Note 411 — ALI NUR AL-DIN AND MIRIAM THE GIRDLE-GIRL.[376]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
“Coffee” is here evidently an anachronism and was probably inserted by the copyist. See vol. v. 169, for its first mention. But “Kahwah” may have preserved its original meaning = strong old wine (vol. ii. 261); and the amount of wine-drinking and drunkenness proves that the coffee movement had not set in.