[FN#164] Arab. "Raff," a shelf proper, running round the room about 7-7˝ feet from the ground. During my day it was the fashion in Damascus to range in line along the Raff splendid porcelain bowls brought by the Caravans in olden days from China, whilst on the table were placed French and English specimens of white and gold "china" worth perhaps a franc each. [FN#165] Lane supposes that the glass and china-ware had fallen upon the divan running round the walls under the Raff and were not broken. [FN#166] These lines have occurred in Night dclxxxix. vol. vii. p. 119. I quote Lane. [FN#167] The lines have occurred before. I quote Mr. Payne. [FN#168] This formula, I repeat, especially distinguishes the Tale of Hasan of Bassorah. [FN#169] These lines have occurred in vol. 1. 249. I quote Lane. [FN#170] She speaks to the "Gallery," who would enjoy a loud laugh against Mistress Gadabout. The end of the sentence must speak to the heart of many a widow. [FN#171] These lines occur in vol. i. 25: so I quote Mr. Payne. [FN#172] Arab. "Musáhikah;" the more usual term for a Tribade is "Sahíkah" from "Sahk" in the sense of rubbing: both also are applied to onanists and masturbators of the gender feminine. [FN#173] i.e. by way of halter. This jar is like the cask in Auerbach's Keller; and has already been used by witches; Night dlxxxvii. vol. vi. 158. [FN#174] Here they are ten but afterwards they are reduced to seven: I see no reason for changing the text with Lane and Payne. [FN#175] Wazir of Solomon. See vol. i. 42; and vol. iii. 97. [FN#176] Arab. "Ism al-A'azam," the Ineffable Name, a superstition evidently derived from the Talmudic fancies of the Jews concerning their tribal god, Yah or Yahvah. [FN#177] The tradition is that Mohámmed asked Akáf al-Wadá'ah "Hast a wife?"; and when answered in the negative, "Then thou appertainest to the brotherhood of Satans! An thou wilt be one of the Christian monks then company therewithal; but an thou be of us, know that it is our custom to marry!" [FN#178] The old woman, in the East as in the West, being the most vindictive of her kind. I have noted (Pilgrimage iii. 70) that a Badawi will sometimes though in shame take the blood-wit; but that if it be offered to an old woman she will dash it to the ground and clutch her knife and fiercely swear by Allah that she will not eat her son's blood. [FN#179] Neither dome nor fount etc. are mentioned before, the normal inadvertency. [FN#180] In Eastern travel the rest comes before the eating and drinking.