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"The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV"


[FN#63] Tenth Khalif of the Abbaside dynasty, A.D. 849-861.
[FN#64] Muwelledat, women born in Muslim countries of
slave-parents; syn. mulatto-women.
[FN#65] Lieutenant of the Prefect of Baghdad.
[FN#66] Muwelledat, women born in Muslim countries of
slave-parents; syn. mulatto-women.
[FN#67] El Hakim bi Amrillah, sixth Fatimite Khalif of Egypt
(A.D. 995-1021), cruel and fantastic tyrant, who claimed to be
an incarnation of the Deity. He was the founder of the religion
of the Druses, who look to him to reappear and be their Messiah
[FN#68] Bastard or Spanish pellitory.
[FN#69] Or dyed.
[FN#70] Or interlocking.
[FN#71] Or torn.
[FN#72] Sufreh, a round piece of leather used (mostly by
travellers) as a table-cloth and having a running string
inserted round its edge, by means of which it can be converted
into a bag or budget for holding provisions, as in this
instance.
[FN#73] Lower India.
[FN#74] i.e. as master of the house in which I have sought
shelter.
[FN#75] Uns el Wujoud.
[FN#76] A pun upon his name, Uns wa joud, pleasance and bounty.
[FN#77] See supra, p. 95, note 3.


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