[73] Lit.'Coals (fit) for frying pan.'
[74] Arab.'Libdah,'the sign of a pauper or religious mendicant. He is addressed'Ya Abu libdah!'(O father of a felt calotte!)
[75] In times of mourning Moslem women do not use perfumes or dyes,like the Henna here alluded to in the pink legs and feet of the dove.
[76] Koran,chaps. ii. 23. The idea is repeated in some forty Koranic passages.
[77] A woman's name,often occurring. The'daughters of Sa'ada'are zebras,so called because'they resemble women in beauty and graceful agility.'
[78] Arab.'Tiryak'from Gr. a drug against venomous bites. It was compounded mainly of treacle,and that of Baghdad and Irak was long held sovereign. The European equivalent,'Venice treacle,'(Theriaca Andromachi) is an electuary containing many elements. Badawin eat for counter poison three heads of garlic in clarified butter for forty days.(Pilgrimage iii 77 )
[79] Could Cervantes have read this? In Algiers he might easily have heard it recited by the taletellers. Kanmakan is the typical Arab Knight,gentle and valiant as Don Quixote Sabbah is the Grazioso,a'Beduin'Sancho Panza. In the'Romance of Antar'
we have a similar contrast with Ocab who says:'Indeed I am no fighter: the sword in my handpalm chases only pelicans ;'and,'whenever you kill a satrap,I'll plunder him.'
[80] i.e. The Comely,son of the Spearman,son of the Lion,or Hero.