TOPICAL INDEX

Aaron, God's covenant with, [17].
Ababde women, reference to, [99].
"Abusers of the salt," [110].
Added traces of the rite, [123]-130.
"Agreement" used interchangeably with "covenant," [5].
Alexis, Grand Duke, reference to, [125].
"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," reference to, [25].
Altar and table as synonymous, [85].
"Ancient Mariner," reference to, [135].
Animal food supplies lack of salt, [38].
Antony and Cleopatra, reference to, [55].
Arabia, Bed'ween of, reference to, [110].
"Arabian Nights," reference to, [64].
Arabs: regard for salt covenant among, [29];
- not accustomed to put salt on table, [29] f.;
- rite of bread and salt among, [31];
- John Macgregor taken prisoner by, [32] f.;
- swearing by salt of, [54];
- milk sometimes accepted as substitute for salt by, [62];
- honesty of, [111] f., [166].
Archeology: its value compared with philology, [4].
Ark of the covenant, reference to, [145].
Armenians, supply of salt cut off, [43].
"Arrangement," used interchangeably with "covenant," [5].
Arvieux: cited, [34].
Asiatic cholera promoted by lack of salt, [46].
Asiatic Quarterly Review, reference to, [46].
Assyrian roots, gain of looking among, [4].
Assyrian: word for "salt," [76];
- words translated "covenant," [6] f.
"Attic salt," synonym of life in conversation, [68].

Babe: anoint with blood, [59];
- more life to a, [59].
Bancroft, H. H.: cited, [57], [95].
Band, symbol and pledge of union, [7].
Barley-meal cakes employed in sacrifice, [94].
Bartholow, Dr.: cited, [41].
Battas, in Sumatra, form of oath of, [123].
Bed'ween, conventions for covenants of, [30] f.
Bey, Durzee, reference to, [24].
Bheels, in India, reference to, [60].
Bible: references to the rite in, [17];
- carried over threshold of new house, [76], 106;
- estimate of treachery in, [113].
Bingham's "Antiquities:" cited, [89].
Bird Bishop, Isabella: cited, [47], [100].
Birth of child, salt at, [61].
Blackwood's Magazine, reference to, [127].
"Blood Covenant": reference to, [6], [7], [8], [9], [41], [45], [48], [53], [54], [59], [60], [62], [67], [79], [85], [86], [117], [118], [119], [120], [147].
Blood: fresh, drunk by people of Masai, [37];
- salt representing, [37]-50;
- drained from animals slaughtered by Jews, [39];
- transfusion of, [41];
- use of, as food, [41];
- red corpuscles of, [42] f.;
- saline ingredients in, [42] f.;
- anointing a new-born babe with, [59];
- Kaffir new chief washed in, [60];
- represented by wine, [117];
- atoned for by blood, [137];
- sprinkled by Moses, [148];
- shedding man's, [162] f.
"Blood-licker" in Mecca, [48].
"Blood revenge" in the East, [163].
Blunt, on Book of Common Prayer: cited, [80].
Bock, Carl: cited, [61].
"Boiling water, ordeal of," [101].
Booddhists in China, customs among, [92].
Bracelet as symbol and pledge of union, [7].
Brâhmanas, reference to, [90] f.
Bread: salt as an accompaniment of, [14];
- and salt, [23]-34;
- significance of, [79], [80];
- and flesh, [119].
Bridal couple, sprinkled with salt, [128] f.
Browning, Mrs., quotation from, [55].
Buchanan, Dr., reference to, [41].
Bunge, Professor: cited, [38], [39], [123].
Burckhardt: cited, [24], [99] f., [100], [166].
Burder: cited, [31], [110], [112].
Burning Lamps, Feast of, [92] f.
Burning of salt, [99] f.
Burton: cited, [24];
- quotation from, [26].
Bush's illustrations, reference to, [109].
Buxtorf: cited, [87] f.

Cadamosto, Aloisio, reference to, [69].
Cannibals, bathing body of chief in salt after death, [61].
Catacazy, Madame de, reference to, [125].
Ceres, reference to, [23].
Cattle, salt as meaning, [91].
Characteristics of a covenant, [3]-10.
Chemist's use of term "salt," [39].
China: blood substitute for salt in, [38];
- depriving a person of salt a mode of punishment in, [42];
- customs among Booddhists in, [92].
Church, salt in dedication of a, [90].
Cicero, reference to, [68].
Circumcision as token of a covenant, [8].
Clapperton: cited, [24].
"College salting," [128].
Collitz, Professor Hermann, reference to, [50], [74].
"Compact," used interchangeably with "covenant," [5].
"Conventions," Bed'ween, [30] f.
Corpse, salt on a, in Scotland, [103].
Cosmas, reference to, [69].
Covenant: meaning of the word, [3] f.;
- characteristics of a, [3]-10;
- etymology of, [5];
- words used interchangeably with, [5];
- marriage a, [7];
- circumcision as token of, [8];
- various kind of, [9], [13];
- Bible references to, [17].
Covenanting, exchange of tokens and symbols in, [8].
Cross, sign of the, reference to, [89].
Curative powers of salt, [43] f.
Customs preceding words, [9].

Dacier, reference to, [70], [88].
Daraon, burning of salt among people of, [99].
Darius, King, directing supply from royal treasury, [20].
David, God's covenant with, [17] f.
Da Vinci's painting, reference to, [113].
Dead body, salt on breast of, [104].
Dead Sea, reference to, [58], [134].
Death: from salts-hunger, [42];
- salt used at, [61];
- or life, [133]-138.
Dedication of a church, [90].
Definition, not easily reached, [5].
Delitzsch, Friedrich: cited, [7].
Denham: cited, [24].
Dhar, used in treaty of peace, [123].
Diab, Joseph, reference to, [28].
Discovery of salt as article of diet, [41].
Disputes settled by salt and water, [124].
Divination, salt in, [99]-106.
Division of Ten Commandments, [159] f.
Doolittle: cited, [100].
Doughty: cited, [24].
Du Tott, Baron, quotation from, [27], [28].
Dyer, Thistleton: quotation from, [104];
- cited, [113], [137], [138].

Eassie, W.: cited, [62].
Ebionites, salt and bread employed by, [50].
Edwards's "History of West Indies," quotation from, [60].
Egypt: salt forbidden to priests in ancient, [55];
- Feast of Burning Lamps in, [92] f.;
- burning salt in, [99];
- Muhammadan Arabs in, [100].
Egyptian: use of salt in sacrifice, [93];
- idea of wine and blood, [118];
- collection of taxes, [130].
Egyptians, table an altar among, [85].
El Hejaz, Bed'ween of, reference to, [110].
Elijah, reference to, [58].
Elisha, reference to, [57].
Elizabeth, Queen, reference to, [126].
Elkesaites, bread and salt employed by, [50].
Ellis's " History of Madagascar:" cited, [8].
England, burning salt in, [101].
Esquimaux, value of blood among, [39].
Etruscan: symbolism, [93];
- customs, salt in, [105].
Etymology of "covenant," [5].
Eucharist, salt in the, [89].
"Evil eye:" reference to, [100] f.;
- treatment received by James Napier for, [101] f.
Evil spirits, exorcising, [99].
Exactness of definition not to be reached, [5].
Exchange of tokens and symbols as a means of covenanting, [8].
Exorcism, salt in, [99]-106.

Faithlessness to salt, [109]-114.
"Father," Oriental meaning of, [160].
Feast of Burning Lamps, [92] f.
Fidelity to salt, [130].
Finn, Mrs., quotation from, 32.
"Fire: salted with," 65;
- salt leaping up in, [95];
- salt thrown into, [100].
Fish, salt in Dead Sea in lieu of, [58].
Flesh and bread, [119].
Flies, dead, life brought to, by salt, [63].
Flood, use of blood as food forbidden after the, [41].
Floor, salt sprinkled upon, [100].
Florus, reference to, [55].
Food: salt indispensable in, [14];
- use of blood as, [41].
Ford, George A.: cited, [101].
Founder of Saffaride dynasty, [27].
Fourmeaux, L.: cited, [40].
Frazer: quotation from, [110];
- cited, [118] f.
"Freshman, salting a," [128].
"Friendship the Master-Passion," reference to, [9].
Funeral, salt scattered at threshold after, [100].
Furness, W. H., [3]d, reference to, [124].

Germans, waging war for saline streams, [59].
German Jews, customs among, [86].
Gesenius: cited, [7], [109].
Ghoorka salt, eating, [110].
Ginger root, salt and, given as wedding-cake, [124].
God's covenant with his people, [150] f.
Gold, salt in exchange for, [69].
Greek Church, salt deemed essential in Eucharist by, [89].
Greek words translated "covenant," [7].
Griffis, William Elliot: cited, [47], [100].
Grimm, reference to, [74].
Gümpel, C. Godfrey: cited, [45].
Gypsies, Hungarian customs among, [129].

