[30] The Arabic ‮عرك‬ seems to be used for a pustule or small tumour. The term is applied to the tumour of a camel. There is also the term ‮عرق‬, "decayed flesh or bone." [31] ‮يونس‬, Ἰωνας. _Esaias_ is changed in the same way. [32] ‮الضب‬, _Thob_--monitor: probably, _monitor pulchra_. [33] ‮كحل‬, _Kohel_, "powder of lead," name derived from the epithet "_black_." [34] ‮حنّا‬, _Henna_, "Lawsonia alba," Law. The Henna shrub is cultivated in irrigated fields at Ghabs (Tunis), and is a source of wealth. [35] It is the _Ovis Tragelaphus_ of Zoologists. [36] I was fellow-passenger from Mogador with the male oudad, now at the Royal Zoological Gardens. He is a very fine animal, but has but one eye. [37] The foundation of Nimrod's reputation was laid in the East, many curious facts of which have been preserved in Armenian tradition. The Armenian Bishop, Dr. Nerses Lazar, says, for the benefit of all England, (See his _Scriptural and Analogical Conversations on the Physical and Moral World with reference to an Universal Commercial Harmony_, published by Bentley, London, 1846):--"In the second age of the world, just on entering the second century, _Nimrod began to be a mighty one in the earth_; he was the first great warrior, conqueror, or most severe governor. _He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord_, by which means he became a mighty monarch. For he inured himself to labour by this toilsome exercise, and got together a great company of young robust men to attend him in this sport; _who were hereby also fitted to pursue men as they had done wild beasts_. (Here the Free Kirk will find the beginning of the system which they are patronizing in Yankee Land.) Besides, in the age of Nimrod, the exercise of hunting might win him the hearts of men, whom he thus delivered from wild beasts, to which they were much exposed in their rude and unprotected way of living; so that many at last joined him in the great designs he formed of subduing men, and making himself master of the neighbouring people in Babylon, Susiana, and Assyria. The memory of this hunting of his was preserved by the Assyrians, who made Nimrod the same as Orion, for they joined the dog and the hare, the first creature perhaps that he hunted, with his constellation. He first erected Babylon, and Assyria is called the land of Nimrod, &c., &c. He began to exalt himself, and he is called _Bel_ from his dominions, and _Nimrod_ from his rebellion (against God)." The worthy prelate goes on giving a very long affair about the father of huntsmen and jockies. Nimrod has come up again in this our year of 1847. The French and English antiquarians and excavators have dug him up, and all his splendid posterity from the banks of the Euphrates at the _Bir-el-Nimroud_.