488 ([return])
[ Arab. "Bayzah" = an egg, a testicle. See "Bayza'áni," vol. ii. 55.]
489 ([return])
[ Here the text ends with the tag, "Concluded is the story of the Woman with her Husband and her Lover. It is related of a man which was a Kazi," etc. I have supplied what the writer should have given.]
490 ([return])
[ The "Mahkamah" (Place of Judgment), or Kazi's Court, at Cairo is mostly occupied with matrimonial disputes, and is fatally famous for extreme laxness in the matter of bribery and corruption. During these days it is even worse than when Lane described it. M.E. chapt. iv.]
491 ([return])
[ The first idea of an Eastern would be to appeal from the Kazi to the Kazi's wife, bribing her if he failed to corrupt the husband; and he would be wise in his generation as the process is seldom known to fail.]
492 ([return])
[ In Arab. "Sitta-há": the Mauritanians prefer "Sídah," and the Arabian Arabs Kabírah" = the first lady, Madame Mère.]