_i.e._ betrothed to her—_j’agrée la proposition_, says Galland. Footnote 142: Here meaning Eunuch-officers and officials. In the cdlxxvith Night of this volume the word is incorrectly written Ãghát in the singular. Footnote 143: In the H. V. Alaeddin on hearing this became as if a thunderbolt had stricken him, and, losing consciousness, swooned away. Footnote 144: These calls for food at critical times, and oft-recurring allusions to eating are not yet wholly obsolete amongst the civilised of the xixth century. The ingenious M. Jules Verne often enlivens a tedious scene by _Dejeunons_! And French travellers, like English, are not unready to talk of food and drink, knowing that the subject is never displeasing to their readers. Footnote 145: The H. V. gives a sketch of the wedding. “And when the ceremonies ended at the palace with pomp and parade and pageant, and the night was far spent, the eunuchs led the Wazir’s son into the bridal chamber. He was the first to seek his couch; then the Queen, his mother-in-law, came into him leading the bride, and followed by her suite. She did with her virgin daughter as parents are wont to do, removed her wedding-raiment, and donning a night-dress, placed her in her bridegroom’s arms. Then, wishing her all joy, she with her ladies went away and shut the door. At that instant came the Jinni,” etc. Footnote 146: The happy idea of the wedding night in the water-closet is repeated from the tale of Nur al-Dín Ali Hasan (vol. i. 221), and the mishap of the Hunchback bridegroom. Footnote 147: For the old knightly practice of sleeping with a drawn sword separating man and maid, see vol. vii. 353 and Mr. Clouston’s “Popular Tales and Fictions,” vol. i. 316. In Poland the intermediary who married by procuration slept alongside the bride in all his armour. The H. V. explains, “He (Alaeddin) also lay a naked sword between him and the Princess, so she might perceive that he was ready to die by that blade should he attempt to do aught of villainy by the bride.” Footnote 148: Galland says: _Ils ne s’aperçurent que de l’ébranlement du lit et que de leur transport d’un lieu à l’autre: c’était bien assez pour leur donner une frayeur qu’il est aisé d’imaginer_. Footnote 149: Galland very unnecessarily makes the Wazir’s son pass into the wardrobe (_garderobe_) to dress himself. Footnote 150: Professional singing and dancing girls: properly the word is the fem. of ’Álim = a learned man; but it has been anglicised by Byron’s “The long chibouque’s dissolving cloud supply, Where dance the Almahs to wild minstrelsy.”—(The Corsair, ii. 2.)