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. Burton

VOLUME SEVEN

Privately Printed By The Burton Club

I Inscribe these pages
to
An Old And Valued Friend,

John W. Larking
(Whilome of Alexandria).

In Whose Hospitable Home (“The Sycamores”) I Made My Final
Preparations For A Pilgrimage To Meccah
and El-Medinah.

R. F. Burton