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

Note 517 — THE MERCHANT’S DAUGHTER AND THE PRINCE OF AL-IRAK[498]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

In text “Yarjú,” I presume an error for “yarja’u.” [I believe “yarju” is an error for “yajrú,” and the various paces to which they put their horses are meant: sometimes they galloped (ramahú), sometimes they trotted (Pedro de Alcala gives “trotar” for “jará yajrí”), sometimes they ambled (yasírú).—St.]

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