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[FN#117] An Arab holds that he has a right to marry his first

cousin, the daughter of his father's brother, and if any win her

from him a death and a blood-feud may result. It was the same in

a modified form amongst the Jews and in both races the

consanguineous marriage was not attended by the evil results

(idiotcy, congenital deafness, etc.) observed in mixed races like

the English and the Anglo-American. When a Badawi speaks of "the

daughter of my uncle" he means wife; and the former is the dearer

title, as a wife can be divorced, but blood is thicker than

water.

[FN#118] Arab. "Kahbah;" the coarsest possible term. Hence the

unhappy "Cava" of Don Roderick the Goth, which simply means The

Whore.