CHAPTER VI

55. 0. Yémen, a région in southwestern Arabia between Hedjaz, Hadramont, and the Red Sca.

56. M). Les pachas passaient vite = changed frequcntly. le Turc = the Sultan.

57. 3. on tenait à plaire aux Francs. Francs = Français (See note to page s. linc 5). This was the* lime when France, thanks to Napoléon, dominated the whole civilized world. To please the French, the Turkish authorities had to give up for a while their autocratie ways and il least convey the impression to

their masters that they were governing according to the laws of justice.

58. 1. le nouvel Haroun-al-Raschid, or Hariui-al-Raschid, calif of Bagdad (786-809). Under him the Eastern Califate attained the heights of its splendor and power; Bagdad became a center of learning and civilization. He is best known from the taies of the Arabian Nights in which he plays a great part, generally that of a very good, occasionally of a romantic-minded, sovereign.