[FN#247] I have noted that Moslem law is not fully satisfied without such confession which, however, may be obtained by the bastinado.  It is curious to compare English procedure with what Moslem would be in such a case as that of the famous Tichborne Claimant.  What we did need hardly be noticed.  An Arab judge would in a case so suspicious at once have applied the stick and in a quarter of an hour would have settled the whole business; but then what about the “Devil’s own,” the lawyers and lawyers’ fees?  And he would have remarked that the truth is not less true because obtained by such compulsory means.

[FN#248] The Hudhud, so called from its cry “Hood!  Hood!” It is the Lat. upupa, Gr. from its supposed note epip or upup; the old Egyptian Kukufa; Heb.  Dukiphath and Syriac Kikupha (Bochart Hierozoicon, part ii. 347).  The Spaniards call it Gallo de Marzo (March-Cock) from its returning in that month, and our old writers “lapwing” (Deut. xiv. 18).  This foul-feeding bird derives her honours from chapt. xxvii. of the Koran (q.v.), the Hudhud was sharp-sighted and sagacious enough to discover water underground which the devils used to draw after she had marked the place by her bill.

[FN#249] Here the vocative Ya is designedly omitted in poetical fashion (e.g., Khaliliyya—­my friend!) to show the speaker’s emotion.  See p. 113 of Captain A. Lockett’s learned and curious work the “Miet Amil” (=Hundred Regimens), Calcutta, 1814.

[FN#250] The story-teller introduces this last instance with considerable art as a preface to the denouement.

[FN#251] See Chavis and Cazotte “Story of the King of Haram and the slave.”

[FN#252] i.e. men caught red-handed.

[FN#253] Arab.  “Libwah,” one of the multitudinous names for the king of beasts, still used in Syria where the animal has been killed out, soon to be followed by the bear (U.  Syriacus).  The author knows that lions are most often found in couples.

[FN#254] Arab.  “Himyan or Hamyan,"=a girdle.

[FN#255] As he would kiss a son.  I have never yet seen an Englishman endure these masculine kisses, formerly so common in France and Italy, without showing clearest signs of his disgust.

[FN#256] A cheap way of rewarding merit, not confined to Eastern monarchs, but practised by all contemporary Europe.

[FN#257] Arab.  “Kasf,"=houghing a camel so as to render it helpless.  The passage may read. “we are broken to bits (Kisi) by our own sin.”

[FN#258] Bresl.  Edit., vol. vii. pp. 251-4, Night dlxv.

[FN#259] See vol. vi. 175.  A Moslem should dress for public occasions, like the mediaeval student, in vestibus (quasi) nigris aut subfuscis; though not, except amongst the Abbasides, absolutely black, as sable would denote Jewry.