Note 18 — The Fourteenth New Year’s Feast from the Auspicious Accession

This is the ancient Dhafur or Dofar on the south coast of Arabia now known as Mirbāt̤. The proper spelling was Z̤afṛ. See Redhouse’s Annotations to the History of Yemen, published by the Gibb Trust, Nos. 349, 578, and 836. See also d’Herbelot, 269, and Jarrett, III, 51. ↑