_i.e._ donned petticoat-trousers and walking boots other than those she was wont to wear. Footnote 318: “Surah” (Koranic chapter) maybe a clerical error for “Súrah” (with a Sád) = sort, fashion (of food). Footnote 319: This is solemn religious chaff; the Shaykh had doubtless often dipped his hand abroad in such dishes; but like a good Moslem, he contented himself at home with wheaten scones and olives, a kind of sacramental food like bread and wine in southern Europe. But his retort would be acceptable to the True Believer who, the strictest of conservatives, prides himself on imitating in all points, the sayings and doings of the Apostle. Footnote 320: _i.e._ animals that died without being ceremonially killed. Footnote 321: Koran ii. 168. This is from the Chapter of the Cow where “that which dieth of itself (carrion), blood, pork, and that over which other name but that of Allah (_i.e._ idols) hath been invoked” are forbidden. But the verset humanely concludes: “Whoso, however, shall eat them by constraint, without desire, or as a transgressor, then no sin shall be upon him.” Footnote 322: _i.e._, son of Simeon = a Christian. Footnote 323: Arab. and Heb. “Haykal,” suggesting the idea of large space, a temple, a sanctuary, a palace which bear a suspicious likeness to the Accadian Ê-kal or Great House = the old Egyptian Perao (Pharaoh?), and the Japanese “Mikado.” Footnote 324: Wine, carrion and pork being lawful to the Moslem if used to save life. The former is also the sovereignest thing for inward troubles, flatulence, indigestion, etc. See vol. v. 2, 24. Footnote 325: Arab. “Názilah,” _i.e._ a curse coming down from Heaven. Footnote 326: Here and below, a translation of her name. Footnote 327: “A picture of Paradise which is promised to the God-fearing! Therein are rivers of water which taint not; and rivers of milk whose taste changeth not; and rivers of wine, etc.”—Koran xlvii. 16. Footnote 328: Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. _Don Juan_ ii. 178. Footnote 329: The ox (Bakar) and the bull (Taur, vol. i. 16) are the Moslem emblems of stupidity, as with us are the highly intelligent ass and the most sagacious goose. Footnote 330: In Arab. “’Ud” means primarily wood; then a lute. See vol. ii. 100. The Muezzin, like the schoolmaster, is popularly supposed to be a fool. Footnote 331: I have noticed that among Arab lovers it was the fashion to be jealous of the mistress’s nightly phantom which, as amongst mesmerists, is the lover’s embodied will. Footnote 332: _i.e._ I will lay down my life to save thee from sorrow—a common-place hyperbole of love. Footnote 333: