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

Note 537 — THE MERCHANT’S DAUGHTER AND THE PRINCE OF AL-IRAK[498]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

In text “Kabdán,” the usual form being “Kaptan,” from the Ital. Capitano (iv. 85): here, however, we have the Turk. form as in “Kapúdán-pashá” = Lord High Admiral of ancient Osmanli-land.

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