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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 (of 10)

Note 507 — ABDULLAH BIN FAZIL AND HIS BROTHERS[476]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

The familiar and far-famed Napoleonic pose, with the arms crossed over the breast, is throughout the East the attitude assumed by slave and servant in presence of his master. Those who send statues to Anglo-India should remember this.

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