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Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Banj=Nibanj=Nepenthe, hemp, 70
Baradiyah=wide-mouthed jug, 36
Bárid=vain, foolish, insipid, 213
Barley, food for horses, 345
Barmecides, 188
Basaltic statues in Hauranic ruins give rise to the idea of men metamorphosed into black stones, 170
Basil=the Indian Tulsi, Ocymum basilicum, 19
Basil of the bridges=pennyroyal, 91
Bastinado of women, 183
Bayáz al-Sultáni=the best kind of gypsum, 270
Bazar of Damascus famous in the Middle Ages, 2
Beheading or sacking a faithless wife unlawful but leniently looked upon, 181
Before the face of Allah=for the love of God, 135
Bi'l-Salámah=in safety (to avert the evil eye), 288
Birkat al-Habash=Abyssinian pond, 291
Bismillah=in the name of God, 40
—— said before taking action, 80
—— a civil form of dismissal, 98
——="fall to!", 264
Blackamoors preferred by debauched women, 6
Blind notorious for insolence, etc., 330
Blinding a common practice in the East, how done, 108
Blue and yellow turbans prescribed to Christians and Jews, 77
Boils and pimples supposed to be caused by broken hair-roots, 275
Breast broadening with delight, 48
Breast straitened, the converse of breast broadening (48), 119
Bride's throne, 215
Búzah=beer, 72
Cairenes held exceedingly debauched, 298
Cairo nothing without the Nile, 295
Camel, how slaughtered, 347
Carpet-beds, 294
Chaff or banter allowed even to modest women, 267
Champing sign of good breeding, 345
Chess-anecdote, 132
Children carried astraddle upon hip or shoulder, 308
Claims of maidenhead, 190
Clapping of hands to summon servants, 177
Clever young ladies dangerous in the East, 15
Conception on the bride-night rare, 227