INDEX.
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Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Navel as to beauty and health, 84
Nearness of seat a mark of honour, 250
Negroes preferred by debauched women, 6
New-moon beginning Ramazán carefully looked for, 84
Nile-water sweet and light, 290
Nineteen the age of an oldish old maid in Egypt, 212
Noisy merriment scandalous to Moslem "respectability", 95
Nothing for nothing a sexual point d'honneur, 87
Oath a serious thing amongst Moslems, 179
Oman=Eastern Arabia, 83
Oriental orgie different from European, 93
Pander-dodge to get more money, 302
Panel-dodge fatally common, 323
Paris Jockey-club scene anticipated, 327
Parody on the testification of Allah's Unity, 177
Parrot-story a world-wide folk-lore, 52
Passengers in difficulties take command, 140
Pearl, supposed to lose one per cent. per ann. of its splendour, 165
Peshdadians, race of Persian Kings, 75
Plain (ground), synonyms for, 46
Plural masc. used by way of modesty when a girl addresses her lover, 98
Poetry of the Arabs requires knowledge of the Desert to be understood, 230
Pomegranate fruit supposed to contain seed from Eden garden, 134
Prime Minister carrying fish to the cookmaid, 63
Privy, a slab with slit in front and a round hole behind, 221
Proverbs true to nature, 307
Qanoon-e-Islam quoted on the subject of horoscopes, etc., 213
Raydaniyah, a camping ground near Cairo, 245
Rayháni=a curved character, 128
Rais=captain of a ship, 127
Rajaz=the seventh Bahr of Arabic prosody, 251
Rajul ikhtiyár=middle-aged man, 55
Refusal of a gift greatest affront, 336
Rending of garments as sign of sorrow or vexation, 308
Respect shown to parts of the body, exuviæ, etc., 276
Riding on the ass an old Biblical practice, 262
Rims cars, 131
Rozistan=day station, 29
Ruká'í=correspondence hand, 128
Rukhám=alabaster, 295