[19] A representation of the Mahmal is given in the Modern Egyptians, ii. 182.
[20] Mrs Damer describes this lady, to whose amiability and accomplishments she does ample justice, as "a sort of Turkish chanoinesse," who had renounced marriage in order to devote herself to her mother—a circumstance which, if correctly stated, would be almost unparalleled in the East. But Mrs Poole's silence would rather lead us to suppose that Mrs Damer was mistaken.
[21] A belief precisely similar prevailed throughout Christendom, previous to the year 1260 of our own era: the reference being to the two mystic periods in the eleventh chapter of the Apocalypse.
[22] An anecdote of this personage is given in Mr Lane's works, i. 153.
[23] It is hareem etiquette to address mothers by the names of their children.
[24] Marriages of slaves from the khalif's hareem occur more than once in the Thousand and One Nights.
[25] The higher classes are not free from this reproach if we are to believe the story told by Mrs Damer, that Nezleh Hanum punished a female slave who had offended her by the daily amputation of a joint of one of her fingers!
[26] A Spanish proverb of former days, defines "Castilian faith and Moorish works" as the ingredients of a good Christian.
[27] Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry and Geology. 1 vol. 8vo.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology. 4th Edition.