fiction may have been suggested by the fact that in all Moslem
  cities from India to Barbary the inner and outer gates are carefully
  shut during the noontide devotions, _not_ “because Friday is the day
  on which creation was finished and Mohammed entered Al-Medinah;” but
  because there is a popular idea that in times now approaching the
  Christians will rise up against the Moslems during prayers and will
  repeat the “Sicilian Vespers.”

Footnote 400:

  _i.e._ the syndic of the Guild of Jewellers.

Footnote 401:

  This is an Arab Lady Godiva of the wrong sort.

Footnote 402:

  This is explained in my Pilgrimage i. 99 et seq.

Footnote 403:

  About three pennyweights. It varies, however, everywhere and in
  Morocco the “Mezkal” as they call it is an imaginary value, no such
  coin existing.

Footnote 404:

  _i.e._ over and above the value of the gold, etc.

Footnote 405:

  This was the custom of contemporary Europe and more than one master
  cutler has put to death an apprentice playing Peeping Tom to detect
  the secret of sword-making.

Footnote 406:

  Among Moslems husbands are divided into three species; (1) of “Bahr”
  who is married for love; (2) of “Dahr,” for defence against the world,
  and (3) of “Mahr” for marriage-settlements (money). Master Obayd was
  an unhappy compound of the two latter; but he did not cease to be a
  man of honour.

Footnote 407:

  The Mac. Edit. here is a mass of blunders and misprints.

Footnote 408:

  The Mac. Edit. everywhere calls her “Sabiyah” = the young lady and
  does not mention her name Halímah = the Mild, the Gentle till the
  cmlxxivth Night. I follow Mr. Payne’s example by introducing it
  earlier into the story, as it avoids vagueness and repetition of the
  indefinite.

Footnote 409:

  Arab. “Adím al-Zauk,” = without savour, applied to an insipid
  mannerless man as “bárid” (cold) is to a fool. “Ahl Zauk” is a man of
  pleasure, a voluptuary, a hedonist.

Footnote 410:

  Arab. “Finján” the egg-shell