Note 640 — SUPPLEMENT.
Reading edition
The ball and bird are called “el-kubbeh wa-t-teyr.” It is said that the Muslims of Egypt, on some occasions, as on the inauguration of a Sultán, used to observe the custom here described; but this appears to be an error, arising from a misunderstanding of the term “el-kubbeh wa-t-teyr” applied by historians to an umbrella surmounted by the figure of a bird, which was borne over the head of a Sultán in certain pompous processions.