{301} In more modern slang, “a rock scorpion.” {302} Του λόγου σας, a polite locution in modern Greek, signifying “you,” “your good self, _or_, selves.” {307} More correctly, the _Preobazhenski_, _Semeonovski_, and _Findlandski polks_. The first is a very crack regiment, and was formed by Peter the Great in 1682. In 1692 it took part in the capture of Azov (Toll, “Nastolny Slovar,” _Encyclop._ tom. iii.). {309} This would have been General Sir A. Woodford, K.C.B., G.C.M.G. {310} “A holy man this, from the kingdoms of the East.” {311} A street in West Hamburg, near the port and the notorious _Heiligegeist_, frequented by a low class of Jews and seafaring men. {312a} The living waters. {312b} Into the hands of some one else—_manû alicujus_. _Peluni_ is the Fulaneh of the Arabs, the Don Fulano of the Spaniards; Mr. So-and-So; Monsieur Chose. {314} _I.e._ “The Hill of the English,” near Vitoria. Here, in the year 1367, Don Tello, with a force of six thousand knights, cut to pieces a body of four hundred men-at-arms and archers, under the command of Sir Thomas Felton, Seneschal of Guienne, and his brother Sir William. See Froissart, i. chap. 239; Ayala, _Cronicas de los Reyes de Castilla_, i. p. 446; Mérimée, _Histoire de Don Pèdre Ier_, p. 486. {316} The popular name for _Etna_—an etymology most suggestive, _Mons_ (Latin) and _gibil_ (Arabic) each signifying “a mountain.” {318} The book Zohar (Hebrew, “Brilliancy”) is, next to the canonical Scripture, one of the ablest books in Hebrew literature, having been written by the Rabbi Simeon bar Jochaï, “The Great Light” and “Spark of Moses,” early in the second century of our era. The mysteries contained in the Zohar are said to have been communicated to Jochaï during his twelve years’ seclusion in a cave; and they are specially revered by a sect of modern Jews known as Zoharites, or Sabbathians, from their founder Sabbataï Zevi, who was born at Smyrna in 1625, and claimed to be the true Messiah, but who, to save himself from death as an impostor, embraced the faith of Islám at Adrianople, and died a Moslem in 1676. Yet a hundred years later another Zoharite pretender, Jankiev Lejbovicz, who acquired the name of Jacob Frank, of Offenbach, near Frankfort, and died only in 1792, made himself famous in Germany. The Zoharites were Cabalistic, as opposed to Talmudic, in their theology or theosophy, and in later times have claimed to have much in common with Christianity.—See M. J. Mayers (of Yarmouth), _A Brief Account of the Zoharite Jews_ (Cambridge, 1826); and Graetz, _History of the Jews_, vol. v. pp. 125, 289. {322} Rabat. {330} 1 Kings xix. 11–13. {337} _On_ as a termination is usually indicative of size without admiration, bigness rather than greatness, as in the Italian _one_.