mieux qu'elles purent, ' as best they could

Z19. pyldnes, etc., 'gateways, columns, and caryatids.' * Caryatids ' or ' caryats ' are figures of women, sometimes of men, supporting a comice.

Z2I. T&ma, Châma, Egyptian deities.

iz^ ses coursée et ses feux d'artlfloe, 'their races and their fire-works.* N.B, Feux cTartificey no s to artifice {art, being a chemîcal compound). Compare cheftPcsuvre^ ' masterpièce * ; pi. chefs d'ctuvre ; ciel de lit^ ' bed-tester * ; pi. ciels de litf etc.

124. tout l'état-major . . . agas, ' the whole staft» the paymastérs of the army, the scientists, the pacha's kiaya, the émir, the members of the divan' (the Sultan's coundl), 'the agas.' Thèse are ail Egyptian officers, civil or military.

127. cents. N,B, Sy because cent is multiplied by dnq, and not followed by another numeraL