[Footnote 78: Andik aineen el Gazel ia Lella. Beek zin el Gazel ia Lella. You possess the eyes of an antelope, O Lady—You possess the beauty of a gazel, O Lady, are irresistible compliments with the Arabs. Again, Zin el mikkumule, and Zin el Gazel, perfect beauty, and gazel beauty, are synonymous terms.] [Footnote 79: _Horreh_ signifies any thing pure and free; thus a free-born man, (having a handsome person and virtuous mind,) is called Rajel _Horreh_; a horse of high breed is called Aoud el _Horreh_; it is also opposed to _Abd_, which signifies a slave.] [Footnote 80: Possibly _bizoar_ may be a corruption of _Bide el Horreh_.] [Footnote 81: A shrub of Atlas used in tanning.] [Footnote 82: Sir Joseph Banks.] [Footnote 83: The Saharawan lizard is also called Dubb by the Arabs (See under Reptiles), and from the similitude of name, the conjecture that bears are found in Africa may have originated.] [Footnote 84: The mountain at Ceuta is called Jibbel D’Zatute, the Mountain of Apes.] [Footnote 85: Job, ch. 39, v. 9, 10.] [Footnote 86: I met with a very intelligent Shelluh in Shtuka, whilst I was staying at the castle of the Khalif Mohammed ben Delemy, who had been thirty years travelling through various countries of the interior; he had frequently seen the Aoudad, the Horreh, the hippopotamus, the rhinoceros, the elephant, the hyæna, and various other animals, but he declared he had never seen an animal resembling a horse or mare, having one horn, nor had he ever heard, in the different Kaffer countries (as he called them) he had visited, that such an animal existed.] [Footnote 87: These heirie riders will travel three days without food; or a few pipes of tobacco, or a handful of dates, will furnish their meal; so that a regiment of Arabs would subsist on less than would be sufficient to maintain a company of English soldiers.] [Footnote 88: On the journey, a man who had been travelling with the caravan asked me for bread. “How long have you been without it?” said I. Two days was the reply. “And how long without water?” “I drank water last night.” This was at sun-set, after we had been marching all day in the heat of the sun. See Brown’s Travels in Africa, &c. Vol. II. p. 288.] [Footnote 89: Incredible stories are told of them, as that they will hold out for twenty-four hours together, travelling constantly at the rate of ten miles an hour. See Brown’s Travels in Africa, &c. Vol. II. p. 259.] [Footnote 90: Marocco is about one hundred miles from Mogodor.] [Footnote 91: On this subject M. de Florial aptly observes, that “le plus part des hommes mesurant leur foi par leur connoissance acquise, croyent à fort peu de choses.”] [Footnote 92: This term literally signifies Wind-sucker; the animal is so called from his hanging out his tongue at one side of his mouth, when in speed, and as it were sucking in the air.]