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Rh asleep in the midst of the hall and snored and snorted; whereupon the damsel, who was drunken with wine, said to Amjad, "Arise, take the sword hanging yonder and cut me off this slave's head; and, if thou do it not, I will be the death of thee!" "What possesseth thee to slay my slave?" asked Amjad; and she answered, "Our joyaunce will not be complete but by his death. If thou wilt not kill him, I will do it myself." Quoth Amjad, "By Allah's rights to thee, do not this thing!" Quoth she, "It must perforce be;" and, taking down the sword, drew it and made at Bahadur to kill him; but Amjad said in his mind, "This man hath entreated us courteously and sheltered us and done us kindness and made himself my slave: shall we requite him by slaughtering him? This shall never be!" Then he said to the woman, "If my Mameluke must be killed, better I should kill him than thou." So saying, he took the sword from her and, raising his hand, smote her on the neck and made her head fly from her body. It fell upon Bahadur who awoke and sat up and opened his eyes, when he saw Amjad standing by him and in his hand the sword dyed with blood, and the damsel lying dead. He enquired what had passed, and Amjad told him all she had said, adding, "Nothing would satisfy her but she must slay thee; and this is her reward." Then Bahadur rose and, kissing the Prince's hand, said to him, "Would to Heaven thou hadst spared her! but now there is nothing for it but to rid us of her without stay or delay, before the day-break." Then he girded his loins and took the body, wrapped it in an Abá-cloak and, laying it in a large basket of palm-leaves, he shouldered it saying, "Thou art a stranger here and knowest no one: so sit thou in this place and await my return till day-break. If I come back to thee, I will assuredly do thee great good service and use my endeavours to have news of thy brother; but if by sunrise I return not, know that all is over with me; and peace be on thee, and the house and all it containeth of stuffs and money are shine." Then he fared forth from the saloon bearing the basket; and, threading the streets, he made for the salt sea, thinking to throw it therein: but as he drew near the shore, he turned and saw that the Chief of Police and his officers had ranged themselves around him; and, on recognising him, they wondered and opened the basket, wherein they found the slain woman. So they seized him and laid him in bilboes all that night till the morning, when they carried him and the basket, as it was, to the King and reported the case. The King was sore enraged when he looked upon the slain and said to


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338 Bahadur, "Woe to thee! Thou art always so doing; thou killest folk and castest them into the sea and takest their goods. How many murders hast thou done ere this?" Thereupon Bahadur hung his head.——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.

She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Bahadur hung down his head groundwards before the King, who cried out at him, saying, "Woe to thee! Who killed this girl?" He replied, "O my lord! I killed her, and there is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great!" So the King in his anger, commanded to hang him; and the hangman went down with him by the King's commandment, and the Chief of Police accompanied him with a crier who called upon all the folk to witness the execution of Bahadur, the King's Master of the Horse; and on this wise they paraded him through the main streets and the market-streets. This is how it fared with Bahadur; but as regards Amjad, he awaited his host's return till the day broke and the sun rose, and when he saw that he came not, he exclaimed, "There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great! Would I knew what is become of him?" And, as he sat musing behold, he heard the crier proclaiming Bahadur's sentence and bidding the people to see the spectacle of his hanging at midday; whereat he wept and exclaimed, "Verily, we are Allah's and to Him we are returning! He meaneth to sacrifice himself unjustly for my sake, when I it was who slew her. By Allah, this shall never be!" Then he went from the saloon and, shutting the door after him, hurriedly threaded the streets till he overtook Bahadur, when he stood before the Chief of Police and said to him, "O my lord, put not Bahadur to death, for he is innocent. By Allah, none killed her but I." Now when the Captain of Police heard these words, he took them both and, carrying them before the King, acquainted him with what Amjad had said; whereupon he looked at the Prince and asked him, "Didst thou kill the damsel?" He answered, "Yes" and the King said, "Tell me why thou killedst her, and speak the truth."

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She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Bahram, the Magian, having fitted out a ship for the voyage, took As'ad and put him in a chest which he locked and had it transported on board. Now it so came to pass that, at the very time of shipping it, Amjad was standing to divert himself by looking upon the sea; and when he saw the men carrying the gear and shipping it, his heart throbbed and he called to his pages to bring him his beast. Then, mounting with a company of his officers, he rode down to the sea-side and halted before the Magian's ship, which he commended his men to board and search. They did his bidding, and boarded the vessel and rummaged in every part, but found nothing;


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340 thing; so they returned and told Amjad, who mounted again and rode back. But he felt troubled in mind; and when he reached his place and entered his palace, he cast his eyes on the wall and saw written thereon two lines which were these couplets,

My friends! if ye are banisht from mine eyes, ○ From heart and mind ye ne'er go wandering: But ye have left me in my woe, and rob ○ Rest from my eyelids while ye are slumbering."

And seeing them Amjad thought of his brother and wept. Such was his case; but as for Bahram, the Magian, he embarked and shouted and bawled to his crew to make sail in all haste. So they shook out the sails and departed and ceased not to fare on many days and nights; and, every other day, Bahram took out As'ad and gave him a bit of bread and made him drink a sup of water, till they drew near the Mountain of Fire. Then there came out on them a storm-wind and the sea rose against them, so that the ship was driven out of her course till she took a wrong line and fell into strange waters; and, at last they came in sight of a city builded upon the shore, with a castle whose windows overlooked the main. Now the ruler of this city was a Queen called Marjánah, and the captain said to Bahram, "O my lord, we have strayed from our course and come to the island of Queen Marjanah, who is a devout Moslemah; and, if she know that we are Magians, she will take our ship and slay us to the last man. Yet needs must we put in here to rest and refit." Quoth Bahram, "Right is thy recking, and whatso thou seest fit that will I do!" Said the ship master, "If the Queen summon us and question us, how shall we answer her?"; and Bahram replied, "Let us clothe this Moslem we have with us in a Mameluke's habit and carry him ashore with us, so that when the Queen sees him, she will suppose and say, This is a slave. As for me I will tell her that I am a slave-dealer who buys and sells white slaves, and that I had with me many but have sold all save this one, whom I retained to keep


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Rh my accounts, for he can read and write." And the captain said "This device should serve." Presently they reached the city and slackened sail and cast the anchors; and the ship lay still, when behold, Queen Marjanah came down to them, attended by her guards and, halting before the vessel, called out to the captain, who landed and kissed the ground before her. Quoth she, "What is the lading of this thy ship and whom hast thou with thee?" Quoth he, "O Queen of the Age, I have with me a merchant who dealeth in slaves." And she said, "Hither with him to me"; whereupon Bahram came ashore to her, with As'ad walking behind him in a slave's habit, and kissed the earth before her. She asked, "What is thy condition?"; and he answered, "I am a dealer in chattels." Then she looked at As'ad and, taking him for a Mameluke, asked him, "What is thy name, O youth?" He answered, "Dost thou ask my present or my former name?" "Hast thou then two names?" enquired she, and he replied (and indeed his voice was choked with tears), "Yes; my name aforetime was Al-As'ad, the most happy, but now it is Al-Mu'tarr--Miserrimus." Her heart inclined to him and she said, "Canst thou write?" "Yes," answered he, and she gave him ink-case and reed-pen and paper and said to him, "Write somewhat that I may see it." So he wrote these two couplets:—

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342 Bahram, "Sell me this slave." He replied, "O my lady, I cannot sell him, for I have parted with all the rest and none is left with me but he." Quoth the Queen, "I must need have him of thee, either by sale or way of gift." But quoth Bahram, "I will neither sell him nor give him." Whereat she was wroth and, taking As'ad by the hand, carried him up to the castle and sent to Bahram, saying, "Except thou set sail and depart our city this very night, I will seize all thy goods and break up thy ship." Now when the message reached the Magian, he grieved with sore grief and cried, "Verily this voyage is on no wise to be commended." Then he arose and made ready and took all he needed and awaited the coming of the night to resume his voyage, saying to the sailors, "Provide yourselves with your things and fill your water-skins, that we may set sail at the last of the night." So the sailors did their business and awaited the coming of darkness. Such was their case; but as regards Queen Marjanah, when she had brought As'ad into the castle, she opened the casements overlooking the sea and bade her handmaids bring food. They set food before As'ad and herself and both ate, after which the Queen called for wine.And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.

She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Queen Marjanah bade her handmaids bring wine and they set it before her, she fell to drinking with As'ad. Now, Allah (be He extolled and exalted!) filled her heart with love for the Prince and she kept filling his cup and handing it to him till his reason fled; and presently he rose and left the hall to satisfy a call of nature. As he passed out of the saloon he saw an open door through which he went and walked on till his walk brought him to a vast garden full of all manner fruits and flowers; and, sitting down under a tree, he did his occasion. Then he rose and went up to a jetting fountain in the garden and made the lesser ablution and washed his hands and face, after which he would have risen to go away; but the air smote him and he fell back, with his clothes undone and slept, and night overcame him thus. So far concerning him; but as concerns Bahram, the night being come, he cried out to his


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344 evening fell the Queen's squadron had surrounded it on all sides, just as Bahram had taken As'ad forth of the chest and was beating and torturing him, whilst the Prince cried out for help and deliverance, but found neither helper nor deliverer: and the grievous bastinado sorely tormented him. Now while so occupied, Bahram chanced to look up and, seeing himself encompassed by the Queen's ships, as the white of the eye encompasseth the black, he gave himself up for lost and groaned and said, "Woe to thee, O As'ad! This is all out of thy head." Then taking him by the hand he bade his men throw him overboard and cried, "By Allah I will slay thee before I die myself!" So they carried him along by the hands and feet and cast him into the sea and he sank; but Allah (be He extolled and exalted!) willed that his life be saved and that his doom be deferred; so He caused him to sink and rise again and he struck out with his hands and feet, till the Almighty gave him relief, and sent him deliverance; and the waves bore him far from the Magian's ship and threw him ashore. He landed, scarce crediting his escape, and once more on land he doffed his clothes and wrung them and spread them out to dry; whilst he sat naked and weeping over his condition, and bewailing his calamities and mortal dangers, and captivity and stranger hood. And presently he repeated these two couplets,

Allah, my patience fails: I have no ward; ○ My breast is straitened and clean cut my cord; To whom shall wretched slave of case complain ○ Save to his Lord? O thou of lords the Lord!

Then, having ended his verse, he rose and donned his clothes but he knew not whither to go or whence to come; so he fed on the herbs of the earth and the fruits of the trees and he drank of the streams, and fared on night and day till he came in sight of a city; whereupon he rejoiced and hastened his pace; but when he reached it,——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.

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346 down to beat him, but finding him a comely youth and a sweet-faced with arched brows and eyes black with nature's Kohl, she fell in love with him and asked him, "What is thy name?" "My name is As'ad," answered he; whereat she cried, "Mayst thou indeed be happy as thy name, and happy be thy days! Thou deservest not torture and blows, and I see thou hast been injuriously entreated." And she comforted him with kind words and loosed his bonds. Then she questioned him of the religion of Al-Islam and he told her that it was the true and right Faith and that our lord Mohammed had approved himself by surpassing miracles and signs manifest, and that fire-worship is harmful and not profitable; and he went on to expound to her the tenets of Al-Islam till she was persuaded and the love of the True Faith entered her heart. Then, as Almighty Allah had mixed up with her being a fond affection for As'ad, she pronounced the Two Testimonies of the Faith and became of the people of felicity. After this, she brought him meat and drink and talked with him and they prayed together: moreover, she made him chicken stews and fed him therewith, till he regained strength and his sickness left him and he was restored to his former health. Such things befel him with the daughter of Bahram, the Magian; and so it happened that one day she left him and stood at the house-door when behold, she heard the crier crying aloud and saying, "Whoso hath with him a handsome young man, whose favour is thus and thus, and bringeth him forth, shall have all he seeketh of money;


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Rh but if any have him and deny it, he shall be hanged over his own door and his property shall be plundered and his blood go for naught." Now As'ad had acquainted Bostan bint Bahram with his whole history: so, when she heard the crier, she knew that it was he who was sought for and, going down to him, told him the news. Then he fared forth and made for the mansion of the Wazir, whom, when As'ad saw, exclaimed, "By Allah, this Minister is my brother Amjad!" Then he went up (and the damsel walking behind him) to the Palace, where he again saw his brother, and threw himself upon him; whereupon Amjad also knew him and fell upon his neck and they embraced each other, whilst the Wazir's Mamelukes dismounted and stood round them. They lay awhile insensible and, when they came to themselves, Amjad took his brother and carried him to the Sultan, to whom he related the whole story, and the Sultan charged him to plunder Bahram's house.——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.

She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the Sultan ordered Amjad to plunder Bahram's house and to hang its owner. So Amjad despatched thither for that purpose a company of men, who sacked the house and took Bahram and brought his daughter to the Wazir by whom she was received with all honour, for As'ad had told his brother the torments he had suffered and the kindness she had done him. Thereupon Amjad related in his turn to As'ad all that had passed between himself and the damsel; and how he had escaped hanging and had become Wazir; and they made moan, each to other, of the anguish they had suffered for separation. Then the Sultan summoned Bahram and bade strike off his head; but he said, "O most mighty King, art thou indeed resolved to put me to death?" Replied the King, "Yes, except thou save thyself by becoming a Moslem." Quoth Bahram, "O King, bear with me a little while!" Then he bowed his head groundwards and presently raising it again, made pro fession of The Faith and islamised at the hands of the Sultan. They all rejoiced at his conversion and Amjad and As'ad told him all that had befallen them, whereat he wondered and said,


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348 "O my lords, make ready for the journey and I will depart with you and carry you back to your father's court in a ship." At this they rejoiced and wept with sore weeping but he said, "O my lords, weep not for your departure, for it shall reunite you with those you love, even as were Ni'amah and Naomi." "And what befel Ni'amah and Naomi?" asked they. "They tell," replied Bahram, "(but Allah alone is All knowing) the following tale of


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Gamin (faire le), ,.

Gates (two to port towns).

Geography in its bearings on Morality

Geomantic process.

Gharam (Pr. N.) = eagerness, de

sire, love-longing. ,

Ghaza (Artemisia-shrub).

Ghost (phantom = Tayf)

Ghurrah = blaze on a horse's fore

head

Ghusl al-Sihhah = washing of health

Give a man luck and throw him into

the sea

Goad (of the donkey-boy)

Gossamer (names for)

Grave (levelling slave and sovereign)

Hair-strings (of black silk). , 311

■■ (significance of). . . 313

Hajib = groom, chamberlain,. 233

Hajin (tall camel). ... .67

Hamah (soul of a murdered man in

form of a bird sprung from his

head) 293

Hammam-bath a luxuiy as well as a

necessity ..... 19

Hands behind the back (posture of

submission) ., . .218

■ stained in stripes like ring-

rows of a chain-armour. .176

Harut and Marut (sorcerer-angels). 217

Harwalah = pas gymnastique. . 121

Hkshshashun := assassins. , 91

Hashish, see Bhang. , ., ib.

orgie in London. . . ib,

Hawar = intensity of black and

white in the eyes. , . 233

Hawi = juggler playing tricks with

snakes ..... 145

Hawk, see Bashik, Bazi,. 61 ; 138

Haydt al-Nufus = Life of Souls. 283

Hazir and Badi =: townsman and

nomad 234

Head (must always be kept covered) 275

Headsman delaying execution. » 42

Hemistichs divided. ., .166

Hermaphrodites (Khunis^). • 306

Heroine of Eastern Romance eats

well 168

Hijl = partridge. . .', 138

" Him " for " her '♦ ... 78

Hinges (of ancient doors),. 41

Hips, leanness of, "anti-pathetic " to

Easterns 226

Hoof (of the wild ass). . . 235

Horripilation cr gooseflesh. . 2

Horse (names of the) ... 72

' stealing honourable. . 73

Host (enters first as safe-guafd

against guet-apens) . . . 208

Houris ..... 233

Hudhud = hoopoe .... 128

Hut, see Houris .... 233

Hurr = free, noble, independent

opp. to 'Abd = servile. . 44

iBLfs = the Despairer

Ibn Abdun a]-Ajidalusi (poet).

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Alf Laylafi wa Laylah^

Ibn Muljam (murderer of the Calipb

Ali) ......

Ibn Slni = Avicenna

Ichneumon (mongoose). • *

Iddat = months of a woman's en-

forced celibacy after divorce.

Ikhlas (A1-) = chapter of unity

Ikhwan al-Safd = Brethren of Purity

Ilah al-Arsb = the God of the

Empyrean.

Ill is thy abiding place.

Insane (treatment of the).

Iron padlock (instead of the usual

wooden bolt).

Irony ....

Isengrim (wolf)

Ismid = stibium (eye-powder).

JaLlAb = slave-dealer.

Jamal (Gamal) = camel, q,v.

Jamlz (Jammayz) =: sycamore-fig.

Jannat al-Na'fm = Garden of Delight

Jeweller (in Eastern tales generally

a rasckl).

Jihdd = fighting for the faith.

Jinnis (names of). . f.

Joining prayers ....

Kahil = whose eyes are kohl'd by

nature

Kahla = nature-kohl'd,.

Kama-Shastra (Ars Amoris Indica).

Kamar al-Zamin ( Camaraltaman =

Moon of the Age).

Kamarani = the two moons for sun

and moon

Kdmat Alfiyyah = a shape like the

letter Alif

Kanat = subterranean water-course.

Xaniin (dulcimer, " zither ").

Kapoteshwara and Kapoteshi.

Kasidah = Ode, elegy.

Katul (A1-) = the slayer.

Kausaj = man with a thin, short

beard, cunning, tricksy

Kaysum = yellow camomile.

Kayy (A1-) = cautery, the end of

xnedidne-care ....

Kerchief of Dismissal. *.

Kb411-d4n (for KhSlktdt) = the

Cooftiks. . . • j>

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307

iSo

256

291

146

307

225

141

211

58

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Khan (caravanserai) and its mng%^

. zines '14

Khan jar = dagger, banger (poi'

soned) ....

Khassat-hu = she gelded him.

Khauf (AI-) maksum = fear (coward

ice) is equally apportioned

Khayt hamaydn = threads of vanity

(gossamer) ....

Khaznah =: treasury of money

(/S.ooo) ....

Khizib (dye used by women).

Khunsa = flexible, flaccid (herma

phrodile) ....

Kiblah = fronting-place of prayer

Kissing (like a pigeon feeding its

yornig) ....

Kinchin lay (Arab form of)

Kirat (weight = 2-3 grains ; length

= one finger-breadth) ,

Kohl (applying of = takhll) •

-eyed =: Kahla, f..

Koka Pandit (Hindu ars Amandi)

Koran quoted ix. 10-12 ; Ivi. 24-26

Ixxxviii. 17-20)

(xii. 31 ).

(cxiii. l). ,.

(ii. 186 ; Ix. 1).

■ (Ixxvi.) «. ;

(ii. 23) ...

(xxxi. 18; Ixvii. 7)

(ii. 19O.

(xviii. ; xxii. 20; Ixxxvii.)

(ii. 96, 256).

(ii.; iii.; xxxvi. ; Iv.; Ixvii

cxiiL; c?civ.) ..

(ii. 32 ; xviii. 48).

(xxiii. 20; xcv. l)

(xxvi.) ....

(xi.) ....

(xxiii. 38).

(ii. ; Ii. 9; xxxv. li).

(cxii.) ....

(xxiv. 39 • • •

(xxi.) ....

(iv.38). ..

Kubkdb = bath clogs

Kuhailat (breed of Arab horses)

Kun = be, the creative word.

Kurds (Xenophon's and Strabo's

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LAjowARD, see Lazuward

Lamiyat = poem rhyming in L

Layali = nights, future, fate.

Layla (female Pr. N.)

(wa Majnun, love poem).

Lazuward =: lapis lazuli, azure

Letters and letter-writing

Libdah {skull-cap of felt) sign of

religious mendicant

Lisam = mouth-veil

Liver (for heart)

Lizzai al-Nisa (erotic poem)

Love (pure, becomes prophetical)

(the ear conceiveth it before the

eye)

(ten stages of)

(martyrs of).

(platonic, see vol. ii. 104).

— — (ousting affection).

Lovers in Laza (hell) as well as

Na'lm (heaven)

(parting of, a stock-topic in

poetry ....

Lukman (two of the name)

Ma'an bin ZAidah

Mahriyah (Mehari) = blood-drome

dary ....

Majlis = sitting (to a woman).

Majnun (A1-) = the mad

Malik (door-keeper of Hell)

Malik (king) taken as title

Man (extract of despicable water)

(is fire, woman tinder)

— (shown to disadvantage

beast-stories)

^— (his destiny written on his skull)

(pre-eminence above women)

Maniyat = death ; muniyat = desire

Marba' = summer quarters

Maijan = Coral-branch (slave-name)

Marriage (if consummated demands

Ghusl) . . . ..

Married men profit nothing

Martyrs of love ....

Maiwazi =: of Marw (Margiana)

Marz-ban = Warden of the Marches,

Margrave. . . ..

Md shaa 'llah (as Allah willeth) =

weU done !

Matr =: large vessel of leather or

wood

VOL. UL

143

318

33

24

283

240

6

264

92

72

20

16

"5

123

332

291

169

s

Maurid = desert- well and road to

such

Mercy (quality of the noble Arab)

Minaret (simile for a fair young girl)

Miracles (disclaimed by Mohammed

but generally believed in).

Mirage = Sarab

Mohammed ("bom with Kohl'd

eyes") ....

Moon masc, Sun fem.

Moore (Thomas, anticipated).

Morality (geographical and chrono

logical) . . . ,.

(want of, excused by pas-

sion)

Morning-draught

Mountain, coming from the = being

a clod-hopper

sit upon the ■=■ turn anchorite

Mourning, perfumes not used during

Mu'atasim (A1-) bi'llah (Caliph)

Mu'awiyah (his Moses-like "mild

ness ")....

Muharramat (the three forbidden

things) ....

Mujahid (A1-) = fighter in Holy

War. . . ».

Mujahidun = who wage war against

infidels ....

Mukhammas = cinquains.

Mulberry-fig (for anus).

Murjiyy (sect and tenets)

NAfilah = supererogatory Koran

recitation ....

Na'lm (name for Heaven)

Naml (ant) simile for a young beard

Nizir = eye or steward. .

Night (and day, not day and night

with the Arabs).

cap

" this " = our " last ".

for day ....

Nizimi (Persian Poet)

Nuptial sheet (inspection of the)

Nur al-Huda (Pr. N. = Light of

Guidance) . . .-.

O Camphor (antiphrase = O snow

ball)

Oftentimes the ear loveth before the

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Alf Laylah wa Laylah,

Oldest matter in The Nights the beast-

stories 114

Oubliettes (in old Eastern houses). 327

Out of sight of my friend is better

and pleasanter. . . • S'S

Paradise of Mohammed not wholly

sensual

Parody of the Testification

Partridge =: Hijl

Pathos (touch of)

Patience (cutting the cords of)

Payne quoted 130; 172; 193; 252

Penis (as to anus and cunnus)

Perfumes not used during mourning

(natural)

Pigeon (language, etc.)

(blood of the young)

Pilgrimage quoted (ii. 22)

(iii. 77)

(iii. 14)

(i. 216)

(i. 64). .

(iii. 18s). .

(iii. 270)

(iii. 208)

(iii. 218)

(i. 52). .

(iii. 307)

(i. 99)

(iii. 239)

(iii. 22)

(ii. 282)

(iii- 144)

. (ii. 213, 321)

' (iii. 192-194)

(i. 106)

Plates as armature. .

Plural of Majesty.

Poke (counterfeit).

Polissonnerie (characteristic)

Polygamy and Polyandry in relation

to climate.

Postilion (Le).

Postures of coition.

Prayer (rules for joining in)

(two-bow)

niche =: way-side chapel

Precedent (merit appertains to)

Preposterous venery

Preventives (the two)

215

107

118

121

126

151

XS9

163

174

241

252

304

319

324

216

16

302

243

174

213

324

264

Prima Venus debet esse cruenta. 2S9

Purity of love attains a prophetic

strain. ., . . 6

Questions Cmdiscreet, the rule

throughout Arabia) . . . 10$

Ra'AyA (pi. of Ra'lyat) = Ryot. 215

Rabite classical term for a noble

Arab horse ....

Rahil (small dromedary).

Raising the tail sign of excitement in

the Arab blood-horse.

Rasy = praising in a funeral sermon

Ratanah = a jargon

Raushan = window ....

Raushan^ (splendour) = Roxana

Ready to fly for delight.

" Renowning it" (boasting of one's

tribe) 80;

Return unto Allah ....

Rihl = wooden saddle. .

Rind (rand) = willow, bay, aloes,

wood. . ..

Rizwdn (approbation) =: key-keeper

of Paradise. . . 15

Rosary .....

Royalty in the guise of merchants

Rubber, see Shampooer.

Rubhah (townlet on the frontier of

Syria) ....

Ryot =: liege, subject ; Fellah, peas

ant

Sa'adah (female Pr. N.)

Sa'alabah (name of a tribe)

Sa'alab = fox ....

vSabb = low abuse ... %

Sabbah bin Rammdh bin Humam =

the Comely, son of the Spearman,

son of the Lion ....

Sddr = returning from the water (see

Warid)

Sady = Hamah, q.v.

Sahirah = place for the gathering of

souls on Doom-day.

Siibah = she-camel freed from labour

Salb := crucifying ....

Salsabil (fountains of Paradise)

Sarib =: mirage ....

Sawwan = Syenite ....

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Seduction (the truth about it).

Serpent does not sting or bite, but

strike .....

Seven Sleepers ....

Shahadatani (A1-) = the two Testi-

monies .....

Shahriman not Shah Zeman. 7

Shaibal-Inghdz=: gray beard, shaking

with disapproval

Shakespearean • ' topothesia " out

Shakespeared

Shakhs = a person, a black spot

Shampooer (rubber) ^ Mukayyit or

bagman ....

Shanak ■=. hanging.

Shanfara (poet)

Shaykhs (five, doubtful allusion)

Shaytan (Satan) term of abuse

(his wife and nine sons)

Shop (Arab, a " but " and a " ben

Shovel-iron stirrup = spar

Signs (of a Shaykh's tent)

•— (lucky in a horse).

