The Arabian nights (1907) Illustrated by Walter Paget
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CONTENTS. PAGE
The Merchant and the Genie
9
26
The Story of the Fisherman The Enchanted Horse
The Story
of
55
Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp
.
.
Ali Baba
96 199
The Story of Kummir al Zummaun and Badoura, Princess OF China
233
280
SiNDBAD THE SaILOR
The Story
of the Little
Hunchback
313
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INTRODUCTION.
T HE
book of the Arabian Nights' Entertainment, or, more properl}^ The Thousand and One Nights, is not very ancient in its present shape. The book was first made known in the West by Antoine Galland, who in 1704 published a paraphrase in French of a manuscript which came into his hands. This manuscript, which was in existence in 1548, is not very much earlier than that date; and the internal evidence of tlie tales, the atmosphere and setting, points to a date not earlier than 1450 for their compilation in this form. While, however, the atmosphere is Moslem and the setting or local colour points to Egypt in the 14th to i6th centuries, the tales themselves point to Arabia, and in particular to the heyday of Bagdad with the Caliph Haroun al Reschid. Some of the tales have a historical basis; some are Persian or Indian; others are folk-tales or older than the hills; there are not a few repetitions. All this evidence indicates that the work is a compilation based on one or more older collections, and incorporating a number of stray legends and stories, one of the collections incorporated being Arabian and the final compilation having been made in Egypt somewhere about 1 500. Galland's French paraphrase is a charming work, but it was meant as a children's story book and has no pretentions to scholarly accuracy: it is very much shortened and selects only a part of the material. Two of the most famous stories, Aladdin and Ali Baba, together with others, did not proceed from this collection of the Nights at all, but from another manuscript, which was afterwards identified by Doctor Zotenberg in Paris. Upon Galland's paraphrase are based a number of other selections and adaptations. Earl)- in the 19th century Jonathan Scott produced an English revision or paraphrase selected from the contents of a manuscript in the possession of Edward \\'ortley Montague (181 1, reprinted later). This also contains only a small part of the original. In 1839, E. W. Lane made an independent English translation from an abbreviated version of the Arabic text, which has been several times reprinted and represents what the English reader regards as the Arabian Nights' Entertainment. He, like the rest, selected, abbreviated J-
8
INTRODUCTION.
countries where books are few, the hearing of stories is tlie spice of Hfe, lifting all above their own sordid surroundings, giving happiness to those in trouble and hope to all. The following description from a traveller who knew the Arabs well will illustrate this.
"The fondness of an Arab for the traditional history of the most distinguisht actions of their remote ancestors is proverbial professed story-tellers are ever the appendages of men of rank. It is a great exercise of genius, and a peculiar gift, held in high estimation among them. They have a quickness and clearness of delivery, with a perfect command of words, surprising to a European ear; they never hesitate, are never at a loss; their descriptions are highly poetical, and their relations exemplified by figure and metaphor, the most striking and appropriate their extempore songs are also full of fire, and possess many beautiful and happy similes. "Arab songs go to the heart, and greatly excite the passions. I have seen a circle of Arabs straining their eyes with fixed attention one moment, and bursting with loud laughter: at the next, melting into tears, and clasping their hands in all the Denham's Travels in Africa. ecstasy of grief and sympathy." From stories men gain their history and geography, their science and their rules of life they include for unlettered races I venture to hope that those their education and their religion. who may procure this book for their children will use it in the good old way and tell the stories by word of mouth, or at least read them aloud. Few memories are so lasting as those of the stories which we heard told or read to us in childhood, and to many the memory of a nurse or foster mother is among their dearest thoughts, bringing gratitude for the new worlds of imagination which they have opened up, never to be obliterated throughout the struggles of after life. W. H. D. Rouse. ;
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THE MERCHANT AND THE GENIE. 'T^HERE
was once
property a great
was
number
obliged
journevs, carried
in
merchant who possessed much
a
lands, goods,
of clerks,
from
time
to
and money, and had
and
factors,
time
with
him he
a
wallet
had
containing
a great
where he could procure no
desert
having despatched
biscuits
his affairs,
and
to pass over,
of his
He
journey,
took horse again
order to return home.
The the
business
sort of provisions.
arrived without accident at the end
in
take
to
He
and on one occasion he took horse, and
dates, because
and,
slaves.
fourth dav of his journey he turned out of
road to rest for
a
while
beneath some
trees.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
lo
He
found a fountain near
branch
the
to
at
hand,
some
the fountain and took
seated
himself beside
biscuits
and dates from
he
of a tree,
tying his horse
so,
wallet.
his
As he lessly
dates
ate his
he threw the
different directions;
in
having finished
then,
being a good Mussulman,
his repast,
stones care-
he washed his
hands, face, and feet, and said his prayers.
Before
he
had finished he saw
with age
and of enormous
size,
him with
a scimitar in his
hand.
in
a terrible
kill
you
my
son."'
with
"How
this
could
He
spoke to him
bidding him "Rise,
voice,
scimitar,
kill
I
white
a genie,
advancing towards
you
as
vour son?'
that
I
may
have killed
exclaimed the
merchant, "I never knew, never saw him."
"Did you not sit down when vou came hither?" demanded the genie, "and did you not take dates out of your w^allet, and as you ate them did vou not throW' the stones about in diff^erent directions?"
"I did
that
all
"I cannot deny "If that
it
say,"
answered the merchant;
it."
be so,"
you have
When
you
reasoned
killed
my
the
son
:
genie,
and
in
"I this
you were throwing the stones about,
was passing
by and
you threw one
which killed him; therefore
I
must
"Ah! my Lord! pardon me merchant.
I
into
kill "
tell
vou
manner.
mv his
son eye,
vou."
exclaimed
the
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. "No "Is
not just to
it
"1 agree I it
no mercy,"
pardon,
kill is,"
it
killed your son
innocently
and
suffer
me
exclaimed the genie.
him that has killed another?" replied
the
merchant,
"but
was unknown to me, and
beg you therefore
I
;
it
ii
I
if
did
pardon me,
to
to live."
But as the genie persisted in his resolution the merchant begged that he might be granted a year's respite in which to return home, bid farewell to and children, and
his wife
"Do you genie,
settle his business affairs.
heaven
take
witness,"
to
the
cried
dav twelvemonth vou will return
"that this
to this spot?"
"I do," answered the merchant, whereupon the genie
left
him and disappeared.
The merchant then hastened and acquaint
family with
his
the
to
home
return
sorrowful
intelli-
There was great lamentation made, and his wife and children wept bitterly, the merchant himgence.
self
mingling
his
with
tears
but
theirs;
standing this he did not neglect to set his order, and at the end of his family adieu
and
the twelvemonth
set out
upon
his
notwithaffairs
in
he bade
journey to the
appointed spot.
He
reached
the
fountain,
horse, and seated himself
He
from
alighted
his
upon the ground.
had not been there
long when
he saw an
old man, leading a hind, approaching.
"Brother,"
said
the
old
man,
"
whv
are
you
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
12
come evil
to this desert place,
the resort of an
is
spirit?"
The merchant to
which
his cnriosity
and related
him the adventure which obliged him
to be there.
The
man
old
satisfied
astonishment
listened with
and when
he had finished exclaimed: "I will remain, Brother,
and be
yonr interview with the genie."
a witness of
Thev conversed together o J
perceived
then
another
time and
for a short
man
old
coming
towards
them, followed by two black dogs. After they
them what they
had
one another,
saluted
did
in
that
he asked
The
place.
old
man
with the hind told him the adventure of the merchant
and the genie, and
and the
second
between them,
that had passed
all
man
old
resolved
also
to
remain
and witness the issue of the meeting.
They had seriously begun to converse together when thev perceived a thick vapour, like a cloud of dust raised by a whirlwind, advancing towards them,
and out of the vapour appeared the genie,
having
a scimitar in his hand.
Taking the merchant bv the arm, he that
mav
I
kill
you
as
vou killed
mv
said:
"Rise,
son."
AVhen the old man who led the hind saw the genie lav hold of the merchant and about to kill him, he threw himself
at
"Prince of Genies, suspend your anger,
me.
I
will tell
the feet of the monster and said I
most
humblv request you
and do me the favour
vou the historv of
mv
life,
:
to
to hear
and of
'B t'other,"
said
the
old
man,
^^why
desert fiace
P"
aye
you
come
to
this
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. the hind you see
if
you think
more wonder-
it
and surprising than the adventure of the merchant,
ful I
and
;
15
hope
you
pardon the
will
man one
unfortunate
half of his offence."
The
genie
deliberating
after
the proposal hnally agreed to
So the old man began said he,
my
"is
living together I
took
cousin; nay, what
me
presented hated
wife,
aversion
so
was too
late.
is
well
"When my
and
that
I
This
slave.
a
my
son
;
wife.
to
my
concealed
knew nothing
wife,
of
of
Before
whom
I
mv
her
till
it
slave and her son, and prayed
take care of them durinjr
wife
slave
son was grown to a youth
recommended
mistrust, the
my
wife, being jealous,
but
obliged to undertake a long journey. I
more,
married her, and after
I
with a son, and
mother
both
"This hind,"
twenty years and having no children,
second
a
it.
his story.
She was very young when
on
time
short
a
was
I
I
it
went
had
no
her to
absence, which was to
be for a whole vear.
"But,
having studied magic,
her
enchantments
and
his
mother
in
changing
she succeeded by
my
son into a calf
into a cow.
"At my return I enquired for mother and child. "'Your slave,' said she, 'is dead; and as for your I have son, I know not what has become of him. not seen him these two months.' "Eight months passed and my son did not return.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
i6
and,
my
being the feast of the great Sacrilice,
It
herdsman bring me
"He
bellowed
eves, that
to
make
piteouslv,
tears
was about
I
so
and
one,
having
the sacrifice,
but
from
her
falling
could not brins: mvself to give her the
I
blow; but delivered her
mv
to
herdsman, who took
her away and slaughtered her.
her
to skin
to sacrifice.
me
accordingly brought
bound her she
cow
a fat
bade
I
found
he
her
But when he came
to be
but skin
nothing:
and bone.
"'Take her
alms, or in anv
in
bring
a fat calf,
"He I
yourself,'
knew
eftort
to
way you
me
not
the
soon
calf
moved as
was
be so cruel
at
mv
and though
fat calf,
vet
son,
the sight
of
I
could not
On
him.
his
mv
that he broke his cord and
feet
as
to take his
as
a
he beheld me, he made so great an
come near me,
threw himself
vou have
if
her stead.'
in
at
'and dispose of her
please; and
returned shortly with
forbear being part, as
it
said,
I
if
conjuring
felt
a tender pitv for him, which
me on
his
behalf,
the calf
home and
bring
I
not to
life.
"I
and
me
bade
me
the
another
interested
herdsman take in
his stead.
"Although mv wife urged me again and again
make so,
the
sacrifice,
I
could not bring myself to do
and the herdsman led him awav.
morning the
to
herdsman desired
to
The speak
following with
me
alone.
"'I
come,'
said he, 'to
communicate
to
you
a
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. piece of intelligence for which thanks.
nie in
have
1
when laughed when
perceived she
moment
after
son
she saw him,
opposite
same time.
asked
I
I
:
other
and
in
her
why
a
"the
at
him
see
joy to
wept
I
our master's
is
with
and
brance of the the
home
"Father," said she,
laughed
alive,
still
skill
one and the
parts at
you bring back
calf
will return
the calf
led
I
a-weeping.
fell
two such
she acted
hope vou
daughter that has some
a
Yesterday
maffic.
I
17
rememwas made mother, who the
sacrifice that
day
of
his
was changed into
cow.
a
These enchantments were
made
by
wife,
^vho
our
master's
hated
mother and son."
"On He
broke
his
if
she were
and
coni
himself at
my
tlive'W
words
I
house
of
to
restore
my
these
hastened to the
mv herdsman
and asked
feet.
able
hearing
both '
son
his
to
daughter
his
former
shape.
"She answered me, and
I
well
know what
smiling, I
owe
'You
to
vou
are our master, ;
but
I
cannot
restore your son to his former shape, except on
conditions
my
:
the
first
is,
that
husband; and the second, that
punish the person
two
me for you allow me to
vou give him
who changed him
to
into a calf.'
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
i8
"Having agreed damsel took a vessel over
that
it
I
herself to the
born a
a
both
to
these conditions,
of water, pronounced words
full
did not understand,
'O
exclaimed
calf,
man, and
art
changed into
and,
calf,
continue in that form
calf,
the
if
but
;
addressing
thou wast thou be
if
by enchantment,
a calf
return to thy natural shape.'
"As in
she spoke, she threw water upon him, and
an instant he recovered his natural form.
"We
embraced each other tenderlv, and
addressed him
acknowledgment to
is
"This it
mv
changed
whom
she
wife, as
I
consented joyfullv,
married she
you
then
I
doubt not but
'I
have promised.' but before
they were
wife into a hind,
and
this
see.
the history of myself and this hind.
is
in
vour deliverer you will consent
to
make her your
"He
words:
in these
Is
not one of the most wonderful and surprising?"
"I
admit
is,"
it
"and on that
said the genie,
account forgive the merchant one half of
When
the
the second,
am
man had
finished
his storv,
led the two black dogs, addressed
the genie and said " I
old
first
who
his crime."
:
you what happened to me, and these two black dogs you see by me, and I am certain
you
going to
I
my
will say that
prising than
when
tell
that
have done
to pardon the
story
which you have this,
I
hope vou
is
yet
more
just heard. will
merchant another half of
sur-
But
be pleased
his oflence."
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
19
"I will," replied the genie, "provided your story surpass that of the hind."
Then
the second old
man began
"Great Prince of Genies, you must know that
we
two black dogs and my-
are three brothers, the
when he, died, left each of us one thousand sequins. With that sum we all became merchants. A little time after we opened shop, my Our
self.
father,
one of these two dogs,
eldest brother,
and trade
travel
view he sold
foreign
in
his
estate,
countries.
resolved to
With
this
and bought goods suited to
the trade he intended to follow.
"He At
went away and was absent
the expiration
thought before
me
"'Is
nised
this
him.
'Ah,
'how could
I
concerning all
I
himself
cried,
him narrowly and recog-
at
brother,'
my
his
presented
you do not know me?' he
know you
into
year.
poor man who
a
alms
ask
to
looked
I
time,
whole
shop.
possible
it
him come lost
my
in
and upon
of this
come
had
a
cried
I,
embracing him,
in this condition?'
made
I
house, and having questioned him
misfortunes,
found that
I
he
had
goods and money through unfortunate
his
trading.
"I immediately shut up to a bath, ing,
gave him
on examining
stock, that
sequins,
I
is
mv
shop and, taking him
clothes
books, that
to say, that
gave
my
the best
I
I
I
had.
Find-
had doubled
my
was worth two thousand
him one-half;
'With
that,'
said
I,
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
20
you may make up your the
loss.'
He
joyfully accepted
and having repaired
present,
we
fortunes,
his
lived together as before.
"Some
time
my
after,
second brother, who
the
is
other of these two dogs, also sold his estate.
to
He
"His elder brother and myself did all we could divert him from his purpose, but without etiect. disposed of
goods
were
as
and with the money bought such
it,
suitable
He
designed to follow.
At the end
parted.
which
trade
the
to
he
and de-
joined a caravan
of the year he returned in the
my
Having myself by this time gained another thousand sequins, I made him a present of them. With this sum he furnished same condition
"Some voyage: velled,'
Who
time
immediately
I
said
T,
can assure
constantly
refused;
solicitation five
much, that
I
but
after
years, they
I
my
thev overcame
had
it?
successful
resolution.
the time arrived that for
our
given
I
importuned me so
vovage,
and had not one dirrim
sand sequins
more
tra-
having resisted their
goods necessary to the undertaking, all,
a trading
in
'You have
shall be
to
In vain thev urged me, for
"When, however, make preparations
spent
came
brothers
declined.
that
whole
at last
my
what have you gained by
'and
me
trade.
should join them
I
than you have been.'
to
his
one of
after,
propose that
to
other brother.
and continued
his shop,
me
as
to each
I
to
we were buv the
found they had
left
of the thou-
of them.
I
did
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. not,
on
trary,
this
upbraid
account,
niv stock
being
shared the half of
with
it
six
still
them.
21
On
thousand
them, telling
con-
the
sequins,
them,
I
'My
we must venture these three thousand sein some secure place that our vovaije be not more successful than vours
brothers, quins, in
case
and hide the rest
We
put
was formerly, we
and to enable us I
as
to
sea
witli
:
a favourable wind.
may have wherewith to assist us, to follow our ancient way of living.'
gave each of them a thousand sequins, and keeping
much
for myself,
sand in a corner of
I
my
buried the house.
We
other three thou-
purchased goods,
and having embarked them on board
a vessel,
which
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
22
we
freighted
between
we
us,
put
with
sea
to
a
favourable wind.
"After two months'
where we landed and had
port, for I
we
sail,
our goods.
arrived happily at
very good market
a
mine so
especially sold
I
With
gained ten to one.
well, that
we bought
the produce
commodities of that country to carry back with us for sale.
"When we I
were ready
met on the seashore
to
me
and besought
hand,
return,
exceedingly
lady,
a
She walked up
some, but poorly clad.
my
embark on our
to
me, kissed
to
with great
hand-
earnestness
marry her and take her along with me.
"She assured me in the
world to be
begged me not
to
that
I
should have with
satisfied
all
the reason
and
her conduct,
object to her on
account of her
poverty.
"And
so
apparel to be ried her,
my
found
my
I
at last
made
I
yielded, and ordered proper
for her,
and, after having mar-
took her on board,
and we
many good
wife possessed so
my two
affairs
as
brothers,
successfully
who had as
not
had
I
qualities that
managed
mine,
envied
prosperity, and suffered their feelings to carry so
far,
night,
that they conspired
when my
both into the
"My
wife
and
against I
were
I
In the mean-
love for her increased every day.
time
set sail.
my
life,
asleep,
their
my them
and one
threw us
sea.
wife proved to be a fairy, and, by conse-
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
23
quence, a genie, so that she could not be drowned but for me,
is
it
out her help.
when
I
she took
"When husband,
certain
I
had scarcely fallen into the water,
me
up,
and carried me
to an island.
day appeared, she said to me, 'You
by
that
;
must have perished with-
saving your
^
life,
I
have
see,
not
re-
flKM 6ff^ i
u-^
w
.--
-*»~
1
I
^^S^"^^11
/ met on the seashore a lady.
warded you
ill
for
am
your kindness to me.
being upon
know
that
shore
when you were going
to
embark,
strong desire to have you for
my
husband
mind
to
I
try
a fairy,
and
your goodness,
before you in disguise.
You must
and
You have
the seaI ;
presented
I
felt a
had
a
myself
dealt generously
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
24
bv me, and
am
I
glad
my acknowledgment.
ing
opportunity of return-
of an
But
your brothers, and nothing
I
will
am
incensed against
me
satisfy
but their
liycs.'
"I listened to this discourse with admiration and
thanked
my
way
wife the best
kindness she had done me.
my
for
'as
brothers,
'But, Madam,'
beg you
I
whatever cause of resentment I
am
could for the great
I
to
I,
them;
pardon
they have
given me,
not cruel enough to desire their death.'
"I pacified her by these words, and I
said
me in my own
had concluded she transported
from the island to the roof of
as
soon as
a
moment
house, and
then disappeared.
"I descended, opened the doors of
dug up the three thousand sequins went afterwards
my
mv
house, and
had formerly
I
shop, which
se-
creted.
I
opened,
and was complimented bv the merchants,
my
neighbours, upon
to
my
house,
I
to
me
When
return.
perceived
I
which came up
my
to
in a
there
I
two
I
also
went back
black
dogs,
very submissive manner
:
could not divine the meaning of this circumstance
until
mv
the fairy,
band, be not
appeared and said:
wife,
surprised
to see these
'Hus-
dogs, thev are
vour brothers.' "I was troubled
this
at
declaration,
and asked
her by what power they were so transformed. '"I did of
mv
sisters
it,'
to
said she,
do
it,
'or at least authorised
who
at
one
the same time sunk
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. You have
their ship.
board, but
your two brothers,
to
remain
that time,
if
had on
As
condemned them
have
I
such
a
to
Their perfidiousness
years in that shape.
five
well deserves
too
goods you
the
compensate you another wav.
will
I
lost
25
penance.
you conduct them
to
At
end of
the
my
sister
who
placed the enchantment upon them she will remove
and they will regain their natural forms.'
it,
"The ling in this
who
my it
five
quest
way,
I
years being
my
of
met
this
led the hind, historv,
O
now
wife's
expired,
sister;
I
and
am as
I
travel-
passed
merchant and the good old man
and
sat
down bv them.
Prince of Genies
!
This
is
do not vou think
very extraordinary?"
"I own account
I
it
is,"
replied the
genie,
"and on
that
remit the merchant the second half of the
crime which he has committed against me," and with that the genie disappeared.
The merchant
did not
fail
make due acknowThey rejoiced to see to
ledgment to his deliverers. him out of danger, and, bidding him adieu, each of them proceeded on his way. The merchant returned to his wife
and children, and passed the
days with them
in
peace.
rest of his
THE STORY OV THE EISHERMAN. 'T^HEKE
was once
aged fisherman,
an
who
was so poor that he could scarcely
earn
would maintain and
wife,
He went betimes
and
much
as
himself, his
three
children.
everv day to
imposed
as
it
upon himself not his
The
nets
fish
morning,
the
in
as
a
law
to
cast
above four times
fisheruian.
a dav.
He went
out one morning before daybreak, and
coming to the seaside cast in his nets. As he drew them towards the shore, he found them very heavy, and thought he had a good draught of fish, at which he rejoiced instead
of
;
but
fish
in
his
a
moment
after,
contained
nets
perceiving that
nothing
but the
much vexed to have made He mended his nets, which
carcass of an ass, he was
such a sorrv draught.
were broken second time.
in
several places, and threw
When
them
in
a
he would have withdrawn them
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
27
he found a great deal of resistance, which made him think he had taken abundance of
nothing
except a basket
fish,
but he found
and slime,
of gravel
full
which grieved him extremely.
He
threw awav the basket,
nets from the
slime,
and,
them the
cast
brought up nothing except stones,
washinc:
third time,
shells,
his
but
and mnd.
.}*^«^B*
He
No
language
examined the
can
express
was almost distracted. appear he did
vessel
on all sides.
his
disappointuient
However,
not forget
to say
as
;
dawn began
his prayers,
like
he to a
good Mussulman, and he added to them this petition "Lord, thou knowest that I cast my nets only four :
times
a
dav
;
I
have
alreadv
drawn
them
three 3*
THE
28
ARAJ5IAN NIGHTS.
times, without the least reward
onlv to cast them once more
;
labour:
lor iiiv
I
am
pray thee to render
1
the sea favourable to me.''
The his nets
fisherman, having finished this prayer, cast fourth
the
difficulty
but
weight seemed that
it
vellow
of
vessel
a
lish,
not
was shut up and
upon
founder,
:
which
from
its
and he observed
;
having
This turn of
it.
"I
will sell
it,"
a
measure
of
buv
and
them
in
fastened with lead,
the impression of a seal
tune rejoiced him
empty
be
to
found nothing
copper,
it
with great
as formerly,
out,
but instead of
;
and when he thought
time,
was proper drew them
said he,
with
corn
for-
"to the the
money."
