[Footnote 4: page 16.--A marble fountain, the richly-carved cupola supported by twisted columns
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[Footnote 9: page 31.--A circular and brazen table, sculptured with strange characters and mysterious figures; near it was a couch on which lay several volumes. A cabalistic table, perhaps a zodiac. The books were doubtless Sepher Happeliah, the Book of Wonders; Sepher Hakkaneh, the Book of the Pen
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[Footnote 7: page 28.--Jackals and marten-cat. At nightfall, especially in Asia Minor, the lonely horseman will often meet the jackals on their evening prowl. Their moaning is often heard during the night. I remember, when becalmed off Troy, the most singular screams were heard at intervals throughout the night, from a forest on the opposite shore, which a Greek sailor assured me proceeded from a marten-cat, which had probably found the carcass of some horse.]
[Footnote 6: page 24.--I describe the salty deserts of Persia, a locality which my tale required; but I have ventured to introduce here, and in the subsequent pages
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Travels in Persia, vol. ii. p. 107.]
[Footnote 5: page 17.--The chorus of our maidens. It is still the custom for the women in the East to repair at sunset in company to the fountain for their supply of water
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[Footnote 10: page 32.--Answered the Cabalist
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[Footnote 8: page 30. Elburz, or Elborus, the highest range of the Caucasus.]
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