-
_Then turned it swiftly to his blade;_
_As loud his raven charger neighed_--
_That sound dispelled his waking dream_,
_As sleepers start at owlet's scream_.--[MS.]

[70] Jerreed, or Djerrid [Jarid], a blunted Turkish javelin, which is
darted from horseback with great force and precision. It is a favourite
exercise of the Mussulmans; but I know not if it can be called a _manly_
one, since the most expert in the art are the Black Eunuchs of
Constantinople. I think, next to these, a Mamlouk at Smyrna was the most
skilful that came within my observation. [Lines 250, 251, together with
the note, were inserted in the Third Edition.]

[da] {98}
_'Twas but an instant, though so long_
_When thus dilated in my song_.
_'Twas but an instant_----.--[MS.]

[db]
_Such moment holds a thousand years_.
or, _Such moment proves the grief of years_.--[MS.]

[71] ["Lord Byron told Mr. Murray that he took this idea from one of the
Arabian tales--that in which the Sultan puts his head into a butt of
water, and, though it remains there for only two or three minutes, he
imagines that he lives many years during that time. The story had been
quoted by Addison in the _Spectator_" [No. 94, June 18, 1711].--_Memoir
of John Murray_, 1891, i. 219, note.]

[72] [Lines 271-276 were added in the Third Edition. The MS. proceeds
with a direction (dated July 31, 1813) to the printer--"And alter

'A life of _woe_--an age of crime--'

to

'A life of _pain_--an age of crime.'

Alter also the lines

'On him who loves or hates or fears
Such moment holds a thousand years,'

to

'O'er him who loves or hates or fears
Such moment pours the grief of years.'"]

[dc] {99} _But neither fled nor fell alone_.--[MS.]

[73] The blast of the desert, fatal to everything living, and often
alluded to in Eastern poetry.

[James Bruce, 1730-1794 (nicknamed "Abyssinian Bruce"), gives a
remarkable description of the simoom: "I saw from the south-east a haze
come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so
compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was
about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of blush upon the
air, and it moved very rapidly.... We all lay flat on the ground ...
till it was blown over. The meteor, or purple haze, which I saw was,
indeed, passed, but the light air which still blew was of a heat to
threaten suffocation." He goes