70 ([return])
[ A popular saying amongst Moslems which has repeatedly occurred in The Nights. The son is the "lamp of a dark house." Vol. ii 280.]

71 ([return])
[ Out of respect to his brother, who was probably the senior: the H. V. expressly says so.]

72 ([return])
[ Al-Marhúm = my late brother. See vol. ii. 129, 196.]

73 ([return])
[ This must refer to Cairo not to Al-Medinah whose title is "Al-Munawwarah" = the Illumined.]

74 ([return])
[ A picturesque term for birth-place.]