Note 379 — KING MOHAMMED BIN SABAIK AND THE MERCHANT HASAN.

Arab. Maydán al-Fíl prob. for Birkat al-Fíl, the Tank of the Elephant before-mentioned. Lane quotes Al-Makrizi who in his Khitat informs us that the lakelet was made about the end of the seventh century (A. H.), and in the seventeenth year of the eighth century became the site of stables. The Bresl. Edit. (iv. 214) reads “Maydan al-’Adl,” prob. for Al-’Ádil the name of the King who laid out the Maydán.