Note 372 — THE MAN OF AL-YAMAN AND HIS SIX SLAVE-GIRLS.
Richard Francis Burton translation
Arab. “Dalak” vulg Hajar al-Hammam (Hammam-stone). The comparison is very apt: the rasps are of baked clay artificially roughened (see illustrations in Lane M. E. chapt. xvi.) The rope is called “Masad,” a bristling line of palm-fibre like the coir now familiarly known in England.