Arab. “Thiyáb ’Amúdiyah”: ’Amúd = tent-prop or column, and Khatt ’Amúd = a perpendicular line. Footnote 154: _i.e._ a choice gift. The Caliph speaks half ironically, “Where’s this wonderful present, etc?” So further on when he compares her with the morning. Footnote 155: Again the usual pun upon the name. Footnote 156: Throughout the East this is the action of a servant or a slave, practised by freemen only when in danger of life or extreme need and therefore humiliating. Footnote 157: It had been thrown down from the Mamrak or small dome built over such pavilions for the purpose of light by day and ventilation by night. See vol. i. 257, where it is called by the Persian term “Bádhanj.” Footnote 158: The Nights have more than once applied this patronymic to Zubaydah. See vol. viii. 56, 158. Footnote 159: Arab. “Mutahaddisín” = novi homines, upstarts. Footnote 160: _i.e._ thine auspicious visits. Footnote 161: He being seated on the carpet at the time. Footnote 162: A quotation from Al-Farazdat who had quarrelled with his wife Al-Howár (see the tale in Ibn Khallikan, i. 521), hence “the naked intercessor” became proverbial for one who cannot be withstood. Footnote 163: _i.e._ Choice Gift of the Breasts, that is of hearts, the continens for the contentum. Footnote 164: Pron. “Abuttawáif,” the Father of the (Jinn-) tribes. It is one of the Moslem Satan’s manifold names, alluding to the number of his servants and worshippers, so far agreeing with that amiable Christian doctrine, “Few shall be saved.” Footnote 165: Mr. Payne supplies this last clause from the sequence. Footnote 166: _i.e._ “Let us go,” with a euphemistic formula to defend her from evil influences. Iblis uses the same word to prevent her being frightened. Footnote 167: Arab. “Al-Mustaráh,” a favourite haunting-place of the Jinn, like the Hammám and other offices for human impurity. For its six names Al-Khalá, Al-Hushsh, Al-Mutawazzá, Al-Kaníf, Al-Mustaráh, and Mirház, see Al-Mas’udi, chap. cxxvii., and Shiríshi’s commentary to Hariri’s 47, Assembly. Footnote 168: Which, in the East, is high and prominent whilst the cantle forms a back to the seat and the rider sits as in a baby’s chair. The object is a firm seat when fighting: “across country” it is exceedingly dangerous. Footnote 169: In Swedenborg’s “Arcana Cœlestia” we read, “When man’s inner sight is opened, which is that of his spirit; then there appear the things of another life which cannot be made visible to the bodily sight.” Also “Evil spirits, when seen by eyes other than those of their infernal associates, present themselves by _correspondence_ in the beast (_fera_) which represents their particular lust and life, in aspect direful and atrocious.” These are the Jinns of Northern Europe. Footnote 170: This exchange of salams was a sign of her being in safety. Footnote 171: