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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.Volume 1.by Richard F. Burton.Foreword.This work, labourious as it may appear, has been to me a labour of love, an unfailing source of solace and satisfaction. During my long years of official banishment to the
- 442 [FN#358] A clarum et venerabile nomen in Persia; meaning one of the Spirits that preside over beasts of burden; also a king in general, the P.N. of an ancient sovereign, etc.[FN#359] This is the older p.r.o.nunciation of the mod. (Khusrau) "Parvz"; and
- 441 [FN#321] The text has "But-Khanah" = idol-house (or room) syn.with "But-Kadah" = image-cuddy, which has been proposed as the derivation of the disputed "PaG.o.da." The word "Khnah" also appears in our balcony, origin. "balcony," through the Sout
- 440 [FN#281] For the diamond (Arab. "Alms" from {Greek}, and in Hind."Hra" and "Pann") see vols. vi. 15, i. ix. 325, and in latter correct, "Euritic," a misprint for "dioritic." I still cannot believe diamond-cutting to be an Indian art, and I must
- 439 [FN#239] The onager, confounded by our older travellers with the zebra, is the Gr-i-khr of Persia, where it is the n.o.blest game from which kings did not disdain to take a cognomen, e.g., Bahrm-i-Gr. It is the "wild a.s.s" of Jeremiah (ii. 24: xiv. 6).
- 438 [FN#195] In truly Oriental countries the Wazir is expected to know everything, and if he fail in this easy duty he may find himself in sore trouble.[FN#196] i.e. must he obeyed.[FN#197] We see that "China" was in those days the normal Oriental "despoti
- 437 [FN#154] Arab. Dahab ramli = gold dust washed out of the sand, placer-gold. I must excuse myself for using this Americanism, properly a diluvium or deposit of sand, and improperly (Bartlett) a find of drift gold. The word, like many mining terms in the Fa
- 436 [FN#112] Arab. Ban Adam, as opposed to Ban Elohim (Sons of the G.o.ds), B. al-Jnn etc The Ban al-Asfar = sons of the yellow, are Esau's posterity in Edom, also a term applied by Arab historians to the Greeks and Romans whom Jewish fable derived from Idum
- 435 [FN#69] i.e. blood is thicker than water, as the Highlanders say.[FN#70] A popular saying amongst Moslems which has repeatedly occurred in The Nights. The son is the "lamp of a dark house."Vol. ii 280.[FN#71] Out of respect to his brother, who was proba
- 434 [FN#35] In the text "Ymin," a copyist's error, which can mean nothing else but "Yasimn."[FN#36] The H. V. rejects this detail for "a single piece of mother-o'-pearl twelve yards long," etc. Galland has une seule ecaille de poisson. In my friend M.
- 433 The Tale of Prince Ahmad.Though my paper on this tale is of considerable length, it would perhaps have been deemed intolerably long had I cited all the versions of the first part-- the quest of the most wonderful thing--which are current in Europe, for it
- 432 ICELANDIC VERSION.Not very far from a town where dwelt the king lived once upon a time a farmer.He was well to do and had three daughters; the eldest was twenty years of age, the two others younger, but both marriageable. Once, when they were walking outs
- 431 Through the Moors, perhaps, the story found its way among the wandering tribes (the Kabail) of Northern Africa, who have curiously distorted its chief features, though not beyond recognition, as will be seen from the following abstract of their version, f
- 430 This pavilion he also receives from the fairies, and it was much finer and richer than the first. His brother's demands rise when he sees that the hero does not find any difficulty in satisfying him. He now commands that a column of iron 12 cubits (bracc
- 429 A poor woodcutter, about to fell a beech at the back of the scattered ruins of the castle of Dummburg, seeing a monk approach slowly through the forest, hid himself behind a tree. The monk pa.s.sed by and went among the rocks. The woodcutter stole cautiou
- 428 Another tale in the Pandit's collection (No. 4) informs us that once upon a time in a town named Vajaimnagar there ruled a king named Sivchar. He was a most just king and ruled so well that no stone thrown up fell down, no crow pecked at the new-drawn mi
- 427 "This is the tradition of the inhabitants, as it was told me there. And in testimony thereof, there was then his picture, with his wife and three children, in every window of the aisle, with an inscription running through the bottom of all those windows,
