The Arabian Nights

The Doctor Who Cured a King

Nights 5, King Yunan and Duban

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On the field before the city, the king and his courtiers gallop on horseback, striking a ball with sticks.
Illustration by William Harvey, Lane's Thousand and One Nights, Chatto and Windus, 1883 (wood engravings of 1838 to 1840)Original

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The jinni was shouting at the fisherman from inside the bottle. Listening to it, the fisherman begins a story. It is about a king of a country called Yunan, long ago.

That king had an illness nobody could cure. Every physician in the country came and went. Medicine did nothing in his body.

Over those years the king had lost a great many people. Men who came promising a cure left again one by one. He had stopped expecting anything from anybody.

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