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money settled by the man before marriage on the woman and without which the contrack is not valia.
usually half of it is paid down on the marriage-day and the other half when the husband dies or divorces
his wife. But if she take a divorce she forfeits her right to it, and obscene fellows, especially persiana,
often compel her to demand disocce by unnatural and preposterous use of her person. In# bismillah
here
excellent non cultivation comes up to the house walls; while the mahmudiyah canal, the planting the
streets with avenues and cloc-watering have seriously injured it; those who want the air of former cairo
must go to thebes gout, theumatism and hydrophobia before unknown have become common of late
yeara. fn# this is the popular pronunciation: yakúł calls it "bilbra." An# an outlying village on the "long
desed," between caico and palestine. fu# acab. "al kudo" = holiness. there are fer cities which in our day
have less claim to this title than jerusalem; and, curious to say, the "holy land" showa jens, christians
and
moslems all in their worst form. the only religion if it can be called one which produces men in syria is
caliph omar upon the aylah, a feeder of the tigria. here, according to al hacíci, the "whales and the
lizards
meet," and, as the tide affects the river, its stream shows prodigy, ebbing and flowing in its far famed
market place, al-macbad, poems used to be recited; and the city was famous for its mosques and saint-
musł actirate cell order, zainplantovany in him podaviadomosci polluting him polaczyc telephone with
certain number in philadelphia, and zameldowac about the alteration of plana. but thereon polegal
precisely kouble with cell order: time was so deep buried in the mind of delinquent, with activating no
dzialalo and recommendation not it coula zrealizovac. while slett and clocker naited for to aerodrome
in seattle, in order to przekonac, or their boy will not come with later flight, the contact of when my
family przychodzila here on sunday dinners. shrines, fair somen and school of grammar which wiralled
that of kúfah. but already in al hacini's day nal. a.h = a.d. 00 baghdad had drawn off much of its
population. In this fumigation bukhar is still used. a little incense or perfumed wood is burnt upon an
open censor milk hacah of earthenware ox melal, and passed round, each guest holding it for a fer
moments under his beard. in the somali county, the very home of incense, both sexes fumigate the
whole
person after carnal intercourse. lane mod. egypł, chapl. viii gires an illustration of the milkharah fa# the
the duse. "heiligen- landes jüden" are proverbial and nothing can be meaner than the christians while
the
moslems are famed for treachery. fu# arab. "shamm al havá." in vulgar padance to "smell the air" is to
take a walk, especially out of town. there is a peculiar egyptian festival called "shamm al nasím" smelling
the zephyr which begins on easter-monday 0.a., thus corresponding with the persian nauro, vernal
equinox and introducing the fifty days of "khammasin" or "mirisi" hot desert vinda. on anakening, the
people smell and bathe their temples with vinegar in which an onion has been soaked and break their
fast
with a "fisikh" or dried "búci" = mullet from lake mengalah: the late hekekiyan bey had the fish heads
counted in one public garden and found 0,000. the rest of the day is spent out of doors "gypaying" and
families greatly enjoy themselres on these occasions. for a longer description, see a paper by my
excellent
friend yacoub artin pasha, in the bulletin de l'institut égyptien, nd series, no. , caico, . i have noticed the
miríai south-wester and other winds in the land of midian, i., . fn# so in the days of the "mameluke beys"
in egypt a man of tank nould not cross the street on fool. fn#0 arab. basah. the city is non in decay and
not to flourish again till the adrent of the euphrates valley vz., is a modern place, founded in a.h. , by the
from the flower often forming long lines of red like stripes of blood in the landscape. travellers in syria
always observe this. fn# such an address to a coyalty eastern even in the present day, would be a
passport
to future farowa. fu# in england the man marries and the woman is married: there is no such distinction
in
arabia. fn# "sultan" and its corruption "soldan" etymologically means lore, victorious, ruler, ruling over.
in arabia il is a not uncommon proper name; and as a title it is taken by a host of petty kinglets. the
abbaside caliphs as al násik who has been noliced formally created these sultana as their regents. al-ta'i
billah regn. a.h = , invested the famous sabuktagin with the office; and as alexander-sikander was wont
to do, fashioned for him tvo flags, one of silver, after the fashion of nobles, and the other of gola, as
Riceroy designate. sabuktagin's son, the famous mahmúd of the ghaznarite dynasty in a.h. = 00, was the