[EN#33] "The Gold-Mines of Midian." Chap. XII. [EN#34] The so-called Oriental, stalactitic, or variegated alabaster of Upper Egypt was nowhere hit upon. [EN#35] The Ptolemeian parallel is nearly right; the place must not be confounded with Modi'ana or Modouna (ibid.), a coast-settlement in north lat. 27 degrees 45', between Onne and the Hippos Mons, Monte Cavallo. [EN#36] I have no wish to criticize my able predecessor. His map, all things considered, is a marvel of accuracy; and the high praise of Wellsted (ii. 148) only does it justice. [EN#37] The "Muttali" (high town) when small is termed a Burj, pyrgos, tower, Pergamus (?) [EN#38] The Masháb or "camel-stick" of all Arabia is that carried by the Osiris (mummy), and its crook is originally the jackal-headed Anubis. [EN#39] The collection has been submitted to Mr. R. Stanley Poole, who kindly offered them for inspection to the Numismatic Society of London (Nov. 21, 1878). [EN#40] "Ægypten," etc., p. 269, et seq. [EN#41] "Les Inscriptions des Mines d'Or," etc. Paris, 1862. [EN#42] In Tafel viii. (p. 387), he has added some cursory notes on the Sepulcral-Monumente in dem Thale Beden. [EN#43] Wellsted, vol. ii., appendix. [EN#44] All the useful matter has already been borrowed from Abulfeda. Dr. Badger tells me that he looked through his Jarídat el-'Ajáib, wa Farídat el-Gharáib, by Siráj el-Din Umar ibn el-Wardí, A.H. 940 (= A.D. 1533--1534), where he expected to find, but did not find, notices of Madyan. [EN#45] Geschichte Ægyptens unter den Pharaonen. Nach den Denkmählern bearbeitet, von Dr. Heinrich Brugsch-Bey. Erste deutsche Ausgabe. Leipzig: Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1877. Already the Première Partie had appeared in French, "Histoire d'Égypte, Introduction--Histoire des Dynasties i.--xvii.;" published by the same house with a second edition in 1875. An English translation of this most valuable compendium, whose German is of the hardest, is now being printed in London. [EN#46] Pun, or Punt, the region on both sides of the Red Seamouth, including El-Yemen and Cape Guardafui, was made holy by the birth of Osiris, Isis, and Horus. Dr. Brugsch-Bey shows that one of the titles of the he-god was Bass, the cat or the leopard (whence our "Puss"); whilst his wife, Bast (the bissat or tabby-cat of modern Arabic), gave her name to Bubastis (Pi-Bast, the city of Bast). From the Osiric term (Bass) the learned Egyptologist would derive Bacchus and his priests, the Bacchoi and the Bacchantes, whose dress was the leopard's skin. Could Osiris have belonged to the race whose degenerate descendants are the murderous Somal of modern days?