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

Note 10 — NI’AMAH BIN AL-RABI’A AND NAOMI HIS SLAVE-GIRL.

Richard Francis Burton translation

Cufa (Kufah) being a modern place never had a “King,” but as the Hindu says, “Delhi is far”—it is a far cry to Loch Awe. Here we can hardly understand “Malik” as Governor or Viceroy: can it be syn. with Zú-mál (moneyed)?

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