[242]Op. cit., p. 317.
[243]From “Reg” or “Areg,” an Arabic geographical term for a certain type of sandy desert.
[244]Vide infra, [Chap. XI.]
[245]Not, I think, Zu’lqada, as Jean, op. cit., p. 224, suggests. It is properly the greater Bairam, though sometimes known as the Lesser. Sale: Koran Prelim. Dis., § VII.
[246]Bates, op. cit., Chap. VIII.
[247]Cf. Duveyrier, op. cit., p. 414. Cortier: D’une rive à l’autre. . . ., p. 283. Barth, op. cit., Vol. V. p. 570.
[248]Perhaps a connection with “Amana,” pardon, etc., may be suggested.
[249]From the Arabic “el jenun.”
[250]Curzon: Tales of Travel, p. 261. “The Singing Sands.”
[251]Jean says forty: cf. op. cit., p. 215.