Identifier: plainliteraltran07burt (find matches)
Title: A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights' entertainments now entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890
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Publisher: (s.l.) : Printed by the Burton Club for private subscribers only
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d and none will know who threw him in.And Siran bade the Marid take Gharib and cast him into Jayhun river. And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say. tNToh) fo^en it foas \\i ^fx ;^untJ«lr antr ^cb£nt2=scconb Nigj^t, She resumed. It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that theMarid took Gharib and carried him to the Jayhun purposing tocast him therein, but it was grievous to him to drown him, where-fore he made a raft of wood and binding it with cords, pushed itout (and Gharib thereon) into the current, which carried it away.Thus fared it with Gharib ; but as regards his people, when theyawoke in the morning and went in to do their service to theirKing, they found him not and seeing his rosary on the throne,awaited him awhile, but he came not. So they sought out thehead Chamberlain and said to him, Go into the Harim and lookfor the King: for it is not his habit to tarry till this time.Accordingly, the Chamberlain entered the Serraglio and enquired 4
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A ■OK The History of Gkarih and his Brother Ajib, jy for the King, but the women said, Since yesterday we have notseen him. Thereupon he returned and told the Officers, whowere confounded and said, Let us see if he have gone to take hispleasure in the gardens. Then they went out and questioned thegardeners if they had seen the King, and they answered, No; *whereat they were sore concerned and searched all the garths tillthe end of the day, when they returned in tears. Moreover, thetwo Marids sought for him all round the city, but came backafter three days, without having happened on any tidings of him.So the people donned black and made their complaint to theLord of all worshipping men who doth as he is fain. Mean-while, the current bore the raft along for five days till it broughtit to the salt sea, where the waves disported with Gharib and hisstomach, being troubled, threw up the Bhang. Then he openedhis eyes and finding himself in the midst of the main, a playthingof the billows,

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