

Footnote 389:

  For the play upon “Sáki” (oblique case of sák, leg-calf) and Sáki a
  cupbearer see vol. ii. 327.

Footnote 390:

  “On a certain day the leg shall be bared and men shall be called upon
  to bow in adoration, but they shall not be able” (Koran, lxviii. 42).
  “Baring the leg” implies a grievous calamity, probably borrowed from
  the notion of tucking up the skirts and stripping for flight. On the
  dangerous San Francisco River one of the rapids is called
  “Tira-calcoens” = take off your trousers (Highlands of the Brazil, ii.
  35). But here the allusion is simply ludicrous and to a Moslem
  blasphemous.

Footnote 391:

  Arab. “Istahi,” a word of every day use in reproof. So the Hindost.
  “Kuchh sharm nahín?” hast thou no shame? Shame is a passion with
  Orientals and very little known to the West.

Footnote 392:

  _i.e._ Angels and men saying, “The Peace (of God) be on us and on all
  righteous servants of Allah!” This ends every prayer.

Footnote 393:

  Arab. “Al-Níyah,” the ceremonial purpose or intent to pray, without
  which prayer is null and void. See vol. v. 163. The words would be “I
  purpose to pray a two-bow prayer in this hour of deadly danger to my
  soul.” Concerning such prayer see vol. i. 142.

Footnote 394:

  Arab. “Sákin” = quiescent, Let a sleeping hound lie.

Footnote 395:

  Arab. “Ásár” lit. traces _i.e._ the works, the mighty signs and
  marvels.

Footnote 396:

  The mention of coffee now frequently occurs in this tale and in that
  which follows; the familiar use of it showing a comparatively late
  date, and not suggesting the copyist’s hand.

Footnote 397:

  Arab. “Al-Kahwah,” the place being called from its produce. See
  Pilgrimage i. 317–18.

Footnote 398:

  Arab. “Al-Ghurbah Kurbah:” the translation in the text is taken from
  my late friend Edward Eastwick, translator of the Gulistan and author
  of a host of works which show him to have been a ripe Oriental
  scholar.

Footnote 399:

  The 