115 ([return])
[ i.e. on Doomsday thou shalt get thy deserts.]
116 ([return])
[ i.e. what I could well afford.]
117 ([return])
[ Arab. Hirfah=a trade, a guild, a corporation: here the officers of police.]
118 ([return])
[ Gen. "tip-cat" (vol. ii. 314.) Here it would mean a rude form of tables or backgammon, in which the players who throw certain numbers are dubbed Sultan and Wazir, and demean themselves accordingly. A favourite bit of fun with Cairene boys of a past generation was to "make a Pasha;" and for this proceeding, see Pilgrimage, vol. i. 119.]
119 ([return])
[ In Marocco there is great difficulty about finding an executioner who becomes obnoxious to the Thár, vendetta or blood-revenge. For salting the criminal's head, however, the soldiers seize upon the nearest Jew and compel him to clean out the brain and to prepare it for what is often a long journey. Hence, according to some, the local name of the Ghetto, Al-Malláh,=the salting-ground.]