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

Note 366 — THE TALE OF THE KAZI AND THE BHANG-EATER.[224] (continued 3)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

[In the MS. “lawá ’a-hu” for which Sir Richard conjectures the reading “lawwaha-hu” taking the pronoun to refer to the sword. I believe, however, the word to be a clerical error for our old acquaintance “láwa’a-hu” (see supra p. 266) and, referring the pronoun in the three verbs to the Lion, would translate: “and he worried him,” etc.—St.]

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