[115] These irregular bands who belong to no tribe are the most dangerous bandits in Arabia，especially upon the northern frontier. Burckhardt，who suffered from them，gives a long account of their treachery and utter absence of that Arab'pundonor'which is supposed to characterise Arab thieves.
[116] An euphemistic form to avoid mentioning the incestuous marriage.
[117] The Arab form of our'Kinchin lay.'
[118] These are the signs of a Shaykh's tent.
[119] These questions，indiscreet in Europe，are the rule throughout Arabia，as they were in the United States of the last generation.
[120] Arab.'Khizab'a paste of quicklime and lampblack kneaded with linseed oil which turns the Henna to a dark olive.
It is hideously ugly to unaccustomed eyes and held to be remarkably beautiful in Egypt.
[121] i.e. the God of the Empyrean.
[122] A blow worthy of the Sa'alabah tribe to which he belonged.