10 ([return])
[ About £4.]
11 ([return])
[ i.e. of the worlds visible and invisible.]
12 ([return])
[ Arab. "Mukaddam:" see vol. iv, 42.]
13 ([return])
[ "Faithful of Command;" it may be a title as well as a P. N. For "Al-Amín," see vol. iv. 261.]
14 ([return])
[ i. e. "What have I to do with, etc.?" or "How great is the difference between me and her." The phrase is still popular in Egypt and Syria; and the interrogative form only intensifies it. The student of Egyptian should always try to answer a question by a question. His labours have been greatly facilitated by the conscientious work of my late friend Spitta Bey. I tried hard to persuade the late Rogers Bey, whose knowledge of Egyptian and Syrian (as opposed to Arabic) was considerable, that a simple grammar of Egyptian was much wanted; he promised to undertake it, but death cut short the design.]