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

Note 141
The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad.

From Oman = Eastern Arabia.

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…man wisheth." He again hoisted up the crate and followed her; till she stopped at a fruiterer's shop and bought from him Shami[FN#140] apples and Osmani quinces and Omani[FN#141] peaches, and cucumbers of Nile growth, and Egyptian limes and Sultani oranges and citrons; besides Aleppine jasmine, scented myrtle berries, Damascene nenuphars, flower of privet[FN#142] and camomile, blood red anemones, violets, and pomegranate bloom…

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