He it,
examined the vessel on
to try if
This
nothing. bottle
He placed tively
circumstance,
a knife,
turned
out, it
fact that the
made him
cover,
To
try
bottle.
mouth downward, but nothing surprised
before him,
there
and the
leaden
and easily opened the
the
which
a
but heard
noise,
something precious.
contained
it
he took
came
made any
contents
was sealed with
think that this,
its
and shook
all sides,
him
came out
a
very
He
extremely.
but while he viewed thick
it
smoke,
atten-
which
obliged him to retire two or three paces back.
The smoke ascended
to the clouds,
and, extend-
ing itself along the sea and upon the shore, formed a great mist,
which we may well imagine
fisherman with astonishment.
When
the
filled
the
smoke was
The smoke
ascciuicit
to
the
clo/iiis.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. all
of the
out
solid
body,
high
as
vessel,
greatest
the
monster of such
would
have
fain
was formed
of which
and became
re-united
it
At the
of giants.
fled,
a
twice as
genie
a
unwieldy bulk,
an
31
of a
sight
fisherman
the
but was so frightened that he
could not move.
"Solomon,' cried the genie immediately, "Solomon, great prophet, pardon, pardon
more oppose your
will,
I
will
obey
never
will
I
;
your com-
all
mands.''
The covered
above
died,
me your
Tell
hundred
eighteen
Solomon up
when he heard these words, recourage: "Proud spirit," said he, "it is
fisherman, his
years
and we are now history,
at
prophet
the end of time.
and how you came
be shut
to
in this vessel."
"Presumptuous fellow," to the
fisherman with
more
with
respect,
"Why man.
I
a
I
"That
me?"
kill
now
not just
set
my
will not save you,"
"I have only
"Speak
look.
pray you, else will
would you
"Did
the genie, turning
said
fierce
have you alreadv forgotten
I kill
manner
me
to
you."
replied the fisher-
you
at
liberty,
and
services?" the genie
answered,
and that
one favour to grant you,
the choice of what
me
the
since
is
would have
of death vou
put you to."
"But wherein have
I
offended you?"
demanded
the fisherman.
"Hearken
to
my
story,"
said
the
genie,
"and
THE
32
yon
nnderstand
then
will
ARAIilAN NIGHTS. the
case.
am one
I
of
those rebellions spirits that opposed the will of Solo-
He
mon, the great prophet.
me by
vants to take
and
as
shut
not
force and bring nie before him,
vowed
he
me up in break my
punish
to
He
me.
therefore
copper vessel; and that
this
prison
might
I
himself stamped the leaden
lie
cover with his great
He
seal.
then gave the vessel
one of the genies who had submitted to
to
me
with orders to throw
"During the ment,
swore that
I
if
the
expiration
him
rich
bevond
ever,
would open
all
my
imprison-
anyone should deliver me be-
of
period,
that
I
would make
That centurv ran
belief.
and during the second
out,
made an oath
I
howthat
I
the treasures of the earth to anvone
me
that might set
him,
into the sea.
hundred years of
first
fore
at liberty,
"In the third a
to submit to his
persisted in refnsing
still
I
authority
therefore sent his ser-
I
but with no better success.
promised to make
mv
deliverer
powerfnl monarch, to be alwavs near him
in spirit,
and to grant him every day three requests, no matter
what they might two former and
"At so long,
deliver
I
But
continued
swore that
me,
this
centurv passed
in
mv
I
would
if,
kill
as
the
prison.
being angry to find mvself
last, I
be.
afterwards,
a
prisonei-
anvone should
him without mercv, and
grant him no other favour but to choose the
manner
of his death, and therefore, since thou hast delivered
me
to-dav,
I
give thee
that choice."
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
33
For some time the fisherman reasoned with the genie, and endeavonred to dissnade him from his purpose; but seeing that
it
was useless he determined
to resort to stratagem.
"Since
must die then," said he
I
to the genie,
"I submit to the will of heaven; but before
choose
I
manner of my death, I conjure you bv the great name of the prophet Solomon to answer me trulv the question I am going to ask you." The genie having promised to speak the truth, the fisherman said to him: "I wish to know if you the
were
really in this vessel, for
cannot believe
I
it
is
capable of holding one of your size." "I swear to you that ing," replied the genie,
I
was there, notwithstand-
me
"just as truly as you see
here."
"Well,"
said the fisherman,
"I cannot and will
not believe you, unless vou go into the vessel again to
prove
Upon solve,
to
it
me,"
body of the genie began
this the
changed
and
before upon
the
itself into
seashore;
at
smoke, last
it
lect itself
and to re-enter the vessel,
remained
outside,
forth,
when immediatelv
which said to the fisherman
to dis-
extending
began to until
as
col-
no part
a voice
came
:
"Well now, incredulous fellow, do not vou believe me now?" The fisherman, instead of answering the genie, took the cover of lead, and, having speedilv replaced
THE Al^MUAN NIGHTS.
34 it
"Now
on the vessel, cried out:
beg
mv
you
to death;
but rather will
sea
whence
took
I
you
beware of such to kill
The liberty,
him
a
I
said
you
hard
struggled
but finding this
"What
you
to
build a house
will
and give notice
throw
to
that shall set
genie
to
shall put
I
their nets
in
wicked genie, who has made himself
set
to
at
endeavoured to
him out of the
let
a
libertv."
at
impossible,
persuade the fisherman to
he
1
will reside,
I
who come
to all fishermen
vow
way
throw you into the
I
and
:
your turn
it
favour and to choose which
upon the shore, where to
is
bottle.
wav of
was
onlv
the
fisherman,
bv
jest,"
said.
"() genie,"
replied
ment ago vou were one of the and
now
you one of the
are
course
will
return,
and there
signify
You
judgment. reject yours,
and
am
to
shall
rejected
greatest of
least.
nothing;
vou
"but
my
Your
the
stav
genies,
crafty dis-
vou
sea
until
pravers
resolved
all
mo-
a
the
and
must
day of I
now
throw
vou into
the genie,
"do not
to
the sea."
"My
good
friend,"
be guilty of such I
replied
cruelty.
If
you
promise to do vou no hurt, nav,
will far
let
from
me
out
that,
I
show vou a wav to become exceedinglv rich." The hope of delivering himself from poverty prevailed with the fisherman, and after making the genie take a great and solemn oath that he would not harm him, he took the covering otf the vessel. will
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. In an instant the
35
began to resume
genie
his form no sooner had he done so than he kicked the bottle ;
hiughed
into
the
face,
and bade
sea,
the
at
fisherman's
him follow him,
bringing
alarmed his nets
with him.
The fisherman took up his nets and followed distrust. They passed by the town, and came to the top of a mountain, from whence
him with some they
descended
them
to a lake that lay
When
into
vast
a
between four
reached
thev
"Cast
:
did
''
;
would make
the waters were full of
were of four colours, fie
threw
each colour. could
not
might get
in
white,
his nets,
for he could see his surprise
red, blue,
them,
considerable
they
and yellow.
and brought out one of
Having never seen the
but admire a
never doubting
and to
fish,
lake the
vour nets and J
in
so,
good catch,
a
brought
hills.
of the
the side
genie said to the fisherman O the fisherman catch fish that he
which
plain,
judging
and,
sum
like before,
for them, he
that
he
he
was very
jovful.
"Carry the
"and he
will
every day to
fish
to
your sultan," said the genie,
You may come
pay you well for them. fish
in this lake
;
but
I
give you warn-
ing not to throw vour nets above once a day, other-
wise you will repent." his
him
Having spoken
this,
he struck
foot upon the ground, which opened, swallowed up,
and then closed
The
fisherman, following the advice of the genie,
again.
AKABIAX NIGHTS.
Till-:
36
did not cast in his nets a second time, but returned
town and went immediately
to the
palace to offer his
The
the sultan's
to
fish.
was much surprised
when he saw them, and took them up and examined them closelv. "Take them," said he to his vizier, "and carry them to the cook, whom the Emperor of the Greeks has sent me. I make no doubt they will prove as good sultan
to the taste as to the sight."
The
them
vizier carried
delivering them to the
He him
to
gold,
then give
returned to the
his
fisherman
which he accordingly
The
money, could scarcely believe being
for his family with the
Now
soon
as
pieces
of
able
a
seen
much
jjood fortune,
his
dream,
until he
to provide
produce of
the sultan's
so
his
but
found
necessaries
Hsh.
cook received the
them and put them upon the fire frying-pan, with oil, and when she thought them enough on one side, she turned them upon the
she prepared
fish,
in
as
hundred
did.
thought the whole must be
by
who ordered
master,
four
are four
to dress."
who had never
fisherman,
otherwise,
"Here
cook, said:
which the sultan wishes you
fish
it
he was directed, and,
as
a
fried
other, but scarcely
were thev turned, when the wall
of the kitchen divided, and a voung: ladv of wonderful
in
beauty entered from the opening. flowered
pendants
in
satin,
after
She was clad
the Egyptian manner,
with
her ears, a necklace of large pearls, and
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. bracelets of gold set with rubies, in
37
and carried
a rod
her hand.
She moved towards the frying-pan,
amazement of with
"Fish,
rod,
von
are
fish,
Then
the cook, and striking one of the hsh
end of the
the
to the great
said
faithful?"
the four fish lifted up their
heads and replied,
''Yes,
yes:
if
we reckon; if vou pay your debts, we pay ours." As soon as thev had hnished
you reckon,
ladv overturned
these words, the
frying-pan, and returned into
the
the open part of the wall, which
as
it
was before.
The cook was ened as
at
what had
soon
had
happened, but
fallen
But they were
sure
tell
voiuig lady of ivondcr-
as
fid beauty cnicvcd.
black as coal
to be carried to the sultan.
"Alas!" I
hsh
upon the hearth.
her greatly, and she
If
sufficiently
up the
took
she
and not ht
greatly fright-
had
she
as
recovered that
became
immediatelv, and
closed
said she,
the
sultan
he will not
to
fell
weeping.
"what what
believe
This troubled
will I
become
have
seen,
me, but will be
of I
me?
am
enraged
against me."
While
she
was
thus
bewailing
herself,
the
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
38
fish
were
had occurred, and the
vizier
grand vizier entered, and asked her
if
the
ready.
She told him sent
word
fish,
as a
the
genie
that
to the fisherman to bring four
more such
misfortune had befallen the others, so that
they were not
The
all
to
fit
be carried to the sultan.
fisherman, without saving anything of what
had told
him,
excused
day on account of the long
himself for that
distance he had to tra-
verse to reach the lake where he caught them
promised
to bring
them without
fail
but
;
on the morrow.
Accordingly he went away by night, and, coming threw
to the lake,
took four
fish
like
in his
nets betimes next morning,
the former, and brought
them
to
the vizier at the hour appointed.
The
them and carried them to the kitchen, and shut himself up with the cook whilst she prepared them and put them on the fire, minister
took
as she
had done the four others the day previously.
When
thev
were
fried
on
one
side,
and she had
turned them upon the other, the kitchen wall again
opened, and the same lady came her hand, struck one of the fore,
and
four gave her the
all
in
with the rod in
spoke to
fish,
as
it
same answer.
then overturned the frying-pan with her rod and
appeared grand
through
vizier,
said that
it
the
having
opening
witnessed
in all
the
She dis-
The
wall.
that had
be-
passed,
was too wonderful and extraordinary to
be concealed from the sultan and that he would
in-
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. form him therewith.
much
being
man and such
and the sultan,
This he did,
surprised, sent immediately for the fisher-
said to
him
:
"Friend, bring
me
more
four
fish."
The
fisherman, having undertaken to do
immediately to the of
39
•
net he
his
and
lake,
caught
four
immediately to the sultan,
at the first fish
went
so,
throwing
in
brought them
and
who ordered
four
that
hundred pieces of gold should be given him.
As soon them that
sultan had the
as the
be carried into
to
was necessary
himself up with
vizier,
that
he ordered
room, with
private
his
for frying them,
the
fish
all
and having shut prepared
minister
them and put them into the frying-pan, and when they were fried on the one side, turned them upon the other;
young
then the wall
ladv, there
a slave, staff in
came
opened, but instead of a
out a black, in the habit of
and of gigantic stature, with his
He
hand.
a great
addressed them
in
green
the
same
words the young lady had used and they answered as before,
and the this
whereupon the black overturned the pan became black as coals. Having done
fish
he disappeared through the opening in the wall.
"After what
I
have seen,"
shall not be able to rest until
said the sultan, I
know what
all
"I this
means."
He
therefore sent
for the
him where he had caught the to the palace.
fisherman fish
and asked
he had brought
"
THE ARABIAN XKiHTS.
40
"I lisbed
for
them
a lake
in
situated
"beyond
four bills," be answered,
between
we
tbe mountains
see from bence."
Tbe sucb
"No," replied tbe
lake.
a
mucb
sultan tben asked tbe vizier
as
beard of
it,
altbougb
be knew of
if
"I never so
vizier,
bave bunted bevond
I
tbe mountains for over sixtv vears." J J
The
bow
sultan asked tbe fisherman
far tbe
lake
might be from the palace, and the fisherman having
answered that journey,
tbe
it
sultan
ordered
commanded
horse, and
more than three hours'
was not
court
his
all
the fisherman
take
to
them
to serve
as a guide.
Thev of
foot
all
ascended
they saw,
it
to
the
mountain, great
their
nobody bad observed
plain that
and
surprise,
at
the
a
vast
tben, and at last
till
came to tbe lake, which thev found to be situated between four bills as tbe fisherman bad de-
they
Tbe water was so transparent, that fish swimming about and notice
scribed.
could see the
thev were like
those
tbe fisherman
they that
had brought
to
tbe palace.
The them
sultan then addressed his court and informed
that
he
was determined not
palace until be had
be
in
that place and
learned
whv
all
bow the
to
return
the lake fish
in
it
to his
came
to
were of
different colours.
Having spoken thus, he ordered bis court to encamp; and immediatelv his pavilion and the tents
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
were planted upon the banks of
household
of his
41
the lake.
When grand
came
night
and
vizier
with
retired
made known
once
at
sultan
the
his
plans
his
to him.
"to withdraw myself from
"I intend," said he, the
camp; but Stay
secret. inir,
my
my
in
pavilion,
the
emirs and courtiers
levee,
tell
them
am
and the following days
alone; thing,
I
fying myself as
we have
rences
to
come
the
cause
to attend
ill
and wish to be
tell
them the same
In the meantime
return.
I
till
absence a
and to-morrow morn-
when
that
my
keep
wish you to
I
of the
intend
I
strange occur-
witnessed."
In vain the
fjrand vizier
endeavoured
to divert
him the
the sultan from this design, representing to
dangers
which
to
suitable for walking,
he found that
might
he
sultan was resolved.
as
satis-
all
He
be
but
exposed,
put on a suit of clothing
took his scimitar, and as soon
was quiet
in
the
camp, went
out alone and climbed to the top of one of the
without
more on
much
difficulty.
He
found the descent
and when he came to the
easy,
until the
the
sun arose, and then,
at
plain,
hills still
walked
a considerable
distance before him, he saw a vast building.
As he drew nearer he found
it
ficent palace of black polished marble, fine steel,
the gates,
was
a
magni-
covered with
smooth as glass. He advanced towards one of which was open, yet he thought it
as
4
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
42
knock before entering.
best to
This he did,
but no one appearing, he
softly,
at
first
knocked again and
again, always louder and louder.
But
came
no one
and so he decided
if it
be inhabited,
no one
here
refreshment
be no
there
he
which followed
his
"I have nothing to fear;
have wherewith to defend
I
"Is there
who comes for The dead silence
passes bv?"
words increased
There was no one
his astonishment,
came
into a spacious
to be seen,
and he accord-
passing on his way, he
so,
one
receive a stranger,
to as
court.
summons
his
to
So entering boldly, he cried:
myself."
and
" If
to enter.
said he to himself,
in it,"
and
answer
in
imilv entered the "rand halls, which were huni: with
The alcoves and
silk tapestry.
with
stuffs
of
Mecca,
richest stuffs of India,
Next he came
and
the
each angle
at
mixed with gold and
into
of the
four
lions,
:
with
porches
superb
a
saloon,
middle of which was a fountain, with gold
were covered
sofas
water issued
and, as
it
fell,
the
silver. in
a lion of
the
massy
from the mouths
formed diamonds
and pearls.
The palace was surrounded on
three
sides
by
gardens containing the most exquisite flowers, and to
complete
number
the
beauty
of
the
place
an
infinite
of birds filled the air with their harmonious
notes.
The
sultan
walked from apartment
where he found
everything
rich
and
to
apartment, magnificent.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. Suddenly he and,
tones,
these words
"O
heard
voice
a
with
listening
fortune!
who wouldst
thou
lot,
not suffer
The
is
it
sultan dycK~ncav
possible
that
I
and saluted
am
great
man
hall,
opened
it,
of a melancholy
and
saw
a
alive,
little
place
to the
after so
whence
door of a
handsome young
countenance,
seated on a throne raised a
sorrows.
liini.
still
coming
my
\V-.VX
manv torments as I have suffered?" The sultan advanced towards the the tones proceeded, and,
me
forbear to persecute me,
V,:
Alas!
distinguished
speedy death put an end to
a
lamentable
in
attention,
:
longer to enjoy a happy
and by
raised
43
richly
habited,
above the ground. 4*
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
44
The
drew near and saluted him, whereupon
sultan
young man returned the
the
ation of his head,
time he said
"My from
come
me
I
vour not
you
accept
heartily
"Being drawn
my
sad
necessity
risins:,
whatever
replied
it,"
I
Perhaps you
help.
But inform
pray you, the meaning of the lake near
why
How
castle?
this
I
will relate
Whose And
the palace, where the fish are of four colours. is
the
hither by your complaints,
the historv of vour misfortunes.
hrst,
same
"
to receive vou.
to the reason of
to offer
me
to
at the
rising,
am prevented bv
I
your apology be, sultan.
without
inclin-
:
lord,
risini?
"As
and,
bv an
salutation
came vou
to
be here?
are vou alone?"
questions the young
Instead of answering these
man began praying grief,
him
to
he said
At
showed the head to the
relate
the
upon
and
bitterly,
cause
the
sultan
excessive
of his
:
my
"Alas! grieve."
weep
to
lord,
how
these words
sultan that he girdle,
is
it
he
lifted
was
and that
possible but
a
up
his
I
should
robe and
man onlv from
the other
the
half of his
bodv was black marble. "You must know, my lord," he continued, "that my father, named Mahmoud, was king of this countrv. This is the kingdom of the Black Isles, which takes
its
name from
the
four
small neigh-
bouring mountains; for those mountains were former-
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. ly
islands
the capital
:
resided, was situated
where the
45
my
king,
father,
on the spot now occupied by
the lake you have seen.
"When my
died
father
I
immediatelv afterwards married
most tenderly attached that
my
we had been married
my
wife's
conversing
ladies
me to be "One of them
believed
my
was
cousin. at
I
believed
first
But one day,
years,
five
and
her and
to
was returned.
aftection
succeeded him
I
after
overheard two of
when
together
they
asleep. said to the other:
'Is
the queen
wrong that she does not love so amiable a prince? Every night she mixes the juice of a certain herb not
with his drink, and this makes him sleep so soundly that she
black
able
is
and leave him,
to rise
who
slave
her
instructs
in
and
magic
visit
and
a
all
manner of wickedness that she will one dav no doubt use to the harm of our good lord and master.'
"You mav surprised
2:uess,
this
at
mv
lord,
conversation
awake without having heard
a
;
how much but
word.
I
I
was
feigned
That
niirht
supped with the queen, and when she presented with a cup of liquid drink,
I
went
to a
such as
I
to
was accustomed
I
me to
window which was open and threw
out the drink so quicklv that she had no knowledge of what
I
"Soon lieving
me
had done. afterwards to be
I
asleep,
lay said
down,
and
she,
loud enough for
be-
me
THE ARABIAN XIOHTS.
46 to
'Sleep
bear:
again
may
and
on,
never
voii
wake
!
"She then dressed herself and went out of the room.
I
robed myself
haste,
in
took
and followed her so quickly that
my
scimitar,
soon heard the
I
She passed through
before me.
sound of her
feet
several
which opened upon her pronouncing
gates,
some magical words, and the last she opened was Passing that of the garden, which she entered. entered little wood, where the garden she a through Listenshe was joined by an enormous black man. ing intentlv, I heard them discuss the magical means by which
my
kingdom,
be ruined and overthrown, be
made away
with.
I
I
myself was to
I
had hidden myself, and
blow with my scimispared, because she was my kins-
then struck the black a
The queen woman. I then
whilst
waited until the wicked pair
passed bv the spot where
tar.
and subjects were to
castle,
I
terrific
retired speedily without having
made
mvself known.
"The wound but by her
had given the black was mortal;
I
enchantments she preserved him
an
in
existence in which he could not be said to be either
dead or
alive.
As
well satisfied, and arose as usual,
my to
council.
me
for
when
I
I
When reason,
returned
to
my
bed
had rested some hours
dressed myself,
and
I
afterwards held
the queen next presented herself
she was clad in
of her the
me,
and
deep mourning. she
informed
I
me
enquired that
she
f^^^
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. had three
'mv
father has
her
and offered her
that
her
'I
mother,' said
and
battle,
in
had
she
black
my sympathy
this
mv
excuse for
suspected
not
slave's
me
of
misfortune,
and condolences
in
grief.
"She asked leave
to build for
herself a palace
of tears in which she could shut herself up and
had
for those she
this,
and when the building was
complete she caused the black slave there, and to
used
every
art
to
be carried
her power to restore
in
But though, by her enchantments, she
life.
succeeded
weep
lost.
"I consented to
him
have
a precipice.'
author of the
the
my
her making
concluded from
mourning
being
been killed
down
brother has fallen
"I
of affliction.
news of the death of
just received
she;
causes
distressing
47
preventing his actual death, she could
in
power of speech, neither was he able to walk or support himself. Every day the queen paid him two long visits and worked her magic arts upon him, but without avail. not restore to him the
"One day my her to the
the Palace
tears
she
wretch upon I
shed
whom
lost patience
induced
curiosity
of Tears,
and,
over the bodv
me
to follow
having witnessed of the
wicked
only just punishment had fallen,
and discovered mvself to her, telling
her that such sorrow for a base and ungrateful slave
was both dishonouring
"The queen
to her
rose up
in
and myself.
a furv
and accused
me
48
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
of being the
cause
misery which
of the
had over-
taken the black magician. "'Yes,'
him, for
I
I
replied,
indeed
I
ought to have
I
who
treated
you
manner, but spared you because vou were
woman. and
However,
will
I
have staved
I
now make
"I raised
my
she cried jeeringlv:
see
:
thee
a
among of the
become
to
my
After
me
into this
she destroved
mv
my
and half
became what vou
I
living,
had
capital,
and
enchantments
half marble
lord,
hall,
and populous, changing
understand,
and
a living
this cruel sorceress,
name of queen,
brought
hand too long,
then, raising her voice,
dead man among the the dead.
not
did
I
'By virtue of
Immediatelv,
man.'
kins-
scimitar to strike, but she quicklv
my arm became immovable; command
my
like
in
my
an end of you both.'
pronounced some words
I
chastised
him plotting the downfall of
overheard
my kingdom.
was
'it
man
im worth
changed me thus and
by another enchantment
which was verv flourishing
it
into the
lonelv lake which you have seen.
desert plain and
The
fishes in
the
lake, of four different colours, are the four kinds of
inhabitants, of different religions,
which the
The white are Persians, who worship
blue the Christians,
tained.
and the vellow the told
But
my
me
all
this
is
not
all
:
fire,
Jews.
the
The enchantress
she might add to
this that
citv con-
the Mussulmen, the red the
mv
herself
affliction.
every day, taking advantage of
helpless state, she
comes and gives me, upon my
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. naked
shoulders,
hundred
a
lashes
49
with
a
whip.
me
a
coarse
When
she has finished she throws over
gown
of
goat's
hair,
this
robe
of
mock me." moved bv the
recital
of
over
and
that
brocade, not to honour, but to
The
was greatly
sultan
this affecting story,
and,
anxious to avenge the suf-
ferings of the unfortunate prince, questioned to
where he might
find
him
as
wounded magician and
the
the wicked queen.
