[FN#246] This mention of weighing suggests the dust of Dean Swift and the money of the Gold Coast It was done, I have said, because the gold coin, besides being "sweated" was soft and was soon worn down.
[FN#247] Fem. of Nájí (a deliverer, a saviour)=Salvadora.
[FN#248] This, I have noted, is according to Koranic command (chaps. iv. 88). "When you are saluted with a salutation, salute the person with a better salutation." The longer answer to "Peace be with (or upon) thee! " is still universally the custom. The "Salem" is so differently pronounced by every Eastern nation that the observant traveller will easily make of it a Shibboleth.
[FN#249] The Badawi, who was fool as well as rogue, begins to fear that he has kidnapped a girl of family.
[FN#250] These examinations being very indecent are usually done in strictest privacy. The great point is to make sure of virginity.
[FN#251] This is according to strict Moslem law: the purchaser may not look at the girl's nakedness till she is his, and he ought to manage matters through an old woman.
[FN#252] Lit. wrath; affliction which chokes; in Hindustani it means simply anger.
[FN#253] i.e. Heaven forbid I be touched by a strange man.
[FN#254] Used for fuel and other purposes, such as making "doss stick."
[FN#255] Arab "Yaftah'Allah" the offer being insufficient. The rascal is greedy as a Badaw and moreover he is a liar, which the Badawi is not.