarism for Ukayrib) = a young scorpion, 46
Farsakh = parasang, 230
Fat and Thin (dispute between), 254
Fátihah (the opening chapter of the Koran), 36
Firmán = Wazirial order, 61
Fí sabíli ´llahi = on Allah’s path (martyrdom), 247
Flatulence produced by bean-eating, 160
Food (partaken gives rights of protection), 214
—— (superstitious belief in its power), 218
Freewill (and the Korán), 275
Friends weeping when they meet after long parting, 26
—— (“damned ill-natured” ones), 137
Fulán = Fulano, a certain person, 278
Furkán = Koran, 90
Futúh (openings, victories), 51
Ghabah = a copse, 40
Gháshiyah = étui, scabbard; sleeved cloak, 131
Ghuráb al-Bayn = raven of parting, 52
Gold (different names of, required by Arabic rhetoric), 97
Goody goody preachments, 187
Gong (Mudawwarah), 135
Hábáb (Habá) = motes, 257
Habzalam (Pr. N. = seed of tyranny; “Absalom”?), 66
Hadbá (the bulging bier), 63
Hadís = tradition of the Prophet, 207
Hair-dyes (Mohammed), 194
Hájj (or Háji, not Hajji), 215
Hajjáj (Al-) bin Yúsuf, Governor, of Al-Hijáz and Al-Irák, 3
Hajjám = barber-surgeon, cupper, bleeder, 112
Haláwah = sweetmeat, 60
Hákim (Al-) bi-Amri ´llah, 296
Hand (left, how used), 129
—— (white, symbol of generosity; black of niggardness), 185
—— (his for her), 279
Harím (double entendre = Harem and Honour), 98
—— (= wife), 126
—— (hot-bed of Sapphism and Tribadism), 234
Harrák (ship = Carrack?), 130
Hasan bin Sahl (Wazir of Al-Maamún), 124
Hasab = quantity, opposed to Nasab = birth, 171
Hásid = an envier, 137
Hátim of Tayy (proverbial for Liberality), 94
Hazramaut (Hazarmaveth), 118
Heart (black drop in), 256
Heaven (Na´ím), 143
Hell (Sa´ír), _ib._
—— (cold as well as hot), 253
Hibál = ropes, 193
Homme acheté = de bonne famille, 225
Húd (prophet = Heber?), 118
Hurák = tinder, 108
Hurry (in a newly married couple indecent), 244
Hurúf al-Mutabbakát = the flattened sounds, 223
“I told you so” (even more common in East than West), 69
Ibrahím bin al-Mahdi (Pretender to the Caliphate), 103
Ibrahím al-Mosili, 108
Imám (The Seventh = Caliph Al-Maamún), 111
—— (the fugleman at the prayer-niche), 227
Imámah = turband, 100
Inconsequence (of the Author of The Nights), 155
Infirmity (and infirm letters), 243
Inscriptions (on trays, plates, etc.), 235
Inshallah = D.V., 286
Insomnia (curious treatment of), 229
Irádah = Sultan’s order, 61
Iram (the Many-columned), 113
Irony, 271
Irreverence (Egyptian), 47
Isaac (Ishák) of Mosul, 119
Ishmael (place of his sacrifice), 75
Istinjá = washing the fundament after stool, 129
Ja’afar the Barmecide (mode of his death), 159
—— (river or rivulet), 292
Jabal al-Tárik = Gibraltar, 100
Jacob’s daughters, 14
Jawán (Pr. N.; Pers. = youth, juvenis), 208
Job (a Syrian), 221
“Joyance is three things,” etc., 254
Jufún = eyebrows or eyelashes, 260
Jugular vein (from —— to ——), 92
Justice (poetical, not done), 28
Juzám = leprosy, 51
Ka’ab al-Ahbár (of the Scribes, two of the name), 115
Ka’abah (Pilgrim clinging to its curtain), 125
Kabbázah = a “holding woman”, 227
Kahirah = City of Mars (Cairo), 271
Kahramán (Pers.) = braves, heroes, 115
Kallá = prorsus non, 257
Kaptán = Capitano, 85
Kara Gyuz (_see_ Khiyál).
Kárib (pl. Kawárib) = dinghy, 168
Karúrah = bottle for urine, 11
Kasa’ah = wooden bowl, porringer, 283
Kasri (Al-) Governor of the two Iraks, 155
Katá = sand-grouse, 111
Kátala-k Allah = Allah strike thee dead (facetiously), 264; 265
Katíl = the Irish “kilt”, 139
Kausar (river of Paradise), 196
Kawárib (_see_ Kárib).
