I. veiller sur quelque chose, ' watch over

veiller à quelque chose, ' to keep an eye on.' veiller quelqu' un , ' to take care of,' ' to watch onc,' ' to keep watch by the bedside of one."

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91. 15. ses faibles États, i.e. the capital and some twenty towns or

\illages.

92. 7. Mogir-Eddin lived about A.D. 1520. He wrote, in Arabie,

a history of Jérusalem and Hebron froni the time of Abraham

to the fourteenth centmy.

,, Elmancin, a.d. 1223-75, the secretary of an Arabian émir,

wrote an Arabie history down to his ovvn time. ,, Aboul-Péda, born at Damaseus 1273; Prince of Hamat

1310. He also wrote an Arabie history to 1326. 8. Zein-Eddin, magistrate (cadi) of Damaseus. The cadi was

strictly an under offieer, who had the power of interpreting

the Koran.