Kim (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) - Rudyard Kipling [164]
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Town 35 miles northeast of Ambala.
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Reference to Shakespeare’s Othello (act 5, scene 2) : “I have done the state some service.”
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The Woman of Shamlegh was the heroine of an earlier story by Kipling, “Lispeth” (1888), in which she became Westernized and was jilted by an Englishman.
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Mountain pass through the Himalayas near Chamba, in Kashmir.
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Source of the Ganges River, in the Himalayas, near the Chinese border.
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Square cloth head covers.
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Acute infectious fever.
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Emperor of Rome, A.D. 79-81.
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Allusion to Shakespeare’s Hamlet (act 1, scene 5): “Murder most foul.”
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That is, in articulo mortis: at the moment of death (Latin).
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Potentially (Latin).
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City 40 miles northeast of Delhi.
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That is, Pashto, native language of Afghanistan.
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Reference to al-Barak (Lightning), winged steed that took Mohammed from Mecca to Jerusalem, up to the presence of Allah in heaven and back again.