[FN#91] i.e. Peninsula. Jezireh (sing, of jezair, islands) is constantly used by the Arabs in this sense; hence much apparent confusion in topographical passages.
[FN#92] i.e. Mecca and Medina.
[FN#93] i.e. whether on a matter of sport, such as the chase, or a grave matter, such as war, etc.
[FN#94] i.e. the children of his fighting-men whom thou slewest.
[FN#95] Arab fashion of shaking hands. See my "Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night,"
Vol. IX p. 171, note.
[FN#96] Lit. a cleft meadow (merj selia). This is probably a mistranscription for merj sselia, a treeless champaign.
[FN#97] i.e. one of the small rooms opening upon the hall of audience at saloon of estate.
[FN#98] So she might hear and see what passed, herself unseen.
[FN#99] Or knowledge of court etiquette.
[FN#100] i.e. richer.