Footnote 370: _i.e._ he was as eloquent and courtly as he could be. Footnote 371: Arab. “Yá Zínat al-Nisá,” which may either be a P.N. or a polite address as _Bella fé_ (Handsome woman) is to any feminine in Southern Italy. Footnote 372: Arab. “Raas Ghanam”: this form of expressing singularity is common to Arabic and the Eastern languages, which it has influenced. Footnote 373: This most wearisome form of politeness is common in the Moslem world, where men fondly think that the more you see of them the more you like of them. Yet their Proverbial Philosophy (“the wisdom of many and the wit of one”) strongly protests against the practice: I have already quoted Mohammed’s saying, “Zur ghibban, tazid Hibban”—visits rare keep friendship fair. Footnote 374: This clause in the text is evidently misplaced (vol. xii. 144.) Footnote 375: Arab. Dara’ or Dira’ = armour, whether of leather or metal; here the coat worn under the mail. Footnote 376: Called from Rustak, a quarter of Baghdad. For Rusták town see vol. vi. 289. Footnote 377: From Damietta comes our “dimity.” The classical name was Tamiáthis apparently Coptic græcised: the old town on the shore famed in Crusading times was destroyed in A.H. 648 = 1251. Footnote 378: Easterns are always startled by a sudden summons to the presence either of King or Kazi: here the messenger gives the youth to understand that it is in kindness, not in anger. Footnote 379: _i.e._ in not sending for thee to court instead of allowing thee to live in the city without guest-rite. Footnote 380: In sign of agitation: the phrase has often been used in this sense and we find it also in Al-Mas’udi. Footnote 381: I would remind the reader that the “Dawát” (ink-case) contains the reed-pens. Footnote 382: Two well-known lovers. Footnote 383: On such occasions the old woman (and Easterns are hard de dolo vetularum) always assents to the sayings of her prey, well knowing what the doings will inevitably be. Footnote 384: Travellers, Nomads, Wild Arabs. Footnote 385: Whither they bear thee back dead with the women crying and keening. Footnote 386: Arab. Aznání = emaciated me. Footnote 387: Either the Deity or the Love-god. Footnote 388: Arab. “Himà” = the tribal domain, a word which has often occurred. Footnote 389: “O ye who believe! seek help through patience and prayer: verily, Allah is with the patient.” Koran ii. 148. The passage refers to one of the battles, Bedr or Ohod. Footnote 390: Arab. “Sirr” (a secret) and afterwards “Kitmán” (concealment) _i.e._ Keeping a lover down-hearted. Footnote 391: Arab. “’Alkam” = the bitter gourd, colocynth; more usually “Hanzal.” Footnote 392: “For Jazírah” = insula, island, used in the sense of “peninsula,” see vol. i. 2. Footnote 393: