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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 4 (of 6)

Note 306 — THE TALE OF THE KAZI AND THE BHANG-EATER.[224] (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

This is conjectural: the text has a correction which is hardly legible. [I read: “Wa lákin hú ajmalu min-hum bi-jamálin mufritin, lakinnahu matrúdun hú wa ummu-hu” = “and yet he was more beautiful than they with surpassing beauty, but he was an outcast, he and his mother,” as an explanation, by way of parenthesis, for their daring to treat him so shamefully.—St.]

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