, 255

 “Come to my arms, my slight acquaintance”, 177

 Conciseness (verging on obscurity), 171

 Confusion (universal in the undeveloped mind of man), 78

 Contrast (artful, between squalor and gorgeousness), 170

 Cousin (has a prior right to marry a cousin), 225

 Cowardice of the Fellah (how to be cured), 5

 Craft (many names for, connected with Arabic), 138

 Creation from nothing, 77

 Crescent of the breakfast-fête, 250

 Cruelty (the mystery of explained only by a Law without a Law-giver),
    37

 Curtain (screens a reverend woman from the sight of men-invalids), 347


 Dáirah = circle, inclosure, 287

 —— (for a basin surrounded by hills), 317

 Dandán (monstrous fish), 179

 Dárfíl = dolphin, 346

 Dawá = medicine (for a depilatory), 155

 Dawát = wooden inkcase with reed-pens, 122

 Day (when wealth availeth not), 16

 —— (ye shall be saved from its misery), 215

 Dayyús = pimp, wittol, 297

 Debts (of dead parents sacred to the children), 311

 Delicacy of the female skin, 321

 Democracy of despotism, 94

 Devil (allowed to go about the world and seduce mankind), 82

 Diamond (its cutting of very ancient date), 325

 Diaphoresis (a sign of the abatement of a disease), 146

 Dín al-a’raj = the perverted faith, 11

 Dinár = denarius (description of one), 294

 Díván (fanciful origin of the word), 108

 Don Juan quoted, 190

 Drowning (a martyr’s death), 158

 Dukhán = smoke (meaning tobacco for the Chibouk), 156

 Dúláb = waterwheel; buttery; cupboard, 306

 Durbar of idols, 325

 Duwámah = whirlpool, 93


 Egypt (derivation of the name), 286

 Elliptical style of the Eastern story-teller, 160

 Emirs (of the wild Arabs = Phylarchs), 322

 Emma (hides her lover under her cloak), 8

 Epistasis without prostasis, 240

 Euphemistic speech, 180; 224

 Euphuistic speech, 43

 Euthanasia and anæsthetics, 90

 “Eye of the needle” (for wicket-door), 320

 Eyes (no male has ever filled mine = none has pleased me), 222


 Fakír (the, and his jar of butter; congeners of th