[450]Arab.'Tars Daylami，'a small shield of bright metal.
[451]Arab.'Kaukab al-durri，'see Pilgrimage ii.82.
[452]Arab.'Kusuf'applied to the moon；Khusuf being the solar eclipse.
[453]May Abu Lahab's hands perish...and his wife be a bearer of faggots！'Korau cxi.184.The allusion is neat.
[454]Alluding to the Angels who shoot down the Jinn.See vol.i.224.The index misprints'Shibah.'
[455]For a similar scene see Ali Shar and Zumurrud，vol.iv.187.
[456]i.e.of the girl whom as the sequel shows，her owner had promised _disibledevent=
moderately rich.It may either denote abundance of rain or a number of stars forming a constellation.Hence in Job （xxxviii.31） it is called a heap （kimah）.
[478]Pleiads in Gr.the Stars whereby men sail.
[479]This is the Eastern idea of the consequence of satisfactory coition which is supposed to be the very seal of love.Westerns have run to the other extreme.
[480]'Al-Rif'simply means lowland： hence there is a Rif in the Nile-delta.The word in Europe is applied chiefly to the Maroccan coast opposite Gibraltar （not，as is usually supposed the North-Western seaboard） where the Berber-Shilha race，so famous as the'Rif pirates'still closes the country to travellers.