154 ([return])
[ i.e. a choice gift. The Caliph speaks half ironically. "Where's this wonderful present etc?" So further on when he compares her with the morning.]
155 ([return])
[ Again the usual pun upon the name.]
156 ([return])
[ Throughout the East this is the action of a servant or a slave, practised by freemen only when in danger of life or extreme need and therefore humiliating.]
157 ([return])
[ It had been thrown down from the Mamrak or small dome built over such pavilions for the purpose of light by day and ventilation by night. See vol. i. 257, where it is called by the Persian term "Bádhanj.">[
158 ([return])
[ The Nights have more than once applied this patronymic to Zubaydah. See vol. viii. 56, 158.]