[FN#499] Arab. "Jabal"; here a mountainous island: see vol. i. 140.
[FN#500] i.e. ye shall be spared this day's miseries. See my
Pilgrimage vol. i. 314, and the delight with which we glided into
Marsб Damghah.
[FN#501] Arab. "Sъwбn"="Syenite" (-granite) also used for flint and other hard stones. See vol. i. 238.
[FN#502] Koran xxiv. Male children are to the Arab as much prized an object of possession as riches, since without them wealth is of no value to him. Mohammed, therefore, couples wealth with children as the two things wherewith one wards off the ills of this world, though they are powerless against those of the world to come.
[FN#503] An exclamation derived from the Surat Nasr (cx. 1) one of the most affecting in the Koran. It gave Mohammed warning of his death and caused Al-Abbбs to shed tears; the Prophet sings a song of victory in the ixth year of the Hijrah (he died on the xth) and implores the pardon of his Lord.
[FN#504] Arab. "Dбirah," a basin surrounded by hills. The words which follow may mean, "An hour's journey or more in breadth."
[FN#505] These petrified folk have occurred in the "Eldest Lady's
Tale" (vol. i. 165), where they are of "black stone."
[FN#506] Arab. "Tбj Kisrawi," such as was worn by the Chosroes
Kings. See vol. i. 75.
[FN#507] The familiar and far-famed Napoleonic pose, with the arms crossed over the breast, is throughout the East the attitude assumed by slave and servant in presence of his master. Those who send statues to Anglo-India should remember this.
[FN#508] Arab. "Tб бlнk"=hanging lamps, often in lantern shape with coloured glass and profuse ornamentation; the Maroccan are now familiar to England.