Note 373 — THE TALE OF THE KAZI AND THE BHANG-EATER.[224] (continued 3)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The text, which is wholly unedited, reads “He found the beasts and their loads (? the camels) and the learned men,” &c. A new form of “bos atque sacerdos” and of place pour les ânes et les savans, as the French soldiers cried in Egypt when the scientists were admitted into the squares of infantry formed against the doughty Mameluke Cavalry.