In classical Arabic the word is “Maghribi,” the local form of the root Gharaba = he went far away, (the sun) set, etc., whence “Maghribi” = a dweller in the Sunset-land. The vulgar, however, prefer “Maghrab” and “Maghrabi,” of which foreigners made “Mogrebin.” For other information see vols. vi. 220; ix. 50. The “Moormen” are famed as magicians; so we find a Maghrabi Sahhár = wizard, who by the by takes part in a transformation scene like that of the Second Kalandar (vol. i. p. 134, The Nights), in p. 10 of Spitta Bey’s “Contes Arabes Modernes,” etc. I may note that “Sihr,” according to Jauhari and Firozábádi = anything one can hold by a thin or subtle place, _i.e._, easy to handle. Hence it was applied to all sciences, “Sahhár” being = to ’Álim (or sage): and the older Arabs called poetry “Sihr al-halál”—lawful magic. Footnote 71: _i.e._ blood is thicker than water, as the Highlanders say. Footnote 72: A popular saying amongst Moslems which has repeatedly occurred in The Nights. The son is the “lamp of a dark house.” Vol. ii. 280. Footnote 73: Out of respect to his brother, who was probably the senior: the H.V. expressly says so. Footnote 74: Al-Marhúm = my late brother. See vol. ii. 129, 196. Footnote 75: This must refer to Cairo not to Al-Medinah whose title is “Al-Munawwarah” = the Illumined. Footnote 76: A picturesque term for birth-place. Footnote 77: In text “Yá Rájul” (for Rajul) = O man, an Egypto-Syrian form, broad as any Doric. Footnote 78: Arab. Shúf-hu, the colloquial form of Shuf-hu. Footnote 79: For the same sentiment see “Julnár the Sea-born,” Nights dccxliii.-xliv. Footnote 80: “I will hire thee a shop in the Chauk”—Carfax market street says the H.V. Footnote 81: The MS. writes the word Khwájá for Khwájah (see vol. vi. 46). Here we are at once interested in the scapegrace who looked Excelsior. In fact the tale begins with a strong inducement to boyish vagabondage and scampish indolence; but the Moslem would see in it the hand of Destiny bringing good out of evil. Amongst other meanings of “Khwájah” it is a honorific title given by Khorásánis to their notables. In Arab. the similarity of the word to “Khuwáj” = hunger, has given rise to a host of conceits, more or less frigid (Ibn Khallikán, iii. 45). Footnote 82: Arab. “Wáhid min al-Tujjár,” the very vulgar style. Footnote 83: