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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 (of 10)

Note 292 — KHALIF THE FISHERMAN OF BAGHDAD.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

The Egyptian Fellah knows nothing of boxing like the Hausá man; but he is fond of wrestling after a rude and uncultivated fashion, which would cause shouts of laughter in Cumberland and Cornwall. And there are champions in this line. See vol. iii. 93.

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