The cocknos is a bird whose beak is much esteemed for its beautiful polish, and sometimes used as a spoon. Thus, in the _History of Atalmulck and Zelica Begum_, it was employed for a similar purpose: “Zelica having called for refreshment, six old slaves instantly brought in and distributed _Mahramas_, and then served about in a great basin of Martabam, a salad _made of herbs of various kinds, citron juice, and the pith of cucumbers_. They served it first to the Princess in a _cocknos beak_: she took a beak of the salad, ate it, and gave another to the next slave that sat by her on her right hand; which slave did as her mistress had done.” PAGE 243. _Ghouls_ Ghoul, or _ghul_, in Arabic, signifies any terrifying object, which deprives people of the use of their senses. Hence it became the appellative of that species of monster which was supposed to haunt forests, cemeteries, and other lonely places; and believed not only to tear in pieces the living, but to dig up and devour the dead.--RICHARDSON’S _Dissertation on the Languages, etc., of Eastern Nations_, pp. 174, 274. That kind of insanity called by the Arabians _Kutrub_ (a word signifying not only a _wolf_, but likewise a _male Ghoul_), which incites such as are afflicted with it to roam howling amidst those melancholy haunts, may cast some light on the nature of the possession recorded by St. Mark, ch. v, I, etc. PAGE 244. _... feathers of the heron, all sparkling with carbuncles_ Panaches of this kind are amongst the attributes of Eastern royalty.--_Tales of Inatulla_, vol. ii, p. 205. PAGE 244. _... whose eyes pervade the inmost soul of a female_ The original in this instance, as in the others already noticed, is more analogous to the French than the English idiom: “_Dont l’œil pénètre jusqu’à la moelle des jeunes filles._” PAGE 244. _... the carbuncle of Giamschid_