CHAPTER V

38. 12. mena son fils au bain. Bathing the whole body is customary after anything that is considcred an impurity: " If ye are polluted thcn purify yourselves " (Koran Y, g). Mansour wanted his son to takc a légal bath as if to wash oiï any impurity rcmaining from his life in the désert.

15. cafetan, or caftan, a garment worn throughout the Orient, consisting of a long gown witli sleeves reaching below the hands.

39. 10. Bassora, or Basra, a town in Asiatic Turkey, 55 miles from the Persian (Juif.