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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 (of 10)

Note 241 — ABU MOHAMMED HIGHT LAZYBONES.

Richard Francis Burton translation

The name is apparently imaginary; and a little below we find that it was close to Jinn-land. China was very convenient for this purpose: the medieval Moslems, who settled in considerable numbers at Canton and elsewhere, knew just enough of it to know their own ignorance of the vast empire. Hence the Druzes of the Libanus still hold that part of their nation is in the depths of the Celestial Empire.

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