[The comboloio consists of ninety-nine beads. Compare _Lalla Rookh_ ("Chandos Classics," p. 420), "Her ruby rosary," etc., and note on "Le Tespih." _Lord Byron's Comboloio_ is the title of a metrical _jeu d'esprit,_ a rhymed catalogue of the _Poetical Works,_ beginning with _Hours of Idleness,_ and ending with _Cain, a Mystery_.--_Blackwood's Magazine,_ 1822, xi. 162-165.] [160] {182} [Shiraz, capital of the Persian province of Fars, is celebrated for the attar-gûl, or attar of roses.] [gf] {183} _Her Prophet did not clearly show_ _But Selim's place was quite secure_.--[MS.] [161] [Compare _The Giaour_, line 490, note 1, _vide ante_, p. 110.] [gg] _And one seemed red with recent guilt_.--[MS.] [gh] {184} _Her Selim--"Alla--is it he?"_--[MS.] [162] "Galiongée" or Galiongi [i.e. a Galleon-er], a sailor, that is, a Turkish sailor; the Greeks navigate, the Turks work the guns. Their dress is picturesque; and I have seen the Capitan Pacha, more than once, wearing it as a kind of _incog_. Their legs, however, are generally naked. The buskins described in the text as sheathed behind with silver are those of an Arnaut robber, who was my host (he had quitted the profession) at his Pyrgo, near Gastouni in the Morea; they were plated in scales one over the other, like the back of an armadillo. [Gastuni lies some eight miles S.W. of Palæopolis, the site of the ancient Elis. The "Pyrgo" must be the Castle of Chlemutzi (Castel Tornese), built by Geoffrey II. of Villehouardin, circ. A.D. 1218.] [gi] {185} _What--have I lived to curse the day?_--[MS. M.] _To curse--if I could curse--the day_.--[MS., ed. 1892.] [gj] {186} _I swear it by Medina's shrine_.--[MS. erased.] [163] The characters on all Turkish scimitars contain sometimes the name of the place of their manufacture, but more generally a text from the Koran, in letters of gold. Amongst those in my possession is one with a blade of singular construction: it is very broad, and the edge notched into serpentine curves like the ripple of water, or the wavering of flame. I asked the Armenian who sold it, what possible use such a figure could add: he said, in Italian, that he did not know; but the Mussulmans had an idea that those of this form gave a severer wound; and liked it because it was "piu feroce." I did not much admire the reason, but bought it for its peculiarity. [Compare _Lalla Rookh_ ("Chandos Classics," p. 373)--"The flashing of their swords' rich marquetry."]