Aesop’s Fables, 1888, p. 132

One of the joys of returning home to where I was born is going through the books that my grandmother once owned. In a previous post I mentioned an 1888 edition of Aesop’s Fables, translated by George Fyler Townsend. In leafing through the fables I found several that talk about camels and one that refers to an “Arab.”

In this post I provide three of the fables,

Aesop’s Fables, 1888, p. 156

The image below does not mention the cultural context, but it looks very “Mohammedan” to me, as though Muslims would be worshipping an animal.

Aesop’s Fables, 1888, p. 114