_D’Herbelot_, art. Agduani. Footnote 281: p. 227.—_Each yellow vest—that rebel hue._ “The Guebres are known by a dark yellow colour, which the men affect in their clothes.”—_Thevenot._ Footnote 282: p. 227.—_The Tartar fleece upon their caps._ “The Kolah or cap, worn by the Persians, is made of the skin of the sheep of Tartary.”—_Waring._ Footnote 283: p. 234.—_Open her bosom’s glowing veil._ A frequent image among the Oriental poets. “The nightingales warbled their enchanting notes, and rent the thin veils of the rosebud and the rose.”—_Jami._ Footnote 284: p. 237.—_The sorrowful tree, Nilica._—“Blossoms of the sorrowful Nyctanthes give a durable colour to silk.”—_Remarks on the Husbandry of Bengal_, p. 200. Nilica is one of the Indian names of this flower.—_Sir W. Jones._ The Persians call it Gul.—_Carreri._ Footnote 285: p. 239.—_That cooling feast the traveller loves._ “In parts of Kerman, whatever dates are shaken from the trees by the wind they do not touch, but leave them for those who have not any, or for travellers.”—_Ebn Haukal._ Footnote 286: p. 240.—_The Searchers of the Grave appear._ The two terrible angels Monkir and Nakir, who are called “the Searchers of the Grave” in the “Creed of the orthodox Mahometans” given by Ockley, vol. ii. Footnote 287: p. 240.—_The mandrake’s charnel leaves at night._ “The Arabians call the mandrake ‘the Devil’s candle,’ on account of its shining appearance in the night.”—_Richardson._ Footnote 288: p. 249.—_Of the still Halls of_ ISHMONIE. For an account of Ishmonie, the petrified city in Upper Egypt, where it is said there are many statues of men, women, &c. to be seen to this day, see Perry’s _View of the Levant_. Footnote 289: p. 250.—_And ne’er did saint of_ ISSA _gaze._—Jesus. Footnote 290: p. 251.—_The death-flames that beneath him burn’d!_ The Ghebers say that when Abraham, their great Prophet, was thrown into the fire by order of Nimrod, the flame turned instantly into “a bed of roses, where the child sweetly reposed.”—_Tavernier._ Of their other Prophet, Zoroaster, there is a story told in _Dion Prusæus_, Orat. 36, that the love of wisdom and virtue leading him to a solitary life upon a mountain, he found it one day all in a flame, shining with celestial fire, out of which he came without any harm, and instituted certain sacrifices to God, who, he declared, then appeared to him.—See _Patrick_ on Exodus, iii. 2. Footnote 291: p. 254.—_A ponderous sea-horn hung, and blew._ “The shell called Siiankos, common to India, Africa, and the Mediterranean, and still used in many parts as a trumpet for blowing alarms or giving signals: it sends forth a deep and hollow sound.”—_Pennant._ Footnote 292: p. 255.—_And the white ox-tails stream’d behind._