Note 341 — JULNAR THE SEA-BORN AND HER SON KING BADR BASIM OF PERSIA.

I have already noted that the heroes and heroines of Eastern love-tales are always bonnes fourchettes: they eat and drink hard enough to scandalise the sentimental amourist of the West; but it is understood that this abundant diet is necessary to qualify them for the Herculean labours of the love night.