[24] Playfair’s Yemen, p. 147. [25] Playfair’s Yemen, pp. 153, 154. [26] Mahomet and Islam. Sir William Muir. 1887. [27] Al-Baha-’l Janadi, ‘Karmathians in Yaman.’ Kay’s translation, 1892. [28] Les Confréries Musulmanes du Hedjaz. A le Chatelier. Paris 1887. [29] The Sunnis hold that the Caliphate need not necessarily descend in the family of the Prophet. [30] Sadah is situated about eight days’ journey north of Sanaa, on the borders of the desert. [31] Ezek. xxvii. 21-23. [32] “Arriani periplus maris Erythræi.” [33] Itinerario de Ludovico de Barthema, 1535. Translated by Richard Eden, 1576. [34] Three Hours in Aden. Bombay, 1891. [35] “In the name of God”—the Arab grace before eating. [36] The salutation of Moslems all the world over. [37] _Tholba_, the plural of _thaleb_, a name generally applied to those who have studied the Koran—members of the priesthood. [38] This rifle was returned to me on the eve of my departure from Tangier for the Atlas Mountains in October 1892. [39] _Kabyla_ = a tribe. [40] “Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.”—Ezekiel xxvii. 23. [41] General Haig, in the Royal Geographical Proceedings, August 1887. [42] The Zaidis are a division of the Sheiya sect. [43] The Koran, _sura_ vii. [44] The Koran, _sura_ xv. [45] Kay’s Omarah, p. 237. [46] Records of the Bombay Government. [47] Playfair’s Yemen, p. 146. [48] Ibid. [49] See chapter on “The Influences of Islam in the Yemen.” APPENDIX GENEALOGICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL TREE OF THE IMAMS OF SANAA, SHOWING THEIR DESCENT FROM MAHAMMED.