[444]Arab.'Saghr'（Thagr），the opening of the lips showing the teeth.See vol.i.p.156.
[445]Iskandariyah，the city of Iskandar or Alexander the Great，whose'Soma'was attractive to the Greeks as the corpse of the Prophet Daniel afterwards was to the Moslems.The choice of site，then occupied only by the pauper village of Rhacotis，is one proof of many that the Macedonian conqueror had the inspiration of genius.
[446]i.e.paid them down.See vol.i.281；vol.ii.145.
[447]Arab.'Baltiyah，'Sonnini's'Bolti'and Nebuleux （because it is dozid-coloured when fried），the Labrus Niloticus from its labra or large fleshy lips.It lives on the'leaves of Paradise'hence the flesh is delicate and savoury and it is caught with the epervier or sweep-net in the Nile，canals and pools.
[448]Arab.'Liyyah，'not a delicate comparison，but exceedingly apt besides rhyming to'Baltiyah.'The cauda of the'five-quarter sheep，whose tails are so broad and thick that there is as much flesh upon them as upon a quarter of their body，'must not be confounded with the lank appendage of our English muttons.See i.25，Dr.Burnell's Linschoten （Hakluyt Soc.1885）.
[449]A variant occurs in vol.ix.191.