Nor is there one word to be said in favour of the corruption except that, like the Protestant mispronunciation of Latin and the Erasmian ill-articulation of Greek, it has become English, and has lent its little aid in dividing the Britons from the rest of the civilised world. [FN#80] The moon, I repeat, is masculine in the so-called "Semitic" tongues. [FN#81] i.e. camel loads, about lbs. 300; and for long journeys lbs. 250. [FN#82] Arab. "Janázah," so called only when carrying a corpse; else Na'ash, Sarír or Tábút: Irán being the large hearse on which chiefs are borne. It is made of plank or stick-work; but there are several varieties. (Lane, M. E. chaps. xxviii.) [FN#83] It is meritorious to accompany the funeral cortège of a Moslem even for a few paces. [FN#84] Otherwise he could not have joined in the prayers. [FN#85] Arab. "Halwá" made of sugar, cream, almonds, etc. That of Maskat is famous throughout the East. [FN#86] i.e. "Camphor" to a negro, as we say "Snowball," by the figure antiphrase. [FN#87] "Little Good Luck," a dim. form of "bakht"=luck, a Persian word naturalized in Egypt. [FN#88] There are, as I have shown, not a few cannibal tribes in Central Africa and these at times find their way into the slave-market. [FN#89] i.e. After we bar the door. [FN#90] Arab. "Jáwísh" from Turk. Cháwúsh, Chiaoosh, a sergeant, poursuivant, royal messenger. I would suggest that this is the word "Shálish" or "Jálish" in Al-Siyuti's History of the Caliphs (p. 501) translated by Carlyle "milites," by Schultens "Sagittarius" and by Jarett "picked troops." [FN#91] This familiarity with blackamoor slave-boys is common in Egypt and often ends as in the story: Egyptian blood is sufficiently mixed with negro to breed inclination for miscegenation. But here the girl was wickedly neglected by her mother at such an age as ten. [FN#92] Arab. "Farj"; hence a facetious designation of the other sex is "Zawi'l-furuj" (grammatically Zawátu'l- furúj)=habentes rimam, slit ones. [FN#93] This ancient and venerable practice of inspecting the marriage-sheet is still religiously preserved in most parts of the East; and in old-fashioned Moslem families it is publicly exposed in the Harem to prove that the "domestic calamity" (the daughter) went to her husband a clean maid. Also the general idea is that no blood will impose upon the exerts, or jury of matrons, except that of a pigeon-poult which exactly resembles hymeneal blood— when not subjected to the microscope. This belief is universal in Southern Europe and I have heard of it in England. Further details will be given in Night ccxi. [FN#94] "Agha" Turk.=sir, gentleman, is, I have said, politely addressed to a eunuch.