[9] ‘The Subterranean World.’ Second Edition, p. 306.
[10] Whoever has read Rückert’s wonderful translation of ‘The Makamas of Hariri’ will be able to form some opinion of the richness of the Arabic and at the same time admire the exuberant treasures of the German tongue.
[11] D’Escayrac, ‘Le Désert et le Soudan.’
[12] Forbes’s ‘Oriental Memoirs.’
[13] Tennent’s ‘Ceylon,’ vol. ii. pp. 614, 618.
[14] ‘Wanderings,’ p. 5.
[15] ‘Himalayan Journals,’ vol. i. p. 146.
[16] See [Chapter III].
[17] Tennent’s ‘Ceylon,’ vol. ii. p. 523.
[18] The northern part of the new continent had been visited and colonized centuries before by the mariners of Iceland. For an account of this discovery, see ‘The Sea and its Living Wonders,’ second edition, p. 362.