Note 33 — Chapter IV · HABITS AND CUSTOMS.
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A pomatum for anointing the body, prepared from Spikenard, Mahaleb, and Tuffer. Burckhardt, in his Travels in Nubia, p. 200, mentions a preparation of sheep’s-fat, soap, musk, pulverized sandal-wood, senbal, i. e., Spikenard, and Mahaleb. Brown names as one of the articles of this unguent, dufr, a species of shell of a fish used for perfume.—Brown’s Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria.—Tr.