The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement]

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ARABIAN NIGHTS, VOLUME 12 FOOTNOTES

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[ Bresi. Edit., vol. xi. pp. 321-99, Nights dccccxxx-xl.]

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[ Arab. "Iklím" from the Gr. {klíma}, often used as amongst us (e.g. "other climes") for land.]

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[ Bibars whose name is still famous and mostly pronounced "Baybars," the fourth of the Baharite Mamelukes whom I would call the "Soldans." Originally a slave of Al-Sálih, seventh of the Ayyubites, he rose to power by the normal process, murdering his predecessor, in A. D. 1260; and he pushed his conquests from Syria to Armenia. In his day "Saint" Louis died before Tunis (A. D. 1270).]

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[ There are sundry Sáhils or shore-lands. "Sahil Misr" is the River-side of Cairo often extended to the whole of Lower Egypt (vol. i. 290): here it means the lowlands of Palestine once the abode of the noble Philistines; and lastly the term extends to the sea-board of Zanzibar, where, however, it is mostly used in the plur. "Sawáhil"=the Shores.]