[344] See De Sacy, Chrestomathie Arabe, vol. ii. pp. 99 and 120, 2nd ed.
[345] In Arabic, "maḥḍaru kheyrin" (vulg., "maḥḍar kheyr"); in Turkish, "neek maḥẓar."
[346] Ch. ii. v. 173.
[347] Ch. iv. v. 34.
[348] Or, according to some, ten thousand dirhems.
[349] More than one is unusual; but, at the funeral of Moḥammad 'Alee Báshà, which I witnessed in Cairo, about eighty buffaloes were thus driven in the procession: in the narrow streets of the city, however, many of them disappeared, one after another, so that few reached the tomb.—Ed.
[350] If the reader desire more detailed information on the subject of this note, I refer him to my work on the Modern Egyptians, vol. ii. ch. xv.
[351] Chrestomathie Arabe, vol. i. p. 106; 2nd ed.
[352] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil wa-Murshid el-Mutaäh-hil, sect. 7.