dourah, or dura, a kind of millet

90. 1 . étendre le tapis de la prière. For prière, see note to page 20, line 20. The Arabs use carpets for praying because it is absolutely necessary that the praying place should bc free from ail impurity. The carpets or small mats used for that purpose arc about five fiel in lengtb and hâve ;i point or Giblah ('sec note to page 168, line 29) worked in the i)attcrn to mark the place for prostration. They arc called musalla or sujjadah. Sometimes, in the désert, when no carpet is available, the Arabs unfold their turban and kneel on it.