The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 · Richard Francis Burton translation

Note 373
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

Now a Railway Station on the Alexandria-Cairo line.

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…et under which were his saddle-bags. When this was done he said to his pages and slaves, "I purpose going forth a-pleasuring outside the city on the road to Kalyub-town, [FN#373] and I shall lie three nights abroad; so let none of you follow me, for there is something straiteneth my breast." Then he mounted the mule in haste; and, taking with him some provaunt for the way, set out from Cairo and faced the open and uncultivated…

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