Sicut erat foliis tegitur; funusque paratur,
Heu nimis incertum, et primis violabile ventis.
——their white signal-flag.—[XXIII. p. 212.]
A white flag, called El Alem, the signal, is hoisted every day at twelve o’clock, to warn the people out of hearing, or at a great distance, to prepare, by the necessary preliminary ablutions, to prostrate themselves before God at the service of prayer.—Jackson’s Morocco, p. 149.
The Humma’s happy wings have shadowed him.—[XXIII. p. 213.]
The humma is a fabulous bird: The head over which its shadow once passes will assuredly be encircled with a crown.—Wilkes, S. of India, v. i. p. 423.
Life hath not left his body.—[XXIII. p. 217.]