a, &c._,
I, ch. i, p. 356) says, "In Kheibar are no Jews now, only
Anaessi." Layard and other modern writers often refer to the
Anizeh Bedouins. Travellers go in dread of them in the
Syrian desert and all along the Euphrates. Doughty mentions
that they, more than any other tribe, resemble the Jews both
in appearance and disposition.

Ritter (_Geographie_, vol. XII), in quoting Niebuhr, makes
mention of the widespread Anizeh tribe of Bedouins who were
anciently known to be Jews. He further states that the Jews
of Damascus and Aleppo shun them as they are non-observant
Jews, considered by some to be Karaites. Does all this give
ground for any presumption that they are or were
crypto-Jews, the descendants of the former Kheibar Jews,
possibly also of those whom Omar allowed to settle at Kufa?

This lengthy note may be closed fitly with the following
mysterious remark in Doughty's usual quaint style (vol. I,
p. 127), in connexion with the murder of a Bagdad Jew who
tried to reach Kheibar: "But let none any more jeopardy his
life for Kheibar! I would that these leaves might save the
blood of some: and God give me this reward of my labour! for
who will, he may read in them all the tale of Kheibar."]

[Footnote 149: It will be seen further on (p. 67) that
Benjamin speaks of Aden as being in India, "which is on the
mainland." It is well known that Abyssinia and Arabia were
in the Middle Ages spoken of as "Middle India." It has been
ascertained that in ancient times the Arabs extensively
colonized the western sea-coast of the East Indies. Cf. the
article "Arabia," in the ninth edition of the _Encyclopaedia
Britannica_ and Supplement.]

[Footnote 150: The Casanatense MS. here interpolates:
"Thence it takes seven days to Lusis, where there are 2,000
Israelites." Asher substitutes for Lusis Wasit, a place near
the Tigris. I am unable to identify the river Virae, and the
words "which is in the land of Al Yemen" are evidently out
of place.]

[Footnote 151: See Dr. Hartwig Hirschfeld's account of a
Fragment of a Work by Judah Al-harizi, being a description
of a pilgrimage through Mesopotamia with a view to visit
Ezra's grave. The Arab geographer Yakut locates the grave in
the village Maisan on the river Samara near the place where