The
prince having informed him of the place in
which the Palace of Tears was everv day
sunrise
at
situated,
added that
visited
her fellow
queen
the
conspirator and carried to him the potion which had hitherto prevented his dying, although he had never
power
yet been able to regain the
of speech so that
he might thank her for her attention to him.
Bv
time, the night being far advanced, the
this
He
sultan retired to rest.
proceeded
the
to
perceived
soon
magician
lav,
Palace
the
arose with the of
upon
bed
dawn and he
Entering,
Tears.
which
and with one stroke from
black
the
his scimitar
deprived him of his wretched existence, dragged his
body
into the court of the castle, and threw
it
into
a well.
After
this
he went
covering his face
in
and lay down
such
a
manner
that
in the
bed,
the queen
could not detect the deception about to be practised
upon
her.
Before long she entered the apartment, and
at
THE ARABIAN XIGHTS.
50
the sight of the prostrate figure she began to
"Alas!" said
she,
"will
you be always
me at least, I conjure "Unhappy woman," replied the
one word to
tones,
blacks,
The
and groans
cries
you." sultan in
hoHow
should answer thee?
I
whom
husband,
of thy
thou
my
day with such barbarity, prevent
treatest every
Had you
sleeping night or day. I
Speak
silent?
pronunciation of the
and counterfeiting the "art thou worthy that
weep
disenchanted him,
and have
should long since have been cured,
mv
covered the use of
re-
speech,"
"Well," said the enchantress, "what would you have
me do?" "Make haste and
set
him
be no longer disturbed by
that
at liberty,
I
may
lamentations," replied
his
the sultan.
The enchantress immediately Tears,
had been
set
young
it
over
which caused
a fire.
She
the Palace of
pronounced
she
and, taking a cup of water,
some words over to the
left
it
to
boil as
after^vards
if
it
proceeded
king, her husband, and threw the water
upon him, saving: "Resume your natural form." Scarcely had she spoken the words than the king found himself restored to his former condition.
The enchantress then returned Tears and,
supposing
she
still
to the Palace of
spoke
to
the black,
informed the sultan of what she had done.
"What vou cient,"
replied
have done
the
sultan.
is
by no means
"The town and
suffiits
in-
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. habitants
still
midnight, the
51
remain enchanted, and every night, their heads
raise
fish
ont of the lake
and cry for vengeance against you and me. the true cause of the delav of
my
and restore
things
former
your return
I
help
me
to
their
will give
you
mv
at
Go
cure.
This
is
speedilv
state,
and
hand and vou
at
shall
to arise."
I he qiiccii
sprinkled the waters of the lake.
The queen went awav at once, and when she came to the brink of the lake she took a little water in
her hand
and sprinkled the waters of the
Immediately the whole magnificence, and
city
was restored
Mohammedans,
to its
lake.
former
Christians, Persians,
and Jews, freemen or slaves, were
as
they were be-
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
52
having
everyone
fore,
recovered
The sultan's numerous camped in the middle peopled
natural
his
form.
retinue found themselves en-
handsome,
of a large,
well-
city.
As soon wonderful
as
enchantress
the
change,
Palace of Tears.
hastened
she
"I have done
had
effected
return
to
the
to
von required
all that
me your
"I pray vou then give
of me," she cried,
this
'
hand and
rise.
"Come
near," said the sultan,
the pronunciation
of the blacks,
he suddenlv rose,
seized her
one blow of
his scimitar
done he
This
and
she did so
as
and with
bv the arm,
ended her wicked
her Iving
left
counterfeiting
still
Palace
the
in
life.
of
Tears, and went to seek for the young King of the
Black
When
Isles.
him
found
he
prince
the
at
once embraced him with great affection and thanked
him with the
8:reatest
sinceritv for
he had
that
all
done for him.
The to
him "
your
sultan
returned
his
embraces
and
said
:
You
mav henceforward
capital,
unless you will
peaceablv
dwell
accompanv me
in
to mine, "
which
is
but a few hours' journey distant.
"Potent monarch, replied the
young
king,
to
whom
"it
will
year to return to your capital.
I
I
take
so much,
vou
a
"
whole
do indeed believe
came hither in the time because mv kingdom was enchanted that
owe
vou
vou ;
mention,
but since the
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. enchantment
taken
is
off,
things are changed
ever, this shall not prevent
my
and that
deliverer,
acknowledging willing to
may
I
You
my whole
accompany vou, and
are
you proofs of
give
during
this
how-
:
following vou, were
utmost corners of the earth.
to the
it
5s
to leave
I
life,
my my am
my kingdom
without regret."
The was so
far
from
young king
the
"The is
was very much surprised
sultan
to find he
own dominions, but answered
his
in the following
words
trouble of returning to
my own
country
recompensed by acquiring you since you will do me the honour
sufficiently
son; for
company me, as such,
as
have no child,
I
and from
this
moment
I
for
a
to ac-
look upon vou
appoint you
my
heir
and successor." Preparations were
at
once begun for the depar-
voung king appointing one of his nearest of reign as monarch in his stead, and, after taking
ture, the
kin to
affectionate leave
of his subjects, he
began their journey.
and the sultan
Thev took with them
a
hundred
camels laden with inestimable riches from the king's
handsome gentlemen on horseback, perfectly well mounted and dressed. They had a pleasant journev, and when
treasury,
and
were
they
approached
came
to
his
receive
the
the
by
followed
capital
sultan
the
fifty
principal
officers
and to assure him that
long absence had occasioned no alteration
empire.
The
inhabitants
also
came out
in
in
his
great
ARABIAN NI(}HTS.
Till-:
54
him with acclamations, and made
crowds, received
public rejoicings for several days.
The
sultan then acquainted his subjects with the
news of
his
Isles as
his son,
having adopted
King of the Black
them how he had been great kingdom to accompanv and
and
willing to leave a live
the
told
with him.
As of the
for the fisherman,
deliverance
as
he was the
of the voung prince,
first
the
cause sultan
gave him a plentiful fortune, which made him and his family
happy
for the rest of their days.
THE ENCHANTED HORSE. 'T^HE
day of the year
first
is
observed throughout Persia as a
solemn
rejoicings
Upon
festival.
are
that
come from
the
neighbouring states and most
re-
are encouraged to
mote
and are
parts of the world,
allowed to compete for large
llic
Hindoo.
dav
held and strangers
wards,
being
to the
sovereign
ventions
invited
and
to
display
various
the
re-
in-
contrivances
thev
the
most
have brought with them.
Upon one
of these
festivals,
after
ingenious artists of the country had repaired to the
Court king,
at
Sheeraz, had been entertained there bv the
and had been bountifully
rewarded
for
their
various productions, just as the assemblv was about
Hindoo appeared at the foot He had with him an artificial horse,
to break up, a
throne.
caparisoned, and so sight he
The
was taken
Hindoo
naturally
imitated
that
of the richly at
first
before
the
for a living animal.
prostrated
himself
ARABIAN NIGHTS.
THi:
56
and,
throne,
poinlini;
emperor, "Though
your
fore
Majesty,
I
horse,
present
I
yet
nothing shown to-day
on which
the
to
nivself
can
I
the
emperor, "than
the
replied
"Sir,"
that
so wonderful as this horse,
is
the horse," replied
in
the
horse
Hindoo,
but the use to which
when
well or better."
"it I
is
not
him, be
may make
where
it
through the
world,
I
it
if
his
recommend mv as
wonderful,
in
a
Majesty
if
Whenever
mount
This,
sir,
wonder which nobody and \\hich I ofTer to show vour :
a
you command me.'
Notwithstanding the manv prodigies
emperor had seen, he had never before
Hindoo
that
beheld
or
that
had promised he could not bring himself the truth of
of art the
came up to this. He told unless he saw him perform what he
of anything
The
I
wish to transport my-
very short time.
wonder of mv horse of,
I
most distant part of the
to the
air
can do
of him.
mav,
it
ever heard speak
heard
for
have communicated the secret to them, any
I
other persons
the
another
applv him, and which,
can
I
of
skill
your Majesty's examination
to
the
resemblance the work-
natural
outward form and appearance that
in
be-
vou
assure
man has given him, which the workman may possiblv execute as
the
last
beg vour Majesty would be pleased to
"T see nothing more
is
the
your eyes."
cast
self
to
said
to believe
it.
Hindoo
instantly
put
his
foot
into
the
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
57
mounted the horse with admirable
Stirrup,
and when he was seated
emperor whither he would be pleased him to proceed.
About
to
three leagues from Sheeraz
mountain,
lofty
from
discernible
the
agility,
asked
saddle
the
in
the
command
there
was
large
square
a
before the palace, where the emperor, his court, and
concourse of people then were.
a great
"Do pointing
vou see that mountain?" to
but
hence,
"it
it,
it
you can make
in
the eye cannot
a
a
great
distance
from
going and returning.
But because
to
vou so
follow
branch of
a
of the speed
you have been there,
me
not
is
enough
judge
far
is
said the emperor,
as
far,
proof that
a
expect that vou will bring
I
palm-tree that grows
at the
bottom
of the hill."
No
sooner had
Hindoo turned
a
the
emperor spoken than the
peg which was
the horse's neck, just by the
and
in
carried
the
in
pommel
his
rider
the
into
air
the rapidity of
with those
that
strongest sight could not discern
the
palm
descended, he
and then
branch
in
his
who had
the
Within
less
him.
than a quarter of an hour they saw
off,
of the saddle,
an instant the horse rose off the ground and
lightning, to such a height
with
hollow of
hand
him returning ;
but before he
took two or three turns
alighted
in
the
air
on the spot whence he
had
set
without receiving the least shock from the horse
to disorder him.
He
dismounted, and, going up to
THE ARABIAN
58
NK'.HTS.
the throne, piostrated himself, and laid the branch of the palm-tree at the feet of the emperor.
The emperor, who had viewed sight with admiration
as well
this extraordinary
astonishment, con-
as
ceived a great desire to have the horse, and thought
would have
that he
difficulty
little
treating with
in
Hindoo.
the
"Judging of the horse by he
said
Hindoo,
the
to
his
"I
outward appearance,"
did
not
think him so
much worth my consideration. As you have shown me his merits, I am obliged to you for undeceiving me and to prove to you how much I esteem it, I ;
purchase him of you,
will
"Sir," that
replied
if
he
is
to be sold."
Hindoo, "I
the
doubted
never
your Majesty, who has the character of the most
on earth, would
liberal prince
work
as
soon as
I
foresaw that
also
you would not only admire and commend would desire to have it. Though I know his render
my
my name
I
;
immortal
however,
I
approve of
with him,
it.
I
in
the world,
in
did
making
and
not
yet
in
marriage,
and
I
am
declaration,
this I
cannot re-
perhaps you
buv
this
horse,
tained him from the inventor by giving him
daughter
intrinsic
can resign him to gratify
have another to add, without which
solve to part
but
it,
continuing master of him would
not so fond of fame but
your Majesty
mv
had shown you on what account
I
he was w^orthy your attention,
value, and that
on
set a just value
promising
at
may
not
but
ob-
my
only
the
same
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sell
him
exchange
for
him, but
if
parted with him to
I
something
that
should
I
beyond
all
else."
"I
am
willing,' said the emperor,
whatever you may is
ask
large and contains
in
59
exchange.
great riches
;
"to give you "Sly
kingdom you
give
will
I
value
the choice of what you like best."
This offer seemed roval and noble to the whole Court, but was in
much below what
am
"I
infinitely
"and cannot
generositv;
pleased
if
not resign
yet
I
obliged
The this
sufficientlv
my
he
your
for
must beg of vou not to be
horse
unless
I
tell
you
mv
I
dis-
can-
hand
receive the
of
wife."
courtiers could not forbear laughing aloud
demand
of the
Prince Firoze Shah, the eldest to the
Hindoo; but the
son of the emperor
crown, was most indignant.
The emperor, however, was might
vou
thank
have the presumption to
I
extravagant
and heir
your Majesty,"
to
the princess, your daughter, as
at
Hindoo had
mind.
his
said,
the
inclined to think he
sacrifice the Princess of Persia, so anxious
was
he to possess the horse.
Prince Firoze vShah,
what answer comply with
to
anticipate him,
who saw
his father hesitating
make, began to fear
the
Hindoo's
demand
lest ;
is
to
he said
"I hope your Majesty will forgive if it
he should
therefore,
me
for asking
possible your Majestv should hesitate about a
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6o
demand from such an
denial to so insolent a nificant fellow?
beg you
I
to consider
insiir-
what von owe
your own blood, and the high rank
to yourself, to
of your ancestors." ''Son,''
emperor,
replied the
of your remonstrance, and for
preserving
the
do not consider horse
;
am of
lustre
sufficientlv
nor that the Hindoo,
mav make
the offer
despair
if
your birth
me
having exceeded
in
not say
excellence
should refuse him,
I
else,
prince
I
should
will
generositv, and deprived
me
esteem
I
thing in
the
vou would
self,
and give
purpose
his
me your
his
exorbitant
I
was
should be glad try
him vour-
opinion.'
fancied,
emperor
before
the
;
from what he had heard,
not
entirely
averse
therefore, he expressed
prince to
showed him how
with
But before
as well.
to guide
help
him
to
his
to
and that the prince might become
favourable to him ran
will
I
daughter, the princess, out
examine the horse,
The Hindoo the
most
as the
world.
mav make another agreement
I
answer
that
alliance,
the
in
of
conclude the bargain with him,
that
be
boast
mv
and, putting
of the question,
him that
this nice
cannot consent to grant him what he asked.
I
:
of this
where shall
I
Perhaps he has not well considered
demand
you
but
;
if
of the glorv of possessing what
singular and wonderful
zeal
the
somewhere
another
much approve
sensible of vour
may be waived.
point of honour
utmost
"I
much
more joy,
mount, and
and manage the horse.
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both
owner's use,
air,
quick
as
emperor,
peg
the
the
for
had seen
he
bow by
the
few
moments
the
and the numerous assembly
lost
and
Neither
a
in
nor
horse
prince
were
must have remarked the
was so hastv that he would not
him the necessary instructions Therefore the favour
I
make me accountable
permit
govern
to
:
prince
me to give my horse.
ask of your Majesty for
to
what had happened,
at
prostrated himself before the throne and said Majestv^
his
the
a
The Hindoo, alarmed
"Your
the
horse darted into the
arrow shot from
his father,
of him.
be seen.
but,
instantly
an
without staying
turned
archer,
adroit
sight
he
when
him most
stirrups
advice,
without
no sooner had he put
and
Hindoo's assistance, in
however,
mounted,
prince
6i
is
not to
what accidents may
befall
him."
The emperor was much surprised and and asked the Hindoo if there were no bring him back, other than
that
by which
afflicted,
secret to
he
had
been carried away. "Sir," replied
the
Hindoo, "there
hope that the prince, when he will that,
perceive another
peg,
is
room
to
finds himself at a loss,
and
as
soon as he turns
the horse will cease to rise, and descend to the
ground,
when he may
turn him
to
what place
he
pleases by guiding him with the bridle."
Notwithstanding all these arguments of the Hindoo, which carried great appearance of probabi-
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62
litv,
of Persia was nuich alarmed at the
Emperor
the
evident danger of his son. "
suppose," replied he,
I
my
whether
make
may
son
use of
a right
perceive
it
may
;
the ground,
of alighting on
"it
uncertain
and
other peg,
the
the horse, instead
not
fall
very
is
upon some rock,
or
tumble into the sea with him?" "Sir," answered the Hindoo, "I can deliver your
Majesty from
apprehension, by assuring you that
this
the horse crosses seas without ever falling into them,
and alwavs carries
And vour
to go. if
mentioned,
the
pleases.
is
It
anywhere
hnd out the other peg I where he carry him will
but
horse
not to be supposed that he will stop
where
but
he
make himself known." "Be it as it may," "as
Persia,
if
he
He
upon
ordered
officers
his
close
he retired to his palace of the
New
in
to
prisoner,
of
assurance
the
answer for
shall
safely."
then
Emperor
the
replied
and
assistance
find
does not return
Hindoo, and keep him
festival
can
depend
cannot
I
you give me, vour head life
wherever he may wish
Majesty may assure yourself that
does
piince
the
his rider
my
son's
secure after
the
which
great affliction that the
have proved so
Year should
inauspicious.
In the meantime the prince was carried through
with
the
air
an
hour's
prodigious
time
had
velocity;
ascended
and so
in
high
less
that
than
he
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could
anything
distinguish
63
on the
but
earth,
mountains and plains seemed confounded together. think of returning, and It was then he began to conceived he might do
and
peg the contrary way,
by turning the pulling
But when he found
the same time.
the
same
bridle
at
that the horse
rose with the same swift-
still
his
alarm
turned
the
ness,
He
but
other,
was
fault
the
learnt
cautions
to
he
before ever, he
peg
great.
several
and
the
vain.
in
all
'
It
grew sensible
he
then his
was
way
one
times,
of
this
having
not
in
necessary
pre-
the horse
guide
How-
mounted.
examined
the horse's
head and neck with attention, and
perceived
behind
right ear another
than the other. that
peg smaller
He
turned
peg and presently per-
ceived that he descended the same quite
the
manner
as
Tlie prince descended in the
same manner. in
he had mounted,
although not
so swiftly.
Night had fallen over that part of the country
which the prince found himself when
at
in
length the
horse stopped upon solid earth.
He
was verv
faint
from hunger,
having eaten
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64
nothing since
morning, when
the
the palace with his father to
He
found
a
the
of a mag-
terrace
about
which
staircase
the festival.
assist at
groping
and,
palace,
nificent ness,
himself upon
found
came out of
he
the
in
down
led
dark-
into
an
apartment, the door of which was half open.
Few
Firoze Shah would
but Prince
descend
tured to
those
dark
stairs,
as
have venwas, and
it
expose himself to dangers from unknown
was quite unarmed,
being of
but,
any noise, went softly down the not awaken anybody,
on
the
He
found the
staircase,
stopped
no other noise than
were
w^ho
fast
snoring
He
asleep.
that he might to a landing
door of
a great
of
advanced of
light
a
heard
listening,
some people a
little
into
saw
that
lamp
persons were black chamberlains, with
sabres
him
door and,
the
and bv the
the room,
those
by them,
laid
that
sultan
In
dis-
open.
it,
the
at
stairs,
when he came
and,
that had a light in
hall,
courageous
he opened the door wider, without making
position,
place
a
He
foes.
or
this
was
princess,
the
next
wdiich the
which
room
to
was enough
guard-chamber latter this
it
naked
to inform
some
of
proved
to
be.
the princess lay, as
appeared by the light streaming through a draped
doorway.
Prince Firoze Shah
without waking the curtain, went the
the in,
advanced on
chamberlains.
tip-toe,
He drew
aside
and, without staving to observe
magnificence of the chamber, gave
his
attention
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. to
He
something of greater importance.
beds arranged upon the
women
floor,
and
65
saw many
in these slept the
attendants of the princess, whilst the princess
herself reposed upon a raised couch.
He
crept softly towards the bed, without waking
women,
either the princess or her
and
beheld a beauty so extra-
ordinary that he straightway in
fell
love with her.
But having penetrated thus far,
that
the prince
soon
as
knew very
well
was
dis-
he
as
covered he would be most certainly
killed
bv
So he resolved sympathy of the fell
on
his
the to
guards.
enlist
the
He
princess.
knees beside her and
She opened her eves and, seeing a gently twitched her sleeve.
handsome man
on
TJic pyince opened the door
knees,
his
was greatly surprised, yet seemed
show no
to
sign
of fear.
The rising,
prince
said
bowed
his
"Beautiful Princess,
and
wonderful
bv the most extraordinary
adventure,
suppliant prince, son of the
was yesterdav solemn
head to the ground and,
:
in his Court,
festival,
but
is
now
you see
Emperor
vour feet
of Persia,
a
who
the celebration of a
at in
at
a
strange
countrv,
in
THE ARABIAN
66
danger of
his
life,
if
NICIITS.
vou have not the "goodness and
generosity to afford him voiir assistance and protec-
These
tion.
implore with the confidence that vou
I
will not refuse
me, as one possessing so
much beautv
and majesty must be incapable of entertaining any but the most
"
humane thoughts.
"Prince,"
she
replied
"vou have
courteouslv,
chanced upon no barbarous countrv. Vou are in the kingdom of Bengal, and mv father, who is the rajah, will no doubt extend to you the protection you have But I would have you tell me," she asked of me. " bv what miracle vou have come hither from added, the capital of Persia in so short a time, and bv what
enchantment you have been able as to
come
vifjilance of in
mv
to
mv
o;uards
need of food and
and
orders
give
to
;
rest
my
vour
fati2:ue
must
vet as vou I
will set aside
my women
show you an apartment, after
to penetrate so far
apartment, and to have evaded the
that
be sorelv
mv
curiositv,
regale you and
to
you may
and be the better
rest
yourself
able to satisfv
curiosity."
The
princess's
women, who awoke
words which the prince addressed
were
in
the
utmost
surprise
the
to
the
first
princess,
man at the conceive how he had
to
princess's feet, as they could not
at
come thither without waking them They no sooner comprehended the
see
a
or the chamberlains. princess's intentions
than they were readv to obey her commands.
They
each took a wax candle, of which there were great
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. numbers lighted up
in
67
the room, and after the prince
and con-
had respectfully taken leave, went before ducted him into
a
handsome chamber, where, while
some were preparing the bed, others went kitchen
;
into the
and, notwithstanding the unreasonable hour,
thev soon brought him a choice collation, and
he had eaten
as
much
The prince
the
trays
and
left
as
fell on
him
he
chose,
when
removed
thev
his knees beside Iter.
to
taste
sweets
the
of
repose.
In the meantime the Princess of Bengal was so struck
good
with
the
qualities
and other
charms, wit, politeness,
which she had discovered
in
her short
interview with the prince, that she could not sleep: but
when her women came
into
her
room
a^ain
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68
questioned them as to the hospitality thev had shown him, and then proceeded to ask them more particu-
what they thought
larly
Thev handsome
to
him.
in
Bengal to be compared
would be happv indeed
marrv
him
thought
thev
that
as
he appeared amiable, that there was no
as
other prince that she
ot
her
assured
her
one
to
and
her father were
if
suited
so
to him,
her .in every
to
way.
The next day dressino^
done
ever
herself at the
tirins:
and
before,
women beyond
her to
and
trv
on
also
possessed, being dissatisfied
she
At length she
the richest stuffs of the for
kings,
Indies,
and
princes,
various grarments
with
was habited
of
anxious was she
so
the
off a2:ain
in
patience
the
tried
pains
than she had
ijlass
endurance,
and take
more
princess took
the
all
which
of them.
garment
a
in
is
onlv
She
princesses.
of
made
adorned
her head, arms, and waist with the finest and largest
diamonds she possessed,
and
she
after
had
and again consulted her glass she asked her one after another,
if
was wantinir
anvthing:
again
women, in
her
attire.
Being than ever,
assured
that
she sent to
was awake, and dressed,
and,
she
she
know
hearing
looked if
that
more
lovelv
the Prince of Persia
he
went immediatelv
was alreadv up to
pav
him
a
visit.
