[21] Russell's Natural History of Aleppo, Book II., chap. 4 (I., 232).
[22] Burton's Thousand and One Nights, "Supplemental Nights," III., 398 f.
[23] See, for example, Layard's account of the murder of a Koordish Bey by Ibrâheem Agha, after the latter had risen from the table of the former (Nineveh and its Remains, I., 96 f.); also his account of other murderous violations of the rites of hospitality (Ibid., I., 107 f.; Nineveh and Babylon, p. 38).
[24] Price's Mohammedan History, II., 229 f.
[25] Baron du Tott's Memoirs of the Turks and Tartars, Part I., p. 214, quoted in Bush's Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures.
[26] Schultz's Leitungen des Höchsten nach seinem Rath auf den Reisen durch Europa, Asia, und Afrika, Part V., p. 246, quoted in Rosenmüller's Des alte und neue Morgenland, II., 152 f.
[27] Don Raphel's The Bedouins, or Arabs of the Desert, Part II, p. 59; quoted in Burder's Oriental Customs, 2d ed., p. 72 f.
[28] Volney's Travels, II., 76.
[29] Survey of Western Palestine, Special Papers, p. 355.
[30] Macgregor's The Rob Roy on the Jordan, p. 259 f.