Sinnaur = cat ; prince.

Siwak =: tooth-stick ; Siwa-ka =

other than thou.

Slaves (O Camphor)

(set free for the benefit of the

dead)

-(dealer in = Jallab)

Sleeping (with covered head and face)

Sleepers (the Seven of Ephesus)

Solomon (his carpet)

Sodomites (angels appear to) 301

Sodomy with women

Son of Persian Kings (not Prince but

descendant)

Spindle (thinner than a).

St. George (posture)

Stages (ten, of love-sickness).

•' Stone-bow " not " Cross-bow "

Subhdna'llah pronounced to keep off

the evil eye

Sudan := our Soudan

Suf (wool), Sufi (Gnostic)

Suha (Soha) star in the Ursa Major

Sulaymd, dim. of Salmd=: any beau

tiful woman

Superiority of man above womaa

Sutures of the skull

Sycomore fig (for anns). ,

26

119

104

tiS

40

345

128

267

ib.

123

302

Tagi5t (idol) 217

Ta'i (A1-) li 'llah (Caliph). 51, 307

Takhil = adorning with Kohl. . 57

Talak bi'1-Salasah = triple divorce. 292

Tamar al- Hindi (Tamarind) = the

Indian date .... 297

Tasbfh = saying Subhan Allah ;

Rosary 125

Tayf = ghost, phantom. . . 252

Tayrab (A1-) a city .... 259

Tears (pouring blood like red wine). 169

Ten stages of love-sickness. . 36

Tent (signs of a Shaykh's). . 104

Testicles (beating and bruising of,

female mode of killing a man) . 3

Thamud (pre-historic Arab tribe). 294

Thorn of lance = eye-lash. •331

Tin =: fig, simile for a woman's parts 302

Tiryak = theriack, treacle (antidote) 65

Torrens quoted. 218 ; 235 ; 249 ; 289

Tossing upon coals of fire. • 61

Tughrdi (A1-), poet. . . .143

Turk (provoked to hunger by beauties

of nature) 33

(appears under the Abbasides) 81

Ubi aves ibi angeli. ..

Ukhuwan = camomile.

Urine (pollutes)

Urining (vnping after)

Ushari = camel travelling ten days

Wa ba'ad (see Amma ba'ad, vol. ii

) =: and afterwards

Waddle of *' Arab ladies"

Wady = valley ; slayer.

Waist (slender, hips large)

Walahan (Lakab of a poet = The

distracted) ....

Walgh = lapping of a dog

Walid (A1-) Caliph.

Walidati = my mother, speaking to

one not of the family

Wdrid = resorting to the water

Wasif = servant ; fern, wasifah

concubine ....

Wasik (A1-), Caliph

Waters flowing in Heaven.

Wayl-ak = Woe to thee.

Week-days (only two names for)

Weeping (not for form and face

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356 Wives (why four, see Women) 212

(a man's tillage) 304

What happened, happened=fortune so willed it 68

Wine (a sun with cup-bearer for East and the drinker's mouth for West) 263

Wolf (wicked man); fox (cunning man) 132

Women (peculiar waddle) 37

(proposing extreme measures) 39

(are tinder, men fire) 59

(monkish horror of) 126

(Laylah, name of) 135

(true seducers) 208

(Wálidati=my mother) 208

(four wives, and why) 212

(compared to an inn) 216

(large hips and thighs) 226

(small fine foot) 227

(names of) 239; 263

(more passionate than men) 241

(head must always be kept covered) 275

(slender-waisted but full of hips, etc.) 304

(Sodomy with) 304

(all charges laid upon them) 335

Words (divided in a couplet) 166

Writing without fingers=being unable to answer for what is written 181

= O father of a felt calotte 62

Yá Abú Sumrah = O father of brownness 40

Yá fulán = O certain person 191

Yá Sátir, Yá Sattár = O veiler (of sins) 41

Yá Talji = O snowy one 40

Yaum al-tanádí = Resurrection Day 74

= dung-drawer, etc. 51

Zakar (penis) = that which betokens masculinity 3

Zamiyád =: guardian angel of Bihisht, see Rizwán. . . . 20; 233

Zanab Sirhán (wolfs tail) = early dawn 146

Zarrat (vulg. Durrah) = co-wife, sister-wife 308

Zebra (daughter of Sa'adah 65

Zibl = dung 51

Zibl Khán = Le Roi Crotte 99


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Rh To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propositions of natural science, i.e. something that has nothing to do with philosophy: and then always, when someone else wished to say something metaphysical, to demonstrate to him that he had given no meaning to certain signs in his propositions. This method would be unsatisfying to the other—he would not have the feeling that we were teaching him philosophy—but it would be the only strictly correct method.

My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.)

He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly.

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Rh The general form of proposition is: Such and such is the case.

Suppose all elementary propositions were given me: then we can simply ask: what propositions I can build out of them. And these are all propositions and so are they limited.

The propositions are everything which follows from the totality of all elementary propositions (of course also from the fact that it is the totality of them all). (So, in some sense, one could say, that all propositions are generalizations of the elementary propositions.)

The general propositional form is a variable. Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions.

(An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.)

The elementary propositions are the truth-arguments of propositions.

It is natural to confuse the arguments of functions with the indices of names. For I recognize the meaning of the sign containing it from the argument just as much as from the index.

In Russell's "+c", for example, "c" is an index which indicates that the whole sign is the addition sign for cardinal numbers. But this way of symbolizing depends on arbitrary agreement, and one could choose a simple sign instead of "+c": but in "~p" "p" is not an index but an argument; the sense of "~p" cannot be understood, unless the sense of "p" has previously been understood. (In the name Julius Caesar, Julius is an index. The index is always part of a description of the object to whose name we attach it, e.g. The Caesar of the Julian gens.)

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LONG time ago in a cottage on the edge of a great forest there dwelt a little girl by the name of Golden Hair; she was an orphan and lived with her grandmother who loved her dearly. The grandmother was very old and so most of the house work was done by Golden Hair; but she was so young and strong she did not mind that a bit, for she had plenty of time to play and was merry the whole day long.

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 in the wild creatures of the wood. The gentle, soft eyed deer would feed from her hand, and the wild birds would come at her musical call; for she knew their language and loved them well.

Golden Hair had never wandered far into the forest. But one day in the early autumn time, as she was gathering bright leaves and golden rod, she strayed farther than she knew and came upon a lonely, gray cabin under the mighty trees. A slab of wood beside the half open door told who lived within:

"Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and the Tiny Bear."

"So this is where the jolly bears live!" said Golden Hair as she knocked upon the door. "I want to meet them."

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 No answer came to her knocking, so she pushed the door wide open and walked in.

It was a most disorderly house, but a bright fire burned on the hearth, over which hung a big, black kettle of bubbling soup, while on the table, near by, were three yellow bowls of different sizes.

"A big bowl for Papa Bear, a medium sized bowl for Mamma Bear, and a little bowl for the Tiny Bear," said Golden Hair.

"That soup smells good," she went on to say, "but my! what an untidy house! I'll put the place to rights while I am waiting for the bears to come home."

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 So she went to work to sweep and dust and soon had the room in order. The she went into the bed room and made up the three beds: the big one for Papa bear, the medium sized one for Mamma Bear, and the little one for Tiny Bear she bustled and had everything as neat as a pin when in bounced the three jolly bears. For a moment the bears stood speechless, with wide

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Rh   This is connected with the fact that no part of our experience is also a priori.

Everything we see could also be otherwise.

Everything we can describe at all could also be otherwise.

There is no order of things a priori.

Here we see that solipsism strictly carried out coincides with pure realism. The I in solipsism shrinks to an extensionless point and there remains the reality co-ordinated with it.

There is therefore really a sense in which in philosophy we can talk of a non-psychological I.

The I occurs in philosophy through the fact that the "world is my world".

The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit—not a part of the world. The general form of truth function is: $$[\bar p,\bar \xi,N(\bar \xi)]$$.

This is the general form of proposition.

This says nothing else than that every proposition is the result of successive applications of the operation $$N(\bar \xi)$$ to the elementary propositions.

If we are given the general form of the way in which a proposition is constructed, then thereby we are also given the general form of the way in which by an operation out of one proposition another can be created.

The general form of the operation $$\Omega ' (\bar \eta)$$ is therefore: $$[\bar \xi,N(\bar \xi)]' (\bar \eta) (=[\bar \eta,\bar \xi,N(\bar \xi)]) $$.

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In rendering Mr Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus ''available for English readers, the somewhat unusual course has been adopted of printing the original side by side with the translation. Such a method of presentation seemed desirable both on account of the obvious difficulties raised by the vocabulary and in view of the peculiar literary character of the whole. As a result, a certain latitude has been possible in passages to which objection might otherwise be taken as over-literal.''