"I would have received you
in
my own
apart-
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. "but
ment," she informed him,
guards has leave to come so
my
without rupted
my
gratify
came vou J
ing
New
various
came
said
be
manner
the
the
in
inter-
which
court.
Then
enchanted
horse,
to
recital
of
his
the
of
which
the
to
You mav
Princess,
father,
who
well
minutely,
it
think,
my
what
he
rare
and
not
cares
that
purchase such
a curiosity.-
Hindoo his that he would the
the princess,
emperor,
price,
sister,
saw
proposal,
whom
of courtiers
father,
I
The
Priticcss
and he replied
so
onlv in exchange for
he wished to marrv.
who
laughed
vagance of the demand indignant as
to
asked
the horse
give
my
mv
He
/
of Bengal.
"The crowd
horse.
is
would be very desirous
curious,
the
charm-
that the emperor,
gives for anvthing
to
and beg you to
:
"
ing
might
mention-
Year,
having described
and,
we
inventions
had been brought he
though no further
you,
began
description
a
of the
the
Shah
Firoze
with
festival
to
to
as
my
hither."
Prince story
came
curiosity
chief of
the
as
far,
feared
I
therefore
I
;
leave,
69
my
;
as for
stood about
loudlv
me,
I
at
the
the
extra-
was the more
father was inclined to consent
anxious was he
to
possess the
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70
"The
despicable Hindoo, thinking no doubt that
me over
he would bring
to
make
nie to
"
and
on
To
make
my
please
a peg,
as
as
father,
his back,
the horse
mount
into the
The
peg, the horse ascended
and
I
was presentlv
motion
the
I
jrrew
sensible
of
it
still
a greater distance
"xAt last
and then
I
I
an
From
I
I
the
un-
was exposed
endeavoured
to
;
turn
and carried me
from the earth.
perceived another peg, which
grew sensible
that
At length
guide the machine.
alighted and, examining
my
upon the terrace of
the steps and, seeing in
the
presently
surrounded with darkness that
through the room
arrow,
some time
for
the horse rose,
towards the earth, and
self
as
way
But the experiment did
the peg the contrarv wav.
not answer, for
to
touched
I
anv object.
was
I
apprehensive of the danger to which
when
before,
such a distance from the earth
at
could not distinguish
swiftness of
mv hand
as to the
instant swift
as
horse,
and did not wait
air,
from the owner
the
I
I
invited
the
put
Hindoo do
had seen the
I
should guide the animal.
that
once
if
horse,
mounted
I
was upon
I
to receive instructions I
of his
a trial of him.
soon
as
opinion
his
understood the singular worth
I
turned,
horse descended
found
myself so
was impossible
to
the horse stopped.
I
it
whereabouts, found my-
this
palace.
I
descended
door open, entered,
passed
which the guards were
asleep,
a
and entered vour chamber.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. "With what passed next you
And now,
feel
I
law of nations
make you an
my
I
are not unacquainted.
According
generosity.
am
mv
person; there onlv remains
heart: but alas! Princess, that
own, your charms have forced it
it
but yield
again,
princess blushed
she had been very
that
in
of
recital
declaring
she
shall
I
and
to you,
mistress
of both
heart and inclination."
The the
up
it
mv
no longer
is
from me, and
only beg for leave to declare you
my
the
to
already your slave, and cannot
offer of
never ask for
thank you for
obliged in duty to
and
your goodness
71
could
prettily
pleasurably
forbear
not
and replied by
entertained
wonderful
prince's
the
she
very
a
adventures,
shudder when
thought of the tremendous height he had been the
air,
descended of in
and
avowing her
delight
upon the terrace of her
some other
spot,
as
might
that
palace
had
he
instead
have
very easily
happened.
"As
to
should think lieved
so.
your
being
my
myself offended
slave," if
you
said
seriously
Assure yourself you are here
"I
she,
as
be-
much
at liberty as in the midst of the Court of Persia."
At this moment one of the princess's women announced that a meal had been served, and the princess led him into a magnificent hall where a cloth was laid, the table being covered with a great variety of dainty and choice dishes. fasted,
Having break-
they rose, and the princess again conducted
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72
the prince
into
where they gardens
balconv overlooking the
a
in
Here they conversed very
of the palace.
pleasantly
and
down
sat
and magnificent apartment,
large
a
the prince
together,
describing his
home
draw verv Hattering
and managing to
country,
comparisons between the princess's beautiful palace
and
those in his
The
own
country.
no complaints to make her,
assured
father,
the
assuring him that she had
whilst
princess,
him
of
one
the
that
was
rajah,
palace
the
inhabited
bv
to
her
She begged him,
hner.
far
allotted
since chance had brought him so near to her father's capital,
pay him
to
might receive the
there, in order that he
visit
a
honours
due
to
prince of his
a
rank and merit.
The Prince
hoped
princess of Persia
Bengal, and to
a
visit
bv
that,
curiosity
to
exciting
see
the
in
capital
of
her father, the king, seeing him
handsome, wise, and accomplished
so
the
a prince,
might
perhaps resolve to propose an alliance with him, by offering her to
him
no wise averse
to the
this
course
prince,
as
a
did
And her
pleased
was
as she
handsome voung man
would have
however,
wife.
in
herself,
The
vastlv.
not return her an answer
ac-
cording to her expectations. "Princess," he
replied,
preference
"the
vou give the Rajah of Bengal's palace
enough
is it
:
and
to
induce
as to the
me
to believe
proposal of
mv
it
to
which
vour own
much exceeds
going
and paying
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. my
respeds
myself
do
only judge,
father,
an
but
pleasure,
should not
I
But
honour.
would you advise me to great a monarch like an
yourself,
myself before
so
and
without attendants
adventurer,
my
your
king,
a
Princess,
present
to
the
to
73
a train suitable
rank?"
"Prince," give you
any
replied
pain
want no money to
you please here of
make choice
of as
you
not
that
go,
you
shall
and attendants
train ;
"let
but
will
have what
nations in
all
princess,
you
if
;
will furnish
I
:
the
and we have traders and you may
great numbers,
many
as
you please
form your
to
household."
would most willingly accept
"I offer,"
replied
the
prince,
cannot sufficiently show
prevented father
by
must
the feel
my
thought
on
obliging
this
"for which, moreover, gratitude,
of
account
I
were not
uneasiness
the
of
if
my
I
absence.
mv I
should be unworthy of the tenderness he has always
had for
me
calm
his
to
permit me,
if
I
did not return
fears.
as
soon as
Afterwards, Princess,
and think
me worthy
to
if
possible
you
aspire
to
happiness of becoming vour husband,
I
my
stranger,
as
father's leave to return, a prince, to contract an
not
as
a
will
will
the
obtain
but
alliance with your father
by our marriage."
The
Princess of Bengal was too reasonable, after
what the Prince of Persia had longer in persuading him to pay
said,
to persist
a visit to the
any
Rajah
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74
him contrary
of Bengal, or to ask anvtbing of
But she begged him,
and honour.
diitv
remain a few days longer him,
did she entertain
least,
days had extended
the
months before the prince could manage
into
to
her palace, and so well
in
that
at
to his
to tear
himself away.
But
at
length,
declaring seriously
in
that
he
could stay no longer, he entreated her to accompany
him
to his father's Court.
As
the prince
observed
not averse to this suggestion,
"As
it.
for
my
he continued
pleasure; and
to urge
father's consent, Princess," he
"I venture to assure you he will as for the
was
princess
the
that
said,
you with
receive
Rajah of Bengal,
after all
the love and tender regard he has expressed for vou
he must be the reverse of what Jvou have described
him
if
he should not receive
the embassy which his
my
a
in
father will
manner him for
friendly
send
to
approbation of our marriage."
The address, sufficient
princess
returned
him
answer
to
this
and eyes cast down, were
but her silence, to inform
no
that she
had no reluctance
accompany him into Persia. Her one objection was the fear that the prince might not be able to manage the enchanted horse but on the
to
;
prince's
well
as
declaration the
Hindoo
that
he
himself,
company him. The next morning,
a
could she
little
guide
consented
before
it
to
as
ac-
daybreak.
The
horse iiioniifcd into the air.
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went
and princess
The
palace.
turned
prince
his
waist
the
peg,
her
for
when
making
of the
horse
with
prince of
the
towards could
princess
her
arms
about
he
turned
than
mounted
haste,
two
in
the
security,
horse
usual
his
prince,
better
the
terrace
which she had no sooner
:
and was well settled
done,
the
where the
up behind him
easily get
the
asleep,
upon
out
and placed him
Persia,
and,
were
attendants
the
all
77
under
the
time
they
hours'
the
into
air
guidance
reached
the capital of Persia.
He would whence
not alight
had
he
at
nor
out,
set
the great square from in
the
directed his course towards a pleasure-house a
He
led
handsome apartment, where
he
distance from the capital. a
to
do her
and return servants
out for
loud
with
and tears
provide
then
the
his
of love and
eagerly quiries
questioned
were
horse
a
made
Hindoo's horse.
to
of
father,
as
to
to
his
the
be
He
joy
her,
he
arrival,
ordered she
by
saddled,
was
the re-
and
received
the
embraced
people,
him with
his eves.
He
was
adventures,
and
en-
tenderness in as
their
whatever
palace.
father's
his
of
to
that,
leave.
acclamations
emperor,
her
told
He
with
her
ordered
his
father
little
the princess into
was due
that
his
immediately.
her
and took
He set
inform
to
to
quired,
honour
the
all
would go and
but
palace,
whereabouts of the
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7^
He
was only too
had befallen him, kindness
the
and
each
other,
relate
to
particular
had received
he
that
upon
hands of the
the
at
all
stress
dwelt upon the love they bore
Princess of Bengal, to
anxious laid
and
confessed
finally
he
that
upon her to accompany him to riding with him upon the enchanted horse. prevailed
"Sir,"
Persia,
the
said
had
prince,
you
"I
feel
not
refuse
your consent to
our union,
and the princess
assured
will
awaits your decision as anxiously as at
the
I
She
do.
palace
Majesty often
is
where
now your
goes for your
pleasure."
"Son," replied the emperor, once
more embracing
him, "I not onlv consent to
your marriage with the PrinTlie prince set out for fatlier's
will
bring
liis
palace.
her
to
cess
of
Bengal,
but
1
will
go and meet her mvself, and
mv
palace
and
celebrate
your
nuptials this day."
The emperor than gave orders for his Court to make preparations for the princess's entry; the reannounced by the royal band of military music, and the Hindoo was to be taken
joicings
from
were
to be
his prison
and brought before him.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. When
had been done the emperor said
this
"I secured vour person
answer ever,
and
have
never
found
me
let
again
mv
of
out
returned of the •and
with
had
informed her,
left
;
and
to
soon as
as
bethought him-
he
revenged upon the emperor and the
Without
prince.
was
also
palace
his
emperor's presence
of being
self
and
princess,
Shah
Firoze
emperor was making preparations
the
the
left
horse,
who brought
those
Prince
that
go and bring her to he
your
take
where he had alighted and
place
that
a
might
life
your face more."
see
prison
:
whom, how-
son,
go,
:
The Hindoo had heard from him
your
that
that of the prince,
for
I
79
losing anv time,
he went directly
to the palace, and, addressing himself to the keeper,
told
him he came Princess
the
through
of Bengal,
behind
seated
her,
from the
the
air
he
that
Court and
The
and that the
emperor
the
more
to
that
he
had
him
to
the
that
he
came
do
as
she
been
for
conduct
to
what he
princess,
at
said,
liberty.
him,
gave
because he saw
He
who no sooner
from the
in
Hindoo,
the
imprisoned
had
waited
the whole
sight.
knew
who
set
who
to gratify
wonderful
the
palace-keeper,
credit
was
emperor,
the
to
with
citv
of Persia
him upon the enchanted horse,
great square of his palace,
the
to
Prince
presented
understood
prince than she consented
believed the prince
The Hindoo, overioved
at
his
desired
her.
success and the
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So
ease
which he had accomplished
witli
mounted the turned the into
the
same
the
to the
advance receive
and instantly the
peg,
prepare
threats,
beyond
emperor
with
their
his
re-
prize.
had
saw what
happened,
him with reproaches
courtiers assailed
but
an
this
he had received,*
for the ill-treatment
the
all his
thinking
in
to
them both, and
brave
appeared above their heads
his
little
princess
the
The Hindoo,
opportunity to
When
on
and the prince rode a
father.
venge himself
and
liim,
mounted
horse
emperor was
the
might
he
that
excellent
time
palace,
his
he and
behind
princess
the
air.
At
way
took
horse,
his villainv,
more they could not do; he was and
power,
returned
they
the
to
overwhelmed with rage and vexation. But what was Prince Firoze Shah's grief at beholding the Hindoo hurrying away the princess,
palace
whom
he loved so passionatelv?
at first
how he should
act,
way
wicked
Hindoo.
the
pleasure
to
He
did not
know
but decided to at least
tempt to recover the princess the
He
from the power of continued
therefore
palace,
at-
where he had
his
the
leit
princess.
The that he
the life.
the
knew by
this
time
had been too credulous, threw himself
prince's
and
feet
"Rise," said loss
who
palace-keeper,
of
my
the
him
entreated prince,
princess
to
"I
you,
to
do not but
to
take
at
his
impute,
mv own
^
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. Rut
want of precaution. a
dervish's
the
Not
far
a
that
it
for
is
him he readily obtained
and from
friend,
and, being
the
and
to
return
took a
in
a
it,
box
present for
travels,
deter-
attempt. to
the
Hindoo.
He managed
enchanted horse so well, that he arrived earlv
next morning
in
a
wood near
kingdom of Cashmeer.
the
capital
of the
Being hungry, and concluding
the princess was also, he alighted left
Prince
himself
as
his
to
he had found his princess,
until
the
in
it
disguised,
upon
out
set
to return
perish
But his
dressed
completely
thus
princess,
to
prince
which he had brought
mined not or
The
Shah.
of jewels
convent
a
the superior of which was the palace-
complete dervish's habit and carried
Firoze
me
me."
from the pleasure palace stood
of dervishes,
keeper's
no time, fetch
lose
and take care you do not give
habit,
hint
least
81
in
the wood, and
the princess reclining on a grassy spot, close to
a rivulet of
clear water,
whilst
he
went
in
search
of food.
The princess would willingly have attempted to make her escape, but she was too much overcome with fear, hunger, and fatigue to move from the spot.
When
the
Hindoo returned, she took eagerlv
the food he gave her, for she wished to recover her
strength sufficiently
to
be able to outwit him,
and
fortunately before long she heard the sound of horse-
men
advancing, and deeming that she could not verv
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82
hands than those of the Hindoo,
well be in worse
she shrieked and cried for help.
company of horsemen proved Cashmeer and his attendants,
Fortunately the to
who, for
the
be
Sultan of
as they
were returning from hunting,
Princess
the
part of the
Bengal,
of
wood, and ran
happily
through
passed
that
to her assistance.
The sultan addressed himself to the Hindoo, demanded who he was, and wherefore he ill-treated The Hindoo, with great impudence, rethe lady. plied
she
that
was
between them.
right to interfere
The
had any
no one
and
wife,
his
princess,
who neither knew the rank who came so seasonably to
quality of the person relief,
lord,
my
sent to
distress
Heaven
me
has
and
no
give
credit
A
me awav from
the
on
to
the
that
to
impostor.
should be the wife of so vile
I
Hindoo!
a
was going
hither
whom Heaven
are,
have compassion on a princess
forbid that
has forced I
whoever you
assistance,
and despicable
whom
her
hastened to say
"My in
nor
wicked magician, who Prince
be united,
enchanted
of Persia,
to
and has brought
you
horse
behold
there."
The Princess more to persuade she told him was
of Bengal had no occasion to say the Sultan of truth.
Her
Cashmeer beauty,
and tears spoke sufliciently for her. at
the
insolence
of
the
Hindoo,
that
what
majestic
air,
Justly enraged
he
ordered
his
The
sultan addvessed
Jiiiiisclf to
the
Hindoo.
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surround
to
him,
and
strike
85 his
oil
head
:
which sentence was immediately executed. The princess, thus delivered from the persecutions of the Hindoo,
The
sultan conducted her
lodged her his
in the
to attend
another no to
less
palace,
his
afflicting.
where he
most magnificent apartments, next
commanded
own,
slaves
He
into
fell
her,
a
great
number
and ordered
led her himself into
the
a
of
suitable
apartment he
women guard.
had
as-
signed her, where, w^ithout giving her time to thank
him
had received, he
great obligation she
the
for
said to her:
"As rest,
I
am
when vou
princess, that
you must want
my
leave of you
till
take
will
I
certain,
will
be better able to relate to
circumstances of
He The
then
to-morrow,
left
this strange
me
the
adventure."
her.
princess's joy
was inexpressible
at
finding
herself delivered from the Hindoo, and she flattered herself that the Sultan of
by sending her back
his generosity
Persia
when
alas! she
had
to
the Prince of
she should have told him her story, but
was deceived
fallen
Cashmeer would complete
in
love
in
with
her hopes, for the sultan her and
marry her himself the next day.
had resolved
For
to
that reason he
ordered great rejoicings to be made, and the princess
was awakened
at
daybreak by the beating of drums,
the sounding of trumpets, and noise of other instru-
ments expressive of
joy.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
86
When
who had given orders that he should be informed when the princess was ready to receive a
the sultan,
came
visit,
upon
to wait
her,
he had
after
enquired after her health, he acquainted her that those
rejoicings
more
solemn,
were and
at
to
all
render their
nuptials
the
same time
desired
her
the
assent to the union.
This declaration put her into such agitation that she fainted away.
The women slaves who were present assistance, and when at length she began from her swoon she resolved the
sultan
and
be
false
the
to recover
sooner than wed
that,
to
ran to her
prince, she
feign madness, thereby gaining a little time in to
make
So she began
plans for her escape.
the most extravagant expressions
and even rose from her seat
He
before
the
would which
to utter sultan,
as if to attack him.
was greatly grieved, fearing that
it
was
his
sudden and unexpected proposal that had caused the
As
attack. left
her
the
greatest
his
with
presence seemed to her
care
women, of
her
irritate
charging
and
them
never to
her, to
he
take
leave her
alone.
He
sent
many
times during the day to enquire
after her, but the reports he received
favourable. better,
to ask
and if
The
The next day the sultan
sent
were most un-
the princess was for his
still
no
Court physicians
they could cure her. princess,
who
feared
if
they examined her
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. too
closely they
resorted to all
be
potions,
pretended to
to,
anxious
afraid
would discover the
to
she
into
a
them, so
injure
approach
to
which
fly
her.
made
no
TJic princess fainted
«7
she
had
of rage
and
trick fit
that
Some
were
thev
ordered
difficulty
in
her
taking,
away.
but which had no effect whatever in mitigating the disease.
When
the Sultan of
Cashmeer saw
physicians could not cure her,
but
without
effect.
Then he
that his Court
he called sent
in
others,
messages to the
Courts of neighbouring sultans, begging that the most
famous physicians might be allowed to come and their skill
upon the case of the princess.
try
THE ARABIAN NKiHTS.
88
physicians arrived
N^arioiis
tried
their
since
it
but
was
of success,
depend on medicine,
a case that did not
the will of the princess herself.
"on
During habit
in the
but none could boast
skill,
and
parts
all
iroiii
of a
and
provinces
Prince Firoze Shah, disguised
this time,
manv knowing which wav to
towns,
through
travelled
dervish,
not
whether he might not be pur-
direct his course, or
suing the very opposite road to which he
ought, in
order to hear tidings of the lost princess.
He made came
he
place
enquiry
diligent to,
at
till
her
after
through
passing
last,
every
at
much
Hindoostan, he heard the people talk
citv of
of a Princess of Bengal,
day of her intended
who went mad
marriage
with
the
a
the
very
Sultan
of
Cashmeer.
At
the
name
of the Princess
and
Bengal,
of
supposing that there could exist no other Princess of
Bengal than her upon whose account he had undertaken his travels, he hastened towards the kingdom of
Cashmeer, and upon
up
lodging
his
his
arrival
of the princess and the fate of the
and
felt
convinced that he had
beloved object of
his search.
provided himself with let
beard grow
his
could
went
easily to
the
pass
the
at
capital
took
khan, where he heard the story
at a
length found the
at
The following day he
a phvsician's habit, and,
during his
himself
sultans
Hindoo magician,
off
palace,
travels, as
a
where
he
having felt
phvsician.
he
he
He
presented
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. himself to the
and observed,
chief of the officers,
modestly, that perhaps
it
might be looked upon
as
a rash undertaking to attempt to cure the princess after
many had
so
from which he had
specifics,
experienced
might
success,
desired relief.
effect the
The told
chief of the officers
him
he
that the sultan
was welcome,
would receive
him with pleasure, and if
hoped some
that he
but
failed,
that
he should have the good
fortune
restore the
to
cess to her
might expect
reward
prin-
former health, he considerable
a
from
master's
his
liberality.
The Sultan
of Cashmeer,
who had begun hope
covery, the
when
new
ordered into
the
of
him
all
to
of
arrival
shown
be
The prince disguised
Then,
presence.
wasting
re-
heard
he
physician's
his
without
lose
to
princess's
any
as a dervisli.
time,
he told him the princess could not bear the sight of any physician transports,
him
which
straightway
without
falling
increased to
a
little
her
into
most violent
malady
room
;
from
and took
whence,
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
go
through a
he might
lattice,
her without being
see
observed.
There princess
an
Prince
which
had
which
with tears
sitting in
air
Shah
Firoze
in
beheld
her eyes, and singing
deplored
she
deprived
lovelv
his
unhappy
her
fate,
perhaps for ever, of the
her,
object she loved so tenderly.
The
prince was
condition
he
and
him,
her malady
he
so
dear princess, but
his
was feigned
the
told
by the melancholy
affected
which he found
in
certain
felt
much
sultan
covered the nature of the
that
The
him
for
sultan
to
Firoze Shah went
princess
saw him (taking him by
As soon
in.
as
habit
his
to
the
be
threatening and
He, however, went straight towards
abusing him.
and said
the Prince
it
was absolutely
it
physician), she rose up in a rage,
might hear,
dis-
ordered the princess's door to be
and
her,
had
and that
speak with her alone.
opened,
a
he
complaint,
was not incurable, but added that necessarv
for love of
low voice,
a
in
no
one
else
am not a physician, but and am come to procure vou
"Princess, of Persia,
that
I
your liberty."
The voice,
he had
calm
once, and
as
knew
the
and the upper features of
standing
spread
who
princess,
at
her face.
possible
how
his
let
a
Firoze
his face,
beard grow so
secret jov
despair
sound
Shah
of
the
notwith-
long,
grew
and pleasure overtold
had seized
her as
him
briefly
when he
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. saw the Hindoo carry her away
91
the
;
resolution
he
afterwards had taken to leave everything to find her
and never to return home
out,
till
her; and by what good fortune,
and
fatiguing
journey,
at
had
he
he had regained after a long
last,
the
satisfaction
of
finding her in the palace of the Sultan of Cashmeer.
He
happened
that
away
to her,
that
till
moment when he had
greatest importance to
all
from the time she was taken the
to converse with her, telling her that
the
him of
then desired the princess to inform
know
most proper measures
it
happiness
was of the
that he might take
this,
her from the
to deliver
tyranny of the vSultan of Cashmeer.
