Note 224 — ABU KIR THE DYER AND ABU SIR THE BARBER.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Meaning that if the trick had been discovered the Captain would have taken the barber’s place. We have seen (vol. i. 63) the Prime Minister superintending the royal kitchen and here the Admiral fishes for the King’s table. It is even more naïve than the Court of Alcinöus.