Then he went up to the gate and saw within a great flower-garden wherein were pages and black slaves and such a train of servants and attendants and so forth as is found only with Kings and Sultans and his nostrils were greeted with the savoury odours of all manner meats rich and delicate, and delicious and generous wines. 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 birds warbling and glorifying Almighty Allah in various tunes and tongues turtles, mocking-birds, merles, nightingales, cushats and stonecurlews, whereat he marvelled in himself and was moved to mighty joy and solace. 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. 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. 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. 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, one in poor case who bore burdens on his head for hire. Sindbad The Seaman and Sindbad The Landsman. The Book Of The THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT The History of Gharib and His Brother Ajib The Debauchee and the Three-Year-Old Child z. The Sandal-Wood Merchant and the Sharpers y. Prince Behram and the Princess Al-Datma v. The Three Wishes, or the Man Who Longed to see the Night of Power s.
The Page Who Feigned to Know the Speech of Birds q. The King's Son and the Merchant's Wife p. The Man who Never Laughed Duing the Rest of His Days o. The Goldsmith and the Cashmere Singing-Girl n. The Wife's Device to Cheat her Husband m. The Wazir's Son and the Hamman-Keeper's Wife l. The Woman Who Made Her Husband Sift Dust j. The Rake's Trick Against the Chaste Wife e. The Confectioner, His Wife and the Parrot c. The Seventh Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman The Seventh Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman (according to the Calcutta Edition) 134. The Sixth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman g. The Fifth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman f. The Fourth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman e. The Third Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman d. The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman c.
The First Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman b. Sindbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman a. I Inscribe This Volume To My Old And Valued Correspondent, I Whose Debt I Am Deep, Professor Aloys Sprenger (of Heidelberg), Arabist, Philosopher and Friend. Burton VOLUME SIX Privately Printed By The Burton Club THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments Translated and Annotated by Richard F.