The
princess, having
informed
him of
that
all
had happened, of her rescue from the Hindoo, and of the sultan's subsequent intention of marrying her,
added that she had been able
of no other
to think
mode of escaping than to feign madness. The prince then asked if she knew what had become of the enchanted horse. The princess, however, knew nothing of its whereabouts, but was quite
sure
the
sultan
had preserved
it
as
a
great
curiosity.
As Firoze Shah never doubted but the had the
horse,
he
tended making use of and
the
told it
to
princess
that
sultan
he
in-
convev them both back had
consulted
together
to
Persia
on
the measures they should take, thev agreed that
the
;
after
thev
princess should dress herself the
next day, and
(j2
receive to
the
THE ARABIAN
NKjllTS.
sultan
but
civilly,
without
The stated
was
sultan
him the
to
when
overjoyed
effect
his
On
when
day,
the
manner
as
vanced,
he regarded
the
him
persuaded
world
him
tented himself with telling her at
her
He
being
soon
likely
was
cure
her
in
how
to
this
well
order
in
begun,
and
then
retired
phvsician con-
rejoiced he was
recover
her health. skilful
what he
complete
to
a
ad-
far
state,
bade her follow the directions of so
physician,
to-
such
in
the greatest
seeing
and,
;
her
as
prince
the following
him
received
princess
the
had had
visit
first
wards the cure of the princess.
in
speakiii_'#^^^i3'"il
A '^%
ifii
I
T
N
large and
,
1
the capital
of one
of the
rich provinces of
kingdom of China, there lived a tailor, named Mustapha,
the
who was hardly,
so poor that he conld
by
his dailv labour,
himself
tain
and
his
which consisted of
main-
familv,
a wife
and
son.
His
son,
who was
called
Aladdin, had been brought up in a
very careless and idle
manner, and by that means TJ/c lamp.
habits.
the in
He
was
morning, the streets
of his
own
When father,
had in
the
contracted
habit of goin^ out earlv in
and would stav out and
manv bad
public
all
places with
dav,
plaving
idle children
age.
he was old enough to learn
not being
took him into
his
a trade,
his
able to put him out to any other,
own
shop, and taught him
how
to
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his
needle
keep him
was
his
but
:
work were
his
to
endeavours to
father's
his
all
97
no sooner
vain, for
in
back turned, than he was gone for that day.
iMustapha chastised him, but Aladdin was incorrigible
and
his
abandon
him
troubled
at
his
to
a
was
grief,
to
forced
was
and
idleness,
not being able
threw him into a
great
his
to
father,
reclaim
so
to
much
him, that
it
of sickness, of which he died in
fit
few months.
The mother,
finding
her
that
follow his father's business,
shut
would
son
not
up the shop, sold
and with the money she received, and
off evervthing,
what she could get by spinning cotton, endeavoured to maintain herself
Aladdin, the fear of a
and her son.
who was now no longer restrained by father, and who cared so little for his
mother, gave himself entirelv over to his idle companions.
custom,
One in
the
dav, as
he was plaving, according to
street
with his vagabond associates,
a stranger passing
by stood to observe him.
This stranger was
a matjician
who had
recentlv
arrived from Africa.
The African magician observing
in
Aladdin's
countenance something absolutelv necessarv execution of the design he was engaged artfully all
about
his family,
in,
for the
enquired
and when he had learned
he desired to know, went up to him, and, taking
him aside from
his
comrades,
said,
"Child,
vour father called Mustapha the tailor?"
was not
THE
9S
"Yes,
doad
a
NK'.Urs.
answorod the bov
sir,"
long
AKAl>l.\N
"biu ho has boon
;
tinio.
Ai ihoso words, tho Atrican magician throw
arms about Aladdin's nock, and with
timos,
toars
his
him sovoral
kissod
ovos.
his
in
who obsorvod his toars, askod him what mado him woo[\ "Alas mv son." oriod tho magician with a sigh, "how can torboar: am vour undo vour worthy tathor was mv own brother. havo boon manv voars abroad, and no\\ am come home with tho hopes ot seeing him. voii tell mo ho is Aladdin,
I
I
1
;
I
1
dead. griot
1
assure vou
to
mo
the comfort •'C/*jV '
'
'
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person
only
could
him
inform
2ig
what
of
he
wanted to know. All the thieves listened to him with the utmost
and the captain,
satisfaction,
we have no
"Comrades,
said:
diligence,
lose
without but
its
we mav
that
suspicion,
go into join
be
shall
one
or
are
;
anv
two
town together, and
the
at
not excite
onlv
let
to
armed,
who we
appearing
his
time
us set off well
let
:
commending
after
our
rendezvous,
the
great
which
Our
square.
comrade, w4io brought us the good news, and house,
the
go and find out
will
I
we mav
that
consult
what had best be done." This plan being approved of
by ,,
,
.
Morgiana marked ^two three
doors
They'
,
ov
and
same
in the
The robber who Ali first
led
had
they
filed
off
in
without
plaved the
the captain
Baba was now
were
Succeeded
town
manner.
the morning
all,
living,
into
in
soon
parties of ^
two
entering
the
being part
the
ready.
suspected. of
street
spy in
where
and when they came to the
of the houses which Morgiana
had marked, he
But the captain observed that the next door was chalked in the same manner in the same place, and, showing it to his guide, asked him what it meant. pointed
it
out.
15*
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
220
The
was so astounded he knew not what
j^nide
and was
answer to make,
he and the captain saw
He
marked. could not
was
houses similarly
declared he had marked but one, and
tell
who had chalked
the rest, so that he
returned
captain
which was
to
be
robbers
the
was explained
return
there
square
and ordered
forest.
As soon
reason of their returninfr
and
the
robber
what he had undertaken
in
the
to
place
the
to
the
them,
to
directly
meeting
the
to
thev arrived
failed
cobbler had
at.
The
as
or six
five
unable to distinguish the house the
stopped
all
more puzzled when
still
to
who had
do was im-
mediately put to death.
Another of the of death, should
he
whom
troop, fail,
not even the fear
could daunt, undertook to
lind out the house.
He first
presented himself to Baba Mustapha as the
robber had done,
marked
it
being shown the house,
and,
with red chalk in a place which he thought
not likely to be noticed.
Not long afterwards Morgiana, whose eyes nothwent
ing could escape,
out,
and seeing the red chalk
marked the neighbours' houses by way of precaution.
The robber returned counted what all
of
he
stole
his
had done,
them thought
They
to
into
the
the
in
plan
and
the
same manner,
comrades and the
captain
re-
and
must succeed.'
town with the same pre-
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. caution as before, but on
were again several
The
doors.
when he and
coming
by seeing
baffled
into the street they
same marks on
the
was
captain
verv
who had been
the cause of the
mistake underwent the -same punishment
The
to the
pursuing
two brave fellows of of diminishing it too much by
having
was afraid
this
had been
as
first.
captain,
his troop,
and
angry,
the rest of the troop had returned to
the forest the robber
meted out
221
lost
plan to get information of the residence
of their plunderer.
He so
had found that
good
as
therefore
hands
their
resolved
on
such
and
occasions,
upon
take
to
men's heads were not
his
himself
im-
the
portant commission.
Accordingly he went and addressed himself to
Baba Mustapha, who
did
him the same service he
had done to the other robbers.
He
did not set anv
mark on the house, but examined it so that by passing it often it became impossible
particular
carefully for
him
to mistake
Well returned the
prevent
had
with
satisfied
to the
cave,
it.
forest
their
taking
succeeded
that
revenge gaining
in
attempt,
and joined
them
telling
his
his
captain
the
comrades
nothing
upon the
knowledge
in
now man who
could
of
their
secret.
out
He
had made
he
sent
them
a plan,
to
the
and
in
order to carrv
neighbouring
villages
it
to
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222
buy nineteen mules one
jars,
of
full
and thirty-eight the
oil,
large
leather
empty.
others
In a few davs' time the robbers had purchased the mules and
men
oil
The
rubbed the outside of the
he
into each,
with
and, after having put one of his
jars,
from the
full
vessel.
thieves had originally been forty in number,
men and the thirty-seven men
captain
thirtv-nine
only
mules
nineteen
and the
jars
were laden with and
of oil
jar full
He until
he
as
he had
led
mules
he came to Ali Baba's
meant
doorway,
to
knock
taking
a
men
;
through
house,
fresh
little
at
the
market
;
and
it
w^here to lodge.
you,
do
me
with you, and
the I
is
now
If I
he
air,
wav, to
sell
whose door
I
in
stopped
at
so late that
the his
"I have
to-morrow's
do not know
should not be troublesome to
favour shall
streets
him seated
but seeing
a great
oil
them
dusk of the
the
mules, addressed himself to him, and said:
brought some
the
in
out with
set
the
that
intended.
laden
the
saw
his
in
it
now
there remained
:
captain
the
;
towards the town, reaching evening,
jars
to
me much
pass
let
be very
night
the
obliged by your
hospitality."
Although Ali Baba had seen the captain of the robbers in the forest, he did not recognise him in
He made him
the disguise of an oil merchant.
come
to
mules
to
his
house and
go into the vard.
opened
He
his
gates
called a slave,
for
welthe
named
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
and ordered him, when the mules were
x\bdoolah,
not only to put them
unladen,
223
but
into the stable,
them fodder; then he bade Morgiana get a good supper for his guest, and sat talking with him to give
had eaten
until he
it.
Baba had retired to rest the captain found means of visiting the vard.
It
that
He
was not
took the
men
a little
out
as
she
picion,
put the
down
self
readv to
to
left
him
and
;
light out
his clothes,
in
the
his
he,
soon
After
signal.
when Morgiana,
house,
the
conducted him to
light,
where
gave them
he
returned
taking up a
give
to
jars,
and bade them be ready to come
air,
as
each of the
off
lid
soon
he
this
until Ali
to after,
his
chamber,
avoid
anv sus-
and
laid
him-
more
that he might be the
rise.
^lorgiana,
who had
not
yet finished
her work,
found to her mortification, when her lamp suddenly
went
out,
what
to
that she had
no more
do she did not know,
oil till
in
the
the
house;
slave
who
had been called to stable the supposed merchant's
mules advised her to take a
which stood
eight jars
in the
little
from the
thirty-
courtyard.
So Morgiana took the oil-pot, and went into the yard what was her surprise upon approaching ;
the
"Is
first it
jar
when
the robber within
Many would have alarm,
it
said
softly
time ?"
but
not
so
uttered
Morgiana.
exclamation
of
Comprehending
at
an
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
224
once that some danger threatened her master, she a
whisper
in this
manner
only replied
She went
in
:
"Not
yet,
but presently."
to all the jars, hearing the
same question and giving the same answer, till she came to the jar of oil. By this means she found out that her master, instead of entertaining a harmless oil merchant, had She admitted thirty-eight robbers to his house.
made what
she could to
haste
returned to her kitchen, when, lamp,
her
lighted
she
took
her oil-pot, and
fill
as
a
soon
great
over a large
fire,
and
as
soon
as
it
out and poured sufficient of the boiling
robber within
iar to stifle the
All noise,
went
kettle,
again to the oil-jar, and tilled the kettle with it
had
as she
oil,
set
boiled went oil
into each
it.
she accomplished without making any
this
and having put out her lamp she waited to
hear what would happen.
Before long the captain of the robbers got up
and opened
which was
his
to
window, gave the appointed drop
few small
a
stones
window, but growing uneasy that he response, he went the
first
jar
down
and spoke
into the yard.
signal,
from the
no
received
He went
to
There was no answer,
softly.
and then he noticed the smell of hot
oil
and soon
discovered what had happened.
Examining found best
all
to
his
make
all
the
jars,
one
after
he
another,
comrades were dead, and deemed his
escape whilst he yet might.
it
He
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. found a door
in
yard
the
back to the
When the present
master and
Ali
Morgiana was
satisfied that all
was over, and
that
the
his
way
Baba
rose
all
his comrades
early
and
oil-jars
and
to
find that
danger for
had saved her
she
his family, she retired to
he returned he was very
the
into
forest.
The captain found
see
opened
and climbing over the wall made
garden,
When
which
225
bed and
to sleep.
were dead.
went
to
much
the
bath.
surprised to
the merchant had
gone.
He
enquired of Morgiana
how
this
came
and by way of answer she led him to the
and bade him look
inside.
about,
first
jar
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
226
AH Baba
did so, and, seeing a man, started back-
and cried
in alarm,
Morgiana,
"Do
out.
man you
"the
you nor anybody
not be afraid," said
He
any harm.
else
can neither do
there
see
is
Look
dead.
into the other jars."
When
he had done so he stood staring
when
giana for some time in silence, and
Mor-
at
length
at
he recovered himself sufficiently to be able to speak,
"And what
he said:
come
has
"Merchant!" answered one
as
exactly
all
"he
she,
She then recounted
am."
I
of the merchant?" is
much
as
to her
master
had happened, telling him how she
that
had suspected treachery from the time she had
first
observed the chalk marks upon the door. "If you reflect on she,
"you
whom
find
will
you saw
was
it
for.
of the
it
my
for
said
robbers
and two others are
captain
Therefore
upon your guard, and
a plot
Thirty-seven have
in the forest.
but the
perished,
unaccounted
that has happened,"
all
now still
behoves you to be part
I
shall
neglect
nothing necessary for your preservation."
When
Morgiana ceased speaking, Ali Baba was so sensible of the great service she had done him that he said to her:
"I will not die without reward-
ing vou as vou deserve for
the
first
you your
token of
liberty.
we have now
to
You do
wicked thieves with
is
all
owe mv life to vou, and my acknowledgement I give I
:
are to
no longer
a slave.
All
burv the bodies of these
the secrecv imas:inable, that
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. nobody may suspect what that labour Abdoolah and
is
I
become
227
of them,
will undertake."
Ali Baba's garden was very long, at the
farther end
Under
these
by
a great
and wide enough to hold
Tlie robbers
they were hid the
all
jars
number
and the slave dug
he
ivere
all
When
buried.
and weapons, and
for the mules, Ali
Baba
and shaded
of large trees. a
trench,
long
the robbers, and here
buried in Ali
all
But
Babas
this
as
garden.
was done they they had no use
sent them, at different times,
to be sold in the market.
But the
captain
of the
band of robbers was
not long before he planned revenge for the loss of
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
228
He
brave comrades.
his
the
ing
had no intention of remain-
occupant
sole
of
meant
collecting a fresh troop he
the
man who was
the
in possession of
before
but
cave,
end
to put an
to
such a dangerous
secret.
So the morning after his comrades had been destroyed he went into the town and took up his lodging
at
he had,
and
an
as the
of information,
He
inn.
worthy man gave him
He now
all
sorts
but none of a kind that interested
him, he judged that Ali
keep the whole
asked the host what news
Baba had thought
best to
a secret.
affair
determined to play the part of
merchant, and for
this
immediately opposite
a silk
purpose engaged a warehouse
which had belonged
that
Cassim and which was now
in
to
charge of Ali Baba's
son.
He
very soon made friends with the young man,
and, being well disguised,
ventured also to get into
conversation with Ali Baba and was again invited to
spend an evening
at
his house.
Morgiana no sooner
set eyes
mistrusted him, more especially so that
he had a special aversion to
that
none might be used
in
on him than she
when he declared salt
and begged
preparing the evening
meal.
Everyone knows if
a
will
man not
has
once
that
eaten
amongst Eastern nations salt
with
his
enemy he
harm him, and wise Morgiana was
quite
Mot'piana
held a da^ocy
m
Iwr hand.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
231
certain that this was the
reason the pretended
merchant would not eat
salt
When
at
silk
her master's table.
she perceived, moreover, that he had a dagger
hidden beneath
garments she determined to put
his
And
an end to him herself.
so, when supper was came in to dance before her master and his guest. The dance was a strange one, for she held a dagger in her hand and as she twirled about she made a pretence of presenting it now at her
over, she
master's breast, it
now
at his son's,
and
plunged
finally
into the robber's heart.
Baba and
Ali
son
his
were
shocked
at
this
Morgiana opened the pretended merchant's garment and showed them the dagger. "Look action,
until
well
him," she
his
at
fictitious
said,
"and you
face,
tearing the false beard from
w^ill
find
oil-merchant and the
him
to
be both the
captain of the forty
thieves."
Ali Baba and his son
knew
not
how
to express
their gratitude to the brave Morgiana.
"I gave you your liberty," said Ali Baba, "and
promised that but
I
now
my
gratitude
esteem by making you turning
to
should not cease there,
intend giving you a higher proof of
his
son,
my he
daughter-in-law." said:
mv
Then,
"Consider that
by
marrying Morgiana you marrv the preserver of our family."
As
the
son
readily consented
to
the
marriage
the nuptials were celebrated a few days later.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
232
The
body was
captain's
buried
the
in
same
trench as the rest of the troop and no one was ever
any the wiser concerning the matter. Ali
Baba waited
son's marriage
for
a
whole year
to
his
venturing near the cave, be-
before
whom
cause the end of the two robbers
had caused
after
be put to death was
the crosses
still
unknown
to him.
However, return to
the
at
length
Finding
cave.
been undisturbed
he
since
the
decided to venture to that
it
captain's
had evidently death
he de-
cided that the troop of forty robbers was now^ completely destroyed.
He
took away with him
as
much
gold as he could carry, and afterwards took his son to the cave
and taught him the
handed down
to
their
posterity,
secret,
who,
which they using
good fortune with moderation, lived always honour and splendour.
in
their
great
THE STORY OF KUMMIR AL ZUMMAUN AND BADOURA. PRINCESS OF CHINA. A
BOUT
twenty
days'
from the coast of
sail
Persia, there are islands in
the main ocean called the Islands of the Children of
These islands
Khaledan.
were
formerly
governed
named Shaw Zummaim, who would have by
a
king
thought himself one of the
most happy monarchs Badoura, Princess of China.
world,
in
the
on account of
his
peaceful and prosperous reign, had
not been that
it
he had been denied the blessing of children.
He
had
no son
and
this
caused him
to
succeed great
him on the throne,
grief and
uneasiness.
Think then of his joy when, Heaven sent him a son, and the beautiful al
that
he
gave
in
his
prince
old
age,
was
so
him the name of Kummir
Zummaun, which means "Moon
of the Age." i6
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
234
He
was brought up with
imaginable
all
care,
and when he had arrived at a proper age, his father appointed him an experienced governor and able
He
preceptors.
quitted
himself
address,
as
cularly
the
now
the
prince.
till
I
for
parti-
early
in
age,
manhood, began
his
to think
the throne to
it,"
me
to
said
"and think
he,
it
is
retire."
suitable
prince
that
he
wished he
was
marry,
and
marriage
before
had
no wish
to
very plainly.
charge
his
him
aversion
give
he
He
would
him time
However, when
a
to
not
marriage,
force
consider the
at
declared
still
single, the
king was very
council with his vizier,
little
his
end
of
yet
would
himself
his
the
grieved
nor exert his
contented
the prince
patience.
to
not
disobedience,
with
authority.
him
was
father
prince's
discover
paternal
but
and
borne the fatigue of a crown
of
a
wonderful
announced king.
so
telling
to
informed the
make
The not
him,
grown
But the prince
to
who saw
and wished to resign
then
publicly
said
and
father.
his
"I have
now proper to
grace
being advanced
am weary
He
all
had
he
of retirement,
him
with
sultan
he was taught and ac-
all
such
charm
to
When father,
learned
with
inclinations,
proposal.
another
year
intention of remaining
much annoyed. He took who counselled him to have
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
many things about Your Majesty will
"Patience," said he, "brings
seemed impracticable.
that before
235
have no cause to reproach yourself for precipitation, if
you
another
prince
the
give
will
year to
con-
sider your proposal."
The
anxiously
so
thought
married,
son
his
who
sultan,
grand
his
long
this
however, though with much
desired
delay
see
to
an
age
he yielded to
difficulty,
vizier's advice.
But the year expired, and, of the sultan, Prince
Kummir
to the
great regret
Zummaun
al
gave not
the least proof of having changed his sentiments.
One
day,
therefore,
when
was
there
great
a
Council, the sultan addressed him thus, in the hearing
of
while
since
to
the
and
regard
son,
it
my
for
same
my
vou
to
is
now
in
desire
you would
wishes, I
long
a
earnest
imagined
I
on vour part
resistance
a
propose
my
married,
more
had
have such
"My
expressed to you
I
you
see
to
Court:
his
all
but
after
have thought
fit
presence
of
the
Council."
The that he
prince
answered
with
would not comply with
so
much warmth
his father's request,
that the sultan, enraged to see himself thwarted by
him
in full
prince
Council, ordered the guards to take the
away,
and carry him to an old tower that
had long been unoccupied, where he was shut up, with only a bed, a
little
furniture,
some books, and
one slave to attend him. 16*
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236
Kummir
al
Zummaun,
thus deprived of liberty,
was nevertheless pleased to be alone with
which
made him regard
difference.
confinement with
in-
he bathed and said
his
his
In the evening
his books,
and after having read some chapters
prayers,
Koran, with the same tranquillity of mind
had been self
him while he slept. In this tower was
a well,
davtime for a retreat to It
as if
sultan's palace, he undressed
in the
and went to bed, leaving
morme.
in the
was about
his
midnight
him-
lamp burning by
which served
a certain
he
in
fairv called
the
Mai-
when Maimorme
sprang lightly to the mouth of the well, to wander
about the world after her wonted custom, where her curiosity led in
the
her.
She was surprised
prince's chamber, and,
to see a light
entering,
approached
the bedside.
The
prince was fast asleep
that his eves
were veiled the
;
but notwithstanding
fairv
thouo^ht
him the
young man she had ever seen. She kissed him gently, without waking him, and took her flight As she was ascending she heard a great into the air.
finest
flapping
of wings,
and knew
it
to be a
genie
who
This genie's name was T)anhasch,
made the noise. and Maimorme at once accosted him and asked him where he came from, what he had seen, and what he had done that night.
"Since you desire to know," replied Danhasch, "I will
inform
vou that
I
come from
the
utmost
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. of China
limits
;
the
king
only daughter, the finest in the
as to trail
as
Her
world.
the
is
that ever
polished
Maimorme
and
kissed
full
mirror,
him
of
vermilion
her
eves
are
this
fire,
her nose
Her
teeth
to
black,
neither too
is
finest
like
are
exceed her
and of a
two rows of
whiteness.
in
imperfect sketch, vou
no beautv likelv
smooth
gently, imthout ivaking him.
and surpass the
word, by is
colour.
was seen as
is
long nor too short, and her mouth small
pearls,
an
brown, and of such length
on the ground, her forehead
best
sparkling,
hair
country has
of that
woman
237
may
in the
In
a
guess there world.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
238
"Her
built for her seven
and
beyond
father loves her
magnificent
were
ever
belief and has
most extraordinarv
the
palaces,
that
all
known,
and
has
furnished them most sumptuously.
"Because of the fame of cess's beauty, the
most powerful neighbouring kings
have sent
ambassadors
The King
of China
manner,
obliging his
incomparable prin-
this
to
solicit
any of the
in
marriage.
all
in
the
received them
he resolved not to
but as
daughter without her consent,
like
her
same marry
and she did not
ambassadors were forced
parties, the
to return as they came. "'Sir,' said the
have
'you think
stately
me
married,
and
where
shall
I
find
as
are
inclination to see
me by
oblige
to
such
an
king her father,
princess to the
palaces
but
it;
and
gardens
delicious
me by your Majesty? Through your good pleasure I am under no constraint and have the same honours shown to me as are paid to yourfurnished
These are advantages
self.
anywhere love
else,
to be
cannot expect to find
I
whoever may be my husband
masters,
and
;
men
have no inclination to
I
be commanded.'
but
"The when
king
a very
asked her hand with the others,
single
he
bore^with her whim for some time; powerful in
and more opulent king
marriage
and
same scorn she had
became enraged and
she
treated
him
shown towards the shut
apartment, with only ten old
her up
women
in
a
to wait
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
239
upon her and keep her company, the chief of whom had been her nurse."
