{32} The import of the word “compromised,” when used in reference to contagion, is explained on page 18.

{33} It is said, that when a Mussulman finds himself attacked by the plague he goes and takes a bath.  The couches on which the bathers recline would carry infection, according to the notions of the Europeans.  Whenever, therefore, I took the bath at Cairo (except the first time of my doing so) I avoided that part of the luxury which consists in being “put up to dry” upon a kind of bed.

{34} Mehemet Ali invited the Mamelukes to a feast, and murdered them whilst preparing to enter the banquet hall.

{35} It is not strictly lawful to sell white slaves to a Christian.

{36} The difficulty was occasioned by the immense exertions which the Pasha was making to collect camels for military purposes.

{37} Herodotus, in an after age, stood by with his note-book, and got, as he thought, the exact returns of all the rations served out.

{38} See Milman’s “History of the Jews,” first edition.

{39} This is an appellation not implying blame, but merit; the “lies” which it purports to affiliate are feints and cunning stratagems, rather than the baser kind of falsehoods.  The expression, in short, has nearly the same meaning as the English word “Yorkshireman.”

{40} The 29th of April.

{41} These are the names given by the Prophet to certain chapters of the Koran.

{43} It was after the interview which I am talking of, and not from the Jews themselves, that I learnt this fact.

{44} An enterprising American traveller, Mr. Everett, lately conceived the bold project of penetrating to the University of Oxford, and this notwithstanding that he had been in his infancy (they begin very young those Americans) an Unitarian preacher.  Having a notion, it seems, that the ambassadorial character would protect him from insult, he adopted the stratagem of procuring credentials from his Government as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of her Britannic Majesty; he also wore the exact costume of a Trinitarian.  But all his contrivances were vain; Oxford disdained, and rejected, and insulted him (not because he represented a swindling community, but) because that his infantine sermons were strictly remembered against him; the enterprise failed.

{45} The rose-trees which I saw were all of the kind we call “damask”; they grow to an immense height and size.

{46} A dragoman never interprets in terms the courteous language of the East.

{47} A title signifying transcender or conqueror of Satalieh.

{48} Spelt “Attalia” and sometimes “Adalia” in English books and maps.

{49} While Lady Hester Stanhope lived, although numbers visited the convent, she almost invariably refused admittance to strangers.  She assigned as a reason the use which M. de Lamartine had made of his interview.  Mrs. T., who passed some weeks at Djouni, told me, that when Lady Hester read his account of this interview, she exclaimed, “It is all false; we did not converse together for more than five minutes; but no matter, no traveller hereafter shall betray or forge my conversation.”  The author of “Eothen,” however, was her guest, and has given us an interesting account of his visit in his brilliant volume.