[FN#14] Eastern peoples attach great importance, for good or evil omen, to the first person met or the first thing that happens in the day.
[FN#15] Or "attributed as sin."
[FN#16] A common Eastern substitute for soap.
[FN#17] This common formula of assent is an abbreviation of "Hearkening and obedience are due to God and to the Commander of the Faithful" or other the person addressed.
[FN#18] Dar es Selam, one of the seven "Gardens" into which the
Mohammedan Paradise is divided.
[FN#19] i.e. a mattrass eighteen inches thick.
[FN#20] Complimentary form of address to eunuchs, generally used by inferiors only.
[FN#21] The morning-prayer consists of four inclinations (rekšat) only. A certain fixed succession of prayers and acts of adoration is called a rekah (sing, of rekšat) from the inclination of the body that occurs in it.
[FN#22] i.e. the terminal formula of prayer, "Peace be on us and on all the righteous servants of God!"
[FN#23] i.e. said "I purpose to make an end of prayer."