Note 376
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.
An outlying village on the "Long Desert," between Cairo and Palestine.
…ual. He bought at Bilbays all he wanted for himself and forage for his mule and then fared on the way of the waste. Towards night-fall he entered a town called Sa'adiyah [FN#376] where he alighted and took out somewhat of his viaticum and ate; then he spread his strip of silk on the sand and set the saddle-bags under his head and slept in the open air; for he was still overcome with anger. When morning dawned he mounted and ro…
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