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

Note 552 — THE MERCHANT’S DAUGHTER AND THE PRINCE OF AL-IRAK[498]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

In the text “on account of the dust-cloud” which, we were just told, had cleared away. [The translator seems to have overlooked the “kána” before “kad dákhala-hu al-Ra’b,” which gives to the verb the force of a pluperfect: “and fear had entered into him at the sight of the dust-cloud.”—St.]

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