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72. 20. douar, or dowar, Arabie word for circle or circuit; hère a collection of Arab tents arranged in a circle as a corral.

74. 16. Mascate, or Maskat, an important seaport in eastern Arabia, the capital of the sultanate of Oman, situated on the Gulf of Oman and at the entrance of the Persian Gulf. It is one of the chief commercial centers of Arabia.

75. 4. Talmud (= Instruction) is the name given to the work vvhich embodies the civil and canonical laws of the Jewish people and which are not contained in the Old Testament.

27. l'ange Raziel. Raziel did not remain true to God after création. He is one of the leaders of the 200 fallen angels who sinned with the daughters of men, in conséquence of which God had to send the déluge to annihilate the human race. (See the Book of Enoch, chapter VI; Genesis VI.) According to a more common tradition it was Abraham who after long méditations discovered the Mystery of Création, a mystery which he revealed in the Science of Numbers, as contained in the Cabala. The différent parts of Suprême Truth are symbolized by the 22 letters of the alphabet and by the first ten numbers or Sephirôt.

77. 16. Choaib, or Shoeyb (the Jetro of the Bible), the fatherin-law of Moses. The Koran XXVIII, 28 says: "And the marriage contract [between Moses and Shoeyb's daughter] was concluded; and Shoeyb ordered his daughter to give unto Moses a rod wherewith to drive away the wild beasts from his sheep; and the rod of Adam, of the myrtle of Paradise, fell into her hand, and Moses took it, with the knowledge of Shoeyb."

18. le Prophète, hère = Moses, one of the six great prophets recognized by Mohammed.

28-9. la curiosité fut encore une fois la plus forte. The first lime was when Eve took the apple from the serpent in Paradise.

79. 17. Sepbiroth. The ten Scphiroth in the Cabala, or mystic philosophy of the Hebraic religion, are the first ten Humerais, as attributes and émanations of the Dcity. See note to page 75, Une 27.