[11] From the city of Sarakhs in Khurāsān.
[12] Had Dr. Tanner, the forty days’ faster at New York, heard of these performances?
[13] As related of certain Sabbath-breaking Jews, in Qur’ān ii. 61.
[14] Qur’ān xviii. 8, &c.
[15] The mount where the victims are slaughtered by the pilgrims.
[16] The great Persian poet Khāqānī, born at Shirwān, died and was buried at Tebrīz A.H. 582 (A.D. 1186).
[17] Sanā’ī, of Gazna in Afgānistān, surnamed “the Wise,” or “the Philosopher,” died and was buried at the place of his birth, A.H. 576 (A.D. 1180).
[18] “Satan, the Lapidated One,” is the chief title of the accursed one. Muslims believe that the “shooting stars” are missiles cast by angels at demons who attempt to approach heaven for eavesdropping purposes.
[19] I have not met with an explanation of this word in any Persian dictionary. Literally it signifies sugar-hanging. In the Bahāri-‘Ajem alone is it mentioned, with a distich from Hāfiz; but it is left unexplained.
[20] Apparently a “merman” is intended.