[Footnote 64: The oschour of Burckhardt and Browne.—TR.] [Footnote 65: Of the Acacia, according to Burckhardt’s Travels in Nubia, p. 264.—TR.] [Footnote 66: Girbe.—TR.] [Footnote 67: Vid. Chapter XIX.] [Footnote 68: The Kashef, or impression of the seal, is customary over the whole of the East, and a signature, although in the handwriting of the individual, does not render a document, or other paper, valid unless it be at the same time sealed with the Kashef, or initials of the writer.] [Footnote 69: An expression in use among the natives of Egypt, Syria, and Arabia, to denote an amusement and every description of ornament or pomp; thus the women are said to have a _fantasia_ on their heads or dress, as they go out to witness a _fantasia_.] [Footnote 70: Wind and heat cause a diminution in the weight of the gum before it reaches Cairo.] [Footnote 71: Cisme, or shishme, a small grain of the size and shape of the smallest lentil of a deep black shining colour is imported from Darfour. It is pulverized and rubbed into the eyelids for complaints of the eye.—_Burckhardt’s Travels in Nubia_, p. 262.—TR.] [Footnote 72: Vide the following chapters.] [Footnote 73: Spikenard, from Carinthia, is as indispensable as bread in this country, it is employed, as before-mentioned, in the preparation of telka, which every woman must possess, or she has the right of divorce. The rottolo of one pound is sold at four or five piasters (one shilling and twopence to one shilling and sixpence). This article is already in demand in the negro states, and the consumption will greatly increase in the space of a few years.] [Footnote 74: Dogas, manufactured in Carniola and Styria, are iron plates of various sizes, furnished with a ring and hook, and employed for the purpose of baking bread. They are indispensable to the caravans.] [Footnote 75: The razors (the commonest sort manufactured in the capital of Styria,) are not used for shaving the beard; some few natives employ them for the hair of the head, but the greater number for shaving the hair of the pudenda. They are also put into use in the circumcision of girls and in the mutilation of boys.] [Footnote 76: Two-edged swords, of Austrian manufacture, are thirty-six inches and a half in length, and one inch and three-quarters in breadth, of equal diameter throughout, and rounded off inferiorly. Seven inches and a quarter in the curve, and marked: ♁ with a lion. The scabbards and hilts are made in the country. They are in most request in Darfour. The sale is attended with considerable profit, but those marked with a death’s-head from the workshops of Peter Knell, in Solingen, are preferred.] [Footnote 77: Antimony from various mines in the province of Austria, and reduced to a powder, is used as a cosmetic by the women and girls, who cover their eyelids with it.]