The proofs of the translation and the version of the original which appeared in the final number of Ostwald's Annalen der Naturphilosophie (1921) have been very carefully revised by the author himself; and the Editor further desires to express his indebtedness to Mr F. P. Ramsey, of Trinity College, Cambridge, for assistance both with the translation and in the preparation of the book for the press. C. K. O.


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 open eyes, staring at Golden Hair, who stood, like a ray of sunshine in the dusky room; then they burst into loud laughter and her welcome to their home. When they saw how nice and clean it was, they thanked her heartily and invited her to share their dinner, for the soup was now ready and they were all hungry. Golden Hair spent the rest of the day with the three jolly bears playing "hi spy" and many new games which the bears taught her.

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 When the afternoon sun was sinking in the west the little girl said she must be getting home, for her grandma would be anxious about her. The three bears would not let her go alone, so they all set off together through the twilight woods,—a merry company.

Golden Hair rode upon the broad back of Papa Bear, while Mamma Bear and Tiny walked gaily on either side. In this way, before night had fallen, they came clear of the wood and up to the home of Golden Hair.

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 this shaggy company with her little Golden Hair, but when she saw how jolly they all were and how handy they were in helping Golden Hair get the supper, she was delighted to have them stay, and gave them welcome. Papa bear split the wood, brought it in, and built the fire; Mamma bear got the tea kettle and filled it with water that was carried from the well by the Tiny Bear, and soon they were able to sit down to a good supper of hot biscuit, wild honey, and

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"! Garret Jackson!" cried Tom as he struggled through the hedge of bushes and ran after the men. "Where are you, Garret? Come on and help me chase these men!"

But there came no answer to Tom's hail. He could not hear the sound of the retreating footsteps of the men now and concluded that they had made their escape. Still he would not give up, but dashed on, slipping and stumbling, now and then colliding with a tree.

"What can they be doing here?" thought Tom in great anxiety. "Are they after some more of dad's inventions because they didn't get his turbine motor?"

"Hello! Who's there? Who are you?" called a voice suddenly.

"Oh, Garret! Where have you been?" asked the young inventor, recognizing the tones of his father's keeper. "I've been calling you. Some of those scoundrels are around again!"


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112 "Why if it isn't Tom!" ejaculated the engineer. "However in the world did you get here? I thought you were at Sandport."

"I'll explain later, Garret. Just now I want to catch those men, if I can."

"Which men?"

"Happy Harry and another one. I saw them hiding down by the orchard path. Come on, they're right ahead of us."

But though they hunted as well as they were able to in the fast-gathering darkness, there was no trace of the intruders. They had to give up, and Tom, after going to the boathouse to see that the Arrow was all right, returned to the house, where he told the engineer and housekeeper what had brought him back and how he had surprised the two men.

"Is everything all right, Garret?" he concluded. "Dad is nervous and frightened. I must telephone him at the hotel to-night and let him know, for I promised to come back. I can't, though, until to-morrow."

"Everything is all right as far as I know," answered Jackson. "I've kept a careful watch and the burglar alarm has been in working order. Mrs. Baggert and I haven't been disturbed a single night since you went away. It's curious


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Rh that the men should be here the very night you come back. Maybe they followed you."

"I hardly think so, for they didn't know I was coming."

"You can't tell what those fellows know," commented the engineer. "But, anyhow, I don't s'pose they could have gotten here from Sandport as soon as you did."

"Oh, yes they could, in their automobile," declared Tom. "But I don't believe they knew I was coming. They knew we were away, however, and thought it would be a good time to steal something, I guess. Are you sure nothing has been taken?"

"Perfectly sure, but you and I will take a look around the shop."

They made a hasty examination, but found nothing disturbed and no signs that any one had tried to break in.

"I think I'll telephone dad that everything is all right," decided Tom. "It is, as far as his inventions are concerned, and if I tell about seeing the men it will only worry him. I can explain that part better when I see him. But when I go back, Garret, you will have to be on your guard, since those men are in the neighborhood."

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114 the telephone that nothing in the shops had been disturbed, and the inventor received the news with evident satisfaction. He requested Tom to come back to the hotel in the morning, in order that the three of them might go for a ride about the lake in the afternoon, and Tom decided to make an early start.

The night passed without incident, though Tom, who kept the gun Mr. Duncan had given him in readiness for use, got up several times, thinking he heard suspicious noises. After an early breakfast, and having once more cautioned the engineer and housekeeper to be on their guard, Tom started back in the Arrow.

As it would not be much out of his way, the young inventor decided to cut across the lake and stop at the sanitarium, that he might inquire about Mr. Duncan. He thought he could speed the Arrow up sufficiently to make up for any time he might lose, and, with this in mind, he headed out toward the middle of Lake Carlopa. The engine was working splendidly with the new spark plugs, and Tom was wondering if there was any possible method of getting more revolutions out of the motor. He had about come to the conclusion that a new propeller might answer his purpose when he heard the noise of an approaching boat. He looked up quickly and exclaimed:


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Rh "Andy Foger again, and Pete and Sam are with him. It's a wonder he wouldn't go off on a trip instead of cruising around so near home. Guess he's afraid he'll get stuck."

Idly Tom watched the Red Streak. It was cutting through the water at a fast rate, throwing up curling foam on either side of the sharp bow.

"He seems to be heading this way," mused Tom. "Well, I'm not going to race with him to-day."

Nearer and nearer came the speedy craft, straight for the Arrow. The young inventor shifted his helm in order to get out of Andy's course, but to his surprise he saw that the redhaired lad changed the direction of his own boat.

"Guess he wants to see how close he can come to me," thought our hero. "Maybe he wants to show how fast he's going."

The Red Streak was now so close that the features of the occupants could easily be distinguished. There were grins on the faces of Andy and his cronies.

"Get out of the way or we'll run you down!" cried the bully. "We've got the right of way."

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116 helmsman. The auto-boat was now headed directly at the Arrow and coming on speedily. Andy was bending over the wheel and Tom had begun to turn his, in order to get well out of the way of the insolent, squint-eyed lad and his friends.

Suddenly Andy uttered a cry and leaped up.

"Look out! look out!" he yelled. "My steering gear has broken! I can't change my course. Look out!"

The Red Streak was bearing right down on Tom's boat.

"Shut off your power! Reverse!" shouted Tom.

Andy seemed confused and did not know what to do. Sam Snedecker sprang to the side of his crony, but he knew even less about a motor-boat. It looked as if Tom would be run down, and he was in great danger.

But the young inventor did not lose his head. He put his wheel hard over and then, leaping to his motor, sent it full speed forward. Not a moment too soon had he acted, for an instant later the other boat shot past the stern of the Arrow, hitting it a severe but glancing blow. Tom's boat quivered from end to end and he quickly shut off the power. By this time Andy had succeeded in slowing down his craft. The young inventor


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Rh hastily looked over the side of the Arrow. One of the rudder fastenings had been torn loose.

"What do you mean by running me down?" shouted Tom angrily.

"I—I didn't do it on purpose," returned Andy contritely. "I was seeing how near I could come to you when my steering gear broke. I hope I haven't damaged you."

"My rudder's broken," went on Tom, "and I've got to put back to repair it. I ought to have you arrested for this!"

"I'll pay for the damage," replied Andy, and he was so frightened that he was white, in spite of his tan and freckles.

"That won't do me any good now," retorted Tom. "It will delay me a couple of hours. If you try any tricks like that again, I'll complain to the authorities and you won't be allowed to run a boat on this lake."

Andy knew that his rival was in the right and did not reply. The bully and his cronies busied themselves over the broken steering gear, and the young inventor, finding that he could make a shift to get back to his boathouse, turned his craft around and headed for there, in order to repair the damage.


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no heed to the occupants of the bully's boat, who, by reason of their daring, had been responsible for his accident that might have resulted seriously, Tom was soon at his dock. He had it conveniently arranged for hoisting craft out of the water to repair them, and in a few minutes the stern of the Arrow was elevated so that he could get at the rudder.

"Well, it's not as bad as I thought," he remarked when, with critical eye, he had noted the damage done. I can fix it in about an hour if Garret helps me."

Going up to the house to get some tools and to tell the engineer that he had returned, Tom looked out over the lake and saw Andy's boat moving slowly off.

"They've got her fixed up in some kind of shape," he murmured. "It's a shame for a chump like Andy to have a good boat like that. He'll


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Rh spoil it in one season. He's getting altogether too reckless. First thing he knows, he and I will have a clash and I'll pay back some of the old scores."

Mr. Jackson was much surprised to see the young inventor home again so soon, as was also Mrs. Baggert. Tom explained what had happened, and he and the engineer went to work repairing the damage done by the Red Streak. As the owner of the Arrow had anticipated, the work did not take long, and, shortly before dinner time, the boat was ready to resume the interrupted trip to Sandport.

"Better stay and have lunch," urged Mrs. Baggert. "You can hardly get to the hotel by night, anyhow, and maybe it would be better not to start until to-morrow."

