Note 99 — The Fifth Book.
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The stupid superstition of the Turks with regard to hidden treasures is well known, it is difficult or even dangerous for a traveller to copy an inscription in sight of those barbarians.
“On a rising ground, at a league’s distance from the river Shelliff, is Memoun-turroy, as they call an old square tower, formerly a sepulchral monument of the Romans. This, like many more ancient edifices, is supposed by the Arabs, to have been built over a treasure. Agreeably to which account, they tell us, these mystical lines were inscribed upon it. Prince Maimoun Tizai wrote this upon his tower.
My Treasure is in my Shade, And my Shade is in my Treasure. Search for it; despair not: Nay despair; do not search.
Shaw.
So of the ruines of ancient Tubuna.
The Treasure of Tubnah lyeth under the shade of what is shaded. Dig for it? alas! it is not there.
Shaw.