[FN#113] The use of coloured powders in sign of holiday-making is not obsolete in India. See Herklots for the use of “Huldee” (Haldí) or turmeric-powder, pp. 64-65.
[FN#114] Many Moslem families insist upon this before giving their girls in marriage, and the practice is still popular amongst many Mediterranean peoples.
[FN#115] i.e. Sumatran.
[FN#116] i.e. Alexander, according to the Arabs; see vol. v. 252.
[FN#117] These lines are in vol. i. 217.
[FN#118] I repeat the lines from vol. i. 218.
[FN#119] All these coquetries require as much inventiveness as a cotillon; the text alludes to fastening the bride’s tresses across her mouth giving her the semblance of beard and mustachios.
[FN#120] Repeated from vol. i. 218.
[FN#121] Repeated from vol. i. 218.
[FN#122] See vol. i. 219.