[FN#549] A proof of his extreme simplicity and bonhomie.
[FN#550] Arab. "Dбrfнl"=the Gr. {delphнs} later {delphнn}, suggesting that the writer had read of Arion in Herodotus i. 23.
[FN#551] 'Aъj; I can only suggest, with due diffidence, that this is intended for Kъch the well-known Baloch city in Persian Carmania (Kirmбn) and meant by Richardson's "Koch Гј buloch." But as the writer borrows so much from Al-Mas'udi it may possibly be Aъk in Sнstбn where stood the heretical city "Shбdrak," chapt. cxxii.
[FN#552] i.e. The excellent (or surpassing) Religious. Shaykhah, the fem. of Shaykh, is a she-chief, even the head of the dancing- girls will be entitled "Shaykhah."
[FN#553] The curtain would screen her from the sight of men- invalids and probably hung across the single room of the "Zбwiyah" or hermit's cell. The curtain is noticed in the tales of two other reverend women; vols. {v.} 155 and v. 257.
[FN#554] Abdullah met his wife on Thursday, the night of which would amongst Moslems be Friday night.
[FN#555] i.e. with Sa'idah.