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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 (of 10)

Note 577 — THE QUEEN OF THE SERPENTS.[507] (continued 3)

Richard Francis Burton translation

Arab. “Habash”: the word means more than “Abyssinia” as it includes the Dankali Country and the sea-board, a fact unknown to the late Lord Stratford de Redcliffe when he disputed with the Porte. I ventured to set him right and suffered accordingly.

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