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

Note 351 — THE TALE OF THE KAZI AND THE BHANG-EATER.[224] (continued 3)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

The man was therefore in hiding for some crime. [The MS. has “lá tafzah-ní” = Do not rend my reputation, etc. I would, therefore, translate “Sáhib-há” by “her lover,” and suggest that the crime in question is simply what the French call “conversation criminelle.”—St.]

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