on the subject till May 5 following, when (says Galland) "The
Maronite Hanna finished telling me the tale of the Lamp." [FN#14]

Hanna appears to have remained in Paris till the autumn of the
year 1709 and during his stay, Galland's Diary records the
communication by him to the French savant of the following
stories, afterwards included in the ninth, tenth, eleventh and
twelfth volumes of the latter's translation, (as well as of
several others which he probably intended to translate, had he
lived,) [FN#15] i.e. (May 10, 1709) "Babe Abdalla" and "Sidi
Nouman," (May 13, 1709) "The Enchanted Horse," (May 22, 1709) "
Prince Ahmed and Pari Banou," (May 25, 1709) " The Two Sisters
who envied their younger Sister," (May 27, 1709) "All Baba and
the Forty Thieves," (May 29, 1709) "Cogia Hassan Alhabbal" and
(May 31, 1709) "Ali Cogia." The Maronite seems to have left for
the East in October, 1709, (Galland says under date October 25,
"Received this evening a letter from Hanna, who writes me from
Marseilles, under date the 17th, in Arabic, to the effect that he
had arrived there in good health,") but not without having at
least in part fulfilled his promise to put in writing the tales
communicated by him to Galland, as appears by the entry of
November 3, 1710, "Began yesterday to read the Arabian story of
the Lamp, which had been written me in Arabic more than a year
ago by the Maronite of Damascus [FN#16] whom M. Lucas brought with
him, with a view to putting it into French. Finished reading it
this morning. Here is the title of this tale, 'Story of Aladdin,
son of a tailor, and that which befell him with an African
Magician on account of (or through) a lamp.'" (The Diary adds
that he began that evening to put his translation into writing
and finished it in the course of the ensuing fortnight.) And that