Note 274 — THE LOVES OF AL-HAYFA AND YUSUF.[177] (continued 2)

Arab. “Haudaj” = a camel-litter: the word, often corrupted to Hadáj, is now applied to a rude pack-saddle, a wooden frame of mimosa-timber set upon a “witr” or pad of old tent-cloth, stuffed with grass and girt with a single cord. Vol. viii. 235. Burckhardt gives “Maḳṣar,” and Doughty (i. 437) “Muḳṣir” as the modern Badawi term for the crates or litters in which are carried the Shaykhly housewives.