Maimorme, having Princess
of
Kummir
al
China,
listened to the story of the
told
her
Zummaun, and
as
story
of the
both
the
Prince
genie
and
the fairy persisted in saying that their special charge
was more beautiful than the other, Danhasch agreed
Danliasch returned, bringing the fair princess with him asleep.
to
go and fetch the princess that they might compare
the two.
Accordingly Danhasch flew
whence
he
soon
bringing the
her
fair
down bv
of the two.
and
with
princess with
incredible
him
the prince's bedside,
towards China,
asleep.
and truly
speed,
He it
set
was
determine which was the more beautiful
diflScult to
yield,
returned
off
it
Neither
was not
Maimorme nor Danhasch would until Maimorme had summoned
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
240 a
named Caochcash,
hideous humpbacked genie,
matter was decided,
the
that
and he declared that the
prince and princess were both equally beautiful.
was
he, too,
who
It
suggested that they should awaken
the two sleepers in turn, and see what they thought
of one another.
So Maimorme transformed and
No
bit the prince.
herself into
a
flea
sooner was he awake than
he espied the sleeping princess and straightway
He
in love with her.
did
not
awaken,
He
chanted sleep. finger this
because
again
fell
she
was sleeping an
en-
next drew a ring from the princess's
and replaced
he
fell
her tenderly, but she
kissed
it
with one from his
into
a
own
after
;
profound and enchanted
sleep.
and
Danhasch next transformed himself into a flea in his turn bit the princess, who awoke from
her sleep, and on opening her eyes was very surprised to see a
her
much
handsome young prince lying by
side,
fast
asleep.
She
fell
in
love with him at once,
as
he had
done with
her,
and was somewhat disappointed that
she could
not
awaken him.
and shook him several times very soon she too
to
to
fell
She kissed ;
but
all
in
his
cheek
vain,
and
asleep.
Then Maimorme bade Danhasch carry her back her own apartment; this he did, and as day began appear Maimorme retired to her well. Kummir al Zummaun, on waking next morning,
Kummiv
al' Ziiuiinaiin
awakened
his slave.
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243
once looked for the lady he had seen during the
night, but she
had vanished.
He awakened
who was still asleep, had become of the lady who
his
and asked him w^hat
slave,
had visited him during the night.
"My
Lord,"
answered the
slave,
what lady your Highness speaks
The
"I
know
not
of."
prince flew into a violent rage, and as the
slave persisted in saying that no ladv had been there, his
master beat him
under
arms,
his
soundly and, fastening a rope
plunged him
the
into
threatened to drown him unless he
at
and
well
once confessed
the truth.
The slave, perplexed and himself, "The prince must have grief,
and
falsehood.
I
shall
My
not escape
half dead, said within lost his senses
through
do not
him
if I
Lord," he cried,
in
The
a
a suppliant tone,
"I beseech your Highness to spare will tell
tell
my
life,
and
I
you the truth." prince drew the slave up, but as soon as
he was out of the well he begged leave to go and
change
his wet clothes before he Having obtained permission he went
told out,
the
story.
and having
locked the door upon the prince, ran to the palace just as
he was, and informed the king that the prince
had taken leave of of a lady w^hom
his senses
he had
and raved continually
seen during the night;
he
also called the king's attention to the violence with
which he had been treated.
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•
244
The king and examine
went
vizier
his
immediately to
and after
into the condition of the prince,
hearing his story the king could no longer believe that his son had lost his senses,
strange though the
The
circumstances appeared to be. his
upon
ring
father the
his
showed
prince
which he had
finger,
taken from that of the sleeping princess, and begged
no longer, but
his father to delay
whom he had fallen my son," replied the
the lady with ''Alas,
knew who
she
I
is.
would
him
unite
to
so deeply in love.
"I would
king,
the world!
seek her?
shall I
These things
I
As he spoke he took said,
"Come
came
my
con-
my
affliction,
son,
and
the
us
let
love,
conveyed him
led
in
object, he fell sick,
and
go and grieve
and
I
to-
with seeing
son
his
to the
had no sooner arrived than,
unknown
do not understand."
without being able to afford you
Shaw Zummaun then tower,
I
prince by the hand,
the
you with hopeless
gether;
your
then,
confess
in
How
she here, and by what conveyance, without sent?
I
comply with
instantly
your wishes, and should be the happiest father
But where
to
relief."
out of the
palace,
where he
despair at loving an
and took
to his
bed;
king shut himself up with him, without attend-
ing to the affairs of his kingdom, for
Whilst matters
Shaw Zummaun, Princess
Badoura,
China was called.
passed
things
thus
were no
in
many the
better
days.
capital
with
of the
by which name the Princess of
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. When
245
awoke next morning she immediately asked her women what had become of the handsome young man she had seen during the night. No one would believe her storv, and her nurse and women she
slaves sought to convince her
was quite impossible
that
it
that
any young
man
have visited her, locked
had
they
her
into all
could
as she
was
room
and
been sleeping
by the door. She became so angry that the nurse fetched the King
Oueen
and
visited
their
sought
to
her
who
daughter
and
convince
her
of
But when they
error.
not do
could
China,
of
this,
thev be-
came exceedingly concerned at
the
The
state
king,
ordered
her,
^^^^
mind.
her
being convinced
her
and
ever,
of
to
allowed
with a good
that
more
be
at
nurse
the
''«"
door
^^''
^'^
was
she
closelv
only the
guard
^^'^^'^'
Z'^^^"-
insane,
confined to
than
attend
on
of her apart-
ment.
So anxious was he
summoned
his Council,
to
and
effect
after
her cure
that
he
having acquainted
them with the princess's condition said: "If any of you is capable of restoring her to health, I will give
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
246
my
and make him heir to
her to him in marriage,
dominions."
The
and
princess,
great a
on
an
of
desire
emir,
hopes
the
kingdom
obtaining
handsome
a
day governing so
of one
had
as that of China,
already advanced
a great effect
who was
years,
in
As he was
present at this Council.
young
well
skilled
in
magic, he offered the king to recover his daughter,
and
flattered himself with success,
"I consent
to
the trial,"
said
you one condition, and that
I
forgot to
if
you do not succeed, you
tell
:
come
after you,
that they
that
is,
lose your head.
shall
would not be reasonable you should have and what a reward, and vet run no risk you," continued the king,
"but
king;
the
"I say to
may
all
great
so I
It
say to
others
who
consider beforehand
what they undertake."
The emir accepted conducted him
But
his
the condition, and the
king
to the princess's place of confinement.
magic
arts availed
him
little
:
the princess
continued to entreat her father to marry her to the
handsome young
prince,
and
at
length the emir threw
himself at his Majesty's feet and
power to cure her malady. The king, enraged at
his
owned he had no
incapacity,
and the
trouble he had given him, caused him to be immediately beheaded.
Some
days after, unwilling to have
it
said
that
he had neglected his daughter's cure, the king put
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forth
a
there
were
any
in
his
who would undertake
No
less
magicians
magician
he succeeded,
if
and their heads were
and
to
cure
the
underwent the same
all
set
astrologers,
fifty
attempted
princess of her malady, and fate,
if
failed.
than a hundred
and
physicians,
that
to restore the princess to her
he
if
or
astrologer,
senses, he should win her in marriage
or lose his head
stating
capital,
physician,
247
upon poles on every
gate of the city.
Now
Princess Badoura's
the
nurse
whose name was Marzavan, who had brother to the
and
princess
Marzavan had travelled and was much skilled
had
a
son
been foster
brought up with her.
a great deal in foreign parts
in astrology,
geomancy and
the
like secret arts.
As soon from
mother heard he had returned
his
as
his travels she
him
made up her mind
to introduce
princess's
presence that he might try
his skill in curing her;
but as she did not wish him
into the
to lose his
addressed thus
:
"
I
head she disguised him herself to
with the princess the
the
have a daughter
princess
and wishes
I
brought up along
been since married, yet
to see her, without
The chamberlain I
woman and
does her the honour to love her,
still
"Say no more,
a
chamberlain of the guard
whom
she has
;
as
interrupted her, and exclaimed,
will with
oblige the princess ;
being observed."
pleasure do anything to
go and fetch your daughter, or
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
248
send for her about midnight, and the
open
be
gate shall
for vou."
As soon
as
it
was dark the nurse went and
fetched Marzavan, and so well was he disguised that the chamberlain never suspected him of being a man,
but admitted him at once.
The
the
telling
however,
nurse,
princess
that
took the
precaution
the
disguised
of
woman was
Marzavan, her foster brother.
"What! my brother Marzavan," exclaimed princess, with great joy; "approach and take veil
for
;
it
is
oft
the that
unreasonable that a brother and
not
should see each other without covering their
sister
faces.
rejoice to see
I
many "Madam,"
after so
obliged
to
you returned
in
good health,
years' absence."
replied
you.
I
Marzavan,
hoped
to
"I
have
am
infinitely
heard a better
account of your health than has been given me.
however, give
will,
me
It
pleasure to help to remedy
your Highness's situation."
Having thus spoken he drew out a book and some other things which he thought he would require to
aid
rations,
those
him.
The
princess,
observing these
prepa-
"What! brother, are you one of who believe me mad? Undeceive yourself exclaimed,
and hear me."
The
princess
particulars of the
then story,
related to
Marzavan
all
and showed him the
which had been exchanged
for hers.
the ring
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
249
After the princess had concluded Marzavan, with wonder and
remained
astonishment,
for
filled
some
time with his eyes fixed on the ground without speak-
word
ing a
said: ''If in the
must
but at length he lifted up his head and
be as your Highness says, and
least
doubt
with patience. this prince,
sured
I
will
I
do not
at
once
But
your wishes.
your Highness
arm yourself
to
set out in
and when you hear of
shall
Having
gratification of
entreat
first
I
do not despair of being able
I
it,
you the
to procure I
;
it
my
search of
return be as-
have found him." he
spoken,
thus
princess, and set out the next
took
of
leave
morning on
his
the
intended
travels.
He
journeyed from city to
to province,
and from island to
months he arrived
at Torf, a
found the talk was
all
from province
city,
island, until after four
seaport town, where he
of Prince
Kummir
al
Zum-
maun, who was sick and whose history greatly
sembled that of the
was extremely delighted, and self
time
where the prince was in
arriving at
He
obtained
and informed him
The grand
Kummir
al
once informed him-
to be found
that,
all
and
lost
no
capital.
audience of the
grand vizier
hearing of the young prince's
malady, he wished to try and
he must be told
at
Shaw Zummaun's an
Marzavan
Badoura.
Princess
re-
eff"ect
a cure, but first
the details concerning
it.
vizier then related the story of Prince
Zummaun
from the time of
his birth to 17
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
250
the date of his refusing to take a wife and the sub-
sequent imprisonment
had
asserted
befallen
great attention to
tower and
in the
him
that he
all
Marzavan gave
there.
the grand vizier said, and saw
all
no reason to doubt that the prince was the man
whom
the Princess of China so ardently loved.
With-
out explaining himself farther he desired to see the prince, that he might be better able to judge of his
disorder and
cure.
its
"Follow me," said the grand vizier, and at once led him into a room, where the prince was lying upon a bed, languishing and with his eyes shut. Notwithstanding
and
condition,
his
presence of the king, his father, him,
he
could
ever
a
greater
not
once that Prince
Kummir
?"
Zummaun
al
exclamation
of
Marzavan commenced
by
there
noticed
at
and Princess
alike.
Marzavan's
and he opened
prince's curiosity
sitting
"Was
For he
Badoura of China were exactly This
who was
avoid exclaiming:
resemblance
of the
regardless
excited
his eyes.
to recite in verse
all
the
At once that
had
happened between him and the Princess of China. From this the prince had no reason to doubt but that Marzavan knew her and could give him tidings of her. w^ith joy,
His countenance immediately brightened up and Marzavan took the liberty of requesting
the king to allow side
and to be
The
king,
him
left
to take his place
by
his son's
alone with him.
overjoyed
at
the
alteration
in
his
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
comply, and Marzavan
son's countenance, hastened to
was
alone with the
left
him he
said,
"Prince,
The
lady for
grieve.
to
time you should cease to
is
whom
you
suffer
the Prin-
is
King of China.
cess Badoura, daughter of the I
Leaning down
prince.
it
251
This
can assure your Highness from what she has told
me
and what
of her adventure,
She has suffered no
yours.
princess's
story,
learned of
on your account
less
Here he
than you have on hers." he knew of the
have
I
related
that
all
from the night of
their extraordinarv interview.
This prince.
and
at
He
marvellous
had strength
he
felt
a
found himself
is
now
made me. that
is
From
a condition to
in
time
to
the rise,
that time
One to
undertake the voyage
said,
perform the
to
thing
the difficulty
permission
on
began steadily to improve, and when he
he took Marzavan aside and it
effect
sufficient
once began to dress himself.
health
his
had
account
I
travel
still
afflicts
"Dear Marzavan, promise
me, however, and
shall find to obtain
into
a
distant
me
you have
my
father's
country.
to
be a
moment
anxietv to
cure
his
observe he scarcelv allows
You out
of his sight."
Marzavan,
in
Princess Badoura,
his lost
sight of the
beloved
trouble he was
Zummaun. "I have "You have not stirred
about to cause the good Shaw thought of a plan," said he.
abroad for some time, therefore request the king's permission to go upon a hunting party.
He
will 17*
no
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
252
doubt comply.
When
order two
coursers
fleet
you have obtained for each
of us
his
to
leave,
be
got
readv, one to mount, the other to change, and leave the rest to me."
The following day had
The king gave
him.
instructed
prince did
the
and ordered the best horses
consent,
his
the royal
in
Marzavan
as
stable for
his use.
Kummir
caravanserai,
at a
slept
day,
first
or
and Marzavan hunted,
and
inn,
night thev alighted
at
where
they supped,
and
about midnight, when Marzavan awakened
till
the prince
and desired him to change
into another
dress he had brought in his baggage for him.
he had done leading
in
grooms who led the spare
the two
the
horses, all
Zummaun
al
company with
the
prince's suit
this,
When
they stole softlv out of the inn,
two spare horses, and having torn the and dipped
by the roadside so
that
it
it
in
blood,
they threw
it
might appear that the prince
had been devoured by wild animals.
"The king Marzavan, "that
will I
conclude
was
I
have escaped," said
afraid to face his anger, having
allowed you to come to harm."
The that his
if
prince comforted himself with the reflection
he were giving his father cause for great grief
joy would
be the
greater
when he
afterwards
heard he was alive and well.
The
prince and Marzavan, being well provided
for their expenses,
continued their journev both by
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. and
land
and found no other obstacle but the
sea,
length of time which arrived
length
at
the
at
a public
to
three
cognito,
caused
an
to
capital
carried the
his house,
rest
there,
in-
after
the
themselves
during which time Marzavan
voyage,
fatigue of the
of China, where
They remained
inn.
days,
They
necessarily took up.
it
Marzavan, instead of going to prince
253
habit
astrologer's
to
made
be
for
the
The three days being expired, they went prince. together to the bath, where the prince put on his from thence Marzavan conducted astrologer's dress :
him
the
to
King of China's palace and there
left
him.
As soon voice
his
come
to
daughter China, to
and cried: cure of
the
"I
am
high
on the conditions
marrv her
if
I
an
up
am
and
or else
King of
mighty
proposed by
succeed,
Badoura,
Princess
illustrious
most
the
lifted
astrologer and
was alone the prince
as he
to
his
Majesty,
my
lose
life
for
my
on
was some time since anyone had appeared this account, the ill-luck of the hundred and
fruitless
and presumptuous attempt."
It
fifty
who had gone
before
being sufficient to deter
others.
The
prince's
appearance,
his
noble
air
and
blooming youth, made everyone who saw him pity him, and some tried to persuade him to abandon the rash attempt and depart.
But the prince continued
firm,
until
the
grand
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254 vizier
of the
came and introduced him into the presence King of China, who also was moved to pity
by the sight of the prince's youth and comehness, and gave him an opportunity of withdrawing from the attempt.
But the prince was so confident of success that the king ordered him to be conducted into the princess's apartment.
The a
seeing
you may be witness of
that
her,
my
notwithstanding
who
to you,
will deprive
little
I
to be
is
my
and paper out of
note to the
princess,
had
in
for
hers.
fallen
myself of that pleasure for
the
his pocket,
explaining
He
him,
a
he took pen,
and wrote
who he
how he had changed
concluded
by saying:
to return his love, he will
happiest of mankind.
death, which your refusal
If
not,
a little
was,
love with her upon the
seen her, and
condescend
respect
wife, yet out of
for an astrologer to carry about
first
skill
Being furnished with everything proper
while."
had
my
impatience to see a princess of
her rank,
he
into a great
be best to cure the princess without
"It will
said:
ink,
him
led
which was divided from the princess's apartment Here the prince stopped and tapestry curtain.
hall,
by
guards
chief of the
how
night he his ring
"If you
will
esteem himself
the
sentence of
must draw upon him,
will
be received with resignation, since he will perish on "
account of
When
his love for you.
the
prince
had
finished
his
billet
he
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and enclosed
up,
it
in
255
the princess's ring.
it
"There, friend," said he to the guard, "carry
your mistress. she reads leave to
it
If
it
does
not cure
and sees what
it
everybody that
I
tell
her as soon as
contains,
am
this to
you
give
I
the most ignorant
and impudent astrologer that ever existed."
The
guard, entering the princess's apartment, gave
She opened the
her the packet.
when
ence, but, to read hall,
with indiffer-
billet
she saw the ring, she had not patience
through, but rose and ran to the entrance
it
They
where she saw and recognised the prince.
embraced tenderly, without being able
speak for
to
excess of joy.
The
where
apartment,
her ring,
prince it
made them come
princess's nurse
"Take
saying:
without restoring
Badoura gave the
Princess
the
yours,
into the
it;
which
I
cannot keep
I
never part
will
with."
The guard went immediately what had happened: "Sir," said logers
cure
"all
he,
the astro-
and doctors who have hitherto pretended to the
pared
to inform the king
princess
with
the
were foolish and ignorant compresent.
He
without
her
cured
seeing her."
The
king
at
once went to
his daughter's
ment and embraced both her and the taking his
"Happy
hand joined
stranger,
word and give you
it
my
prince,
are,
I
will
daughter for your wife
and
saying
to the princess's,
whoever you
apart-
keep ;
my
though
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256
by what lieve
for
I
see in you,
impossible for
is
it
you are really what you pretend." Kummir al Zummaun thanked the
mv
condition,"
said
"I must
he,
me
the
of one
habit
that
own
not
only
I
;
then
related
in
his
and how wonderful had been the origin of
history, his
am
I
might succeed
I
He
meeting the princess again."
"As
king.
an astrologer, as your Majesty has guessed put on
to be-
love,
and
vellous,
was altogether
that the princess's
were
that both
change of the two
mar-
by the ex-
confirmed
rings.
The marriage was solemnized the rejoicings were universal
Nor was Marzavan
China.
as
him an honourable post
the same day, and
over the empire of
all
The king gave
forgotten.
and
in his Court,
a
promise
of further advancement.
The
months,
several al
bed
him thus address so
tenderly
cause of
The
my
one
night
at the point
has
Kummir saw
he
that
"My
whom
son,
abandoned me
and
is
thins:,
went
I
the
death."
prince
who
his
and heard
awoke with
a sigh
and acquainted
the princess with the cause of his uneasiness. princess,
for
of death,
his attendants:
loved,
up
kept
but in the midst of them
Zummaun dreamt
father on his
were
and rejoicing
feasting
The
strove to please her husband in everyto her father the
hand, and thus addressed him:
beg of your Majesty, and
I
next
dav,
kissed
his
"I have a favour to
beseech you not to deny
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. me
;
may
but that you
not believe
my
soKcitation of the prince
me your
you
will
grant
him and
visit
his father."
ask
I
husband,
beforehand he knows nothing of that
257
my
at the
it
you
assure
I
request.
It
is,
permission to go with
"though
"Daughter," replied the king,
shall
I
be sorry to part with you for so long a time as a
journey
to
a
place
so
distant
cannot disapprove of your resolution yourself:
go,
condition
that
child,
give
I
require,
will
—
you
is
it
Shaw Zummaun's Court. I hope to this, that we shall alternately his daughter-in-law,
and
I
my
I
worthy of on
but
leave,
you stay no longer than
yet
a
year
in
the king will agree see,
he
his
daughter and
son and
my
son-
in-law."
The consent receive
communicated the King of China's who was transported to
princess to it,
her
husband,
and
returned
his
thanks
for
this
new
token of her love.
to
The King of China gave orders for preparations be made for their departure, and when all things
were ready, he accompanied the prince and princess several
leave of
days' journey on
their
way,
when he took
them with manv tokens of endearment.
After travelling about a month,
they one
day
entered a plain of great extent, planted at convenient distances with
tall
trees,
forming an agreeable shade.
The day being unusually hot, the prince thought it best to encamp there, and proposed it to Badoura,
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258
who
having
spots;
wish
alighted
in
was presently
tent
a
same
the
They
consented.
the
more
one
of
weary with the fatigues of the
cess,
w^omen
her
down by
her
untie
and she
her,
finest
bade
journey,
which
girdle,
asleep,
falling
the
and the prin-
up,
set
readilv
they
they
laid
her
left
alone.
Kummir to
Zummaun
al
and,
attendants,
his
came
order,
sleeping
the
to
had been giving directions having
things
all
where the
tent
he entered, and
:
seen
in
was
princess
down without making
sat
any noise, intending to repose himself: but observing the
and looked
at
In viewing
it
it,
girdle
princess's
he observed a
felt
it
Desirous
solid.
the
he
;
purse,
unknown
he
her,
took
it
up
the diamonds and rubies one bv one.
sewed neatly on the
riband
by
Iving
and found
to
purse hanging to
and tied
it
fast
with a
contained something
know what
and took out figures
little
stuff,
it
was,
a cornelian
and characters.
he
opened
engraven with
"This cornelian,"
"must be something very valuable, would not carry it with so much or care." It was Badoura's talisman, which the Queen of China had given her daughter as a charm that would keep her, as she said, from any harm as long as she had it about her.
said the prince,
my
princess
The took while
it
prince, the
better to look at the
out to the light,
he
was
holding
the it
up
tent in
talisman,
being dark;
and
hand,
bird
his
a
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. darted
down from
the
and
air
259
snatched
away
it
from him. Great was the concern and grief of the prince when he saw the bird fly away with the -talisman ;
he followed the bird, which
on the ground not
settled far in
it;
bird
took
on
ous
and
wing,
at
mark,
a
He
off.
took
a
thought to
with a stone, and further
in
again
further
the prince, being very dexter-
:
grew
would
it
settled
further
bird
the
prince
he approached, the
ground
the
flight
near, hoping
but as
followed,
talisman
The
beak.
its
drew drop
with the
off,
it
still
keeping
in pursuing,
view.
Thus the
along from
hill
pursued
;
it
the
more eager he
the
flew,
kill
bird
to valley,
it
always
drew him and valley
to hill, all the day, every step lead-
him out of the way from the plain where he had left his camp ^i j j mand Badoura, andj the t> rrmcess -o ing
A
bird snatched the
talisman
stead
might tree,
the
^from
of
him.
perching
probably safe
•
from
at
night
have
taken
his
heart at having
pursuit.
taken so
•
on it,
a J
bush,
roosted
where
he
on a high
The prince, vexed to much pains, and yet
not recovered the talisman, determined to rest where
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26o
he was until shall
find
I
"For," said
morning.
the
my way
back across
"how
he,
hills
and vallevs
tree
and soon
in
the darkness?"
