Note 447 — ALI NUR AL-DIN AND MIRIAM THE GIRDLE-GIRL.[376]

Arab. “Liyyah,” not a delicate comparison, but exceedingly apt besides rhyming to “Baltiyah.” The cauda of the “five-quarter sheep, whose tails are so broad and thick that there is as much flesh upon them as upon a quarter of their body,” must not be confounded with the lank appendage of Our English muttons. See i. 25, Dr. Burnell’s Linschoten (Hakluyt Soc. 1885).