[210] {251} Dancing girls. [Compare _The Waltz_, line 127, _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 492, note 1.] [211] It has been observed, that Conrad's entering disguised as a spy is out of nature. Perhaps so. I find something not unlike it in history.--"Anxious to explore with his own eyes the state of the Vandals, Majorian ventured, after disguising the colour of his hair, to visit Carthage in the character of his own ambassador; and Genseric was afterwards mortified by the discovery, that he had entertained and dismissed the Emperor of the Romans. Such an anecdote may be rejected as an improbable fiction; but it is a fiction which would not have been imagined unless in the life of a hero."--See Gibbon's _Decline and Fall_ [1854, iv. 272.] [212] {252} [On the coast of Asia Minor, twenty-one miles south of Smyrna.] [213] [A Levantine bark--"a kind of ketch without top-gallant sail, or mizzen-top sail."] [214] {254} [Compare the _Giaour_, line 343, note 2; _vide ante_, p. 102.] [215] The Dervises [Dervish, Persian _darvesh_, poor] are in colleges, and of different orders, as the monks. [216] {255} "Zatanai," Satan. [Probably a phonetic rendering of σατανὰ(ς) [satana(s)]. The Turkish form would be _sheytan_. Compare letter to Moore, April 9, 1814, _Letters_, 1899, iii. 66, note 1.] [217] {256} A common and not very novel effect of Mussulman anger. See Prince Eugene's _Mémoires_, 1811, p. 6, "The Seraskier received a wound in the thigh; he plucked up his beard by the roots, because he was obliged to quit the field." ["Le séraskier est blessé a la cuisse; il s'arrache la barbe, parce qu'il est obligé de fuir." A contemporary translation (Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1811), renders "il s'arrache la barbe" _he tore out the arrow_.] [218] {257} Gulnare, a female name; it means, literally, the flower of the pomegranate. [219] {259} [The word "to" had been left out by the printer, and in a late revise Byron supplies the omission, and writes-- "To Mr. Murray or Mr. Davison. "Do not omit words--it is quite enough to alter or mis-spell them. "Bn." In the MS. the line ran-- "To send his soul--he scarcely cared to Heaven." "Asked" is written over in pencil, but "cared" has not been erased.] [220] {261} [Compare--"One _anarchy_, one _chaos_ of the _mind_." _The Wanderer_, by Richard Savage, Canto V. (1761, p. 86).] [221] {262} [Compare--"That hideous sight, a _naked_ human heart." _Night Thoughts_, by Edward Young (Night III.) (Anderson's _British Poets_, x. 71).] [222] {263} [Compare-- "When half the world lay wrapt in sleepless night, A jarring sound the startled hero wakes. * * * * * He hears a step draw near--in beauty's pride A female comes--wide floats her glistening gown-- Her hand sustains a lamp...." Wieland's _Oberon_, translated by W. Sotheby, Canto XII. stanza xxxi., _et seq_.]