- 426 Albeit the place is not worthy of the Shahinshah's exalted presence, yet at times do mighty Kings condescend to visit the huts of their slaves." The King, ever more and more enchanted with their comeliness and pleasant speech, vouchsafed a most gracious
- 425 Then said she:--I have heard, O auspicious King, that at these words of the Shah the sisters, confused and filled with shame, durst not reply but stood before him silent with heads bent low; and despite all questioning and encouragement they could not plu
- 424 The end of the Six Hundred and Fifty-sixth Night.Then said she:--I have heard, O auspicious King, that Peri-Banu joyed with exceeding joy at the sight of Prince Ahmad as he returned to his home; and it seemed to her as though they had been parted for thre
- 423 The end of the Six Hundred and Forty-second Night.Then said she:--I have heard, O auspicious King, that the two boys who played the parts of oil-merchants pretended to take some berries from the jar and taste them and presently they said, "O our lord the
- 422 Then said she:--I have heard, O auspicious King, that Kasim gave up all hope of the life which he by his greed and envy had so sore imperilled. It came to pa.s.s that at noontide the robbers, returning by that way, saw from afar some mules standing beside
- 421 Then said she:--I have heard, O auspicious King, that Sidi Nu'uman continued his story saying:--When I had secured the mare, I loaded her with reproaches for her wickedness and her base behaviour, and lashed her with a whip till my forearm was tired.[FN#
- 420 Then said she:--I have heard, O auspicious King, that after this the King and his Queen and daughter-in-law sat long conversing, and they marvelled much how Khudadad, albeit he was sorely gashed and pierced with the sword, had escaped alive from that wild
- 419 Quoth Dunyazad, "O sister mine, an thou be other than sleepy, do tell us some of thy pleasant tales," whereupon Shahrazad replied, "With love and good will."--It hath reached me, O King of the Age, that the Maghrabi, the Necromancer, habited as Fatima
- 418 Quoth Dunyazad, "O sister mine, an thou be other than sleepy, do tell us some of thy pleasant tales." whereupon Shahrazad replied, "With love and good will."--It hath reached me, O King of the Age, that Alaeddin won for himself day by day a fairer fam
- 417 The marriage-feasts lasted throughout that day with Almahs[FN#148] and singers and the smiting of all manner instruments of mirth and merriment, while the Queen and the Wazir and his son strave right strenuously to enhance the festivities that the Princes
- 416 When it was the Five Hundred and Thirty-sixth Night, Quoth Dunyazad, O sister mine, an thou be other than sleepy, do tell us some of thy pleasant tales," whereupon Shahrazad replied, "With love and good will."--It hath reached me, O King of the Age, th
- 415 Quoth Dunyazad, "O sister mine, an thou be other than sleepy, do tell us some of thy pleasant tales," whereupon Shahrazad replied, "With love and good will."--It hath reached me, O King of the Age, that the Maroccan Magician fared forth next morning a
- 414 Supplemental Nights.Volume 13.by Sir Richard Francis Burton.Foreword.The peculiar proceedings of the Curators, Bodleian Library, 1 Oxford, of which full particulars shall be given in due time, have dislocated the order of my volumes. The Prospectus had pr
- 413 [FN#557] Inn. [FN#558] Hem: them. [FN#559] Chief of the army. [FN#560] I note: I know not. [FN#561] Nor. [FN#562] Place. [FN#563] That is by means of his hounds. [FN#564] A wood. [FN#565] Those. [FN#566] Her: their. [FN#567] Looks towards; attends to. [FN
- 412 [FN#509] So, too, in the "Bahar-i-Danish" a woman is described as being so able a professor in the school of deceit, that she could have instructed the devil in the science of stratagem: of another it is said that by her wiles she could have drawn the d
- 411 [FN#464] The practice of fumigating gugglets is universal in Egypt (Lane, M. E., chapt. v.); but I never heard of musk being so used.[FN#465] Arab. "Laysa fi 'l-diyari dayyar"--a favourite jingle.[FN#466] Arab. "Khayr Kathir" (p.r.o.n. Katir) which a
- 410 [FN#424] i.e. an thou prank or adorn thyself: I have translated literally, but the couplet strongly suggests "nonsense verses."[FN#425] Arab. "Santir:" Lane (M.E., chapt. xviii.) describes it as resembling the Kanun (dulcimer or zither) but with two o
