Saadat el basha----Excellency. Sais----Groom. Sakkia----Persian water-wheel. Salaam----A salutation of the East; an obeisance, performed by bowing very low and placing the right palm on the forehead and on the breast. Sarraf----An accountant. Shadoof----Bucket and pole used by natives for lifting water. Sha'er----A reciter. (The singular of Sho'ara, properly signifying a poet.) Sheikh-el-beled----Head of a village. Shintiyan----Very wide trousers, worn by the women of the middle and higher orders. Sitt----"The Lady." Tarboosh----Fez or native turban. Tarah----A veil for the head. Ulema----Learned men. Waled----A boy. Wekeel----A deputy. Welee----A favourite of Heaven; colloquially a saint. Yashmak----A veil for the lower part of the face. Yelek----A long vest or smock, worn over the shirt and shintiyan. Zeriba----A palisade. ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: As if our penalties were only paid by ourselves! Credulity, easily transmutable into superstition Paradoxes which make for laughter--and for tears What is crime in one country, is virtue in another Women only admitted to Heaven by the intercession of husbands