Note 468 — THE FELLAH AND HIS WICKED WIFE.[467]

The “Faddán” (here miswritten “Faddád”) = a plough, a yoke of oxen, a “carucate” which two oxen can work in a single season. It is also the common land-measure of Egypt and Syria reduced from acre 1·1 to less than one acre. It is divided into twenty-four Kíráts (carats) and consists or consisted of 333 Kasabah (rods), each of these being 22–24 Kabzahs (fists with the thumb erect about = 6½ inches). In old Algiers the Faddán was called “Zuijah” (= a pair, i.e. of oxen) according to Ibn Khaldun i. 404.