Note 81 — THE SLEEPER AND THE WAKER.[1]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Tobáni” which Lane renders “two clods.” I have noted that the Tob (Span. Adobe = At· Tob) is a sunbaked brick. Beating the bosom with such material is still common amongst Moslem mourners of the lower class and the hardness of the blow gives the measure of the grief.