- 409 [FN#376] Called from Rustak, a quarter of Baghdad. For Rustak town see vol. vi. 289.[FN#377] From Damietta comes our "dimity." The cla.s.sical name was Tamiathis apparently Coptic graecised: the old town on the sh.o.r.e famed in Crusading times was dest
- 408 [FN#330] In Arab. "'Ud" means primarily wood; then a lute. See vol. ii. 100. The Muezzin, like the schoolmaster, is popularly supposed to be a fool.[FN#331] I have noticed that among Arab lovers it was the fas.h.i.+on to be jealous of the mistress's n
- 407 [FN#282] See vol. i.85, for the traditional witchcraft of Babylonia.[FN#283] i.e. More or less thoroughly.[FN#284] i.e. "He who quitteth not his native country diverteth not himself with a sight of the wonders of the world."[FN#285] For similar sayings,
- 406 [FN#235] Sic in text xii. 20. It may be a misprint for Abu al-Tawaif, but it can also mean "O Shaykh of the Tribes (of Jinns)!"[FN#236] The capital of King Al-s.h.i.+sban.[FN#237] Arab "Fajj", the Spanish "Vega" which, however, means a mountain-plai
- 405 [FN#186] Slaves, male as well as female, are as fond of talking over their sale as European dames enjoy looking back upon the details of courts.h.i.+p and marriage.[FN#187] Arab. "Du'a,"=supplication, prayer, as opposed to 'Salat"=divine wors.h.i.+p,
- 404 [FN#142] i.e. "Choice gift of the Fools," a skit upon the girl's name "Tohfat al-Kulub"=Choice gift of the Hearts. Her folly consisted in refusing to be sold at a high price, and this is often seen in real life. It is a Pundonor amongst good Moslems
- 403 [FN#100] For this reedy Poa, see vol. ii. 18.[FN#101] I have repeatedly noticed that singing and all music are, in religious parlance, "Makruh," blameable though not actually d.a.m.nable; and that the first step after "getting religion" is to forswear
- 402 [FN#54] i.e. the "Basil(issa)," mostly a servile name, see vol.i. 19.[FN#55] Arab. "La'alla," used to express the hope or expectation of some event of possible occurrence; thus distinguished from "Layta"--Would heaven! utinam! O si! etc.-- expressi
- 401 [FN#8] These policemen's tales present a curious contrast with the detective stories of M. Gaboriau and his host of imitators.In the East the police, like the old Bow Street runners, were and are still recruited princ.i.p.ally amongst the criminal cla.s.
- 400 This is an excellent tale, the incidents occur naturally and the reader's interest in the fortunes of the hero and heroine never flags. The damsel's sojourn with the old Muezzin--her dispatching him daily to the shroff--bears some a.n.a.logy to part of
- 399 On comparing these several versions it will be seen that, while they differ one from another m some of the details, yet the fundamental outline is identical, with the single exception of the Tibetan story, which, in common with Tibetan tales generally, ha
- 398 A doleful sight then gan he see; His wife and children three Out of the fire were fled: There they sat, under a thorn, Bare and naked as they were born, Brought out of their bed.A woful man then was he, When he saw them all naked be, The lady said, all so
- 397 There was once a king who was noted throughout his dominions for daily boasting of his power and riches. His ministers at length became weary of this self-glorification, and one day when he demanded of them, as usual, whether there existed in the whole wo
- 396 A miser said to a friend, "I have now a thousand rupees, which I will bury out of the city, and I will not tell the secret to any one besides yourself." They went out of the city together, and buried the money under a tree. Some days after the miser wen
- 395 Meat and bread were set before the three brothers, and the prince went out. The eldest said, "The prince is a slave;" the second, "This is dog's flesh;" the youngest, "This bread has grown over the legs of a dead body." The prince heard them. He to
- 394 And away he went, furnished with a good cuira.s.s, a rapier, and a stiletto in his belt. He was no sooner on his way than the professor slipped out quietly after him, d.o.g.g.i.ng his steps closely, until, trembling with rage, he saw him stop at his own h
- 393 One day the eking had gone to the chase, and the palace remained void of rivals; so the mother called in her son, kissed his fair face, and told him the tale of her great sorrow. A chamberlain became aware of the secret and another suspicion fell upon him
