Note 1 — CHAP. II

: REINAUD notices the Ketab-ala-jayb, or "Book of Wonders," of MASSOUDI, as one of the works whence the materials of Sindbad's Voyages were drawn. (Introd. ABOULFEDA, vol. i. p. lxxvii.) HOLE published in 1797 A.D. his learned Remarks on the Origin of Sindbad's Voyages, and in that work, as well as in LANGLE'S edition of Sindbad; and in the notes by LANE to his version of the "Arabian Nights' Entertainment," Edrisi, Kazwini, and many other writers are mentioned whose works contain parallel statements. But though Edrisi and Kazwini wrote in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, it does not follow that the author of Sindbad lived later than they, as both may have borrowed their illustrations from the same early sources.