[111]. After this I borrow from the Bresl. Edit. inserting passages from the Mac. Edit.
[112]. i.e. whom he intended to marry with regal ceremony.
[113]. The use of coloured powders in sign of holiday-making is not obselete in India. See Herklots for the use of “Huldee” (Haldí) or turmeric-powder, pp. 64–65.
[114]. Many Moslem families insist upon this before giving their girls in marriage, and the practice is still popular amongst many Mediterranean peoples.
[115]. i.e. Sumatran.
[116]. i.e. Alexander, according to the Arabs; see vol. v. [252].
[117]. These lines are in vol i. [217].
[118]. I repeat the lines from vol. i. [218].
[119]. All these coquetries require as much inventiveness as a cotillon; the text alludes to fastening the bride’s tresses across her mouth giving her the semblance of beard and mustachios.