- 392 THE SLEEPER AND THE WAKER--Vol. XI. p. 1.Few if the stories in the "Arabian Nights" which charmed our marvelling boyhood were greater favourites than this one, under the t.i.tle of "Abou Ha.s.san; or, the Sleeper Awakened." What recked we in those day
- 391 And twixt the dune and down there shows the fairest flower that blooms * Whose fruitage is granado's fruit with all granado's blee.[FN#435]Forget my lids of eyne their sleep for magic eyes of him; *Naught since he fared but drowsy charms and languorous
- 390 I wonder seeing how thy love to me * Inclined, while I in heart from love declined: Eke wast thou wont to say in verseful writ, * "Son of the Road[FN#408] no road to me shall find!How oft kings flocked to me with mighty men * And bales on back of Bukhti[
- 389 Thou art bold in the copy thou sentest! May be * 'Twill increase the dule foreign wight must dree!Thou hast spied me with glance that bequeaths thee woe * Ah! far is thy hope, a mere foreigner's plea!Who art thou, poor freke, that wouldst win my love *
- 388 Indeed, you've burdened weakling me, by strength and force of you * With load no hill hath power t'upheave nor yet the plain low li'en: And I, whenever fain I scent the breeze your land o'erbreathes, *Lose all my wits as though they were bemused with
- 387 "By the sheen of thy soul and the sheen of thy smile,[FN#297] *Say, moan'st thou for doubt or is't ring-dove's moan?How many have died who by love were slain! * Fails my patience but blaming my blamers wone."Now when she had made an end of her song,
- 386 So, when Maymun saw that which had betided him (and indeed the Jinn smote upon him and the wings of eternal severance overspread his host), he planted the heel of his lance in the earth and turning its head to his heart, urged his charger thereat and pres
- 385 Thereupon the Head wept exceeding sore and cried, "O my lady, indeed thou hast solaced my heart, and I have naught but my life; so take it." She replied, "Nay, an I but knew that thou wouldst bring me news of my lord Al-Ras.h.i.+d, 'twere fainer to me
- 384 "O mine eyes! I swear by him I adore, * Whom pilgrims seek thronging Arafat; An thou call my name on the grave of me, * I'll reply to thy call tho' my bones go rot: I crave none for friend of my heart save thee; * So believe me, for true are the well-b
- 383 A Merry Jest of a Clever Thief.A thief of the thieves of the Arabs went one night to a certain man's house, to steal from a heap of wheat there, and the people of the house surprised him. Now on the heap was a great copper ta.s.se, and the thief buried h
- 382 Supplemental Nights.Volume 2.by Richard F. Burton.AL-MALIK AL-ZAHIR RUKN AL-DIN BIBARS AL- BUNDUKDARI AND THE SIXTEEN CAPTAINS OF POLICE.[FN#1]There was once in the climes[FN#2] of Egypt and the city of Cairo, under the Turks, a king of the valiant kings
- 381 [FN#546] I have noted (i. 293) that Kamis ( , Chemise, Cameslia, Camisa) is used in the Hindostani and Bengali dialects.Like its synonyms praetexta and s.h.i.+ft, it has an equivocal meaning and here probably signifies the dress peculiar to Arab devotees
- 380 [FN#501] Arab. "Ihtida,"=divine direction to Huda or salvation.The old bawd was still dressed as a devotee, and keeps up the cant of her caste. No sensible man in the East ever allows a religious old woman to pa.s.s his threshold.[FN#502] In this tale
- 379 [FN#457] Arab. "Al-ajr" which has often occurred.[FN#458] Arab. "Hanut," i.e., leaves of the lotus-tree to be infused as a wash for the corpse; camphor used with cotton to close the mouth and other orifices; and, in the case of a wealthy man, rose-wat
- 378 [FN#409] This is a fancy t.i.tle, but it suits the tale better than that in the text (xi. 183) "The Richard who lost his wealth and his wits." Mr. Clouston refers to similar stories in Sacchetti and other early Italian novelists.[FN#410] Arab. "Al-Muwa
- 377 [FN#364] i.e. the resemblance of the supposed sister to his wife. This is a rechauffe of Kamar al-Zaman iid.[FN#365] This leaving a long lock upon the shaven poll is a very ancient practice: we find it amongst the old Egyptians. For the Shushah or top-kno
- 376 [FN#317] i.e. spare pegs and strings, plectra, thumb-guards, etc.[FN#318] Arab. "Hasir," the fine matting used for sleeping on during the hot season in Egypt and Syria.[FN#319] i.e. The bed where the "rough and tumble" had taken place.[FN#320] This wo
- 375 [FN#271] Third Abbaside, A.D. 775-785, vol. vii. 136; ix. 334.[FN#272] This reminds us of the Bir Al-Khatim (Well of the Signet) at Al-Medinah; in which Caliph Osman during his sixth year dropped from his finger the silver ring belonging to the founder of
- 374 [FN#227] Arab. "Nafas" lit.=breath. Arabs living in a land of caverns know by experience the danger of asphyxiation in such places.[FN#228] This simple tale is told with much pathos not of words but of sense.[FN#229] Arab. "Ajal"=the appointed day of
- 373 [FN#182] A fancy name intended to be Persian [FN#183] i.e. thy Harem, thy women.[FN#184] i.e. thy life hath been unduly prolonged.[FN#185] See Chavis and Cazotte, "Story of Ravia (Arwa!) the Resigned." Dadbin (Persian)=one who looks to justice, a name h
- 372 Jo jako paryo subhao jae na jio-sun; Nim na mitho hoe sichh gur ghio sun.Ne'er shall his nature fall a man whate'er that nature be, The Nim-tree bitter shall remain though drenched with Gur and Ghi.The Nim (Melia Azadirachta) is the "Persian lilac" wh
- 371 [FN#105] The poet means that unlike other fasters he eats meat openly. See Pilgrimage (i. 110), for the popular hypocrisy.[FN#106] Arab. "Batha" the lowlands and plains outside the Meccan Valley. See al-Mas'udi, vi. 157. Mr. (now Sir) W. Muir in his Li
- 370 [FN#61] "Kalb" here is not heart, but stomach. The big toes of the Moslem corpse are still tied in most countries, and in some a sword is placed upon the body; but I am not aware that a knife and sale (both believed to repel evil spirits) are so used in
- 369 [FN#12] Arab. "Ta'am," in Egypt and Somaliland = millet seed (Holcus Sorghum) cooked in various ways. In Barbary it is applied to the local staff of life, Kuskusu, wheaten or other flour damped and granulated by hand to the size of peppercorns, and las
- 368 and quoth Salim, "The cutting of gems and jewels." When the man heard this, he said to himself, "'Twill do me no hurt if I imprison him and fetter him and bring him that whereat he may work. An he tell truth, I will let him live, and if he prove a lia
- 367 The Tale of the King and his Chamberlain's Wife.[FN#488]There was once, in days of yore and in ages and times long gone before, a King of the kings of the Persians, who was much addicted to the love of fair women. His courtiers spoke him of the wife of a
- 366 and she questioned him of the new-born child, an it was male or female. Quoth he, "'Tis a girl;" and quoth she, "That girl will wh.o.r.e with an hundred men and a hireling shall wed her and a spider shall slay her." When the hired man heard this, he
- 365 Then he sat down again upon the throne of his kings.h.i.+p, whilst the Minister stood between his hands and they returned to their former estate, but they had naught of worldly wealth. Presently the king said to his Wazir, "How shall we continue tarrying
- 364 The Tale of the Simpleton Husband.[FN#371]There was once in olden time a foolish man and an ignorant, who had abounding wealth, and his wife was a beautiful woman, who loved a handsome youth. The Cicisbeo used to watch for her husband's absence and come
- 363 There came to a king of the kings, in his old age, a son, who grew up comely, quickwitted, clever: and, when he reached years of discretion and became a young man, his father said to him, "Take this realm and rule it in lieu of me, for I desire to flee f
- 362 "Ho thou, Sharik, O Amru-son is there fro' Death repair? * O brother to men brotherless, brother to all in care!O brother of Al-Nu'uman an old man this day spare, * An old man slain and Allah deign fair meed for thee prepare!"Quoth Sharik, "On me be
- 361 There was once a king named Sulayman Shah, who was goodly of policy and rede, and he had a brother who died and left a daughter; so Sulayman Shah reared her with the best of rearing and the girl became a model of reason and perfection, nor was there in he
- 360 Of Clemency.When it was the seventh day, the seventh Wazir, whose name was Bihkamal,[FN#205] came in to the king and prostrating himself to him, said, "O king, what doth thy long-suffering with this youth profit thee? Indeed the folk talk of thee and of
