Note 310 — JULNAR THE SEA-BORN AND HER SON KING BADR BASIM OF PERSIA.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The Mac. Edit. misprints Julnár as Julnáz (so the Bul. Edit. ii. 233), and Lane’s Jullanár is an Egyptian vulgarism. He is right in suspecting the “White City” to be imaginary; but its sea has no apparent connection with the Caspian. The mermen and mermaids appear to him to be of an inferior order of the Jinn, termed Al-Ghawwásah, the Divers, who fly through air and are made of fire which at times issues from their mouths.