[Footnote 39: _Lu, lu, lu!_ This cry has a triple signification. It expresses joy, grief, and danger, and serves also as an encouragement in battle. The intonation of these sounds determines the difference of their import. It may be readily recognised when it has been frequently heard, but cannot be described.] [Footnote 40: Bakkara are a race of Arabs who occupy themselves with breeding cattle.] [Footnote 41: Evil Spirit.—TR.] [Footnote 42: Johara.—TR.] [Footnote 43: The most prevalent means, in most Mooslem countries, of exciting what the Arabs term “Keyf,” which I cannot more nearly translate than by the word “exhilaration,” is tobacco, whose accompaniment is usually the cup of coffee.—_Lane’s Modern Egyptians_, vol. ii., ch. 2., p. 35-6.—TR.] [Footnote 44: Maxima mihi etiam apud hoc nigrorum genus generationis organa observandi fuit occasio.] [Footnote 45: Hic cinctus pudenda tegit.] [Footnote 46: A custom more especially prevalent in the Harz mountains on the evening of 1st of May, the night of Walpurgis, when fires are lighted on the hills, and torches tossed into the air, to drive away the witches, who are supposed on this occasion to be making holiday. This custom is alluded to in Goëthe’s Faust.—TR.] [Footnote 47: A white cap, worn beneath the Tarboósh.] [Footnote 48: A red cap, with a silk tassel.] [Footnote 49: The pod of a tree with which the natives tan leather in Kordofan.] [Footnote 50: This earth is found near Shendy, and is said to be met with in several places on the White Nile also.] [Footnote 51: It resembles the tomato in shape and size, grows in a similar manner, and has a very unpleasant taste.] [Footnote 52: The _chaussure_ consists of shoes and sandals, but a part of them appear on parade barefooted, for they are not over rigid disciplinarians; the covering to the head, like that of all the other troops, is the turboosh—a red cap, and the only article of dress about them in decent preservation.] [Footnote 53: Situated at a distance of four hours’ march from Cairo. This school was subsequently removed to Cairo at the advice of Prince Pückler-Muskau.] [Footnote 54: _Solanum Lycopersicum_.—TR.] [Footnote 55: _Citrus Decumana_, the shaddock?—TR.] [Footnote 56: Long-staple, Sea island, Egyptian cotton.] [Footnote 57: Long staple, common Egyptian cotton.—TR.] [Footnote 58: Heglig, of Browne; Agihalid, of Adamson; the Balanites Egyptiaca in the _Description de l’Egypte, publiée par_ Panckoucke. Forskael mentions the fruit of the eglit, but not the tree.—TR.] [Footnote 59: The Acacia.—TR.] [Footnote 60: Cucifera thebaica, in the _Description de l’Egypte_.—TR.] [Footnote 61: Faecher palme, Borassus flabelliformis, of Forskael.—TR.] [Footnote 62: “Peace be on you,” the greeting of peace, to which the response is, “On you be peace.” This is the salutation of Mooslims to each other only.—Vide, _Lane’s Modern Egyptians_, p. 273.—TR.] [Footnote 63: Buffaloes.—TR.]