"No, I must get back to-night or dad would be worried," declared Tom. "I've been gone longer now than I calculated on. But I will have dinner here, and, if necessary, I can do the last half of the trip after dark. I know the way now and I have a compass and a good searchlight."

The Arrow was let down into the water again and tied outside the boathouse ready for a quick start. The dinner Mrs. Baggert provided was so good that Tom lingered over it longer than he meant to, and he asked for a second apple dumpling with hard sauce on. So it was with a very


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 comfortable feeling indeed and with an almost forgiving spirit toward Andy Foger that our hero started down the path to the lake,

"Now for a quick run to Sandport," he said aloud. "I hope I shan't see any more of those men and that dad hasn't been bothered by them. His suspicions about the house weren't altogether unfounded, for I did see the tramp and some one else sneaking around, but I don't believe they'll come back now."

Tom swung around the path that led to the dock. As he came in sight of the water, he stared as if he could not believe what he saw, or, rather, what he did not see. For there was no craft tied to the string-piece, where he had fastened his motor-boat. He looked again, rubbed his eyes to make sure and then cried out:

"The Arrow is gone!"

There was no doubt of it. The craft was not at the dock. Breaking into a run, Tom hastened to the boathouse. The Arrow was not in there, and a look across the lake showed only a few rowboats in sight.

"That's mighty funny," mused the youth. "I wonder"

He paused suddenly in his thoughts.

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 knows how to run a boat. Maybe he wanted to see how the rudder behaved and is out in it now. He got through dinner before I did. But I should have thought he'd have said something to me if he was going out in it."

This was the one weak point in Tom's theory, and he felt it at once.

"I'll see if Garret is in his shop," he went on as he turned back toward the house.

The first person he met as he headed for the group of small structures where Mr. Swift's inventive work was carried on was Garret Jackson, the engineer.

"I—I thought you were out in my boat!" stammered Tom.

"Your boat! Why would I be out in your boat?" and Mr. Jackson removed his pipe from his mouth and stared at the young inventor.

"Because it's gone!"

"Gone!" repeated the engineer, and then Tom told him. The two hurried down to the dock, but the addition of another pair of eyes was of no assistance in locating the Arrow. The trim little motor craft was nowhere to be seen.

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122 "It doesn't take long to steal a motor-boat," commented the engineer.

"But I think I would have heard them start it," went on the lad. "Maybe it drifted off, though I'm sure I tied it securely."

"No, there's not much likelihood of that. There's no wind to-day and no currents in the lake. But it could easily have been towed off by some one in a rowboat and then you would not have heard the motor start."

"That's so," agreed the youth. "That's probably how they did it. They sneaked up here in a rowboat and towed the Arrow off I'm sure of it."

"And I'll wager I know who did it," exclaimed Mr. Jackson energetically.

"Who?" demanded Tom quickly.

"Those men who were sneaking around—Happy Harry and his gang. They stole the boat once and they'd do it again. Those men took your boat, Tom."

The young inventor shook his head.

"No," he answered, "I don't believe they did."

"Why not?"

"Well, because they wouldn't dare come back here when they knew we're on the lookout for them. It would be too risky."

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Rh opinion of Mr. Jackson. "Take my word for it, they have your boat. They have been keeping watch, and as soon as they saw the dock unprotected they sneaked up and stole the Arrow."

"I don't think so," repeated Mr. Swift's son.

"Who do you think took it, then?"

"Andy Foger!" was the quick response. "I believe he and his cronies did it to annoy me. They have been trying to get even with me—or at least Andy has—for outbidding him on this boat. He's tried several times, but he hasn't succeeded—until now. I'm sure Andy Foger has my boat," and Tom, with a grim tightening of his lips, swung around as though to start in instant pursuit.

"Where are you going?" asked Mr. Jackson.

"To find Andy and his cronies. When I locate them I'll make them tell me where my boat is."

"Hadn't you better send some word to your father? You can hardly get to Sandport now, and he'll be worried about you."

"That's so, I will. I'll telephone dad that the boat—no, I'll not do that either, for he'd only worry and maybe get sick. I'll just tell him I've had a little accident, that Andy ran into me and that I can't come back to the hotel for a day or two. Maybe I'll be lucky to find my boat in that time. But dad won't worry then, and, when I see


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124 him, I can explain. That's what I'll do," and Tom was soon talking to Mr. Swift by telephone.

The inventor was very sorry his son could not come back to rejoin him and Ned, but there was no help for it, and, with as cheerful voice as he could assume, the lad promised to start for Sandport at the earliest opportunity.

"Now to find Andy and my boat!" Tom exclaimed as he hung up the telephone receiver.


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 No. 37.]

It is well known that Bishop Wilson, who presided over the Church in the Isle of Man, from 1698 to 1755, was stirred up by Him who made him overseer, to revive the Primitive Discipline, and was remarkably blest in his undertaking. The principle of this discipline is, that no man who sinned openly, whether in creed or practice, should be allowed to remain in free and full communion with the Church; but should be censured, put to penance, suspended, or excommunicated, as the case might require. The following is the form he proposed to use, in inflicting the extreme punishment of excommunication.

My Brethren, and all good Christians here met together.

We are met upon a very unusual and mournful occasion.

We have hitherto (blessed be ), preserved, in some good measure, the ancient discipline of the Church; and notorious sinners have been prevailed upon to take shame to themselves in a public confession of their offences; and to desire the prayers of the Church for the grace that is necessary for a true conversion.

I am sorry to tell you, that there is a person now under the censures of the Church, who utterly refuseth to submit to this wholesome discipline; being more concerned for the shame that attends his censures, than he is for his salvation.

We have laid before you his crimes; and the Christian methods which have been made use of to bring him to a sense of his guilt and danger, and to oblige him to make what satisfaction he can for the scandal he hath given.

You will see how very long we have waited in hopes of bringing him to submit to the discipline of the Church; until at last our discipline begins to be slighted, as too weak for such offenders.


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362 evident that he has taken it into his own hand; thus he must be regarded as the author of all good and of all evil, with the exception of sin. Thereupon I would repeat to the person the passage of Scripture to which I have before referred: In the day of prosperity rejoice, but in the day of adversity consider. Nevertheless, I must say to you in respect to the other person whom you know, who sends word that she has many things on her mind that trouble her, that I am very sorry to see her in this state. I am deeply grieved at her troubles, and should be glad to be able to relieve them; I entreat her not to anticipate the future, and to remember that, as our Lord has said, Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

The past ought not to trouble us, since we have only to feel regret for our faults; but the future ought to concern us still less, since it is wholly beyond our control, and since perhaps we may not reach it at all. The present is the only time that is truly our own, and this we ought to employ according to the will of God. It is in this that our thoughts ought chiefly to be centred. Yet the world is so restless that men scarcely ever think of the present life and of the moment in which they are living, but of that in which they will live. In this manner we are always living in the future, and never in the present. Our Lord has willed that our foresight should not extend beyond the present day. These are the bounds within which we must keep both for our safety and for our own repose. For in truth, the Christian precepts are those fullest of consolation, exceeding, I affirm, the maxims of the world.

I also foresee many troubles, both for that person, for others, and for myself. But I pray to God, when I find myself absorbed in these forebodings, to restrain me within my prescribed course. I call myself to an account, and I find that I am neglecting to do many things that I ought at present, in order to escape from useless thoughts of the future on which, far from being obliged to dwell, it is on the contrary my duty not to dwell at all. It is only for want of not understanding how to know and study the present that we undertake to study the future. What I say here, I say for myself, and not for that person who has

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242 This same Joseph, when dying, bade his children carry his bones with them when they should go into that land, to which they only came two hundred years afterwards.

Moses, who wrote all these things so long before they happened, himself assigned to each family portions of that land before they entered it, as though he had been its ruler. [In fact he declared that God was to raise up from their nation and their race a prophet, of whom he was the type; and he foretold them exactly all that was to happen to them in the land which they were to enter after his death, the victories which God would give them, their ingratitude towards God, the punishments which they would receive for it, and the rest of their adventures.] He gave them judges who should make the division. He prescribed the entire form of political government which they should observe, the cities of refuge which they should build, and…

The prophecies about particular things are mingled with those about the Messiah, so that the prophecies of the Messiah should not be without proofs, nor the special prophecies without fruit.

Perpetual captivity of the Jews.—Jer. xi. II: "I will bring evil upon Judah from which they shall not be able to escape."

Types.—Is. v.: "The Lord had a vineyard, from which He looked for grapes; and it brought forth only wild grapes. I will therefore lay it waste, and destroy it; the earth shall only bring forth thorns, and I will forbid the clouds from [raining] upon it. The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant. I looked that they should do justice, and they bring forth only iniquities."

Is. viii.: "Sanctify the Lord with fear and trembling; let Him be your only dread, and He shall be to you for a sanctuary, but for a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the

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 However, it ought not to repent us that we have waited with patience; when we consider with what mighty patience God himself waiteth to be gracious; and that the sentence of excommunications was never, in the primitive Church, executed hastily, nor until all other probable ways had been made use of without effect.

