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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 thereon, to take rest and smell the air,——And Shahrazad perceived
the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.


       Now when it was the Five Hundred and Thirty-seventh Night,

She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the Hammal
set his load upon the bench to take rest and smell the air, there came
out upon him from the court-door a pleasant breeze and a delicious
fragrance. He sat down on the edge of the bench, and at once heard from
within the melodious sound of lutes and other stringed instruments, and
mirth-exciting voices singing and reciting, together with the song of