[14]. Comp. with p. [71] f., infra.

[15]. Bruce’s Travels, Bk. II., p. 514.

[16]. Baker’s Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, p. 137; comp. 126 f.

[17]. On the testimony of a Liberian colored clergyman.

[18]. See, for example, Sir Robert Ker Porter’s Travels, p. 36 f.

[19]. Palgrave’s Personal Narrative of a Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, I., 51.

[20]. Conder’s Heth and Moab, pp. 290, 293.

[21]. D’Herbelot’s Bibliothèque Orientale, s. v. “Bab,” p. 157.

[22]. Roberts’s Oriental Illus. of Scrip., p. 149.

[23]. Morier’s Second Journey through Persia, p. 254.