Chapter 43

Arab. Nahás asfar=brass, opposed to "Nahás" and "Nahás ahmar,"=copper. Footnote 66: This alludes to the legend of Sakhr al-Jinni, a famous fiend cast by Solomon David-son into Lake Tiberias whose storms make it a suitable place. Hence the "Bottle imp," a world-wide fiction of folk-lore: we shall find it in the "Book of Sindibad," and I need hardly remind the reader of Le Sage's "Diable Boiteux," borrowed from "El Diablo Cojuelo," the Spanish novel by Luiz Velez de Guevara. Footnote 67: Márid (lit.…