[131]. Compare the Hottentot national name Saan, from ‘to rest,’ i.e. ‘the Settlers’ (F. Müller, Allgemeine Ethnographie, p. 75).

[132]. J.S. Müller, Semiten, Chamiten und Japheiten, &c, p. 257.

[133]. Lenormant, Études Accadiennes, pt. 3, I. 72.

[134]. Al-Nawawî (the Cairo edition of Muslim’s collection, with Commentary), V. 169.

[135]. Kitâb al-aġânî, XVI. 82 penult.

[136]. Burton’s First Footsteps in East Africa, London 1856, p. 174.

[137]. See al-Nâbiġâ, XXXI. v. 4 (Derenbourg).

[138]. On the Calendar of the Arabs before Moḥammed (in Zeitschrift der D. M. G., 1859, XIII. 161).

[139]. Sprachliches aus den Zeltlagern der syrischen Wüste, p. 32, note 21 (a reprint from Zeitschrift der D. M. G., 1868, XXII.).

[140]. A species of lyric poem or elegy.—Tr.