Note 483 — THE CONCUBINE OF AL-MAAMUN.”[470]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Názir al-Mawárís”, the employé charged with the disposal of legacies and seizing escheats to the Crown when Moslems die intestate. He is usually a prodigious rascal as in the text. The office was long kept up in Southern Europe, and Camoens was sent to Macao as “Provedor dos defuntos e ausentes.”