Kazdír = Skr. Kastíra (Tin), 274
Kerchief (shaking and throwing the), 62
Khalí’a = a wag, a wicked wit, 229
Khammárah = wine-shop, tavern, “hotel”, 79
Khátún (Turk. Lady), 66
Khayr = good news by euphemy, 138
Khayzarán = rattan-palm, 255
Khizr (the Green Prophet), 175
Khiyál (Chinese shadows), 193
Khuff = walking-boot, 107
Khumásiyah = five feet high, 191
Kíl wa Kál = it was said and he said (chit-chat), 207
King (dressing in scarlet when wroth), 72
Kirámát = Saints’ miracles, 45
Kird = baboon, 297
Kishk (Kashk) = porridge, 214
Kissing (names for), 259
Kohl (he would steal it off the eye-ball = a very expert thief), 68
Koran quoted (xxv. 70), 5
—— (xii. 84, 93, 96; xvi.), 14
—— (opening chapter), 36
—— (xiii. 14), 43
—— (chapter Yá Sín), 50
—— (xvii. 84), 80
—— (xlix., Inner Apartments), 102
—— (xvi. 112), _ib._
—— (xii. 92), 111
—— (lxxxix. 6-7), 115
—— (iii. 178), 156
—— (xvi.), 174
—— (ii. 224), 175
—— (xxi. 38), 244
—— (iii. 103; vii. 105; xxvii. 12), 249
—— (cxiv. 1), 251
—— (ii. 26), 254
—— (ii. 64; xxvii.), 256
—— (xvii. 62; xxxvii. 16), 259
—— (xli. 46), 275
Kúfah (Al-) founded by Omar, 1
—— (revolutionary spirit of), 3
Kumkum (cucurbite, gourd-shaped vessel), 68; 178
Kumm = sleeve, used as a bag, 107
Kunyat = patro- or matro-nymic, 287
Kunsul = Consul, 84
Kús (town in Upper Egypt), 276
Kussá’a = curling cucumber, 98
Lá baas bi-zálik = there is no harm in that, 164
Labtayt (Pr. N. = Toledo), 99
Lane quoted, 2; 55; 63; 66; 84; 95; 96; 107; 110; 124; 136; 160; 164;
171; 181; 187; 189; 191; 196; 199; 200; 202; 204; 205; 209; 212;
214; 219; 222; 228; 231; 233; 244; 254; 268; 271; 273; 279; 287;
297.
Lasm (Lathm) = kissing the lower face, 259
Leprosy (thickens voice), 50
—— (shows first at the wrist), 51
Letter (model specimen), 57
Liberality (men proverbial for their), 96
Life (by the, of thy youth) oath of women, 49
—— (cheap in hot countries), 275
Light-worshipers (are liars), 252
Li’lláhi darru-ka = the Lord has been copious to thee, 20
Liwán = Al-Aywán, 71
Love (martyrs of), 205
—— (clairvoyance), 238
—— (excess of), _ib._
Lúk-Gate (proverb referring to), 259
Lumà = dark hue of the inner lips, 251
Lutf (servile name = elegance, delicacy), 232
Maamun (Al-), Caliph, 109
Ma’an bin Záidah (Pr. N. of a generous Arab), 96
Ma’áni-há (her meanings = her inner woman), 146
Madinát al-Nabi (Al-Medinah) = City of the Prophet, 114
Madness (there is a pleasure in), 204
Maka’ad = sitting-room, 78
Malik (Al-) al-Násir = the conquering King, 271
Man (handsomer than woman), 15
Mansúr al-Nimri (poet), 179
Martyrs (of love), 205
Martyrdom, 247
Mashá’ilí = cresset-bearer, for public crier, hangman, 61
Maukab (Al-) = Procession-day, 287
Mauz = Musa (Banana), 201
“May thy life be prolonged”, 62
Melancholy (chronic under the brightest skies), 239
Men (is there a famine of) = are men so few?, 295
Mikashshah = broom, 208
Mikbas (pot of lighted charcoal), 246
Military and Police sneered at, 270
Milk, white as, opposed to black as mud, 140
Mím-like mouth, 249
Mind (one by vinegar, another by wine = each goes its own way), 72
Minínah = biscuit, 86
Misr (vulg. Masr) = Egypt, 29
Mohammed (his uncles), 22