“It is commonly said in Persia, that if a man breathe in the hot south wind, which in June or July passes over that flower (the Kerzereh), it will kill him.”—_Thevenot._ Footnote 56: p. 44.—_Within the crocodile’s stretch’d jaws to come._ The humming-bird is said to run this risk for the purpose of picking the crocodile’s teeth. The same circumstance is related of the lapwing, as a fact to which he was witness, by _Paul Lucas_, Voyage fait en 1714. The ancient story concerning the Trochilus, or humming-bird, entering with impunity into the mouth of the crocodile, is firmly believed at Java.—_Barrow_’s _Cochin-China._ Footnote 57: p. 46.—_That rank and venomous food on which she lives._ “Circum easdem ripas (Nili, viz.) ales est Ibis. Ea serpentium populatur ova, gratissimamque ex his escam nidis suis refert.”—_Solinus._ Footnote 58: p. 48.—_Yamtcheou._—“The feast of Lanterns is celebrated at Yamtcheou with more magnificence than anywhere else: and the report goes, that the illuminations there are so splendid, that an Emperor once, not daring openly to leave his Court to go thither, committed himself with the Queen and several Princesses of his family into the hands of a magician, who promised to transport them thither in a trice. He made them in the night to ascend magnificent thrones that were borne up by swans, which in a moment arrived at Yamtcheou. The Emperor saw at his leisure all the solemnity, being carried upon a cloud that hovered over the city and descended by degrees; and came back again with the same speed and equipage, nobody at court perceiving his absence.”—_The present State of China_, p. 156. Footnote 59: p. 48.—_Sceneries of bamboo-work._—See a description of the nuptials of Vizier Alee in the _Asiatic Annual Register of 1804_. Footnote 60: p. 49.—_Chinese illuminations._—“The vulgar ascribe it to an accident that happened in the family of a famous mandarin, whose daughter walking one evening upon the shore of a lake, fell in and was drowned; this afflicted father, with his family, ran thither, and, the better to find her, he caused a great company of lanterns to be lighted. All the inhabitants of the place thronged after him with torches. The year ensuing they made fires upon the shores the same day; they continued the ceremony every year, every one lighted his lantern, and by degrees it commenced into a custom.”—_Present State of China._ Footnote 61: p. 51.—_Like_ SEBA’S _Queen could vanquish with that one._ “Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes.”—_Sol. Song._ Footnote 62: p. 51.—_The fingers’ ends with a bright roseate hue._ “They tinged the ends of her fingers scarlet with Henna, so that they resembled branches of coral.”—_Story of Prince Futtun in Bahardanush._ Footnote 63: p. 51.—_To give that long, dark languish to the eye._