Arab. “Ni’am,” an exception to the Abbé Sicard’s rule. “La consonne N est l’expression naturelle du doute chez toutes les nations, par ce que le son que rend la touche nasale, quand l’homme incertain examine s’il fera ce qu’on lui demande; ainsi NE ON, NE OT, NE EC, NE IL, d’où l’on a fait _non_, _not_, _nec_, _nil_.” Footnote 51: For this “Haláwat al-Miftáh,” or sweetmeat of the key-money, the French _denier à Dieu_, Old English “God’s penny,” see vol. vii. 212, and Pilgrimage i. 62. Footnote 52: Showing that car. cop. had taken place. Here we find the irregular use of the inn, perpetuated in not a few of the monster hotels throughout Europe. Footnote 53: For its rules and right performance see vol. vi. 199. Footnote 54: _i.e._ the “Basil (issa),” mostly a servile name, see vol. i. 19. Footnote 55: Arab. “La’alla,” used to express the hope or expectation of some event of possible occurrence; thus distinguished from “Layta”—Would heaven! utinam! O si! etc.—expressing desire or volition. Footnote 56: Arab. “Balát,” in Cairo the flat slabs of limestone and sandstone brought from the Turah quarries, which supplied stone for the Jízah Pyramids. Footnote 57: Arab. “Yá Mu’arras!” here = O fool and disreputable; see vol. i. 338. Footnote 58: These unfortunates in hot climates enjoy nothing so much as throwing off the clothes which burn their feverish skins: see Pilgrimage iii. 385. Hence the boys of Eastern cities, who are perfect imps and flibbertigibbets, always raise the cry “Majnún” when they see a man naked whose sanctity does not account for his nudity. Footnote 59: Arab. “Daur al-Ká’ah” = the round opening made in the ceiling for light and ventilation. Footnote 60: Arab. “La-nakhsifanna” with the emphatic termination called by grammarians “Nún al-taakid”—the N of injunction. Here it is the reduplicated form, the Nun al-Sakílah or heavy N. The addition of Lá (not) _e.g._ “Lá yazrabanna” = let him certainly not strike, answers to the intensive or corroborative negative of the Greek effected by two negations or even more. In Arabic as in Latin and English two negatives make an affirmative. Footnote 61: Parturition and death in warm climates, especially the damp-hot like Egypt are easy compared with both processes in the temperates of Europe. This is noticed by every traveller. Hence probably Easterns have never studied the artificial Euthanasia which is now appearing in literature. See p. 143 “My Path to Atheism,” by Annie Besant, London: Freethought Publishing Company, 28, Stonecutter Street, E.C., 1877; based upon the Utopia of the highly religious Thomas More. Also “Essay on Euthanasia,” by P. D. Williams, Jun., and Mr. Tollemache in the “Nineteenth Century.” Footnote 62: _i.e._ he whose turn it is to sit on the bench outside the police-office in readiness for emergencies. Footnote 63: