Arabian nights entertainments [electronic resource] : consisting of one thousand and one stories, told by the Sultaness of the Indies to divert the Sultan from the execution of a bloody vow he had made to marry a lady every day, and have her cut off next morning, to avenge himself for the disloyalty of his first Sultaness, &c. Containing a better account of the customs, manners, and religion of the Eastern nations, viz. Tartars, Persians, and Indians, than is to be met with in any author hitherto published. Translated into French from the Arabian MSS. by M. Galland, of the Royal Academy; and now done into English from the last Paris edition.