Note 378 — TALE OF KAMAR AL-ZAMAN, (continued 3)
Richard Francis Burton translation
A proceeding fit only for thieves and paupers: "Alpinism" was then unknown. "You come from the mountain" (al-Jabal) means, "You are a clod-hopper"; and "I will sit upon the mountain" = turn anchorite or magician. (Pilgrimage i. 106).