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

Note 88 — KING JALI’AD OF HIND AND HIS WAZIR SHIMAS; FOLLOWED BY THE HISTORY OF KING WIRD KHAN, SON OF KING JALI’AD, WITH HIS WOMEN AND WAZIRS.[55]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

The prison according to the practice of the East being in the palace: so the Moorish “Kasbah,” which lodges the Governor and his guard, always contains the jail.

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