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

Note 13 — CONTENTS OF THE NINTH VOLUME.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

i.e. Weevil’s dung; hence Suez = Suways the little weevil, or “little Sus” from the Maroccan town: see The Mines of Midian p. 74 for a note on the name. Near Gibraltar is a fiumara called Guadalajara i.e. Wady al-Khara, of dung. “Bartús” is evidently formed “on the weight” of “Bartút;” and his metonym is a caricature, a chaff fit for Fellahs.

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