[EN#47] Vulg. Snefrou, "he who makes it good;" the ninth of the third Dynasty; the twenty-fourth successor of Mena (Menes) in the papyri, and the twenty-sixth according to Manetho the priest. He conquered the "Mafka-land," as the Sinaitic Peninsula was then called; and Wady Maghárah still shows his statue, habited in warrior garb, with the proud inscription, "Vanquisher of Stranger Races." This campaign lends some colour to my suspicion that Sináfir Island, at the mouth of the Gulf el-'Akabah, may preserve his name. [EN#48] The German Türkis, and the English and French Turquoise, are both evidently derived from Gemma Turcica, Western Turkistan being considered tile source of the finest stones. [EN#49] The accompanying lithograph gives a list of the letters and the syllabic signs which occur in the inscription. {not included in this e-text} [EN#50] The article "Ná" is emphatic, the with the sense of that or those. [EN#51] "Khomet" signifies, 1. Copper, 2. Metal generally, as argent, etc. [EN#52] "Mensh" is always applied to sea-going ships, as opposed to Bari, Uáu, Kerer, etc., riverine craft. [EN#53] "Kemi" signifies, 1. Found, 2. Found out, discovered. [EN#54] That is, the royal pavilion at Thebes. [EN#55] The word "Deb" (brick) still survives in the Arabic Tob, and, perverted to the Iberian Adobe (Et-tob) it has travelled to Mexico. [EN#56] "Hefennu," as is shown by the ideograph to the right over the three perpendiculars denoting plurality, may be either a frog or a lakh (one hundred thousand). [EN#57] The Egyptians divided gold into four qualities--1, 2, 3, and two-thirds. But it is not known whether No. 1 was the best, and we can only guess that two-thirds alluded to some alloy. [EN#58] The same as the Shu'ayb of my pages. [EN#59] For a notice of "Moses' Well," now quite forgotten by the Arabs, see Chapter VI. [EN#60] For an account of these diggings, see "The Gold-Mines of Midian," Chap. IX. [EN#61] This strange legend will be found copied into many subsequent authors. [EN#62] El-Abjad, the oldest existing form of the Arabic alphabet; to judge from its being identical with the Hebrew. It is supposed to date from after the beginning of the Christian era, when the Himyaritic form fell into disuse, and it is now used in chronograms only. [EN#63] L'auteur est doublement inexact en avanc, ant que l'Aboudjed se compose de vingt-quatre lettres seulement, d'abord parce que les six mots qu'il énumère ne renferment que vingt-deux lettres, et en second lieu, parce qu'il oublie de citer les deux derniers mots techniques, <Arabic> et <Arabic>, lesquels complétent les vingt-huit lettres prises comme valeurs nume'riques ("Voyez l'Exposé des signes de numération chez les Orientaux," par M. Pihan, p. 199 et suiv.). To this I may add that the French translators have sadly corrupted the words which should be Abjad, Hawwaz, Hutti, Kalaman, Sa'fas, and Karashat; whilst Sakhiz and Zuzigh are not found in the Hebrew and cognate dialects.