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

Volume 14 — Story of the Sultan of Al-yaman and His Three Sons.

Richard Francis Burton translation

P. 9.—The hippopotamus has also been observed, at the Zoological Gardens, to scatter his dung in the manner described.

P. 13.—It is evident from the importance which the author attaches to good birth and heredity, that he would hardly approve of the Socialistic custom, so prevalent in the East, of raising men of low birth to important offices of State.

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