Just before I quitted my house in Cairo to return to England, a friend, who had been my sheykh (or tutor), wrote on a slip of paper, “There is no deity but God: Mohammad is God’s apostle:” then tore it in halves, gave me the latter half (on which was written “Mohammad is God’s apostle”), and concealed the other in a crack in the roof of a little cupboard in my usual sitting-room. This was to insure my coming back to Cairo: for it is believed that the profession of the faith cannot remain incomplete: so that by my keeping the latter half always upon my person, it would bring me back to the former half. Footnote 374: These, it is said, were Christian youths of Ephesus, who took refuge from the persecution of the emperor Decius in a cave, and slept there, guarded by their dog, for the space of 300 [solar] or 309 [lunar] years. (See the Kur-án, chap. xviii.) Footnote 375: Called “mukhallafát en-nebee.” Footnote 376: A shirt which is said to have been worn by the Prophet is preserved in the mosque of El-Ghóree, in Cairo. It is wrapped in a Kashmeer shawl; and not shown to any but persons of very high rank. Footnote 377: The “burdeh,” which is worn by some of the peasants in Egypt, is an oblong piece of thick woollen stuff, resembling the “herám,” excepting in colour, being generally brown or greyish. It appears to have been, in earlier times, always striped; but some modern burdehs are plain, and others have stripes so narrow and near together, that at a little distance the stuff appears to be of one colour. The Prophet’s is described as about seven feet and a half in length, and four and a half in width. It was used by him, as burdehs are at present, both to envelop the body by day, and as a night-covering.—I may be excused for remarking here (as it seems to be unknown to some Arabic scholars) that the terms “akhdar” and “ahmar,” which are applied by different historians to the Prophet’s burdeh, are used to signify respectively _grey_ and _brown_, as well as _green_ and _red_. Footnote 378: This superstition explains many customs which would otherwise seem unaccountable. Footnote 379: The ejaculation which I thus translate is “Yá selám,” or “Yá selámu sellim.” “Es-Selám” is one of the names of the Deity. Footnote 380: This is the name of the tenth day of Moharram. Footnote 381: Now equivalent to a farthing and one-fifth. Footnote 382: This is, Caireen. Footnote 383: The fat of the tail is esteemed a dainty. Footnote 384: See the engraving of a door with this inscription inserted in the introduction, p. 6. Footnote 385: Called “áyát esh-shifë” (the verses of restoration). Footnote 386: By Robert Hay, Esq., who purchased it from a peasant at Thebes. Footnote 387: