Here after Moslem fashion, the mother ranks before the wife: “A man can have many wives but only one mother.” The idea is old amongst Easterns: see Herodotus and his Christian commentators on the history of Intaphernes’ wife (Thalia, cap. cxix). “O King,” said that lady of mind logical, “I may get me another mate if God will and other children an I lose these; but as my father and my mother are no longer alive, I may not by any means have another brother,” etc., etc. Footnote 253: In Galland the _Histoire de Ganem, fils d’ Abu Aïoub, surnommé l’esclave d’Amour_, precedes Zayn al-Asnám. In the Arab texts Ghanim bin Ayyúb, the Thrall o’ Love, occurs much earlier: see The Nights vol. ii. 45. It is curious to compare the conclusions of these tales with the formula of the latest specimens, the _Contes Arabes Modernes_ of Spitta-Bey, _e.g._ “And the twain lived together (p. iii.) and had sons and daughters (p. ii.), cohabiting with perfect harmony (fí al-Kamál pp. 42, 79); and at last they died and were buried and so endeth the story” (wa khalás p. 161). Footnote 254: In Galland and his translators the Adventures of Khudadad and his Brothers is followed by the _Histoire du Dormeur Eveillé_ which, as “The Sleeper and the Waker,” is to be found in the first of my Supplemental Volumes, pp. 1–39. After this the learned Frenchman introduced, as has been said, the _Histoire de la Lampe merveilleuse_ or “Alaeddin” to which I have assigned, for reasons given _in loco_, a place before Khudadad. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. P. xv, any references in the Contents of the Third Volume to pages 307 through 652 are to pages in the Fourth Volume of the Supplement. 2. P. 3, changed “Pildsäulen” to “Bildsäulen”. 3. P. 136, changed “leur chef mit Aladdin a sa droite” to “leur chef mit Aladdin à sa droite”. 4. P. 208, changed “called himself the lamp” to “called himself the slave of the lamp”. 5. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 6. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 7. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter. 8. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night -- Volume 3 [Supplement], by Richard F. Burton