The people of the Batta country in Sumatra (of which Zamara is one of the ancient names), “when not engaged in war, lead an idle, inactive life, passing the day in playing on a kind of flute, crowned with garlands of flowers, among which the globe-amaranthus, a native of the country, mostly prevails.”—_Marsden._ Footnote 339: p. 300.—_From the divine Amrita tree._ “The largest and richest sort (of the Jambu, or rose-apple) is called Amrita, or immortal, and the mythologists of Tibet apply the same word to a celestial tree, bearing ambrosial fruit.”—_Sir W. Jones._ Footnote 340: p. 301.—_Down to the basil tuft, that waves._ Sweet basil, called Rayhan in Persia, and generally found in church-yards. “The women in Egypt go, at least two days in the week, to pray and weep at the sepulchres of the dead; and the custom then is to throw upon the tombs a sort of herb, which the Arabs call _rihan_, and which is our sweet basil.”—_Maillet_, Lett. 10. Footnote 341: p. 301.—_To scent the desert and the dead._ “In the Great Desert are found many stalks of lavender and rosemary.”—_Asiat. Res._ Footnote 342: p. 303.—_That blooms on a leafless bough._ “The almond-tree, with white flowers, blossoms on the bare branches.”—_Hasselquist._ Footnote 343: p. 303.—_Inhabit the mountain-herb, that dyes._ An herb on Mount Libanus, which is said to communicate a yellow golden hue to the teeth of the goats and other animals that graze upon it. _Niebuhr_ thinks this may be the herb which the Eastern alchymists look to as a means of making gold. “Most of those alchymical enthusiasts think themselves sure of success, if they could but find out the herb, which gilds the teeth and gives a yellow colour to the flesh of the sheep that eat it. Even the oil of this plant must be of a golden colour. It is called _Haschischat ed dab_.” Father Jerom Dandini, however, asserts that the teeth of the goats at Mount Libanus are of a _silver_ colour; and adds, “This confirms to me that which I observed in Candia: to wit, that the animals that live on Mount Ida eat a certain herb, which renders their teeth of a golden colour; which, according to my judgment, cannot otherwise proceed than from the mines which are under ground.”—_Dandini_, Voyage to Mount Libanus. Footnote 344: p. 304.—_Of_ AZAB _blew, was full of scents._—The myrrh country. Footnote 345: p. 304.—_Where Love himself, of old, lay sleeping._ “This idea (of deities living in shells) was not unknown to the Greeks, who represent the young Nerites, one of the Cupids, as living in shells on the shores of the Red Sea.”—_Wilford._ Footnote 346: p. 305.—_From_ CHINDARA’S _warbling fount I come._ “A fabulous mountain, where instruments are said to be constantly playing.”—_Richardson._ Footnote 347: p. 307.—_The cinnamon-seed from grove to grove._