_i.e._ All the blemishes which justify returning a slave to the slave-dealer. Footnote 266: Media: see vol. ii. 94. The “Daylamite prison” was one of many in Baghdad. Footnote 267: See vol. v. 199. I may remark that the practise of bathing after copulation was kept up by both sexes in ancient Rome. The custom may have originated in days when human senses were more acute. I have seen an Arab horse object to be mounted by the master when the latter had not washed after sleeping with a woman. Footnote 268: On the morning after a happy night the bridegroom still offers coffee and Halwá to friends. Footnote 269: _i.e._ More bewitching. Footnote 270: Arab. “Sharífí” more usually Ashrafi, the Port. Xerafim, a gold coin = 6s.–7s. Footnote 271: The oft-repeated Koranic quotation. Footnote 272: Arab. “’Irk”: our phrase is “the apple of the eye.” Footnote 273: Meaning that he was a Sayyid or a Sharíf. Footnote 274: _i.e._ than a Jew or a Christian. So the Sultan, when appealed to by these religionists, who were as usual squabbling and fighting, answered, “What matter if the dog tear the hog or the hog tear the dog”? Footnote 275: The “Sharí’at” forbidding divorce by force. Footnote 276: _i.e._ protect my honour. Footnote 277: For this proverb see vol. v. 138. I have remarked that “Shame” is not a passion in Europe as in the East; the Western equivalent to the Arab. “Hayá” would be the Latin “Pudor.” Footnote 278: Arab. “Talákan báinan,” here meaning a triple divorce before witnesses, making it irrevocable. Footnote 279: _i.e._ who had played him that trick. Footnote 280: The Bresl. Edit. (vol. xii. pp. 50–116, Nights dcccclviii-dcccclxv.) entitles it “Tale of Abu al-Hasan the Damascene and his son Sídí Nur al-Dín ’Alí.” Sídí means simply “my lord”, but here becomes part of the name, a practice perpetuated in Zanzibar. See vol. v. 283. Footnote 281: _i.e._ at the hours of canonical prayers and other suitable times he made an especial orison (du’á) for issue. Footnote 282: See vol. i. 85, for the traditional witchcraft of Babylonia. Footnote 283: _i.e._ More or less thoroughly. Footnote 284: _i.e._ “He who quitteth not his native country diverteth not himself with a sight of the wonders of the world.” Footnote 285: For similar sayings, see vol. ix. 257, and my Pilgrimage i. 127. Footnote 286: _i.e._ relying upon, etc. Footnote 287: The Egyptian term for a khan, called in Persia caravanserai (karwán-seráí); and in Marocco funduk, from the Greek; whence the Spanish “fonda.” See vol. i. 92. Footnote 288: Arab. “Baliyah,” to jingle with “Bábiliyah.” Footnote 289: As a rule whenever this old villain appears in The Nights, it is a signal for an outburst of obscenity. Here, however, we are _quittes pour la peur_. See vol. v. 65 for some of his abominations. Footnote 290: