[FN#229] i.e. "May I not lack of thy visits!"
[FN#230] i.e. "As much again as all thou hast given."
[FN#231] The attainment by a boy of the proper age for circumcision, or (so to speak) his religious majority, in a subject for great rejoicing with the Mohammedans, and the occasion is celebrated by the giving of as splendid an entertainment as the means of his family will afford, during which he is displayed to view upon a throne or raised seat, arrayed in the richest and ornaments that can be found, hired or borrowed for the purpose.
[FN#232] Tuhfeh.
[FN#233] Lit. "be equitable therewith unto;" but the meaning appears to be as above.
[FN#234] Lit. "places" (mawazi). Quaere "shifts" or "positions."
[FN#235] See my "Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night," Vol.
VI. p. 226, Isaac of Mosul and his Mistress and the Devil.
[FN#236] i.e. method of playing the lute.
[FN#237] i.e. not indigenous?
[FN#238] Apparently the residence of King Es Shisban.