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swallowed up in filial love.

[13] _The Englishwoman in Egypt._--Letters from Cairo, written during a
residence in 1842, 1843, and 1844, with E. W. Lane, Esq., author of the
_Modern Egyptians_. By his SISTER.

[14] Blue eyes are regarded in the East as so unlucky, that the epithet
"blue-eyed" is commonly applied as a term of abuse--(see Lane's _Thousand
and One Nights_, chap. XV. note 9.) We find from Miss Pardoe, that a
similar prejudice prevails among the Osmanlis.

[15] A representation of ladies thus mounted, is found in the _Modern
Egyptians_, Vol. i. p. 240, first edit.

[16] _Observations on the Mussulmans of India_, by Mrs Meer Hassan Ali,
(Parbury and Allen, 1832.) The authoress of these volumes became, under
what circumstances she does not inform us, the wife of a Moslem native of
wealth and rank in India, of whose hareem she had been twelve years an
inmate, without once having had reason, by her own account, to regret her
apparently strange choice of a partner.

[17] Knight's _Quarterly Magazine_, ii. 414, a talented but shortlived
periodical, chiefly by members of the University of Cambridge, to which
Praed was a principal contributor under the assumed signature of Peregrine
Courtenay.

[18] Lane's _Thousand and One Nights_, i. 176, ii. 345.

[19] A representation of the Mahmal is given in the _Modern Egyptians_,
ii. 182.

[20] Mrs Damer describes this lady, to whose amiability and
accomplishments she does ample justice, as "a sort of Turkish
_chanoinesse_," who had renounced marriage in order to devote herself to
her mother--a circumstance which, if correctly stated, would be almost
unparalleled in the East. But Mrs Poole's silence would rather lead us to
suppose that Mrs Damer was mistaken.

[21] A belief precisely similar prevailed throughout Christendom, previous
to the year 1260 of our own era: the reference being to the two mystic
periods in the eleventh chapter of the Apocalypse.

[22] An anecdote of this personage is given in Mr Lane's works, i. 153.

[23] It is hareem etiquette to address mothers by the names of their
children.

[24] Marriages of slaves from the khalif's hareem occur more than once in
the Thousand and One Nights.

[25] The higher classes are not free from this reproach if we are to
believe the story told by Mrs Damer, that Nezleh Hanum punished a female
slave who had offended her by the daily amputation of a joint of one of
her fingers!

[26] A Spanish proverb o