ealthier, gilt, or
of gold.

[79] Green is the privileged colour of the prophet's numerous pretended
descendants; with them, as here, faith (the family inheritance) is
supposed to supersede the necessity of good works: they are the worst of
a very indifferent brood.

[80] {104} "Salam aleikoum! aleikoum salam!" peace be with you; be with
you peace--the salutation reserved for the faithful:--to a Christian,
"Urlarula!" a good journey; or "saban hiresem, saban serula," good morn,
good even; and sometimes, "may your end be happy!" are the usual
salutes.

["After both sets of prayers, Farz and Sunnah, the Moslem looks over his
right shoulder, and says, 'The Peace (of Allah) be upon you and the ruth
of Allah,' and repeats the words over the left shoulder. The salutation
is addressed to the Guardian Angels, or to the bystanders (Moslem), who,
however, do not return it."--_Arabian Nights_, by Richard F. Burton,
1887: _Supplemental Nights_, i. 14, note.]

[dk]
_Take ye and give ye that salam_,
_That says of Moslem faith I am_.--[MS.]

[dl] _Which one of yonder barks may wait_.--[MS.]

[81] [In the MS. and the first five editions the broken line (373)
consisted of two words only, "That one."]

[82] The blue-winged butterfly of Kashmeer, the most rare and beautiful
of the species.

[The same insects (butterflies of Cachemir) are celebrated in an
unpublished poem of Mesihi.... Sir Anthony Shirley relates that it was
customary in Persia "to hawk after butterflies with sparrows, made to
that use."--Note by S. Henley to _Vathek_, ed. 1893, p. 222. Byron, in
his Journal, December 1, 1813, speaks of Lady Charlemont as "that
blue-winged Kashmirian butterfly of book-learning."]

[dm] _If caught, to fate alike betrayed_.-[MS.]

[dn] {106} _The gathering flames around her close_.-[MS. erased.]

[83] {107} Alluding to the dubious suicide of the scorpion, so placed
for experiment by gentle philosophers. Some maintain that the position
of the sting, when turned towards the head, is merely a convulsive
movement; but others have actually brought in the verdict "Felo de se."
The scorpions are surely interested in a speedy decision of the
question; as, if once fairly established as insect Catos, they will
probably be allowed to live as long as they think proper, without being
martyred for the sake of an hypothesis.

[Byron assured Dallas that the simile of the scorpion was imagined in
his sleep.--_Recollections of the Lif