The Serrapurda, high screens of red cloth, stiffened with cane, used to enclose a considerable space round the royal tents.—_Notes on the Bahardanush._ The tents of Princes were generally illuminated. Norden tells us that the tent of the Bey of Girge was distinguished from the other tents by forty lanterns being suspended before it.—See _Harmer’s Observations on Job_. Footnote 139: p. 100.—_Pour to the spot, like bees of_ KAUZEROON. “From the groves of orange trees at Kauzeroon the bees cull a celebrated honey.”—_Morier_’s Travels. Footnote 140: p. 102.—_Of nuptial pomp, she sinks into his tide._ “A custom still subsisting at this day, seems to me to prove that the Egyptians formerly sacrificed a young virgin to the God of the Nile; for they now make a statue of earth in shape of a girl, to which they give the name of the Betrothed Bride, and throw it into the river.”—_Savary._ Footnote 141: p. 103.—_Engines of havoc in, unknown before._ That they knew the secret of the Greek fire among the Mussulmans early in the eleventh century, appears from _Dow_’s Account of Mamood I. “When he arrived at Moultan, finding that the country of the Jits was defended by great rivers, he ordered fifteen hundred boats to be built, each of which he armed with six iron spikes, projecting from their prows and sides, to prevent their being boarded by the enemy, who were very expert in that kind of war. When he had launched this fleet, he ordered twenty archers into each boat, and five others with fire-balls, to burn the craft of the Jits, and naphtha to set the whole river on fire.” The _agnee aster_, too, in Indian poems the Instrument of fire, whose flame cannot be extinguished, is supposed to signify the Greek Fire.—See _Wilks_’s South of India, vol. i. p. 471.—And in the curious Javan Poem, the _Brata Yudha_, given by _Sir Stamford Raffles_ in his History of Java, we find, “He aimed at the heart of Soéta with the sharp-pointed Weapon of Fire.”