INDEX
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
—— Walid bin Sahl, 106
—— Mahdí (Al-), 136
Canton (city of), 334
Capotes mélancoliques, 190
Chaste forbearance towards a woman frequently causes love, 189
Chawáshiyah = Chamberlains, 327
Coffer (Ar. Tábik, Tábút), 350
“Compelleth” in the sense of “burdeneth”, 285
Conjugal affection (striking picture of), 243
Copa d’agua excuse for a splendid banquet, 168
Colocasia (Ar. Kallakás), 151
Combat reminding of that of Rustam and Sohráb, 89
Conjunctive in Africans seldom white, 184
Connection (tribal seven degrees of), 121
Converts theoretically respected and practically despised, 43
Creases in the stomach insisted upon, 130
Cross-bows, 62
Cuirasses against pleasure, cobwebs against infection, 190
Cundums (French letters), 190
Cynocephalus (kills men and rapes women), 344
Dakkah = long wooden bench etc., 111
Damsel of the tribe = daughter of the chief, 95
Daulat = fortune, empire, kingdom (Pr. N.), 347
Deposits are not lost with Him = He disappointeth not etc., 334
Devotees (white woollen raiment of), 214
Dimágh = brain, meninx (for head), 178
Dirhams (50,000 = about £1,250), 105
Diwán al-Baríd = Post Office, 340
Dogs (in Eastern cities), 202
Donánmá (rejoicings for the pregnancy of a Sultana), 324
Donkey-boy like our “post-boy” of any age, 160
Donning woman’s attire in token of defeat, 188
Doors (pulled up = raised from the lower hinge-pins), 352
Drinking before or after dinner or both, 132
Drugs (is this an art of?), 147
Drunk with the excess of his beauty, 162
Drunken habits of Central African races, 357
“Early to bed” etc. (modern version of the same), 217
Elephant-faced Vetála, 34
Elephants frighting horses, 61