[131] During his last residence in Egypt, Mr. Lane thought he had discovered a clue to the means employed in these performances, but he afterwards found that there were cases which remained to him inexplicable.—Ed.
[132] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, loco laudato.
[133] Mir-át ez-Zemán, loco laudato.
[134] El-Is-ḥáḳee, in his account of the reign of El-Moạtaṣim, the son of Hároon.
[135] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, vol. ii. p. 388.
[136] Vulgarly pronounced Nemrood.
[137] El-Is-ḥáḳee, close of his account of the reign of El-Emeen.
[138] El-Jabartee's Modern Egyptian History (MS. in my possession); account of the death of Yoosuf Bey, in the year of the Flight 1191; and account of the death of the sheykh Ḥasan El-Kafráwee, in the year 1202.
[139] Hence it has been called by many travellers, and even by some learned Orientalists, the Great Feast; but it is never so called by the Arabs.
[140] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, vol. ii. p. 424.