Footnote 23: The blessed or well-omened: in these days it is mostly a servile name, _e.g._ Sidi Mubárak Bombay. See vol. ix. 58, 330. Footnote 24: In the text “Mín” for “Man,” a Syro-Egyptian form, common throughout this MS. Footnote 25: “Ay Ni’am,” an emphatic and now vulgar expression. Footnote 26: The MS. here has “’Imárah” = a building, probably a clerical error for Maghárah, a cave, a souterrain. Footnote 27: Arab. “Zahab-ramlí,” explained in “Alaeddin.” So Al-Mutanabbi sang:— “I become not of them because homed in their ground: ✿ Sandy earth is the gangue wherein gold is found.” Footnote 28: Walímah prop. = marriage-feast. For the different kinds of entertainments see vols. vi. 74; viii. 231. Footnote 29: Arab. Mukattaf al-Yadayn, a servile posture: see vols. iii. 218; ix. 320. Footnote 30: Here the Arabic has the advantage of the English; “Shakhs” meaning either a person or an image. See supra, p. 12. Footnote 31: Arab. “Kawárijí” = one who uses the paddle, a paddler, a rower. Footnote 32: In the Third Kalandar’s Tale (vol. i. 143) Prince ’Ajíb is forbidden to call upon the name of Allah, under pain of upsetting the skiff paddled by the man of brass. Here the detail is omitted. Footnote 33: Arab. “Wahsh,” which Galland translates “Tiger,” and is followed by his Hind. translator. Footnote 34: Arab. “Laffa ’l-isnayn bi-zulúmati-h,” the latter word = Khurtúm, the trunk of an elephant, from Zalm = the dewlap of sheep or goat. Footnote 35: In the text “Yámin,” a copyist’s error, which can mean nothing else but “Yasimín.” Footnote 36: The H. V. rejects this detail for “a single piece of mother-o’-pearl twelve yards long,” etc. Galland has _une seule écaille de poisson_. In my friend M. Zotenberg’s admirable translation of Tabari (i. 52) we read of a bridge at Baghdad made of the ribs of Og bin ’Unk (= Og of the Neck), the fabled King of Bashan. Footnote 37: I have noted that this is the primitive attire of Eastern man in all hot climates, and that it still holds its ground in that grand survival of heathenry, the Meccan Pilgrimage. In Galland the four strips are of _taffetas jaune_, the Hind. “Taftí.” Footnote 38: The word is Hizám = girdle, sash, waist-belt, which Galland turns into _nappes_. The object of the cloths edged with gems and gums was to form a barrier excluding hostile Jinns: the European magician usually drew a magic circle. Footnote 39: This is our corruption of the Malay Aigla = sandal wood. See vol. ix. 150. Footnote 40: