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                   “TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE.”
                           (Puris omnia pura)

                                                        —_Arab Proverb._

          “Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole.”

                                            —“_Decameron_”—_conclusion_.

              “Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum
                  Sed coram Bruto. Brute! recede, leget.”

                                                             —_Martial._

            “Mieulx est de ris que de larmes escripre,
                Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes.”

                                                              —RABELAIS.

“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_.”

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_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.


                                   BY
                           RICHARD F. BURTON

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        PRINTED BY THE BURTON CLUB FOR PRIVATE SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

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                            Shammar Edition

Limited to one thousand numbered sets, of which this is

                              Number _547_




                          PRINTED IN U. S. A.

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                         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.




                     CONTENTS OF THE SIXTH VOLUME.


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 SINDBAD THE SEAMAN AND SINDBAD THE LANDSMAN                           1

 (_Lane, Vol. III., Chapt. XXII., Story of Es Sindbad of the Sea and Es
                    Sindbad of the Land. pp. 1–78._)

     _a._ THE FIRST VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SEAMAN                       4

     _b._ THE SECOND VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SEAMAN                     14

     _c._ THE THIRD VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SEAMAN                      22

     _d._ THE FOURTH VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SEAMAN                     34

     _e._ THE FIFTH VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SEAMAN                      48

     _f._ THE SIXTH VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SEAMAN                      58

     _g._ THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SEAMAN                    68

          THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SEAMAN (_according to     78
            the version of the Calcutta Edition_)


 THE CITY OF BRASS                                                    83

    (_Lane, Vol. III., Chapt. XXIII. Story of the City of Brass. pp.
                               118–152._)


 THE CRAFT AND MALICE OF WOMAN                                       122

  (_Lane, Vol. III., Chapt. XXI., Abstract of the Story of the King and
      his Son and the Damsel and the Seven Wezeers. pp. 158–183._)

     _a._ THE KING AND HIS WAZIR’S WIFE                              129

     _b._ THE CONFECTIONER, HIS WIFE, AND THE PARROT                 132

     _c._ THE FULLER AND HIS SON                                     134

     _d._ THE RAKE’S TRICK AGAINST THE CHASTE WIFE                   135

     _e._ THE MISER AND THE LOAVES OF BREAD                          137

     _f._ THE LADY AND HER TWO LOVERS                                138

     _g._ THE KING’S SON AND THE OGRESS                              139

     _h._ THE DROP OF HONEY                                          142

     _i._ THE WOMAN WHO MADE HER HUSBAND SIFT DUST                   143

     _j._ THE ENCHANTED SPRING                                       145

     _k._ THE WAZIR’S SON AND THE HAMMAM-KEEPER’S WIFE               150

     _l._ THE WIFE’S DEVICE TO CHEAT HER HUSBAND                     152

     _m._ THE GOLDSMITH AND THE CASHMERE SINGING-GIRL                156

     _n._ THE MAN WHO NEVER LAUGHED DURING THE REST OF HIS DAYS      160

     _o._ THE KING’S SON AND THE MERCHANT’S WIFE                     167

     _p._ THE PAGE WHO FEIGNED TO KNOW THE SPEECH OF BIRDS           169

     _q._ THE LADY AND HER FIVE SUITORS                              172

     _r._ THE THREE WISHES, OR THE MAN WHO LONGED TO SEE THE NIGHT   180
            OF POWER

     _s._ THE STOLEN NECKLACE                                        182

     _t._ THE TWO PIGEONS                                            183

     _u._ PRINCE BEHRAM AND THE PRINCESS AL-DATMA                    184

     _v._ THE HOUSE WITH THE BELVEDERE                               188

     _w._ THE KING’S SON AND THE IFRIT’S MISTRESS                    199

     _x._ THE SANDAL-WOOD MERCHANT AND THE SHARPERS                  202

     _y._ THE DEBAUCHEE AND THE THREE-YEAR-OLD CHILD                 208

     _z._ THE STOLEN PURSE                                           209

     _aa._ THE FOX AND THE FOLK                                       211

 JUDAR AND HIS BRETHREN                                              213

     (_Lane, Vol. III, Chapt. XXII., Story of Joodar. pp. 183–233._)

 THE HISTORY OF GHARIB AND HIS BROTHER AJIB                          257




            SINDBAD THE SEAMAN[1] AND SINDBAD THE LANDSMAN.


There lived in the city of Baghdad, during the reign of the Commander of
the Faithful, Harun al-Rashid, a man named Sindbád the Hammál,[2] one in
poor case who bore burdens on his head for hire. It happened to him one
day of great heat that whilst he was carrying a heavy load, he became
exceeding weary and sweated profusely, the heat and the weight alike
oppressing him. Presently, as he was passing the gate of a merchant’s
house, before which the ground was swept and watered, and there the air
was temperate, he sighted a broad bench beside the door; so he set his
load