[78] Ibid.

[79] Sale, in a note on chap. xv. of the Ḳur-án.

[80] So I translate the word "khaṭṭ;" but in a work by Es-Suyootee, (a MS. in my possession, entitled "Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil wa-Murshid el-Mutaähhil," section 7,) I find, in its place, the word "weshm," or "tattooing;" and there are some other slight variations and omissions in this tradition as there quoted.

[81] El-Ḳazweenee.

[82] Ch. lxxii. v 6.

[83] "Modern Egyptians," vol. i. ch. x.

[84] Idem, vol. ii. ch. xi.

[85] Ḳur-án, ch. xxvii. v. 17; and ch. xxxviii. v. 35.

[86] "Modern Egyptians," vol. i. ch. x.

[87] Ibid.