- 359 There was once a man, a village headman,[FN#165] Abu Sabir hight, and he had much black cattle and a buxom wife, who had borne him two sons. They abode in a certain hamlet and there used to come thither a lion and rend and devour Abu Sabir's herd, so tha
- 358 THE TEN WAZIRS: OR THE HISTORY OF KING AZADBAKHT AND HIS SON.[FN#130]There was once, of old days, a king of the kings, whose name was Azadbakht; his capital was hight Kunaym Madud[FN#131] and his kingdom extended to the confines of Sistan[FN#132] and from
- 357 Supplemental Nights.Volume 11.by Richard F. Burton.Foreword.After offering my cordial thanks to friends and subscribers who have honoured "The Thousand Nights and a Night" (Kama Shastra Society) with their patronage and approbation, I would inform them
- 356 [FN#451] This Fasilah is more accurately called sughra, the smaller one, there is another Fasilah kubra, the greater, consisting of four moved letters followed by a quiescent, or of a Sabab sakil followed by a Watad majmu'. But it occurs only as a variat
- 355 [FN#408] See Mantegazza loc. cit. who borrows from the These de Paris of Dr. Abel Hureau de Villeneuve, "Frictiones per coitum productae magnum mucosae membranae v.a.g.i.n.alis turgorem, ac simul hujus cuniculi coarctationem tam maritis salacibus quaerit
- 354 [FN#367] De la Femme, Paris, 1827.[FN#368] Die l.u.s.tseuche des Alterthum's, Halle, 1839.[FN#369] See his exhaustive article on (Grecian) "Paederastie" in the Allgemeine Encyclopaedie of Ersch and Gruber, Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1837. He carefully traces
- 353 [FN#332] I have elsewhere noted its strict conservatism which, however, it shares with all Eastern faiths in the East. But progress, not quietism, is the principle which governs humanity and it is favoured by events of most different nature. In Egypt the
- 352 [FN#295] My attention has been called to the resemblance between the half-lie and Job (i. 13- 19).[FN#296] Boccaccio (ob. Dec. 2, 1375), may easily have heard of The Thousand Nights and a Night or of its archetype the Hazar Afsanah. He was followed by the
- 351 "The good (fellow?) Haroun Alrasch'id,"a misp.r.o.nunciation which suggests only a rasher of bacon. Why will not poets mind their quant.i.ties, in lieu of stultifying their lines by childish ignorance? What can be more painful than Byron's "They laid
- 350 were first printed in 1724, 2 vols. in 12mo. Hence, I presume, Lowndes' mistake.[FN#214] M. Caussin (de Perceval), Professeur of Arabic at the Imperial Library, who edited Galland in 1806, tells us that he found there only two MSS., both imperfect. The f
- 349 [FN#170] The short paper by "P. R." in the Gentleman's Magazine (Feb. 19th, 1799, vol. lxix. p. 61) tells us that MSS. of The Nights were scarce at Aleppo and that he found only two vols.(280 Nights) which he had great difficulty in obtaining leave to
- 348 These are distributed into two sub-cla.s.ses; (a) the marvellous and purely imaginative (e.g. Jamasp and the Serpent Queen) and (b) the realistic mixed with instructive fables and moral instances. (2) The stories and anecdotes peculiarly Arab, relating to
- 347 [FN#83] Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, son of Al-Mu'tazz bi 'llah, the 13th Abbaside, and great-great-grandson of Harun al-Ras.h.i.+d. He was one of the most renowned poets of the third century (A.H.) and died A.D. 908, strangled by the partisans of his neph
- 346 [FN#38] Arab. "Wa la Kabbata hamiyah," a Cairene vulgarism meaning, "There came nothing to profit him nor to rid the people of him."[FN#39] Arab. "Kammir," i.e. brown it before the fire, toast it.[FN#40] It is insinuated that he had lied till he him
- 345 N.B.--In using this Table, some allowance must be made for differences in the t.i.tles of many of the tales in different editions.For the contents of the printed text, I have followed the lists in Mr. Payne's "Tales from the Arabic," vol. iii.And here
- 344 206. Story of the Bang-Eater and the Cauzee . . . |...|...| 6 | 3 | 6 |...|...|...|...|...|...|...|11 |...|...|...|...|...|...|...a. Story of the Bang-Eater and his wife . . |...|...| 6 | 3 | 6 |...|...|...|...|...|...|...|11 |...|...|...|...|...|...|...b
- 343 jj. Story of King Suleiman Shah and his Sons |...| 8 |...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...| + |...| 2 |...|...| I |...|...|...k. Of the speedy Relief of G.o.d . . . . . |...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...kk. Sto