Now, this being the last remedy which the Church can make use of for awakening obstinate offenders, the whole Church ought to be satisfied upon what grounds, and by what authority we pronounce this sentence; and what will be the effects of such a sentence when passed according to the will and appointment of.

The Holy Scriptures tell us, that our, who came to seek and save his lost creatures, has appointed divers ordinances for the conversion and salvation of men.

For instance:—He has appointed Preaching, to draw men to him; He has appointed the Sacrament of Baptism , by which we are admitted into His household the Church; and that of the Supper , as a pledge of his love, and of our communion with Him. And lastly, He hath ordained Godly Discipline, that such who do not live as becomes their Christian profession may be reproved, corrected, and amended, or else cast out of his Church.

And all these ordinances are committed unto His Ministers, who are called his Stewards ; because to them He has committed the keys of His house and kingdom, that is, the Church; that they may admit such as are worthy, and that they may shut out such as behave themselves disorderly in His family.

, I say, committed this power to His Apostles, and they to their successors ; with this assurance from his own mouth, He that heareth you, heareth Me, and he that despiseth you, despiseth Me, and Him that sent Me.


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 * (tr.) Blaise Pascal various letters, 1910.
 * To His Sister Jacqueline
 * To Mme. Perier
 * To the Same
 * To Mme. and M. Perier
 * To M. Perier
 * To Mme. Perier
 * To the Marchioness de Sable
 * To M. Perier
 * To Mme Perier
 * To the Same
 * To Mlle. de Roannez (nine letters)
 * To Queen Christina
 * (tr.) Victor Cousin Secret History of the French Court under Richelieu and Mazarin, 1871 (original 1859)

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 So that you see, whosoever makes a jest of Church Discipline, makes a jest of an ordinance of ; and a man may as well despise the whole Christian Religion, as this power, which is as much the ordinance of, as preaching, or the use of the Sacraments.

The most unlearned Christian will understand this, when he is asked, For what end he was baptized? He will answer, That he might thereby be made a member of, a child of , and an inheritor of the kingdom of Heaven.

But why does he believe that Baptism does give him a right to these blessings? Why; because gave power to His Ministers to baptize all nations; that such as are baptized into, have put on ; that is, are members of  body, which is His Church.

Now, will not our, who has promised to own you for His children when His Ministers have admitted you into His Church by Baptism, will He not also disown you, when the same Ministers, acting in His name, shall by the same power of the keys, shut you out of His Church?

For if you believe that they receive you into Church by Baptism, you must believe that they shut you out as effectually by excommunication.

In short, every Christian, when he is baptized, is admitted into the Church upon a most solemn promise to live as a Christian ought to do; if he does not do so, those very Ministers who admitted him are bound to exhort, to rebuke and to censure him; and if these methods will not do, to excommunicate him; that is, to cut him off from the body of , and from favour and mercy:—not that he may be lost for ever, but that he may see his sad condition, and repent, and be saved.

The form of excommunication made use of by the Apostles of our Lord, was, by delivering offenders to Satan. Now, because this is laughed at by profane persons, who do not know the Scriptures, I will show you what that means. The Spirit and the Word of has told us, that the devil has a kingdom and


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 * Proceedings of a General Court-Martial for the trial of, on a charge of mutiny exhibited against him by the Crown, for deposing W. Bligh, etc. London, 1811

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 to contribute something to it; but I have none of the capacities necessary for that purpose. My weakness is so great that, if I should undertake it, I should do an act of temerity rather than of charity, and I should have a right to fear for us both the calamity that menaces the blind led by the blind. I have felt my incapacity incomparably more since the visits which are in question; and far from having brought back enough of light for others, I have brought nothing but confusion and trouble for myself, which God alone can calm, and in which I shall work with care, but without impatience and disquietude, knowing well that both would remove me from it. I repeat that God alone can calm it, and that I shall work for this, since I find nothing but occasions for making it spring up and increase in those from whom I had expected its dissipation; so that, seeing myself reduced to myself alone, it remains to me only to pray to God that he may bless it with success. For this I shall have need of the aid of scholars and disinterested persons: the first will not afford it; I seek no longer but for the latter; and hence I desire infinitely to see you, for letters are long, inconvenient, and almost useless on such occasions. Nevertheless I will write you something of it.

The first time I saw M. Rebours, I made myself known to him and was received with as much civility as I could wish. This was due to my father, since I received it on his account. After the first compliments, I asked permission to see him again from time to time; he granted it to me: thus I was at liberty to see him, so that I do not account this first sight as a visit, since it was only the permission for such. I was there for some time, and among other conversation, I told him with my usual frankness and naïveté, that we had seen their books and those of their adversaries, which was sufficient to make him understand that we were of their sentiments. He expressed some pleasure at this. I then told him that I thought that many things could be demonstrated upon the mere principles of common-sense that their adversaries said were contrary to it, and that well-directed reasoning led to a belief in them, although it was

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 52 down upon them, and the commanders of ships were to be requested to lay off on them the tracks of their vessels every day, and indicate as well the time of the year, the direction of the winds, the force and set of the currents, and all other phenomena having a bearing on the navigation of the seas on which they sailed. Sailing directions, Maury declared in this address, are now not a written branch of navigation but merely a matter of tradition among seamen. As to his contemplated chart, he boldly asserted that short passages are not due to luck and that "this chart proposes nothing less than to blaze a way through the winds of the sea by which the navigator may find the best paths at all seasons".

Not having at that time made a name for himself as a scientist, Maury thought it wise to seek the support of the National Institute, and asked that a committee be appointed from its members to wait upon Secretary of the Navy Upshur and invite his cooperation in authorizing that these charts be kept on all public cruisers. Such cooperation was, after a fashion, granted, and Maury drew up a letter of instructions at the request of the Secretary. But as not much political capital was to be made of it, the matter ended with the issuing of a set of instructions to Commodore Biddle who was on the point of sailing for China in the Columbus. Maury then asked permission of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography to make a chart of the Atlantic American seaboard. He was ashamed, he wrote, of the meagerness of the contributions of the United States to the general fund of nautical science, and called attention to the fact that even the charts used by an American man-of-war in making her way up the Chesapeake Bay toward Washington had to be secured from the English Admiralty,

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At the top of all the pilot charts issued by the Hydrographic Office of the Navy Department are written these words: "Founded upon the researches made and the data collected by Lieutenant M. F. Maury, U. S. Navy". This is an appropriate memorial to Maury's most practical contribution to science,—that which has given him the name "Pathfinder of the Seas".

For a long time he had recognized the need for charts showing the winds and currents of the sea at different seasons; and it will be remembered that, when he was sailing master of the Falmouth, 1831-1833, he was first made to realize how little of the nautical experience of other sailors could be taken advantage of by one about to set out on a long voyage. On the way down to Rio · in this ship he first conceived the idea of a wind and current chart; but he had no opportunity to make practical investigations into the meteorology of the sea until the year 1842, when he was placed in charge of the Depot of Charts and Instruments.

He had been in this office but a short time when he set about examining the old log books which had been stored away as so much rubbish by the Navy Department. By the middle of the year 1843, these investigations had proved so illuminating that he was able to write a paper, which was read before the National Institute, on "Blank Charts on Board Public Cruisers". According to his plan, these charts were to have parallels and meridians showing the latitude and longitude laid

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 * Life of William Wilberforce London, 1838
 * Correspondence of W. Wilberforce London, 1840

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 Rh and that, if it were not for the Nautical Almanac of England or some other nation, absent American ships could not find their way home and those in port could not lift their anchors and grope to sea with any certainty of finding their way back again.

At about the same time Maury began the compilation of a chart of the North Atlantic for the purpose of laying down upon it the tracks of vessels in all seasons of the year, with the currents, prevailing winds, temperature of the water, etc. At first, he had the intention of delineating the track of each vessel on the chart but he soon saw that it would be impossible to do so on the scale adopted (one inch to the degree), and he then resorted to the plan of tabulating the results only instead of marking the track. It was not until the autumn of 1847 that his researches, which had then extended over nearly five years, had reached the point where he could publish his first "Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic". This chart was founded entirely upon information derived from the old discarded log books of the Navy Department, for he had not then secured much cooperation in the acquiring of new data. Maury compared his work in the "quarry of log books" to that of a sculptor, the single touch of whose chisel does but little; but finally like the completed piece of statuary the charts speak for themselves and stand out before the compiler "eloquent with facts which the philosopher had never dreamed were lurking near".