Hall, Bishop, reference to, [127].
Hamelin, M.: cited, [34].
Hamlin, Dr.: cited, [24].
Harmer: cited, [24].
Harper's Latin Dictionary, reference to, [94], [96].
Hospitality, salt symbol of, [126].
Hebrew roots, gain of looking among, [4].
Hebrew words translated "covenant," [6] f.
Hebrews, forbidden to eat "with the blood," [62].
Hehn, Victor: reference to, [69];
- quotation from, [70].
Hemorrhage, salt administered in, [40].
Henderson: cited, [103], [104], [137], [138].
Henniker, Sir Frederick, reference to, [49].
Herodotus: reference to, [92];
- cited, [119].
Hilprecht, Dr. Herman V.: cited, [76].
"Holy water:" salt essential element of, [90];
- and salt mingled in food and drink, [101].
Homer: cited, [53], [94].
"Honey, milk and," symbol of blood and flesh, [80].
Howell, W. H.: cited, [41], [42].
Hungarian gypsies, customs among, [129].
Hungary, wedding customs in, [128].

Iago, reference to, [55].
Ideas precede words, [3].
Importance of salt in covenant, [32].
Infant, salt put into mouth of, [90].
Inspiration by wine, [118].
Intoxication by wine, [118].

Jabal, reference to, [160].
Japheth, reference to, [41].
Jastrow, Rev. Dr. Marcus: cited, [57], [86], [112], [137].
Jesus: references of, to salt, [64] f.;
- new commandment of, [169].
Jews: careful to drain blood from slaughtered animals, [39];
- observing covenant of salt at table, [84];
- table customs among, [87].
Josephus: cited, [83].
Jubal, reference to, [161].
Judas Iscariot, reference to, [113].

"Kadesh-barnea," reference to, [58].
Kaffir chief, washed in blood upon assuming authority, [60].
Karna, reference to, [34].
Kauravas, reference to, [34].
Kluge: cited, [74].
Kohler, Dr. K.: cited, [88].
Kookies of India, treaty of peace among, [123].
Koordistan, salt lake in region of, [59].
Krishna, reference to, [34].
Kuhn: cited, [74].

Laiss-safar, worker in brass and copper, [26].
Lane: cited, [24], [64], [100].
Lange, reference to, [65].
Layard: cited, [26].
Lea, Henry C.: cited, [101], [124].
"League," used interchangeably with "covenant," [5].
Lebanon region, blood covenant in, [48].
Leland, quotation from, [93].
Leprosy, prominence of salt as cure for, [45].
Life: dependent on salt, [42];
- salt representing, [53]-70;
- seasoned with, [67];
- and light, [73]-76;
- savor of, [133]-138.
Light, life and, [73]-76.
Livingstone, Dr. David: cited, [37] f., [38].
London Court Journal, reference to, [125].
London Quarterly Review, reference to, [43].
Lot's wife turned to pillar of salt, [103].
Lying, reference to, [167] f.

Macgregor, John, experiences with Arabs, [32] f., [33].
Macrae, quotation from, [126].
Macrobius: cited, [49].
Madagascar, covenant of salt in, [34].
Mahabharata, quoted and cited, [33] f.
Man offered in sacrifice, [91].
Marie, Princess, reference to, [125].
Marriage: a covenant, [7];
- salt and bread placed under threshold at, [106].
Martène: cited, [101].
"Martyrdom of an Empress," [129].
Masai people, reference to, [37].
Meal, salt of the covenant not to be lacking from the, [18].
Meaning of the word "covenant," [3] f.
Means of a merged life, [141], [142].
Meat, eating of, as a pledge, [24].
Mecca, "blood-lickers" in, reference to, [48].
Mediterranean Sea, water not to be taken from, [70].
Merged life, means of, [141], [142].
Merrill, Selah: cited, [24].
"Merry Wives of Windsor," reference to, [55].
Message-bearer, salt in hand of, [126].
Meyer's commentary, reference to, [65].
Milk: substitute for salt, [62];
- used instead of blood, [62].
"Milk and honey" standing for blood and flesh, [80].
"Milk brothers," reference to, [62].
Money, salt as, [69].
Morier, James, reference to, [54].
Morris's "China:" cited, [92].
Morton, Dr. Thomas G.: cited, [41].
Mountains of salt, [70].
Müller, F. Max, reference to, [91] f.
Moody, D. L., reference to, [156].
Moses, reference to, [148], [158].
"Mother," Oriental meaning of term, [160].
Mount Sinai, Moses at, [148].

