Plutarch: cited, 23, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 119. Poison of rattlesnake, 43. Polo, Marco: cited, 69. Preface to Ten Commandments, 150. Price's "Mohammedan History:" cited, 27, 42. Priests, salt forbidden to, 55. Primitive covenanting, 6. "Promise," used interchangeably with "covenant," 5. Pythagoras: reference to, 70; quotation from, 88. Quain's "Dictionary of Medicine:" cited, 40, 62. Ralston's "Songs of Russian People:" cited, 106. Raphel, Don: reference to, 30; quotation from, 31; cited, 111 f. Rattlesnake, poison of, 43. Rawlinson's "Ancient Egypt," quotation from, 93. Resuscitating drowned persons by salt, 63. Richardson's English Dictionary, reference to, 96. Ring as symbol and pledge of union, 7. Robbery attempted by Yakoob, 26 f. Robinson, Dr. Edward: cited, 166. Rodd's "Customs:" cited, 101. Rosenmuller: cited, 30; reference to, 54. Russell's "Natural History of Aleppo," quotation from, 24. "Sabbath," a recognized institution before Moses, 158. Sacrifice on threshold, 47. Sacrifices, salt in, 83-96. "Sacrificial essence, the," 91. Saffaride dynasty, founder of, 27. Saffaride Kaleefs, story of the origin of the dynasty of, 26. St. Augustine: cited, 89. St. Peter, fresh water changed to salt by, 59. Saïs, annual festival at, 92. Salary, derivation of word, 68. Saline injections, 40. Salt: as preservative, 14; indispensable in food, 14; spoken of as an accompaniment of bread, 14; a vital element, 18; covenant of, perpetual and unalterable, 18; of the covenant not to be lacking, 18; in many lands the possession of government, 19; bread and, 23-34; nothing eatable without, 23; on a common table, 29 f.; importance of, to a covenant, 32; representing blood, 37-50; and salts, 39; discovery of as article of diet, 41; as antidote for snake-bite, 43; as saline ingredient of blood, 43; curative powers of, 43 f.; supply of, cut off from Armenians, 43; strewn on threshold, 47; representing life, 53-70; and sun, 73-76; in sacrifices, 83-96; in the Eucharist, 89; as sacrificial essence, 91; leaping up in fire, 95; in divination, 99-106; in exorcism, 99-106; not to be carried out of house after dark, 101; on a corpse in Scotland, 103; carried across threshold upon entering new house, 106; faithlessness to, 109-114; and ginger root given as wedding-cake, 124; water mocking thirst, 135. Salt-cellar as point of division on family-table, 126. Salt-making, ordinary process of, 75. Salted cake, essential in sacrificial offering, 94. Salted water, drinking of, as a covenant, 48. "Salted with fire," 65. "Salting a freshman," 128. Salts, salt and, 39. Salts-hunger, death from, 42. Samaria, woman of, reference to, 157. Samoyedes dipping flesh in blood before eating it, 38.