[EN#21] They were, perhaps, a trifle too long for small beasts: seventy-seven centimètres (better seventy); and too deep, sixty, instead of fifty-eight. The width (forty-six) was all right. The best were painted, and defended from wet by an upper plate of zinc; the angles and the bottoms were strengthened with iron bands in pairs; and they were closed with hasps. At each end was a small block, carrying a strong looped rope for slinging the load to the pack-saddle; of these, duplicates should be provided. In order to defend our delicate apparatus from excessive shaking, we divided the inside, by battens, into several compartments. The smaller cases of bottles and breakables should have been cut to fit into the larger, but this had been neglected at Cairo. Finally, not a single box gave way on the march: that was reserved for the Suez-Cairo Railway, and for landing at the London Docks. [EN#22] MM. Gastinel (Bey) and Marie give it per cent.:-- Titaniferous iron . . . .. . . . . . . 86.50 Silica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.10 Copper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.40 (2 1/2 per cent.) Silver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 [EN#23] Hence, evidently, the derivation of the "Marwah" hill near Meccah, and the famous "Marwah" gold mine which we shall visit in South Midian. The Arabs here use Jebel el-Mará and Jebel el-Abyaz (plur. Jibál el-Bayzá) synonymously. [EN#24] Spon: London, 1875. A book opening a new epoch, and duly neglected. [EN#25] So said the engineer. He relied chiefly upon M. Amedée Burat, p. 229, "Géologic Appliquáe" (Paris: Garnier, 1870), who quotes the compte rendu of M. Guillemin, C.E. to the Exposition of 1867. The latter gentleman, who probably did not, like the former, place Mexico in South America, makes the metalliferous lands measure four-fifths of the total surface. I am much mistaken if the same is not the case with Midian. [EN#26] In "The Gold-Mines of Midian," p. 171, I erroneously asserted that the Beden does not extend to these mountains. The second Expedition could learn nothing about the stag with large branches vaguely spoken of by the Bedawin. [EN#27] When "miles" are given, I mean the statute of 1760 yards as opposed to the geographical; the latter equals 1 minute (of a degree) = 1 Italian or Arab = 1/4 German = 1 1/4 Roman = 10 stadia. [EN#28] Were I a wealthy man, nothing would delight me more than to introduce London to La Zarzuela, the Spanish and Portuguese opera bouffe. Sir Julius Benedict tells me that it has reached Paris. [EN#29] See Le Pionnier, Chemin de Fer Abyssinien d'apré's les desseins de M. J. L. Haddan. Another valuable form is "The Economical" (Mr. Russell Shaw). [EN#30] Chloritic slate is the matrix of gold in the Brazil and in Upper Styria. [EN#31] Chap. IX. [EN#32] Not Tayyibat Ism, as I wrongly wrote in "The Gold Mines of Midian," misled by the Hydrographic Chart. None of the Bedawin could explain the origin of the flattering title.