Name signifying personality, [155] f.
Naming child, ceremony of, [124].
Napier, James: cited, [101] f., [104], [138].
Neptune, reference to, [23].
Nicoll, reference to, [65].
Niebuhr: cited, [24].
Noah: use of blood as food forbidden to, [41];
- reference to, [163].
Norwach: cited, [7], [14], [137].

Oath: Oriental form of, [54];
- different forms of, [123].
"Obligation," used interchangeably with "covenant," [5].
Old Testament, word "covenant" in, [18].
Oriental: form of oath, [54];
- meaning of terms "father" and "mother," [160];
- summit of treachery, [111].
Orientals, Bible written by, [146].
Othello, reference to, [55].
Oxford University, giving salt to students in, [127].

Page, Master, reference to, [54].
Pasha, Arabi, reference to, [130].
Pasha, Moldovanji, reference to, [28].
Paul, reference to, [67].
Perley, quotation from, [125].
Perpetuity, salt as symbol of, [84].
Perspiration, salt shown in, [40].
Philinus, reference to, [56].
Philology, archeology sometimes more valuable than, [4].
Pierrotti: cited, [24].
Plato, reference to, [53].
Pledge, eating meat as a, [24].
Pliny: cited, [45], [68], [70], [73], [94], [119].
Plutarch: cited, [23], [53], [54], [55], [56], [57], [119].
Poison of rattlesnake, [43].
Polo, Marco: cited, [69].
Preface to Ten Commandments, [150].
Price's "Mohammedan History:" cited, [27], [42].
Priests, salt forbidden to, [55].
Primitive covenanting, [6].
"Promise," used interchangeably with "covenant," [5].
Pythagoras: reference to, [70];
- quotation from, [88].

Quain's "Dictionary of Medicine:" cited, [40], [62].

Ralston's "Songs of Russian People:" cited, [106].
Raphel, Don: reference to, [30];
- quotation from, [31];
- cited, [111] f.
Rattlesnake, poison of, [43].
Rawlinson's "Ancient Egypt," quotation from, [93].
Resuscitating drowned persons by salt, [63].
Richardson's English Dictionary, reference to, [96].
Ring as symbol and pledge of union, [7].
Robbery attempted by Yakoob, [26] f.
Robinson, Dr. Edward: cited, [166].
Rodd's "Customs:" cited, [101].
Rosenmuller: cited, [30];
- reference to, [54].
Russell's "Natural History of Aleppo," quotation from, [24].

