A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 06 (of 17)

Sir Richard Francis Burton

CONTENTS OF THE SIXTH VOLUME.

SINDBAD THE SEAMAN [1] AND SINDBAD THE LANDSMAN.

THE CITY OF BRASS. [104]

CRAFT AND MALICE OF WOMEN, [153] OR THE TALE OF THE KING, HIS SON, HIS CONCUBINE AND THE SEVEN WAZIRS.

JUDAR [257] AND HIS BRETHREN.

HISTORY OF GHARIB AND HIS BROTHER AJIB. [312]

INDEX.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

Transcriber's Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

لا لابرار كلّ شي تبر

“TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE.”

(“The pleasure we derive from perusing the Thousand-and-One Stories makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively small part of these truly enchanting fictions.”

—Crichton’s “History of Arabia.”

A PLAIN AND LITERAL TRANSLATION OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. NOW ENTITULED

THE BOOK OF THE
Thousand Nights and a Night

WITH INTRODUCTION EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF MOSLEM MEN AND A TERMINAL ESSAY UPON THE HISTORY OF THE NIGHTS

VOLUME VI.

RICHARD F. BURTON

PRINTED BY THE BURTON CLUB FOR PRIVATE SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

Shammar Edition

Limited to one thousand numbered sets, of which this is

Number 547

Printed in U. S. A.

I INSCRIBE THIS VOLUME

TO MY OLD AND VALUED CORRESPONDENT,

IN WHOSE DEBT I AM DEEP,

PROFESSOR ALOYS SPRENGER

(OF HEIDELBERG),

ARABIST, PHILOSOPHER AND FRIEND.

R. F. BURTON.

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THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night WITH INTRODUCTION EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF MOSLEM MEN AND A TERMINAL ESSAY UPON THE HISTORY OF THE NIGHTS VOLUME VI.

THE BOOK OF THE
Thousand Nights and a Night

WITH INTRODUCTION EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF MOSLEM MEN AND A TERMINAL ESSAY UPON THE HISTORY OF THE NIGHTS

VOLUME VI.