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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 347 — THE CAIRENE YOUTH, THE BARBER, AND THE CAPTAIN.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

In text “Shá’il” copyist’s error for “Shághil,” act. part. of “Shughl” = business, affairs. [Here it stands probably for the fuller “Shughl shághil,” an urgent business.—St.]

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