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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 (of 10)

Note 277 — JUDAR[257] AND HIS BRETHREN.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

This is always specified, for respectable men go out of town on horse-back, never on “foot-back,” as our friends the Boers say. I have seen a Syrian put to sore shame when compelled by politeness to walk with me, and every acquaintance he met addressed him, “Anta Zalamah!”—What! afoot!

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