[Footnote 28: The miners in Germany form almost a particular caste, and are distinguished from every other artizan by the peculiarities of their dress. It consists of a black half smock of glazed linen, with wide sleeves, contracted at the wrist, decorated with innumerable buttons, and reaches to the waist, where it is fastened by a broad belt. A leather apron, worn either in front, or, during their work, reversed, completes the uniform. The latter article of dress is essential to them in their occupation, which consists of sitting on the hard rock and breaking the ore away with their hammers. The head is covered with a thick felt hat, without a brim, on the crown of which the lantern or candle is placed, during their descent into the mines.—TR.] [Footnote 29: It is customary among Europeans travelling on the Nile, to hoist their national flag, a custom which is the more necessary, as they, by so doing, avoid many enquiries, which are made at different places by the local police, and thus save themselves much trouble, and unnecessary delay.] [Footnote 30: Chesnut, or maize flour, boiled in water, a species of flummery.—TR.] [Footnote 31: Bamié, or bamíyeh, the esculent _hibiscus_: the part eaten is a polygonal pod full of seeds and nutritive mucilage. _Lane’s Modern Egyptians, note,_ p. 199.—TR.] [Footnote 32: The oock’ckah is = 400 dir’hems, is from 3 lb. 3 oz. 13¾ dwt., to 3 lb. 4 oz. troy; or from 2 lb. 11 oz. 8 dr. 18¾ gr., to about, or nearly 2 lb. 12 oz., or 2¾ lb. avoirdupois. Vide _Lane’s Modern Egyptians, Library of Entertaining Knowledge, appendix_, p. 578.—TR.] [Footnote 33: A pomatum for anointing the body, prepared from Spikenard, Mahaleb, and Tuffer. Burckhardt, in his Travels in Nubia, p. 200, mentions a preparation of sheep’s-fat, soap, musk, pulverized sandal-wood, senbal, _i. e._, Spikenard, and Mahaleb. Brown names as one of the articles of this unguent, _dufr_, a species of shell of a fish used for perfume.—_Brown’s Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria._—TR.] [Footnote 34: Or rather, probably, excision, a custom of great antiquity.—Vide _Strabo Lib._ xvii., Καὶ τὰ παιδία περιτεμνειν καὶ τὰ θήλεα ἐκτέμνειν.—TR.] [Footnote 35: Mulieri in manum conventuræ mentulæ suæ imaginem ligneam seu luto formatam sponsus mittit.—TR.] [Footnote 36: See the chapter entitled the capital Lobeid.] [Footnote 37: Public dancing girls.—TR.] [Footnote 38: It is, of course, understood, that travellers from Cairo are furnished with provisions of all kinds, whereas those returning from the Belled-Soodan are merely provided with red lentils. A singular fate has brought us five times unexpectedly together, within the space of five years, in three different quarters of the globe; the last time we met in a miserable village, in the Isle of Cyprus, towards the end of last year.]