[FN#125] lit. "the love of the Beni Udhra," an Arabian tribe,
famous for the passion and devotion with which love was practiced
among them.
[FN#126] Syn. eye (nazir).
[FN#127] Syn. eyebrow (hajib).
[FN#128] i.e. including the two days that had already elapsed.
[FN#129] i.e. a graceful youth of the province in which Mecca is
situate.
[FN#130] A small piece of wood used in a children's out-door game
called tab.
[FN#131] The stone of the beleh or "green" date, not allowed to
ripen.
[FN#132] Or drachm-weight.
[FN#133] An audacious parody of the consecrated expression used
to describe the ceremonious circumambulation of the Kaabeh at
Mecca.
[FN#134] Subaudiantur autem utriusque sex?s pudenda.
[FN#135] Subaudiantur autem utriusque sex?s pudenda.
[FN#136] Subaudiatur vas muliebre.
[FN#137] The word sac (leg), when used in the oblique case, as it
would necessarily be here, makes saki, i.e. cup-bearer. A play
upon the double meaning is evidently intended.
[FN#138] In the East, bathers pay on leaving the bath.
[FN#139] As a styptic.
[FN#140] Dunya.
[FN#141] Semen hominis.
[FN#142] i.e. the rolls of dirt that come off under the bathman's
hands.
[FN#143] Paradise.
[FN#144] The cold room of the bath.
[FN#145] The hot room.
[FN#146] The door-keeper of hell.
[FN#147] The door-keeper of Paradise.
[FN#148] i.
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