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Pagoda, have little golden bells fastened to their feet, the soft, harmonious tinkling of which vibrates in unison with the exquisite melody of their voices." —MAURICE'S Indian Antiquities.

"The Arabian courtesans, like the Indian women, have little golden bells fastened round their legs, neck and elbows, to the sound of which they dance before the King. The Arabian princesses wear golden rings on their fingers, to which little bells are suspended, as in the flowing tresses of their hair, that their superior rank may be known, and they themselves receive in passing the homage due to them."-See CALMET'S Dictionary, art. Bells.

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That delicious opium, etc.

"Abou-Tige, ville de la Thébaïde, où il croît beaucoup de pavots noirs, dont se fait le meilleur opium.” -D'HERBELOT.

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That idol of women, Crishna.

"He and the three Rámas are described as youths of perfect beauty; and the Princesses of Hindustán were all passionately in love with Crishna, who continues to this hour the darling God of the Indian women."-SIR W. JONES, on the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India.

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The shawl-goat of Tibet.

See TURNER'S Embassy for a description of this ani"the most beautiful among the whole tribe of

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goats." The material for the shawls (which is carried to Cashmere) is found next the skin.

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The veiled Prophet of Khorassan.

For the real history of this Impostor, whose original name was Hakem ben Haschem, and who was called Mocanna from the veil of silver gauze (or, as others say, golden) which he always wore, see D'HERBELOT.

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Flowrets and fruits blush over every stream. "The fruits of Meru are finer than those of any other place; and one cannot see in any other city such palaces, with groves, and streams, and gardens." -EBN HAUKAL'S Geography.

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For, far less luminous, his votaries said,
Were even the gleams, miraculously shed
O'er Moussa's cheek.

"Ses disciples assuraient qu'il se couvrait le visage, pour ne pas éblouir ceux qui l'approchaient par l'éclat de son visage comme Moyse."-D'HERBELOT.

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In hatred to the Caliph's hue of night.

"Il faut remarquer ici, touchant les habits blancs des disciples de Hakem, que la couleur des habits, des coiffures et des étendards des Khalifes Abassides étant la noire, ce chef de Rebelles ne pouvait pas en choisir une qui lui fût plus opposée."-D'HERBELOT.

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Javelins of the light Kathaian reed.

"Our dark javelins, exquisitely wrought of Kathaian reeds, slender and delicate."-Poem of Amru.

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Fill'd with the stems that bloom on Iran's rivers.

The Persians call this plant Gaz. The celebrated shaft of Isfendiar, one of their ancient heroes, was made of it." Nothing can be more beautiful than the appearance of this plant in flower during the rains on the banks of rivers, where it is usually interwoven with a lovely twining asclepias."-SIR W. JONES, Botanical Observations on Select Indian Plants.

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Like a chenar-tree grove.

The oriental plane.

"The chenar is a delightful tree; its bole is of a fine white and smooth bark; and its foliage, which grows in a tuft at the summit, is of a bright green."-MORIER'S Travels.

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With turban'd heads, of every hue and race,
Bowing before that veil'd and awful face,

Like tulip-beds.

"The name of tulip is said to be of Turkish extraction, and given to the flower on account of its resembling a turban."-BECKMAN'S History of Inventions.

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With belt of broider'd crape,

And fur-bound bonnet of Bucharian shape.

"The inhabitants of Bucharia wear a round cloth

bonnet, shaped much after the Polish fashion, having a large fur border. They tie their kaftans about the middle with a girdle of a kind of silk crape, several times round the body.—Account of Independent Tartary, in PINKERTON'S Collection.

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Waved, like the wings of the white birds that fan
The flying throne of star-taught Soliman.

This wonderful throne was called the Star of the Genii. For a full description of it, see the Fragment, translated by CAPTAIN FRANKLIN, from a Persian MS. entitled "The History of Jerusalem :" Oriental Collections, vol. i. p. 335.—When Solomon travelled, the eastern writers say, "he had a carpet of green silk on which his throne was placed, being of a prodigious length and breadth, and sufficient for all his forces to stand upon, the men placing themselves on his right hand and the spirits on his left; and that, when all were in order, the wind, at his command, took up the carpet, and transported it, with all that were upon it, wherever he pleased; the army of birds at the same time flying over their heads, and forming a kind of canopy to shade them from the sun.”—SALE'S Koran, vol. ii. p. 214. note.

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And, thence descending, flow'd

Through many a Prophet's breast.

This is according to D'Herbelot's account of the doctrines of Mokanna :-" Sa doctrine était que Dieu avait pris une forme et figure humaine depuis qu'il eut com

mandé aux Anges d'adorer Adam, le premier des hommes. Qu'après la mort d'Adam, Dieu était apparu sous la figure de plusieurs Prophètes et autres grands hommes qu'il avait choisis, jusqu'à ce qu'il prît celle d'Abu Moslem, Prince de Khorassan, lequel professait l'erreur de la Tenassukhiah ou Métempsychose; et qu'après la mort de ce Prince, la Divinité était passée, et descendue en sa personne."

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Such Gods as he

Whom India serves, the monkey Deity.

Apes are in many parts of India highly venerated, out of respect to the God of Hannaman, a deity partaking of the form of that race."-PENNANT's Hindoostan.

See a curious account in STEPHEN'S Persia of a solemn embassy from some part of the Indies to Goa, when the Portuguese were there, offering vast treasures for the recovery of a monkey's tooth, which they held in great veneration, and which had been taken away upon the conquest of the kingdom of Jafanapatan.

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Proud things of clay,

To whom if Lucifer, as grandams say,

Refused, though at the forfeit of Heaven's light,
To bend in worship, Lucifer was right.

This resolution of Eblis not to acknowledge the new creature, man, was, according to Mahometan tradition, thus adopted -"The earth (which God had selected for the materials of his work) was carried into Arabia,

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