Note 458 — MOHAMMED THE SHALABI AND HIS MISTRESS AND HIS WIFE.[456]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
In text “Baltah” for Turk “Báltah” = an axe, a hatchet. Hence “Baltah-ji” a pioneer one of the old divisions of the Osmanli troops which survives as a family name amongst the Levantines and semi-European Perotes of Constantinople.