hamal

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• The star was called Hamal by the Arabs, signifying a sheep, and the animal is represented as looking backwards.

• A hamal's carrying capacity may therefore be expressed, after this experience, as equal to a half horse-power.

• The Pasha told the Hamal to go away and come back in a week; in the meantime he would see what he could do for him.

• She whispered to me, after the play: "Isidore and Alfred de Hamal are both here!"

• Hamal lies near the path of the moon, and is one of the stars from which longitude is reckoned.