Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves

The following text has been drawn from Sir Richard Burton's exhaustive translation of "e;The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night"e;, more commonly known as "e;The Arabian Nights"e;.

The story of "e;Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"e; is one of the more popular of those found in "e;The Arabian Nights"e; collection.

It tells the story of Ali Baba who while chopping wood in the forest discovers the secret hiding place for the treasure of a band of forty thieves.

The treasure is sealed in a magic cave which opens by the command "e;open simsim"e;, or "e;open sesame"e;.

This classic tale is presented here in this edition in its original and unexpurgated form.