[FN#193] i.e. the blackness of the hair.
[FN#194] The ingenuity of the bride's attendants, on the occasion of a wedding, is strained to the utmost to vary her attire and the manner in which the hair is dressed on the occasion of her being displayed to her husband, and one favourite trick consists in fastening her tresses about her chin and cheeks, so as to produce a sort of imitation of beard and whiskers.
[FN#195] Literal.
[FN#196] i.e. God only knows if it be true or not.
[FN#197] Or rather appended to. The Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor form no part of the scheme of Nights in this edition, but are divided into "Voyages" only and form a sort of appendix, following the Two hundredth Night. See my "Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night," Vol. IX. pp. 307-8.
[FN#198] See my "Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night," Vol. V. pp. 202 and 210.
[FN#199] i.e. the porter and the other guests.
[FN#200] i.e. a mountainous island.
[FN#201] Kherabeh, lit. a hole. Syn. ruin or destruction.
[FN#202] i.e. an outlying spur or reef.