Early in the year 1848 Maury issued what he called an "Abstract Log for the Use of American Navigators". This was devised to secure the cooperation of navigators in gathering information for perfecting his charts. It contained but ten pages together with some blank forms,

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 54 and was the very modest beginning of what he afterwards issued as "Sailing Directions", which eventually grew to the enormous size of 1257 pages in two volumes in quarto. The purpose of the little pamphlet was to interpret the meaning and the significance of the wind and current chart which had recently been issued, and to furnish instructions to navigators for the proper keeping of the abstract log on their voyages. They were to enter in this log the latitude and longitude every day at noon; the hourly rate of the currents expressed in knots; the variation of the compass; the reading of the thermometer, in both air and water, at nine o'clock each morning; the state of the barometer just before, during, and just after a gale of wind with the changes and time of changes in the direction of the wind during the gale; careful entries as to the direction and force of the winds every eight hours; and other marine phenomena such as whales, flocks of birds, rains and fogs, etc., etc. When properly filled out, these logs were to be sent to Maury at the Observatory where the information would be tabulated. It was also suggested that tightly corked bottles containing the latitude and longitude, and the date be thrown overboard at stated times, and that such floating bottles be picked up when seen, and the place and time be carefully noted in the abstract log. Those who agreed to cooperate in these various ways were to receive free of cost a copy of the "Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic".

Maury predicted confidently that, by following his directions, the average 55 days' voyage from New York to Rio by the old route might be shortened by from 10 to 15 days. This prediction was fulfilled by the barque W. H. D. C. Wright of Baltimore, which early in 1848

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 subjects, over whom he reigns; that is, over the children of disobedience.

That has also His kingdom and subjects; and when the Apostles gained over any of the subjects of Satan unto Christ, they are said to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto.

Now, when any of subjects become rebellious, and refuse to be governed by the laws of the Gospel, His Ministers are bound to admonish them of their sin, and of their danger; and if they refuse to obey their godly admonitions, then to turn them out of that society of which  is the head; and consequently, such persons fall under the power of Satan again, who useth his subjects like slaves. And permits him to do so, that sinners, if they are not utterly lost, may with the prodigal, when he was forced to herd with swine, see the state they are fallen into, and repent; and desire to get out of the snare and power of the devil; and be restored to the favour of.

So that excommunication is made use of, not as a punishment only, but as a remedy; that sinners, seeing the evil state they are in, being deprived of all hopes of salvation while they are out of the Church, may desire to be restored to grace, from which they are fallen, that they may work out their salvation with more fear for the time to come.

But here I must take notice of one thing that often hinders the Discipline of the Church from having this good effect upon sinners. They are apt to say, If I am shut out of this Church I can go to another. Why, has more Churches than one ? Is divided ? saith the Apostle. Do not all Christians profess to believe one holy, Apostolic Church ? And is not this Church a member of that holy Church? And have not the Ministers of here the same authority from their  and, as any other Christian Bishop; namely, the authority of binding, and loosing? And will not our sentence, when we proceed according to the rules which  hath given us, be


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 Rh went from the Capes of Virginia to Rio in 35 days and returned in 40 days, by following Maury's directions. This created considerable interest in the new charts, and the number of those willing to cooperate in the new research on the sea constantly increased from year to year. Maury had long looked forward to the prospect of no longer being compelled to search through cartloads of manuscripts and dusty log books, kept in years gone by without system and with little or no regard to the facts which he wished to obtain from them, but of having as co-laborers a thousand or more vessels every year engaged in collecting exactly the information required so that it would come to his hands precisely in the form in which it was desired. In this he was not to be disappointed for by the close of the year 1848 he was able to write that his charts were eagerly sought by navigators and that some five or six thousand of them had been distributed during the year to American shipmasters. By no means all of these navigators kept their part of the agreement and sent in to Maury their abstract logs properly filled out; but enough data kept coming in to keep his staff of helpers constantly at work turning out his various charts. By 1851, he could write that more than one thousand ships in all the oceans were observing for him, and that enough material had been collected from abstract logs to make two hundred large manuscript volumes each averaging from two thousand to three thousand days' observations.

These "Wind and Current Charts" included Track Charts, Trade Wind Charts, Pilot Charts, Thermal Charts, Storm and Rain Charts, and Whale Charts. The Track Charts showed the frequented parts of the

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 in Heaven? If so, what advantage will a sinner get by going to another society, if after all shall confirm the sentence of his former Pastor? And for want of being reconciled by Him, shall shut him out of Heaven?

It is true, our Lord hath not given us any power to compel men by outward force, either to come into, or to continue in His Church; but will people for this reason despise the power which has given us? They will hardly do so, if they know what St. Paul hath said upon this: "The weapons we use," saith he, "are not carnal, but mighty through ;" that is,  can humble the stoutest sinner, and make the power of His ministers effectual, when they use their power for His glory, and according to His will.

You see, good Christians, that we take upon us no authority but what has given us; what His Apostles exercised, and what we are bound by our most solemn vows to exercise.

Every Bishop, for instance, at his consecration, solemnly promises, that he will correct and punish disobedient and criminous persons within his diocese, according to such authority as he has by word. What authority he has by Word, you have already heard; and all serious Christians must acknowledge, that we should become adversaries to ourselves, to our Church, and our country, if we should suffer  discipline to fall into decay, while we are warranted and bound, both by the laws of  and this land, to exercise it; especially when vices of this kind begin to grow upon us.

Only let us take care that we use this authority as the Apostle directs, for edification, and not for destruction.

And if we must be forced to shut this unhappy person out of the Church, let it be with the same compassion and reluctancy that a father turns his rebellious son out of his house, not with a design that he should starve and be lost for ever; but that being made sensible of the misery of being out of his father's house, he


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 56 and the force and direction of the latter at different seasons of the year. The Trade Wind Charts gave the limits, extent, and general characteristics of the trade wind regions, together with their neighboring zones of calms. The Pilot Charts showed in every square of fifteen degrees the direction of the wind for sixteen points of the compass that would probably be found in that square during each month of the year, the results being based upon the number of times the wind was reported to have been from that direction in former years. The Thermal Charts recorded the temperature of the surface of the ocean wherever and whenever it had been observed, the different temperatures being distinguished by colors and symbols in such a manner that mere inspection of the chart showed the temperature for any month. The Storm and Rain Charts demonstrated in every square of five degrees the number of observations that had been made for each month, the number of days in which there had been rain, a calm, fog, lightning and thunder, or a storm and the quarter from which it had blown. The Whale Charts, finally, showed where whales were most hunted, in what years and months they had been most frequently found, whether in shoals or as stragglers, and whether sperm or right whales.

Though the coöoperation which Maury enjoyed was an extensive one, he was still not satisfied, and as early as 1851 he conceived the idea of a universal system of meteorological observations on both land and sea. Through the advice of British scientists, he decided to confine his system, for the time being, only to the sea, though he was afterwards to regret such a curtailment of his original scheme. With the authority of Secretary of the Navy William A. Graham, to whom Maury was

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 may more earnestly desire to return and be received into favour, and become a more dutiful child for the time to come.

has infinite expedients to bring back sinners that are gone away from Him. We know how the prodigal son was brought to a sense of his condition by the miseries he met with when he was from under his father's care. How David's eyes were opened by a parable. How Manasseh became an instance of repentance, when in bonds. And we should not despair, but be confident rather that will bless His own institutions in the hands of us His ministers, for the good of all such persons as draw these censures upon themselves. And it will be far from being severity to them, if by these means they may be brought to a sense of their evil condition, and "their souls saved in the day of the ."

This is the design of Church censures; and that they may have this good effect, the Apostle has given directions to all Christians not to accompany with such, that they may be ashamed. And our holy Church in her Articles, as you will find it in the thirty-third Article of the Church of England, has declared in these words: That person which by open denunciation of the Church is rightly cut off from the unity of the Church, and excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithful, as a heathen and publican, until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the Church by a judge that hath authority thereunto.

Pursuant to which Article, the Church in the eighty-fifth Canon appoints, that all persons excommunicated, and so denounced, be kept out of the church by the churchwardens.

And in the sixty-fifth Canon directs, That all such as stand lawfully excommunicated, shall every six months be openly denounced and declared excommunicate; that others may be thereby admonished to refrain their company and society, &c.

As for any temporal penalties or incapacities which an excommunicate person may be exposed to; these do not properly belong


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 Section 169

The process of constitutional amendment may not be initiated in time of war or under any of the states considered in section 116.

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The Constitution protects and respects the historic rights of the territories with traditional charters (fueros). The general updating of historic rights shall be carried out, where appropriate, within the framework of the Constitution and of the Statutes of Autonomy.

Two

The provision of section 12 of this Constitution regarding the coming of age, shall not be prejudicial to cases in which traditional charters are applicable within the sphere of private law.

Three

Any change in the financial and tax system of the Canary Islands shall require a previous report from the Self-governing Community or, as the case may be, from the provisional self-government body.

Four

In Self-governing Communities where more than one Court of Appeal (Audiencia Territorial) holds jurisdiction, the Statutes of Autonomy may maintain the existing Courts and share out jurisdiction among them, provided this is done in accordance with the provisions of the Organic Act on the Judicial Power and in conformity with the unity and independence of the latter.

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