Footnote 348: See 2 Kings 12 : 9; 22 : 4; 23 : 4; 25 : 18. Footnote 349: See, for example, representation and description of temples at Byblus and Baalbec, in Donaldson’s _Architectura Numismatica_, pp. 105 f., 122–128. Footnote 350: Fellows’s _Travels and Researches in Asia Minor_, p. 256. Footnote 351: Roberts’s _Oriental Illus. of Scrip._, p. 148 f. Footnote 352: Maurice’s _Indian Antiquities_, V., 89. Footnote 353: Maurice’s _Indian Antiquities_, V., 79 f., note. Compare Trumbull’s _Blood Covenant_, pp. 157–164. Footnote 354: Maurice’s _Modern Hist. of Hindostan_, Pt. I., Bk. 2, chap. 3, p. 296 f. Footnote 355: Hughes’s _Dictionary of Islam_, art. “Masjid;” also Conder’s _Heth and Moab_, p. 293 f.; also Lane’s _The Modern Egyptians_, I., 105. Footnote 356: Morier’s _Second Journey through Persia_, p. 254. Footnote 357: The moon is said to have thus bowed before Muhammad, at the threshold of the Kaabeh at Meccah. _Anecdotes Arabes et Mussulmans_, p. 22 f. (By J.F. de la Croix, Paris, 1772.) Footnote 358: Chardin’s _Voyage_, I., 282. Footnote 359: _Ibid._, I., 292. Footnote 360: Laurie’s _Dr. Grant and the Mountain Nestorians_, p. 134 f. Footnote 361: Vambéry’s _Travels in Central Asia_, p. 233. Footnote 362: Huc’s _Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China_, I., 191. Footnote 363: Hearn’s _Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan_, I., 188. Footnote 364: Lowell’s _Occult Japan_, pp. 270–273; also, Isabella Bird’s _Unbeaten Tracks in Japan_, II., 278–285. Footnote 365: _Ibid._, I., 111–119; II., 286–288. Footnote 366: See Petrie’s _Ten Years’ Digging in Egypt_, pp. 138–142; also, Mariette’s _Monuments of Upper Egypt_, p. 107 f., and Maspero’s _Dawn of Civilization_, pp. 358–361. Footnote 367: Brugsch’s _Egypt under the Pharaohs_, I., 67. Footnote 368: See Wilkinson’s _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians_, I., xiv. Footnote 369: This is on the testimony of Prof. W. Max Müller, who adds that “so far the Egyptologists have not paid any attention to the threshold;” hence there is a lack of material yet available as showing its peculiar sacredness. Footnote 370: Erman’s _Life in Anc. Egypt_, p. 272. Footnote 371: Lemm’s “Ritual Book,” p. 29 ff., 47; cited in Erman’s _Life in Anc. Egypt_, p. 274 f. Footnote 372: Erman’s _Life in Anc. Egypt_, pp. 260, 308 f.; Mariette Bey’s _Monuments of Upper Egypt_, p. 26. Footnote 373: Wilkinson’s _Ancient Egyptians_, III., 65–86. Footnote 374: _Book of the Dead_, CXLII. Footnote 375: Renouf’s _Relig. of Anc. Egypt_, p. 191 f. Footnote 376: See p. 106, _supra_. Footnote 377: _Book of the Dead_, CXLV., CXLVI. Footnote 378: Renouf’s _Religion of Ancient Egypt_, p. 202 f. Footnote 379: _Book of the Dead_, CXXV. Footnote 380: