The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night/Volume 3
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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 III.
BY
Richard F. Burton
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PRINTED BY THE BURTON CLUB FOR PRIVATE SUBSCRIBERS ONLY
Bassorah Edition
Limited to one thousand numbered sets of which this is
Number 367
Inscribed to the Memory
of
A Friend
Who During A Friendship of Twenty-Six Years Ever Showed Me The Most Unwearied Kindness
Richard Monckton Milnes
Baron Houghton.
CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME
CONTINUATION OF THE TALE OF KING OMAR BIN AL-NU'UMAN AND HIS SONS SHARRKAN AND ZAU AL-MAKAN.
aa. Continuation of The Tale of Aziz and Azizah ..1
ab. Conclusion of the Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu'uman and his Sons Sharrkan and Zau al-Makan...48
b. Tale of the Hashish-Eater ... 91
c. Tale of Hammad the Badawi ... 104
1. THE BIRDS AND BEASTS AND THE CARPENTER ... 114
(Lane, II. 52-59. The Fable of the Peacock and Peahen, the Duck, the Young Lion, the Ass, the Horse, the Camel, and the Carpenter, etc.)
2 THE HERMITS ... 125
3. THE WATER-FOWL AND THE TORTOISE ... 129
4. THE WOLF AND THE FOX ... 132
(Lane, II, 59-69. The Fable of the Fox and the Wolf.)
a. Tale of the Falcon and the Partridge ... 138
5. THE MOUSE AND THE ICHNEUMON ... 147
6. THE CAT AND THE CROW ... 149
7. THE FOX AND THE CROW ... 150
a. The Flea and the Mouse ... I51
b. The Saker and the Birds ... 154
c. The Sparrow and the Eagle ... 155
8. THE HEDGEHOG AND THE WOOD PIGEONS .... 156
a. The Merchant and the Two Sharpers ... 158
9. THE THIEF AND HIS MONKEY ... 159
a. The Foolish Weaver ... ib.
10. THE SPARROW AND THE PEACOCK . . . . . .161
11. ALI BIN BAKKAR AND SHAMS AL-NAHAR ... 162
(Lane, Vol. II., Chapt. ix. Story of Alee the Son of Bakkar, and Shams en-Nahar, p. l.)
12. TALE OF KAMAR, AL-ZAMAN ... 212
(Lane, Chapt. x. Story of the Prince Kamar ez-Zeman and the Princess Budur, p. 78 and ibid. p. I49.
Story of the Two Princes El-Amjad and El-As'ad, p. 149.)