So he
lay
down beneath
He awoke
fast asleep.
a
the next morninc;^ before the
bird had left the tree, and as soon
the wing,
he followed
again
it
day, with no better success
did the
same
he saw
it
on
the
whole of that
he
had done the
than
for ten days together, pursuing the
and keeping
bird,
it
in
view from morning to
lying always under the tree where
and
as
eating nothing but herbs and fruits as he went.
last,
He
fell
it
night,
roosted.
On the eleventh dav the bird continued Kummir al Zummaun pursuing it came
great city.
When
he
despaired
near a
the bird reached the walls,
over them, and the that
flving,
prince of ever
flew
it
saw no more of
it
;
so
recovering the Princess
Badoura's talisman.
He
went into the
city,
which was
built
on the
and walked up and
sea-shore and had a fine
port,
down
knowing where he was, or
the streets without
where
At
to stop. last
he came to the port,
certainty as ever as to
in
great
as
un-
Walking
what he should do.
along the shore, he perceived the gate of a garden open, and an old gardener
man, looking up, saw he was
man, and asked him after him.
to
at
a
come
work
in
it
;
stranger and in
the a
good
Mussul-
and shut the door
When
the bird reached the walls,
it
flew over them, and the prince
saiv no more of
it.
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Kummir
al
gardener
why he was
Zummaun
replied the old man,
arrived
by
;
and
idolators,
263
demanded of
entered and so
"Because,"
cautious.
"I see you are a stranger newly
this city
is
inhabited for the most part
who have
mortal
a
aversion
Mussulmen,
and
treat
few
that
are
of
us
with great barbarity.
is
it
supthis,
a miracle that
you
thus far."
entei'ed
The
territories.
wandering
;
prince
had
eaten
him
heartily,
he
to relate
how he had come
"For," said he,
my
requested
when he had
city to
"it
princess
for eleven days
Isle
he
after
meal before him
set a
is
to
finished
his father's
in vain for
where
I
left
me
to
her, after
from the spot."
replied that
it
was
a year's
journey
any country inhabited by Mussul-
that the quickest passage for
go to the
in,
there.
The gardener from that
"Come
And
rest."
he asked the nearest route
think of finding
men
the worthy
saying,
prince complied, and
his story
Then
little hut,
and the
Zinnniaun
you have
the prince into his
had
the warden.
as
man took and
al
here
know
have escaped
Kiiinmir
the
I
pose you did not
and
us
to
of Ebene,
him would be
whence he might
to
easily
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264
himself to
transport
Khaledan
;
year
Ebene,
to
departed
that
but
a
ship
but
the
makes the voyage
me
"Had you come
and accept of
Now and
again,
my
had
one
unfortunately
you must wait vou
if
a
"you might have
gardener, it.
of
from the port every
sailed
that
taken your passage in
Children
of the
Isles
few days ago.
a
sooner," said
little
the
house, such as
it
stay with
will it
till
you
is,
shall
welcome to it as to your own." The prince gladly accepted the gardener's offer, and abode with him that year, working in the garden
be
as
by day, and passing the night
in
and
tears
sighs,
complaints, thinking of his dear Princess Badoura.
Meanwhile the princess was wondering what had become of the prince. When she awoke, after a long sleep,
and found the prince was not with her, she
women, and asked if they knew where he They had seen him enter the tent, but no one
called her
was.
had seen him go
out.
While they were her girdle, found her
man it
to
back
talking little
to
her,
she
took
purse open and her
up
talis-
She did not doubt the prince had taken
gone.
see what
with
it
was, and
She
him.
waited
return, unable to imagine
he would
that
impatiently
bring for
it
his
what made him stay away
from her so long.
When and
night
heartily
talisman,
as
fell
wished it
overcome with
she was she
seemed
had
that
never
the
loss
grief,
possessed of
it
the
was the
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
The
princess continued the journey under the
Knnimir
al
265
name
of
Zmnmaun.
However, she did not
cause of her trouble.
lose
her judgment, but came to a very courageous resolution.
Only herself and her women knew of the prince's absence, for his men were reposing or asleep in their tents; but she was afraid that if it became known she
might find
who would
laid aside
Kummir
al
in
difficulty
possibly refuse
She therefore one of
some
her
to
submit to
own
Zummaun's.
like him, that the next day,
controlling men,
when
habit,
a
woman.
and put on
She was so much she
came abroad,
the male attendants took her for the prince. 18
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
266
She commanded them to pack up their baggage and when all things were and begin their march ;
women
ready, she ordered one of her
by her and the at
to
go into her
she herself mounting on horseback and riding
litter,
They
side.
sea,
continuing the journey under
princess
the
months bv land
travelled several
name of Kummir Ebene on their way
al
Zummaun.
They touched of the Children
to the Isles
of Khaledan, and went to the
where
capital,
a king
name was Armanos. As soon as King Armanos heard of the arrival Prince Kummir al Zummaun, he waited upon him,
reigned whose
of
accompanied by
He
his courtiers.
received the disguised
who was
of a king
his
friend,
princess
as
and with
the
whom
son
he
always kept up a good understanding: he conducted her to the palace, where an apartment was prepared for her
and
all
her attendants, though she would fain
have excused herself.
He showed
her
all
possible
honour and entertained her three days together with extraordinary magnificence.
At standing
the end of this time. that
her voyage,
such
an
intended
accomplished prince, she
only daughter,
was willing "It
princess
charmed with the
suggested that his
the
is
King Armanos, underand qualities of
air
as
proceeding on
he
supposed her,
at
Ebene, marry
should remain
and accept the crown, which he
to resign in her favour.
time for
me
to rest," said he,
"and nothing
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. my
could be a greater pleasure to uie in
mv
than to see cessor to
mv
so worthy a suc-
by
ruled
retirement,
throne."
The poor not Prince
people
267
princess was
Kummir
al
afraid
to
Zummaun, and
honour he offered her
to decline the
much bent upon
the
own
she was
equally afraid
being so
lest,
kindness might
marriage, his
turn to aversion, and he might take her
life.
These considerations determined her
to
accept
King Armanos and marry his daughter. The marriage treaty being thus concluded, the
the proposal of
ceremony was put off till the next day. In the meantime she gave notice to her and men, who
still
officers
took her for their prince,
that,
with the Princess Badoura's consent, she was about to
wed
the Princess Haiatalnefous.
There was nothing very extraordinarv because
in
those countries
She talked
have two wives.
them keep the
is
it
secret,
after
usual for
to her
in
this,
man
a
to
women and bade
which she took the Prin-
cess Haiatalnefous into her confidence, and promised
when the real most certainly wed her if
her
that
On
with
and all
Badoura rose
he
would
she had a mind to take him.
the marriage
due in
ceremony was carried
magnificence, the
king's
and governed the kingdom ouslv.
arrived,
these conditions the princess agreed to keep
the secret,
out
prince
and
esteem
the
and
Princess affection,
peaceably and prosper-
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268
While
things were
Ebene, Prince
Kummir
early,
Isle in
of
the
gardener. prince was walking
the
as
garden, the noise which two birds were making
in the
neighbouring tree led him to
on
a
to
see
down dead
fell
very
a
in
the
at
his
head
birds
were
up
lift
The two
what was the matter.
fighting furiously, and
them
the
in
Ziimmaiin remained
al
city of idolaters with the
One morning
passing
thus
while one of
little
of the
foot
tree;
the
victorious bird took wing again, and flew away. In an
instant,
beheld the battle
two other large birds, that had at a distance, came from the other on the ground, one
side of the garden, and pitched at the
bird
feet,
and the other
they looked
:
heads
in
token of
at
it
for
grief,
the
head of the dead
some
time, shaking their
at
with their talons and buried
They then minutes,
flew
bringing
which they dug
after
away,
it.
returned
but
them
with
the
and the other one of
the while
all
crying
out
a
in
a
in
its
few had
that
bird
committed the murder, one holding one of in its beak,
grave
a
wings
its legs,
the criminal
doleful
manner and
struggling to escape.
They it
carried
it
to the grave of the bird
had lately sacrificed
the
and there killed
it,
which leaving
body on the spot unburied, and flew away.
The
prince
astonishment,
and
beheld
this
drawing
singular
near
the
eyes upon the remains of the dead
spectacle tree bird,
cast
in
his
amongst
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. which he spied something found
it
was
his
He
red.
269
took
up and
it
beloved Princess Badoura's talisman,
him so much pain and
the loss of which had cost
sorrow. It is
wrapped
kissed the talisman, it
He
impossible to describe the prince's joy.
about
carefully
a riband,
Shortly after
arm.
his
in
it
and tied the
this
good gardener bade him root up an old tree which
bore no al
Kummir
fruit.
Zummaun
and began
took an axe
work.
his
In
cutting off a branch of the
root
found
he
something
against
strike
axe
his
that resisted the blow.
He
removed the
and
earth,
discovered a broad
He
removed the earth ami discovered
^f ^^^^^^ ^^^^^
plate
^^,|^-^h
was
a broad plate of brass.
He
went down,
about in
order,
them all
six
all,
and
at
a
staircase
the
bottom
yards square, with
each with
one
after
full of gold-dust.
fifty
another,
it.
brass on
the
staircase,
and
cavity
He
opened
out of the cave, re-
joicing that he had found such a vast
the
a
found they were
and
He came
saw
steps.
brass urns placed
cover over
a
ten
01
treasure,
put
rooted up the tree
against the gardener's return.
When
he came
in
he
told
the
prince
that
he
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
270
had
learned
just
that
Ebene
the Isle of
in
ship was
a a
about to
for
sail
few days' time, and that he
had arranged with the captain for the prince's passage.
"You
be
that will
me more
could not bring
"and
said the prince,
welcome
as
me and you
return,
in
shall see
to
agreeable tidings,"
have also tidings
I
you
:
come along with
what good fortune heaven has
you."
in store for
prince led the gardener to the place where
The
down
he had rooted up the tree, made him go
into
the cave, and showed him the treasure. "These riches are not mine," said the gardener, For "the property is yours: I have no right to it.
my
fourscore years, since
father's death,
garden without discovering
in this
it
have dug
I
clearly
;
was
it
destined for you."
Kummir
But
not
be
sur-
by the gardener, and protested
in generosity
passed
Zummaun would
al
he would have none of the
treasure
unless
it
wtre
shared by his friend.
The good man, so they shared five
it
consented
to please the prince,
;
between them, and each had twenty-
urns.
Having
done
this
the
gardener
advised
the
prince to be careful to get his treasure privately on
"Otherwise you
board. it,"
said
Ebene you
:
will
he.
"Olives
you know ;
fill
fiftv
I
will run the
are
exported
risk
from
of losing
here
to
have plenty of them, take what
pots,
half with
the gold-dust and
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. half with olives, and
ship
will
when you embark." The prince followed
rest of the
day
in
wore on
into
this advice,
it
carried to the
and spent the
packing up the gold and the olives
again, he
carefully
a cavity with fifty brass urns.
one of the
to distinguish
Now
them
arm, might be lost
his
He saw it
get
and fearing the talisman, which he
in the fifty pots,
put
I
271
pots,
from the
with
a
mark
particular
rest.
whether the gardener, who was
a
very old
man, was quite worn out with age, or had exhausted himself too
much
that
dav,
he was
taken
grew worse the next day, and on the when the prince was ready to embark, was
night,
that
it
was plain he was near
his
end.
that
ill
third,
so
ill
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272
As soon
day broke, the captain of the ship
as
came with several seamen
who was The and as
his
to ask
the passenger
for
them.
to sail with
prince told them to take the pots of olives
baggage aboard, promising
to follow as
soon
he had taken leave of the gardener.
The seamen took
the pots and baggage and the
make
captain bade the prince
wind being
haste, the
fair.
When
the captain and his
Ziimmaun went thank him for all
men were gone Kummir
to take leave of the gardener,
al
his
good
found
but
offices,
and
him
dying; and had scarcely time to bid him rehearse the articles of his
faith,
before they die,
The
prince
which
when he could
all
good Mussulmen do
expired.
do no
prepare him for burial and lay him
in
there was no one else to do so, and
He
evening before he had finished. all
his
might to the water-side,
remain to
than
less
his grave,
was
it
for
almost
then ran with
but when he reached
the port he found the ship had sailed several hours,
and was already out of
sight.
It
had waited for him
three hours, and, the wind standing
the captain
fair,
durst not stay longer.
Kummir at
where
he
Zummaun was
neither
acquaintance. his
al
exceedingly grieved
being forced to remain another year had,
nor
wished
But the greatest
in
to
affliction
a
country
have,
of
all
any was,
having parted with the Princess Badoura's talisman.
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return
to
273
garden,
the
to
of the landlord, and to continue to culti-
it
He
hired a boy to assist him in the drudg-
vate
it.
ery,
and that he might not lose the other half of
the
which came
treasure,
the gardener,
who had no
into fifty other jars,
him by the death of
to
he put the gold-dust
heirs,
which he
up with
filled
olives,
to be ready against the ship's return.
While
prince
the
was beginning another year
of labour, sorrow and impatience, the ship was near-
ing the Isle of Ebene.
The
palace being by the sea-shore, the
or rather the Princess Badoura,
she was flying,
entering
into
the
asked what vessel
came yearly from the
it
as
the
closely,
captain
came
was,
hoping to
Zummaun,
with
hear
all
her
flags
and hearing that
it
idolators and was
city of the
down
ashore.
king,
espying the ship as
port,
generally richly laden, went
new
the port just
to
She questioned him
some news of Kummir
but she was disappointed in
al
for the
this,
captain told her he had no passengers on board, only
merchants who had with them rich monds, musks,
spices, olives
at
linens, dia-
and manv other
The Princess Badoura loved and she
stuff^s,
olives exceedingly,
once ordered the captain to land what
he had, and she would take them
oft
his hands.
"Sire," replied the captain, "there are jars of olives, I
articles.
was forced
fifty
but they belong to a merchant to leave behind."
great
whom
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
274
"No
answered
matter,"
them ashore
;
we
will
"bring
princess,
the
make
nevertheless
bargain
a
for them."
The
captain
pieces
of
hearing that the merchant was very poor,
but,
silver,
demanded one thousand
the princess ordered one thousand pieces of gold to
be given to the captain for the olive merchant.
The money was
paid,
and the
carried
jars
to
the palace.
Night drawing on, the princess withdrew into the inner palace, and went to the Princess Haiatalnefous'
apartment, ordering the
olives
She opened one
to
thither.
jar,
them
them, and poured
Haiatalnefous taste
Princess
the
let
brought
be
to
into
a
Great was her astonishment when she found She ordered the olives were mingled with gold-dust. dish.
the
women
open and emptv
to
and
presence,
wonder was
her
she saw that the olives in
with gold-dust out,
;
when
but
all
the
all
jars
in
her
when
greater
still
them were mixed
of
she saw her talisman drop
she was so surprised that she fainted away. herself and
However, she soon recovered
told
the Princess Haiatalnefous the cause of her agitation.
The next for
the
captain
questions
belonged, that he
day, as soon as
about but
worked
of the the
he in
ship
merchant
knew very a
it
was
light,
she sent
and
asked
him many
to
whom
the
little
of him,
olives
except
garden and seemed very poor.
So the princess next ordered him
to
set
sail
that
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275
very day for the city of idolators, and to go with
all
speed and fetch the olive merchant and bring him to her, threatening
and the
that
if
He
orders.
and when
had
lost
a
life
him should be confiscated.
lives of all with
So the captain
he did not do so his
no time
carrying out his
in
prosperous voyage to the
city,
he went ashore took with him six stout
They at once went to the garden of Kummir Zummaun, took hold of him and carried him on
seamen. al
board, and set
Kummir
al
sail
Zummaun
was thus taken by
him
it
Ebene.
for the Isle of
asked the captain
why he
and when the captain told
force,
was by the orders of the King of Ebene he
was very much surprised,
he had never set
that
in
kingdom before and did not know him. The captain was not long on his voyage back
foot in his
to
the
Isle
he cast anchor taking
and,
palace,
Though
of Ebene. in the
port,
he
with
his prisoner
where he demanded
it
was night when
landed immediately, him,
hastened to the
to be introduced to the
king.
The inner
Princess Badoura had withdrawn
as she
but when she heard of the came out to speak to him, and
palace,
return she
saw the prince, though he was
dress, she recognised him.
to
embrace him, she knew
made
the
captain's as
soon
in his gardener's
Although she was longing it
was
for the interest of
both of them that she should act the longer before she
into
herself known.
king
a
little
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276
She turned had been put
him
keep
given
much more
worth
diamond,
thousand
She gold
he
bade
also
had
she
him she would make
telling
olives,
expense
the
of
a rich
whom
merchant
had
he
him.
with
She ordered Kummir apparel and to
in rich
than
pieces
up the account with the brought
and gave him
both voyages.
to for
the the
for
captain
to the
al
Zummaun
to be clothed
carefully tended by one
be
of her officers, and then sent for him to her apartment, and, dismissing her attendants, shut the door and produced the talisman. "It is not long since
astrologer
an
being skilful
presented in
to
it
may perhaps
things,
all
me," she said tell
;
"you,
me
its
use."
Kummir drew near nised
me
to kill find
lamp
a
he
it
Zummaun
al
said,
to
view
took
As soon
it.
"Sire, the
talisman,
the
with grief and despair
if
I
he recog-
as
use of this
talisman
world, to
"You
whom
it
will
the
shall tell
me
the particulars another time," little
and
soon return to you."
At
these words
she
retired,
put
turban, and in a few minutes dressed
female
in
belonged."
replied the pretended king; "remain here a I
is
do not quickly
most charming and lovely princess
the
and
attire,
off
her royal
herself in her
and having the girdle round her which
she had on the day of their separation.
Kummir
al
Zummaun
immediatelv
recognised
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dear princess, ran to her and tenderly embraced
his
exclaiming:
her,
who
king
replied
not
the
They
expect
in
obliged to the
I
all
thought
it
al
see
sit
down and and
themselves,
happened
that had
to
best for her safety to
Zummaun, and how
any more,"
king
the
embracing him
me;
seated
plained
to
princess,
"you see him
Kummir
"How much am
has so agreeably surprised me."
"Do
to
277
I
her
in
turn
explain."
will
princess
the
how
her,
:
she
ex-
had
pass herself off as
she had been obliged
marry the Princess Haiatalnefous, who had helped
her to keep the secret.
The prince in his turn related all his adventures. The next morning, as soon as it was light, the Princess Badoura dressed herself in her female attire
and sent the chief of the desire
to
guards to King Armanos,
he would
oblige
the king
entered
her by
coming
to
her
apartment.
When amazed he
to see a lady
apartment he was
who was unknown
to him,
and
once asked where the king was.
at
The
princess answered
:
"Yesterday
I
was king,
am onlv Princess of China, wife to the Prince Kummir al Zummaun. If your Majesty
but to-dav true
the
I
will
have patience to hear our adventures,
you
will
I
hope
deceit
condemn me for putting an innocent upon you." The king bade her go on, and
heard
her
not
narrative
astonishment.
The
from
beginning
to
end
princess on finishing said
:
with "Sire,
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278
you know
as
have several wives, give
to
custom with most men
the
is
it
trust
I
consent
will
your daughter, the Princess Haiatalnefous,
marriage to the prince
in
vour Majesty
to
will with
I
;
my
all
heart
yield up to her the rank and quality of queen, which
of right belongs to her, and content mvself with the
second place."
King Armanos turned and
said:
wife,
whom
"Son, I
in-law, assures
have
me
become your
to
since all
Kummir
Zummaun
al
Princess Badoura
the
I
is
willing for
would
my
know
your
my
along thought to be
that she wife,
to
son-
daughter
you
if
are
willing to marry her and accept the crown."
Kummir
"Sire," replied I
al
Zummaun, "though
desire nothing so earnestly as to see the king
father, vet
the
obligations
I
have to vour
my
JNIaiestv
and the Princess Haiatalnefous are so weighty,
I
can
refuse her nothing."
The the
prince was then proclaimed king, and married
same day with
all
possible demonstrations of joy;
and had every reason to be well pleased with the beauty and wit of the Princess Haiatalnefous.
The two queens
lived together afterwards on the
most friendly and cordial terms.
Some time afterwards news was brought to Kummir al Zummaun that a large army was approaching his capital, and upon
and see what army to his dear father
it
sending messengers to go
was, he learned that
it
belonged
Shaw Zummaun, who had
left
the
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of
the
Children
279
Khaledan and who had
ot
travelled a long time in search of his son.
Kummir his father,
than
Zummaun
and never was
once went out to meet
at
a
more
affecting interview
when they met. Shaw Zummaun gently upbraided
unkindness al
al
in
Zummaun
so
cruelly leaving him,
confessed
his
son with
and
Kummir
hearty sorrow for the
which love had urged him
to
commit.
fault
SINDBAD THE SAILOR. T
N
the
reign
Haroiin at
Bagdad
Hindbad. ing
in
voyager ing
a
poor porter called
One
porch
the
the
Cahph
Reschid there lived
day, whilst carryload,
of
which
he
sat
few moments
rest for a
to
house
the
al
very heavy
a
down in
of
magnificent
a
a
famous
named Sindbad.
Hear-
lived
sounds of
and
feasting
laughter, he exclaimed aloud
:
"Consider the difference be-
tween Sindbad
and
me.
I
am
every day exposed to fatigues and calamities, for
and can scarcely get coarse barley-bread
mvself and
my
family, whilst
pends immense riches and pleasure.
agreeable?
happy Sindbad
leads a
life
ex-
of continual
What has he done to obtain a lot so And what have I done to deserve one
so wretched?" It
chanced that Sindbad overheard the porter's
words and, sending
for
him
into his house,
first
feasted
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. him
and
well
then
related
him the following
to
adventures.
strange
"I inherited from property;
able
281
my
but
my
father," said he, "consider-
having squandered
greater
the
became necessary for me to I decided to find a means of making a livelihood. enter into a contract with some merchants who traded bv sea. I accordingly went to Bussorah and
part
in
youth
embarked with which we had
"We
merchants on board
several jointly
set sail
through
Indies,
it
htted
ship
a
out.
and steered our course towards the the
Persian
At
Gulf.
first
was
I
troubled with sea-sickness, but speedily recovered health,
and was not afterwards subject
"In our voyage we touched
we
where
sold
or
elevated bling
to
sails
be
a
small
The
meadow.
furled,
were inclined while
and
drinking,
to land.
and
and shook us
"The
the
captain,
I
but
little
and resemordered
his
as
was amongst the number,
recovering
perceiving
to re-embark,
what we took
back of
One day
eating
ourselves
in
ourselves
from
the
sudden trembled,
terriblv. J
upon us
for
island,
captain
fatigue of the sea, the island on a
lost,
several islands
and permitted such persons
we were enjoying
and
called
at
above the level of the water, green
a
to that complaint.
exchanged our goods.
we were becalmed near
my
a
sea
what had happened, or
we should
for an island
all
be
proved to be
monster. '9
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282
"The nimblest
got into the sloop, others betook
themselves to swimming;
but for myself
I
was
upon the back of the creature when he dived the
and
sea,
had only time
I
wood that we had brought out of make a fire. "Meanwhile the captain, believing me
perished, set
sail,
"Thus was
a favourable breeze having I
my
all
life
the
me,
failing
"But
sprung up.
as
mv
wave threw me up upon
a
uninhabited
have
to
of the day
rest
and the following night, when, just
was
the ship
exposed to the mercy of the waves
and struggled for
ingly
into
catch hold of a
to
piece of to
still
strength a
seem-
chanced that the
island,
island.
me
fortunatelv for
it
which was very extensive, was not uninhabited, but end
the
which
at
had been cast up, being very
I
bleak and desolate, was seldom visited by the natives.
