[68]. Mahari, a riding camel.
[69]. Maha, a species of white wild doe.
[70]. A thick silver pin used by women to fasten their haïk, a long piece of woollen, stuff with which they robe themselves. In the desert this pin is called khelala.
[71]. A small piece of polished wood, with which women smear on their eyelids the kohol, or antimony, they value so highly.
[72]. A kind of seat, more or less ornamented according to the means of each individual, which is placed on camel's backs for the use of women who are going on a journey. Temag are red morocco boots.
[73]. Many Arabs in battle load their pieces with seven balls or deer-shot; but their fire-arms are generally in such bad condition that this practice becomes the source of innumerable accidents. The number of persons maimed by guns bursting in their hands is very considerable.
[74]. "Dash on at full speed." The metaphor is taken from the act of swimming.
[75]. A salt soil that yields nothing but salt.
[76]. Layahh, he who amuses, or distracts the attention.
[77]. In some of the desert tribes a robber taken in the act is covered from head to foot with alfa (mat-weed), to which they set fire, and the poor wretch rushes away, amid general hooting, to die a little way off.