Note 541
The Nazarene Broker’s Story.
Arab. "Kulkasá," a kind of arum or yam, eaten boiled like our potatoes.
…pt awhile. After that I went out to make ready the evening meal and took a brace of geese with gravy on two platters of dressed and peppered rice, and got ready colocasia[FN#541]-roots fried and soaked in honey, and wax candles and fruits and conserves and nuts and almonds and sweet scented flowers; and I sent them all to her. As soon as it was night I again tied up fifty dinars in a kerchief and, mounting the ass as usual, ro…
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