“Wild bees, frequent in Palestine, in hollow trunks or branches of trees, and the clefts of rocks. Thus it is said (Psalm lxxxi.), ‘_honey out of the stony rock_.’”—_Burder_’s Oriental Customs. Footnote 189: p. 146.—_And woods, so full of nightingales._ “The river Jordan is on both sides beset with little, thick, and pleasant woods, among which thousands of nightingales warble all together.”—_Thevenot._ Footnote 190: p. 146.—_On that great Temple, once his own._ The Temple of the Sun at Balbec. Footnote 191: p. 147.—_The beautiful blue damsel flies._ “You behold there a considerable number of a remarkable species of beautiful insects, the elegance of whose appearance and their attire procured for them the name of Damsels.”—_Sonnini._ Footnote 192: p. 147.—_Of a small imaret’s rustic fount._ Imaret, “hospice où on loge et nourrit, gratis, les pélerins pendant trois jours.”—_Toderini, translated by the Abbé de Cournand._—See also _Castellan_’s Mœurs des Othomans, tom. v. p. 145. Footnote 193: p. 149.—_Kneels, with his forehead to the south._ “Such Turks, as at the common hours of prayer are on the road, or so employed as not to find convenience to attend the mosques, are still obliged to execute that duty; nor are they ever known to fail, whatever business they are then about, but pray immediately when the hour alarms them, whatever they are about, in that very place they chance to stand on; insomuch that when a janissary, whom you have to guard you up and down the city, hears the notice which is given him from the steeples, he will turn about, stand still, and beckon with his hand, to tell his charge he must have patience for awhile; when, taking out his handkerchief, he spreads it on the ground, sits cross-legged thereupon, and says his prayers, though in the open market, which, having ended, he leaps briskly up, salutes the person whom he undertook to convey, and renews his journey with the mild expression of _Ghell gohnnum ghell_, or, Come, dear, follow me.”—_Aaron Hill_’s Travels. Footnote 194: p. 151.—_Upon_ EGYPT’S _land, of so healing a power._ The Nucta, or Miraculous Drop, which falls in Egypt precisely on St. John’s Day, in June, and is supposed to have the effect of stopping the plague. Footnote 195: p. 153.—_Are the diamond turrets of_ SHADUKIAM. The Country of Delight—the name of a province in the kingdom of Jinnistan, or Fairy Land, the capital of which is called the City of Jewels. Amberabad is another of the cities of Jinnistan. Footnote 196: p. 153.—_My feast is now of the Tooba Tree._ The tree Tooba, that stands in Paradise, in the palace of Mahomet. See _Sale’s Prelim. Disc._—Tooba, says _D’Herbelot_, signifies beatitude, or eternal happiness. Footnote 197: p. 154.—_To the lote-tree, springing by_ ALLA’S _throne._