145 ([return])
[ This was done to staunch the blood: see the salt-wench in vol. i. 341.]
146 ([return])
[ This couplet has repeatedly occurred: in the preceding volume, Night cdv. (Suppl. iv. 222); and in The Nights (proper), vol. vi. 246. Here I have quoted Lane (A.N. iii. 220), who has not offered a word of comment or of explanation concerning a somewhat difficult couplet.]
147 ([return])
[ The plur. masc. for the sing. fem.: see vol. vii. 140.]
148 ([return])
[ He speaks after the recognised conventional fashion, as if reporting the camp-shift of a Badawí tribe.]
149 ([return])
[ See vol. i. 25 for the parallel of these lines.]