[96] The two black standards borne before the Caliphs of the House of Abbas were called, allegorically, The Night and The Shadow.—See Gibbon.
[97] The Mohometan religion.
[98] "The Persians swear by the Tomb of Shad Besade, who is buried at Casbin; and when one desires another to asseverate a matter he will ask him, if he dare swear by the Holy Grave."—Struy.
[99] Mahadi, in a single pilgrimage to Mecca, expended six millions of dinars of gold.
[100] The inhabitants of Hejaz or Arabia Petraea, called by an Eastern writer "The People of the Rock."—Ebn Haukal.
[101] "Those horses, called by the Arabians Kochlani, of whom a written genealogy has been kept for 2000 years. They are said to derive their origin from King Solomon's steeds."—Niebuhr.
[102] "Many of the figures on the blades of their swords are wrought in gold or silver, or in marquetry with small gems."—Asiat. Misc. v. i.
[103] Azab or Saba.
[104] "The chiefs of the Uzbek Tartars wear a plume of white heron's feathers in their turbans."—Account of Independent Tartary.
[105] In the mountains of Nishapour and Tous in (Khorassan) they find turquoises.—Ebn Huukal.