A native of Khorassan, and allured southward by means of the water of a fountain between Shiraz and Ispahan, called the Fountain of Birds, of which it is so fond that it will follow wherever that water is carried. Footnote 103: p. 85.—_Of laden camels and their drivers’ songs._ “Some of the camels have bells about their necks, and some about their legs, like those which our carriers put about their forehorses’ necks, which together with the servants (who belong to the camels, and travel on foot), singing all night, make a pleasant noise, and the journey passes away delightfully.”—_Pitt_’s Account of the Mahometans. “The camel-driver follows the camels singing, and sometimes playing upon his pipe; the louder he sings and pipes, the faster the camels go. Nay, they will stand still when he gives over his music.”—_Tavernier._ Footnote 104: p. 85.—_Of the’ Abyssinian trumpet, swell and float._ “This trumpet is often called, in Abyssinia, _nesser cano_, which signifies the Note of the Eagle.”—_Note of Bruce’s Editor._ Footnote 105: p. 85.—_The Night and Shadow, over yonder tent._ The two black standards borne before the Caliphs of the House of Abbas were called, allegorically, The Night and The Shadow.—See _Gibbon_. Footnote 106: p. 86.—_Defiance fierce at Islam._—The Mahometan religion. Footnote 107: p. 86.—_But, having sworn upon the Holy Grave._ “The Persians swear by the tomb of Shah Besade, who is buried at Casbin; and when one desires another to asseverate a matter, he will ask him, if he dare swear by the Holy Grave.”—_Struy._ Footnote 108: p. 86.—_Were spoil’d to feed the Pilgrim’s luxury._ Mahadi, in a single pilgrimage to Mecca, expended six millions of dinars of gold. Footnote 109: p. 86.—_Of_ MECCA’S _sun, with urns of Persian snow._ “Nivem Meccam apportavit, rem ibi aut nunquam aut raro visam.”—_Abulfeda._ Footnote 110: p. 86.—_First, in the van, the People of the Rock._ The inhabitants of Hejaz or Arabia Petræa, called by an Eastern writer “The People of the Rock.”—See _Ebn Haukal_. Footnote 111: p. 86.—_On their light mountain steeds, of royal stock._ “Those horses, called by the Arabians Kochlani, of whom a written genealogy has been kept for 2,000 years. They are said to derive their origin from King Solomon’s steeds.”—_Niebuhr._ Footnote 112: p. 87.—_The flashing of their swords’ rich marquetry._ “Many of the figures on the blades of their swords are wrought in gold or silver, or in marquetry with small gems.”—_Asiat. Misc._ v. i. Footnote 113: p. 87.—_With dusky legions from the land of Myrrh._ Azab or Saba. Footnote 114: p. 87.—_Waving their heron crests with martial grace._ “The chiefs of the Uzbek Tartars wear a plume of white heron’s feathers in their turbans.”—_Account of Independent Tartary._ Footnote 115: p. 87.—_Wild warriors of the turquoise hills._