[22] Sed vitam faciunt balnea，vine，Venus！ The Hammam to Easterns is a luxury as well as a necessity；men sit there for hours talking chiefly of money and their prowess with the fair；
and women pass half the day in it complaining of their husbands'
overamativeness and contrasting their own chaste and modest aversion to camel congress.
[23] The frigidarium or cold room，coolness being delightful to the Arab.
[24] The calidarium or hot room of the bath.
[25] The Angel who acts doorkeeper of Hell；others say he specially presides over the torments of the damned （Koran xliii. 78）.
[26] The Doorkeeper of Heaven before mentioned who，like the Guebre Zamiyad has charge of the heavenly lads and lasses，and who is often charged by poets with letting them slip.