ed by M. Hartwig Derenbourg, Membre de l'Institut.]

[Footnote 572: The nominal author of the collection of Old English Tales of
the same name.]

[Footnote 573: Ridiculous as this medical learning reads to-day, it is not
more ridiculous than that of the English physicians two centuries later.]

[Footnote 574: Juvenal, Satire xi.]

[Footnote 575: Religio Medici, part ii., section 9.]

[Footnote 576: We should word it "Pauline Christianity."

[Footnote 577: Arabian Nights, Lib. Ed., vii., 161.]

[Footnote 578: See the example we give in 160 about Moseilema and the bald
head.]

[Footnote 579: Also called The Torch of Pebble Strown River Beds, a title
explained by the fact that in order to traverse with safety the dried
Tunisian river beds, which abound in sharp stones, it is advisable, in
the evening time, to carry a torch.]

[Footnote 580: Mohammed, of course.]

[Footnote 581: It contained 283 pages of text, 15 pages d'avis au lecteur, 2
portraits, 13 hors testes on blue paper, 43 erotic illustrations in the
text, and at the end of the book about ten pages of errata with an index
and a few blank leaves.]

[Footnote 582: He also refers to it in his Arabian Nights, Lib. Ed., vol.
viii., p. 121, footnote.]

[Footnote 583: See Chapter xxvi.]

[Footnote 584: But, of course, the book was not intended for the average
Englishman, and every precaution was taken, and is still taken, to
prevent him from getting it.]

[Footnote 585: Court fool of Haroun al Rashid. Several anecdotes of Bahloul
are to be found in Jami's Beharistan.]

[Footnote 586: A tale that has points in common with the lynching stories
from the United States. In the Kama Shastra edition the negro is called
"Dorerame."

[Footnote 587: Chapter ii. Irving spells the name Moseilma.]

[Footnote 588: Chapter ii. Sleath's Edition, vol. vi., 348.]

[Footnote 589: It must be remembered that the story of Moseilema and Sedjah
has been handed down to us by Moseilema's enemies.]

[Footnote 590: The struggle between his followers and those of Mohammed was a
fight to the death. Mecca and Yamama were the Rome and Carthage of the
day--the mastery of the religious as well as of the political world
being the prize.]

[Footnote 591: As spelt in the Kama Shastra version.]

[Footnote 592: Burton's spelling. We have kept to it throughout this book. The
word is generally spelt Nuwas.]

[Footnote 593: The 1886 edition, p. 2.]

[Footnote 594: Vol. i., p. 117.]