INDEX.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Enemy his offered hand to be kissed or cut off, 142
Eunuchs, if without testes only, highly prized, 50
Expiration of oaths, 186
Eyes, hot=full of tears, 99
—— becoming white=blind, 283
Fadaises of a blue stocking, 156
Falling on the back a fair fall in wrestling, 92
Familiarity between the great and paupers, 32
—— of girls with black slave-boys, 49
Farj=slit; Zawi'l-Furúj=slit ones, ib.
Faisakh=three English miles, 114
Faylúlah=slumbering after sunset, 178
Fass (fiss, fuss)=bezel; hillock, 97
Finger in mouth (sign of grief), 302
Fish begins to stink at the head, 168
Fitnah=seduction, charmer, 76
Fits of religious enthusiasm, 132
Flatterers (the worst of foes), 11
Flowers of speech, 88
Folk follow their King's faith, 157
Fountain-bowl, ornamented with mosaic, etc., 310
"Fundamentals (Usúl) remembered"=the business is not forgotten, 15
Funerals (meritorious to accompany), 46
Furaydun (see Afridun), 82
Gardeners touchy on the point of mated visitors, 22
Generosity an Arab's ideal because the reverse of his nature, 36
Ghábah=thicket, 85
Ghashím="Johnny Raw", 330
Ghaylúlah=slumbering in the morning, 178
Ghazá (Artemesia, a desert shrub), 24
Ghazban (N. P.)=an angry, violent man, 125
Gházi=fighter for the faith, 240
Ghazwah=raid, foray, razzia, 217
Ghussah=calamity which chokes, wrath, 147
Glance compared with a Yamáni sword, 127
Grandfather's name given familiarly, 15
Gospel of Infancy, 228
Hadíd=iron, 316
Hafsah (Caliph Omar's daughter and wife of Mohammed), 165
Hafsites (Dynasty in Mauritania), ib.