[121] These degrees of relationship will be explained when I describe the customs relating to marriage. [122] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil wa-Murshid el-Mutaähhil, section 9. [123] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, vol. ii. pp. 140 and 141. [124] Nuzhet El-Mutaämmil, &c., _loco laudato_. [125] See "Modern Egyptians," vol. i. ch. vii. [126] Events of the year 227. [127] Ḳur-án, ch. xxvii. v. 40; and Commentary of the Jeláleyn. [128] See "Mishḳát el-Maṣábeeḥ," vol. ii. p. 374. [129] Idem, vol ii. pp. 384, et seqq. [130] Account of the early Arabs, in the "Mir-át ez-Zemán." [131] During his last residence in Egypt, Mr. Lane thought he had discovered a clue to the means employed in these performances, but he afterwards found that there were cases which remained to him inexplicable.--ED. [132] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, _loco laudato_. [133] Mir-át ez-Zemán, _loco laudato_. [134] El-Is-ḥáḳee, in his account of the reign of El-Moạtaṣim, the son of Hároon. [135] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, vol. ii. p. 388. [136] Vulgarly pronounced Nemrood. [137] El-Is-ḥáḳee, close of his account of the reign of El-Emeen. [138] El-Jabartee's Modern Egyptian History (MS. in my possession); account of the death of Yoosuf Bey, in the year of the Flight 1191; and account of the death of the sheykh Ḥasan El-Kafráwee, in the year 1202. [139] Hence it has been called by many travellers, and even by some learned Orientalists, the Great Feast; but it is never so called by the Arabs. [140] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, vol. ii. p. 424. [141] Genesis ix. 5. [142] Lettres sur l'Histoire des Arabes avant l'Islamisme, par Fulgence Fresnel. Paris, 1836, pp. 31, et seqq. [143] El-Is-háḳee. [144] El-Is-ḥáḳee. [145] Idem. [146] Fakhr-ed-Deen, in De Sacy's Chrestomathie Arabe, vol. i. p. 3 of the Arabic Text: 2nd edition. [147] Ibn-Khaldoon, _ubi supra_, vol. i. p. 124 of the Arabic text. [148] Ḥalbet el-Kumeyt (MS. in my possession), chap. vii. [149] The maṣṭabah, with the picturesque Arab architecture of which it forms a part, is fast disappearing from Egypt. In Cairo and Alexandria, Moḥammad 'Alee ordered that the maṣṭabahs in the thoroughfare-streets should be removed, or reduced to about a foot in width; and interdicted the erection of new meshrebeeyehs (projecting windows of lattice-work), although he allowed the old ones to remain.--ED. CHAPTER II. COMMENCING WITH PART OF THE THIRD NIGHT, AND ENDING WITH PART OF THE NINTH. THE STORY OF THE FISHERMAN.