Part 58 (1/2)

[Footnote 563: Lib Ed, vol x]

[Footnote 564: Lib Ed, x, p 342 xi, p 1]

[Footnote 565: Lib Ed, xii]

[Footnote 566: Burton differed frohly of these tales See Chapter xxxv, 167]

[Footnote 567: This paragraph does not appear in the original It was made up by Burton]

[Footnote 568: One friend of Burton's to whom I mentioned this matter said to me, ”I was always under the impression that Burton had studied literary Arabic, but that he had forgotten it”

[Footnote 569: Life, ii, 410 See also Romance, ii, 723]

[Footnote 570: As most of its towns are white, Tunis is called The Burnous of the Prophet, in allusion to the fact that Mohammed alore a spotlessly white burnous]

[Footnote 571: As suggested by M Hartwig Derenbourg, Membre de l'Institut]

[Footnote 572: The nolish Tales of the same na reads to-day, it is not lish physicians two centuries later]

[Footnote 574: Juvenal, Satire xi]

[Footnote 575: Religio Medici, part ii, section 9]

[Footnote 576: We should word it ”Pauline Christianity”

[Footnote 577: Arabian Nights, Lib Ed, vii, 161]

[Footnote 578: See the exaive in 160 about Moseilema and the bald head]

[Footnote 579: Also called The Torch of Pebble Strown River Beds, a title explained by the fact that in order to traverse with safety the dried Tunisian river beds, which abound in sharp stones, it is advisable, in the evening time, to carry a torch]

[Footnote 580: Mohaes of text, 15 pages d'avis au lecteur, 2 portraits, 13 hors testes on blue paper, 43 erotic illustrations in the text, and at the end of the book about ten pages of errata with an index and a few blank leaves]

[Footnote 582: He also refers to it in his Arabian Nights, Lib Ed, vol

viii, p 121, footnote]

[Footnote 583: See Chapter xxvi]

[Footnote 584: But, of course, the book was not intended for the average Englishman, and every precaution was taken, and is still taken, to prevent hi it]

[Footnote 585: Court fool of Haroun al Rashi+d Several anecdotes of Bahloul are to be found in Jami's Beharistan]

[Footnote 586: A tale that has points in co stories froro is called ”Dorera spells the name Moseilma]