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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6) Part 1

Note 9 — THE TALE OF ZAYN AL-ASNAM. (ARABIC.)

Richard Francis Burton translation

Galland persistently writes “Balsorah,” a European corruption common in his day, the childhood of Orientalism in Europe. The Hindostani versions have “Bansrá,” which is worse.

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