"Sabbath," a recognized institution before Moses, [158].
Sacrifice on threshold, [47].
Sacrifices, salt in, [83]-96.
"Sacrificial essence, the," [91].
Saffaride dynasty, founder of, [27].
Saffaride Kaleefs, story of the origin of the dynasty of, [26].
St. Augustine: cited, [89].
St. Peter, fresh water changed to salt by, [59].
Saïs, annual festival at, [92].
Salary, derivation of word, [68].
Saline injections, [40].
Salt: as preservative, [14];
- indispensable in food, [14];
- spoken of as an accompaniment of bread, [14];
- a vital element, [18];
- covenant of, perpetual and unalterable, [18];
- of the covenant not to be lacking, [18];
- in many lands the possession of government, [19];
- bread and, [23]-34;
- nothing eatable without, [23];
- on a common table, [29] f.;
- importance of, to a covenant, [32];
- representing blood, [37]-50;
- and salts, [39];
- discovery of as article of diet, [41];
- as antidote for snake-bite, [43];
- as saline ingredient of blood, [43];
- curative powers of, [43] f.;
- supply of, cut off from Armenians, [43];
- strewn on
- threshold, [47];
- representing life, [53]-70;
- and sun, [73]-76;
- in sacrifices, [83]-96;
- in the Eucharist, [89];
- as sacrificial essence, [91];
- leaping up in fire, [95];
- in divination, [99]-106;
- in exorcism, [99]-106;
- not to be carried out of house after dark, [101];
- on a corpse in Scotland, [103];
- carried across threshold upon entering new house, [106];
- faithlessness to, [109]-114;
- and ginger root given as wedding-cake, [124];
- water mocking thirst, [135].
Salt-cellar as point of division on family-table, [126].
Salt-making, ordinary process of, [75].
Salted cake, essential in sacrificial offering, [94].
Salted water, drinking of, as a covenant, [48].
"Salted with fire," [65].
"Salting a freshman," [128].
Salts, salt and, [39].
Salts-hunger, death from, [42].
Samaria, woman of, reference to, [157].
Samoyedes dipping flesh in blood before eating it, [38].
Sanskrit roots, gain of looking among, [4].
Savor of death, [133]-138.
Savor of life, [133]-138.
Sayce, Professor A. H., reference to, [74].
Schrader, O.: cited, [74].
Schultz, Stephen: cited, [28], [29] f., [30].
Scipio, reference to, [68].
Scotland, salt on a corpse in, [103].
Scott, Sir Walter, quotation from, [127].
Seal killing by Esquimaux, [39].
Seasoned: with life, [67];
- with salt, [67].
Second requirement of God's covenant, [153].
Sentiment valuable in research, [5].
Septuagint, The, reference to, [33], [84].
Settling dispute by salt and water, [124].
Shallow, Justice, reference to, [54].
Shewbread, salt on table of, [84].
Shooter's "Kafirs:" cited, [60].
Sign of the cross, reference to, [89].
Significance of bread, [79], [80].
"Sin-eaters," reference to, [105].
"Sitting below the salt," [126].
Sixth requirement of God's covenant, [162].
Skeat: cited, [74].
Smith, George Adam, quotation from, [134].
Smith, W. Robertson: cited, [14], [24], [48], [59], [62], [137].
Snake-bite, salt as antidote for, [43].
Sodom destroyed because of faithlessness to salt, [112].
"Son" and "sun" from same root, [73].
Spencer, Herbert: cited, [123], [126].
Spilling of salt, [138].
Stanley, Henry M., reference to, [46] f.
Stealing, Arab estimate of, [166].
Stevens, Dr. W.: cited, [43].
Stewart's "Manual of Physiology:" reference to, [42];
- quotation from, [123].
Strassburg University, reference to, [128].
Strickland, Agnes: cited [126].
Student, in Journal of Asiatic Society, giving salt to, [127].
"Studies in Oriental Social Life," [14], [23], [24], [58].
Substitute together with reality, [117]-120.
Substituting salt for blood, [37].
Sun, salt and, [73]-76.
Supply of salt cut off from Armenians, [43].
Survey of Western Palestine, reference to, [32].
Swearing by salt, [54].
Sword, salt on blade of, [49].
Syrophoenician woman, reference to, [88].

Table: of shewbread, salt on, [84];
- an altar, [85];
- customs among Jews, [87].
Tacitus: cited, [135].
Tamerlane, Mongol-Tartar chieftain reference to, [109].
Tatar tradition of salt, [41].
Taxation in Egypt, [130].
Tears, salt shown in, [40].
Ten Commandments, division of, [159] f.
Thirst, salt water mocking, [135].
Thomson, W. M.: cited, [24];
- quotation from, [37].
"Three," value as sacred number, [103].
Threshold: pouring blood on, [47];
- Bible carried across, in new house, [76];
- salt and candle carried across, [76];
- salt scattered at, [100];
- salt and Bible carried across, in new house, [106];
- salt and bread under, [106].
"Threshold Covenant," reference to, [6], [47], [106], [117], [128], [130].
Torture: depriving of salt as a means of, [42];
- treachery, Oriental summit of, [111];
- Bible summit of, [113].
"Treaty," used interchangeably with "covenant," [5].
Truce between enemies, sharing water as, [23] f.
Twain made one, [7].

Van Lennep: cited, [61].
Various kinds of covenant, [9].
Vegetable: diet used by those who take salt, [38];
- life, salt destructive of, [133].
Virgil, reference to, [94].
Volney: cited, [31].

Warburton: cited, [24].
Water: sharing of, [23];
- fountain of, cured, [58];
- not to be dipped from Mediterranean Sea, [70].
Wellhausen: cited, [95].
Wetzstein: cited, [24].
Wheeler's "History of India:" cited, [34].
Wilkinson's "Ancient Egypt:" cited, [93].
Wine: representing blood, [117];
- and salt, [119].
Wit, salt equivalent of, [67].
Woman of Samaria, reference to, [157].
Words: ideas precede, [3];
- limitations and imperfectness of, [3];
- customs precede, [9].

Yakoob, a robber chieftain, [26].
"Youth, salt of," [54].
Yudhishthira, reference to, [34].

Zerubbabel, rebuilding of the temple by, [19].