377 ([return])
[ From Damietta comes our "dimity." The classical name was Tamiáthis apparently Coptic græcised: the old town on the shore famed in Crusading times was destroyed in A.H. 648 = 1251.]
378 ([return])
[ Easterns are always startled by a sudden summons to the presence either of King or Kazi: here the messenger gives the youth to understand that it is in kindness, not in anger.]
379 ([return])
[ i.e. in not sending for thee to court instead of allowing thee to live in the city without guest-rite.]
380 ([return])
[ In sign of agitation: the phrase has often been used in this sense and we find it also in Al-Mas'udi.]
381 ([return])
[ I would remind the reader that the "Dawát" (ink-case) contains the reed-pens.]