I have been looking at the on-line versions of "The
Arabian Nights" or "A Thousand and One Nights" and
although I have found occurrences of the word
'creature' in the texts, I have not found 'diversity'
at all.
The texts consulted were:
Harvard Classics Edition (Ernest W. Lane)
Gutenberg Project (Andrew Lang)
Columbia Union (1850 one volume Sir Richard Burton)
It seems as though we still have a mystery to be
explained.
Regards
David Page, Harrow
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