Note 149 — APPENDIX. No. II.
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Mr. Jackson writes وعقدان في السفينة Uakkadan fee sfeena, i.e. and tied or bound them in the vessel or ship, adding, that he is at a loss to imagine how it can have been converted into “two maids in the ship.”[a] Sir Wm., however, in his hurried notice, rendered it ‘female slaves.’