The maharaja who owned the island, having lost some valuable horses, had sent some of his grooms in
search
as
far
of them,
They soon
me
discovered
me some
gave
men had
having heard
and,
provisions
and invited
all
on
gave I
orders that
required.
the
to
the
me
my to
capital
island.
"The maharaja received me with and
penetrated
had been cast up.
I
them the following day
return with of the
these
the point upon which
as
story,
and
sea
The coast
I
should
great kindness
be furnished with
maharaja's capital being situated
and
having a
fine
harbour,
I
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283
company of men of my own hoping to hear news from Bagdad, or
frequented fession,
the
profind
an opportunity to return.
"As and
as
I
was one dav
soon
she
as
the port a ship arrived,
at
anchor they began to un-
cast
load
and the
her,
goods
were carried on shore
to
be
sold.
of
my
surprise
then
Judge
when
per-
I
some of the bales to be the same I had embarked at Bussorah. I went on board and made ceived
myself known to the cap-
embraced me with great joy. 'Heaven
who
tain,
be Sindbad was exposed
to
the mercy
of the waves.
me
:
you
praised,'
said
he,
'for
I
can-
your happy escape. not express the jov
affords
it
there are your goods, take and do with them as please,'
"I took out what was most valuable
in
my
bales
and presented them to the maharaja, who, knowing
my ties.
misfortune, asked I
acquainted
their recovery.
accepted
my
much more
He
me how
I
came by such
rari-
him with the circumstances of was pleased with
present,
and
considerable.
in
return
Upon
this
my
good
gave I
luck,
me one
took leave
of him, and went aboard the same ship, after
I
19*
had
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284
my
exchanged
goods
wood
for
of
sandal,
aloes,
camphire, nutmegs, cloves, pepper, ginger and other
We
commodities of that country.
where
Bussorah,
my
sold
I
arrived safely at
goods
for
hundred
a
thousand sequins and returned to Bagdad.
my
rest of I
grew
of an indolent
merce
I
and
My
life.
put
known
with merchants of
sea
to
inclination to
com-
for the
second time
a
We
probity.
One day we landed on several
spend the
traded from
and exchanged commodities with great
island to island profit.
to
was not long before
it
bought goods proper
intended,
I
voyage
first
Bagdad, but
days at
tired
trade revived.
with
mv
designed after
"I
island covered
an
we could
of fruit trees, but
sorts
man nor animal. We wandered about meadows and beside the streams, and presently I
neither
down
in a
how
and soon
me,
beside
long
gone. tions
slept,
I
leave
I
hundred times of
mv
first
my
life.
too
late.
to do,
I
whence towards
fast
fell
asleep.
but
when
I
to
guess
my
condition.
last I
awoke
this
was
cannot
tell
the ship was
melancholy
I
in vain,
reflec-
and
my
a
produce
me
all
repentance
resigned myself and, not knowing what
looked about on
the
sat
upbraided mvself
climbed up to the top of I
I
for not being content with the
all
the
wine and provisions
vovage, that mis^ht have sufficed
But
"At
you
sad
this
in
my
shady spot, with
see
sea
I
could
all
see
a
sides.
lofty tree,
When
I
from gazed
nothing but sky and
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. looking
but
water,
thing white I
had
;
land
the
beheld some-
I
took what provision
I
and went towards
left,
great that
so
over
coming down,
so
285
the distance being
it,
could not distinguish what
I
As
'
..
..
approached,
I
to
/
a
prodigious
•^
extent;
up
to
found I
I
to
it
to the top as
egg.
was
it
and
came and
it,
to see if
it
but
side,
and that
not,
no climbing up
there was
was so smooth.
it
of
be very smooth.
went round
saw roc's
took
I
touched
was open on any Ihc
I
height
and when
it,
was.
dome
be a white
it
it
was
It
at least fifty
paces round.
"Bv
this
sudden
of a
been
time the sun was about to
covered
became
skv
the
with
a
thick
astonished at this sudden so
when
that
size,
that
I
I
found
came
it
I
dome which
I
so
I
found the
had
much
monstrous
remembered a miracu-
and conceived that the great
much admired must be
for the bird alighted
all
much more
a bird of
towards me.
it
was
had often heard mariners speak of
lous bird called 'roc,'
closer
cloud.
as if I
darkness, but
occasioned by
flying
dark
as
and
set,
and
sat
bird's
over
legs
it,
were
and as
its I
egg,
crept
as big as the
trunk of a tree.
"I tied mvself to one of them with the cloth of
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286
my
turban
me
carry I
hopes that the roc next morning would
with her out of this desert island, nor was
mistaken,
daylight
for
she
flew away,
As soon
senses.
as
speedily untied
when
so
first
it
was
to a great height,
and
as
rapidity
soon
that
as
lost
I
and had scarcely done
knot,
mon-
the roc, having taken up a serpent of
"The
it
away
flew
bill,
spot where
again.
me was encompassed on
left
by mountains that seemed
sides
my
found myself on the ground,
I
the
strous length in her
all
morning
the
in
descended with such
then
I
in
above
to reach
the clouds, and so steep that there was no possibility
plexity
:
This was a
out of the valley.
of getting so
when
that
compared
I
new
this place
per-
with
the desert island from which the roc had brought
me,
I
found that
"As it
I
I
walked through
this valley
I
perceived that
was strewn with diamonds, some of which were of
a surprising size
;
me was somewhat I
had gained nothing by the change.
but the satisfaction the sight caused
diminished by some other objects
presently saw at a distance, namely, a great
number
of serpents, so large that the least of them was capable of swallowing an elephant.
I
spent the day in walking
about the vallev, and when night came on into a cave, I
where
I
thought
might repose
I
I
went
in safety.
secured the entrance, w^hich was low and narrow,
with
a great stone
to preserve
without excluding the
light.
I
me from
the serpents,
supped on part of
provisions, but the serpents, which
my
began hissing round
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. me,
me
put
such
into
287
extreme fear that
could
I
not sleep.
"When
day appeared the serpents retired and
came out of the cave trembling; but dared
the
night,
I
had not
I
presently
and was awakened by something
asleep
me
during
sleep
to
as
I
falling
fell
by
with a great noise.
"This proved to be a large piece of raw meat;
and
same time
at the
from the rocks
I
saw several others
fall
different places.
in
"I had always regarded as fabulous what
heard
and
sailors
diamonds,
and
others
of
the
of
relate
the
For the
fact
hood of
stratagems
stick
to
of
valley
but
;
had
by
now
I
nothing but the truth.
come
when the
valley
to the
eagles
neighbour-
have
young
joints of meat into the upon whose points they fall, then the eagles, which are stronger
throwing
great
diamonds,
the
valley,
stated
the merchants
is,
this
and,
ones,
had
thev
that
I
employed
merchants to obtain jewels from thence found
down
them
;
country than anywhere
pounce with great force upon those pieces of meat, and carry them to
in this
their
nests
their
young
drive
off
else,
on the precipices of the rocks :
the
the
merchants then run to
eagles
and take
to feed
the nests,
away the diamonds
that stick to the meat.
"Until it
to
but
I
perceived the device
be impossible for
now
I
changed
my
me
to
I
had concluded
get from this abyss,
opinion and began to think
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288
upon
means of
the
my
deliverance.
together the largest diamonds
collect
and put them into the leather bag
my
to carry
provisions.
my
of
the
cloth
the
ground
diamonds
my
fast
myself
which
in
it
close round
and then
face
made
being placed
scarcely
tied
turban,
with
could
I
to
find,
used
I
afterwards took the largest
I
of meat,
pieces
of the
began
I
in
laid
me
with
myself upon
downward, the bags of
my
to this
girdle.
posture
had
I
when
the
came.
eagles
"Each
them seized
of
a piece of meat,
me up carried me
and one
of the strongest, having taken
with the meat
to which
to his nest on
was fastened,
I
the top of the mountain.
to
"The merchants immediately began their shouting frighten the eagles, and when they had obliged
them nest
quit their
to
where
he saw
came manner
me
the
was much
came
;
I
was
deliverance
explaining
from
the
to
confessed visited
that
in
had
they
perfection.
at the
I
all
him us,
much more surprised They conducted me to
but
I told them my story. encampment and then, having opened my
were surprised
me how
vallev,
other merchants came crowding about
astonished to see me,
to the
alarmed when
but recovering himself asked
mv
of
He
was.
I
thither.
I
prey one of them
largeness of the
Courts
never seen
my
when much when their
bag, thev
diamonds, and
which they had size
and
who owned
the
any of such
prayed the merchant
the
One of
the
inerchaiits
came
io
the
nest
K'hei'e
I was.
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had
own)
his
too
(for
many
as
contented
least of
the
take
to
He
pleased.
had been carried
I
is
well
me
valuable enough to save
pressed him
I
me any
to
injury, 'No,' this,
which
the trouble of
making
with
satisfied
anv more voyages, and will as
he
for his share as
them; and when
am very
'I
everv merchant
himself with one, and that
take more, without fear of doing said he,
291
raise as great a fortune
desire.'
I
"I spent several days with the merchants, and every day they threw their pieces of meat into the valley,
had
we
prodigious
We
took
large,
grow
and
its
men may is
also
branches
easily
a
this
horn
white lines
solid,
of
a
the good fortune the
at
first
we
port
so thick,
This tree
that
shade.
its
is
so
one hundred In this island
rhinoceros, an animal less in size
but larger than the buffalo.
elephant,
is
serpents
the island of Roha, where
under
sit
horn upon
has
we had
that yield camphire.
found the
than the
at
near
travelling
were
shipping
reached, and touched the trees
place,
there
which
length,
escape.
the
left
where
mountains,
high
to
being satisfied with the diamonds they
until,
gathered,
its
nose, about
and when
mav be
seen,
cleft
a cubit in
It
length
through the middle
which represent the
figure
of a man. ''At
monds
this
for
island
I
exchanged some of
merchandise,
the other ports
with
we touched
at,
which until
my
dia-
I
traded
at
at
length
we
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292
landed
whence
irom
Bussorah,
at
proceeded
I
to
Bagdad. "I soon
brance of the perils
former
pleasures of
lost in the
had
encountered
soon
grew weary
I
and
voyages,
life
the
remem-
in
mv two
of
living
without business, and therefore travelled to Bussorah, carrying with
which
with
adventurous
me some
But
trade.
to
and
richest commodities
of the this
voyage
of dangers
full
as
the
proved
being overtaken with a storm in mid-ocean,
as
For
last.
we were
driven from our course and forced to cast anchor
port of an island which was inhabited by hairy
the
savages.
These attacked us
we were unable away of
all
that
to another island,
and whilst the building a
They took
that
possession it
that
we were
set
about
all.
in
the
power
making prepara-
there But fortunatelv J
floating timber near the island,
was
giant
number
numbers
contained and carried
it
and cook us
was an abundance of
such
leaving us in a sorry plight,
we soon discovered a terrible giant, who
tions to kill
in
to resist them.
of our ship and
for
in
of rafts
work we succeeded in upon which we made our at
escape.
"But
alas!
our enemy soon discovered what had
happened, and bringing two other giants to help him they took up great stones, and running into the water they threw them with such unerring aim that rafts
except the one
my good
I
was on were sunk.
all
But
the still
fortune did not desert me, for after passing
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terrible
dangers,
sea and then bv
by
first
land, the sea having cast m}^ raft
293
upon an
habited only by enormous serpents,
I
was mercifully
preserved from these terrible pests, and in
attracting the
attention
of a passing
took
island in-
succeeded
which
ship,
me off the island me safelv home. "But my passion
and
carried
for
trade
and
love
of
novelty
again
prevented
my
settling
down
quietly at Bagdad, and
was not long before I embarked upon my fourth
it
voyage.
"This was no
less
dis-
astrous than the former ones.
Our good by
ship
tremendous
a
driven on shore, Sindbad succeeded
in attracting
the attention of a passing ship,
Once
lost.
again did
bals, but since I life,
I
was
caught
gale
many
and
of the
merchants and seamen were
drowned and the cargo was fall into the power of canni-
was verv thin and lean they spared my However, I managed to
intending to fatten me.
escape from them and had the good fortune to meet
with a tribe of people
who
treated
me
so kindlv indeed that they did not wish
them,
and
them
many
I
abode with them many handicrafts,
such
as
very kindly,
me
to leave
years, teaching
saddle-making,
of
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294
which they knew nothing, but
which they paid me
for the
handsomely
so
knowledge of
that
I
grew very
prosperous.
"But I could not reconcile myself to remaining away from my own country permanently, and after a very long time I succeeded in getting away and returned to Bagdad.
carried with
I
me
great stores
of precious stones and rich merchandise, out of which I
not
did
support
contribute
to
fail
mosques,
of several
liberally
and
towards the
the subsistence of
the poor.
"The
pleasures
and
kindred
friends
enjoyed
I
me
cure
After a
mv
of
time
I
ship,
a
society of
my
forget
the
all
had undergone, but did not
I
inclination
certain
having built
made me
soon
troubles and calamities
in the
make new voyages.
to
therefore bought goods and, set
I
sail
her with several
in
other merchants of different nations
who had agreed
to sail with me.
"We
sailed with the
first
long navigation, the
first
desert island, where
we found
in
to that
size
young roc had begun with in
it,
in
just
to appear.
me broke
wind and,
we touched
the
at
after a
was a
an egg of a roc, equal
formerly mentioned.
I
it
place
fair
There was
readv to be hatched, and
a
its bill
The merchants who had landed egg with hatchets, made a hole
and pulled out the young roc piecemeal and
roasted
it.
I
had earnestly entreated them
meddle with the
egg,
not to
but they would not listen to
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Scarcely had they finished their repast,
me.
there appeared in the
from
The
two great clouds.
us,
whom
captain
I
knowing by experience they were the male and female
had hired to navigate the
what they meant,
when
a considerable distance
at
air,
said
ship,
roc that belonged to the
young one, and pressed re-embark with
to
prevent
to
us
speed
all
misfortune
the
which he saw would otherwise befall
We
us.
on board and
hastened
set sail with all
possible speed.
"In the meantime, the two rocs approached with noise,
frightful
which
a
they
redoubled when they saw the egg broken and their young one Bj>
tJie
dexterity of
man
appeared sail
missed
it
us.
we could
to
unhappily befell
them
the
in
Thev
back
flew
direction from which
had
while
time,
endeavour to
come,
we
and
made
dis-
all
prevent that
the
which
us.
returned, and
carried
gone.
they
some
for
"Thev
steers
tlie
between
we observed
its
talons
that
stones,
each or
of
rather
rocks, of a monstrous size.
came directly over my ship, they hovered, and one of them let fall a rock, but by the
"When
dexterity
of
thev
the
steersman
it
missed us and, falling
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296
the
into
divided
sea,
the
The
almost see the bottom. fortune, threw his
water so
that
we could
other roc, to onr mis-
burden so exactly upon the middle
of the ship as to split
The
into a thousand pieces.
it
mariners and passengers were
all
crushed
to death
or sunk.
myself was of the number of the
"I as
came up again
I
I
wreck,
of the
piece
latter,
but
fortunately caught hold of a
and swimming sometimes with
one hand, and sometimes with the other, but always holding
came overcame
me, I
"I
I
down upon
fatigue,
explore
found
whose shore was verv
steep.
that difficulty, however, and got ashore.
sat
my
board, the wind and tide favouring
to an island
I
from to
mv
fast
It
it.
trees
the grass
which
after
seemed
everywhere,
I
recover myself
to
went into the island
to be a delicious garden.
some
of
them
bearing
and there were streams of fresh pure water,
fruits,
which was
"As
light
and good to drink.
advanced into the
I
island,
I
saw an old He was
man, who appeared verv weak and inhrm.
on the bank of
sitting
him
to be
a stream,
and
I
took
like
my-
at hrst
one who had been shipwrecked
went towards him and saluted him, but he only slightly bowed his head. I asked him why he
self.
I
sat so
sign
still,
for
me
but instead of answering me, he to
take
him upon
mv
a
back, and carry
him over the brook, signifying he wished fruit.
made
to gather
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. "I believed he really stood
him
sistance, took
him
over,
bade
iijion
my
clasped
his
who
Sindbad went
He
sat astride
so tight that
the
I
legs
totiuirds
as-
and for that end
off with ease
of doing so the old man,
my
need of
back, and having carried
him get down,
stooped that he might get
decrepit,
in
297
to
but instead
me appeared
nimbly
Jiim
;
about
quite
my
neck.
my
throat
and sainted him.
upon my shoulders and held
thought he would have strangled me,
apprehension of which made
me swoon.
Not-
mv faintins^ the kept fast about my neck, but opened his legs a little When I to give me time to recover my breath. withstanding
ill-natured
old
had done so he struck me so rudely with
fellow
his feet
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298
that
the
was forced
I
gather and eat
"He
me now and
and forced
trees,
me
left
all
then to stop to
my
when
day, and
to rest at night, laid himself
about
walk under
such as we found.
fruit
never
He made me
to rise.
down
lay
I
down
with me, holding
Every morning he pushed
always
fast
me
make me awake and afterwards obliged me You may judge then what up and walk.
to
to
get
trouble
was
I
of which
neck.
be loaded with such
to
in
could not get
I
"One day had fallen from
a
after cleaning
pressed into
which abounded bash,
put
I
the
wine so
tree.
I
took
large one, and,
a
some
it
juice of grapes,
the island; having filled the cala-
in
by
it
thither again
and going
a convenient place,
in
some days good that
after, it
tasted
I
and found
it
me
soon made
sorrow, gave
me new
spirits that
began to sing and dance
I
burden
found several dry calabashes that
I
it,
a
rid.
forget
vigour, and so exhilarated as
I
my my
walked
along.
"The liquor
man
old
had
perceiving the effect which this
upon me,
and that
him with
carried
I
more ease than before, made me a sign to give him some of it. I handed him the calabash and, the liquor
There
pleasing
being
became
his a
and
loosened
his
to
and
dance
legs
by
drank
he
considerable
intoxicated
manner,
palate,
began
upon degrees
sing
my
off.
it,
he
after
his
of
quantity to
all
it
shoulders.
He
threw
him
and
I
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then took
great
a
299
motion
lay without
and
stone
;
I
head
crushed his
to pieces.
was
"I
from
ever
extremely
glad
be thus freed for
to
troublesome fellow.
this
wards the beach, where
walked
I
to-
met the crew of a ship They were that had cast anchor to take in water. surprised to see me, but more so at hearing the particulars of my adventures. *You fell,' they said, hands
the
'into
the
are
who
first
malicious
the
of
never
once made himself master them,
and
he
number
the
of the
of,
till
he had
he had destroyed
this
island
men he
has
slain;
advance
great
the
into
received
me
me
with
great
some
after
harbour of a great
and
hewn
with
"One his
durst
were
in
days' city,
carried
commodation
of
sail
the captain
we
again
out
put
told
arrived
at
to
the
the houses of which were
stone.
invited
me
He
;
things,
when they
kindness
of the merchants,
friendship,
of these
with them to the ship
him what had befallen me. and
me
informed
having
they carried
built
it
numbers.'
"After
sea,
the
that
so
they
unless
island,
by
notorious
merchants and mariners who landed upon not
and
sea,
those
quitted
made
has
of
man
old
ever escaped strangling by his
He
tricks.
I
to
a
me place
foreign
who had to
taken
me
into
go along with him,
appointed
merchants.
for
He
the
ac-
gave
me
20*
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300
large
a
and having recommended me to some the town who were in the habit of
bag,
people
of
gathering
cocoa-nuts,
desired
them
of
me
take
to
with them.
"We
started and
came presently
a forest of
to
cocoa-nut trees, very lofty and with trunks so smooth that
it
was
possible
not
When we
that bore the fruit.
saw as
number
a great
climb to the branches
to
of apes of several sizes,
soon as they perceived
us,
at
whom
I
the apes.
fled
The merchants
was collected stones and threw them I
did
the
same, and the apes, out of
threw cocoa-nuts
revenge,
who
and climbed to the top
of the trees with surprising swiftness.
w4th
we
entered the forest
at
us
so
fast,
and with
such gestures as sufficiently testified their anger and
We
resentment.
gathered
up the
cocoa-nuts,
and
from time to time threw stones to provoke the apes so
that
by
cocoa-nuts,
this
stratagem we
which
it
would
filled
have
our bags with
been
impossible
otherwise to have done.
"When we to the city,
the
forest
brought. until I
had gathered our number, we returned
where the merchant who had sent me gave
'Go
me
the
on,' said he,
value of the
his
I
'and do the like every dav,
you have got money enough
thanked him for
cocoa-nuts
to
to carry
you home.'
advice and gradually collected
manv cocoa-nuts as produced me a considerable sum of money. I had likewise a number of cocoanuts which I took with me upon the vessel on which as
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embarked, and when she was ready
who had been
leave of the merchant
"We grows
in
sailed
to sail
aloes grows.
I
two islands
so kind to me.
towards the islands where pepper
From thence we went to the where the best species of wood of exchanged my cocoa-nuts in those
pepper and wood of
for
who brought me up some Next
arrived
at
Bussorah
Bagdad, where
I
alms
in
other
as
made
fatigues
vast I
a
thence
sums of
my
upon
by amusements of five
and
my
to
I
times and escaped so
began
to
pepper,
wood
my
gains
from
return
dissipate
many to
myself to new hardships.
expose
returned
my my
that after being ship-
should have resolved never again
year's rest
I
happily
that
different kinds.
"One would have imagined wrecked
vessel
endeavoured
and
hired divers,
gave the tenth of
done
had
I
voyages,
from
;
of aloes and pearls.
in
I
were verv large and
that
embarked
I
and went
aloes,
with other merchants a pearl-fishing.
pure.
took
I
great plenty.
of Comari,
Isle
301
dangers,
I
tempt fortune
But
after
a
prepare for a sixth voyage.
to
"I travelled once more through several provinces of Persia and the Indies
at
a
sea-port
bound on a long voyage. was long indeed, and at the same time so un-
where It
embarked
and arrived
I
in
a ship
fortunate that the captain and pilot lost their course.
They, how^ever,
at last
we had no reason Suddenly we saw the but
discovered where they were, to rejoice at the circumstance.
captain
quit his post, uttering
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302
He
loud lamentations.
threw
beard, and beat his
his
head
oft'
his
like
a
turban, pulled
We
madman.
asked him the reason, and he answered that he was in the
most dangerous place
"A
in
the ocean.
all
rapid current had caught the ship and
carried to the foot of an inaccessible mountain it
struck and went to pieces, yet
that
we saved our
lives,
it
was
where
such a manner
in
our provisions, and the best
of our goods.
"The mountain
at
the
of which
foot
we were
wrecked formed part of the coast of a verv large It was covered with wrecks and we found
island.
an incredible quantity of goods and riches cast ashore. In
all
other places, rivers
from their channels
run
into the sea, but here a river of fresh water runs out
of the sea into a dark cavern, the entrance of which is
very high and spacious.
in
this
place
is,
What
is
most remarkable
that the stones of the
mountain are
of crystal, rubies or other precious stones.
"Once
cast ashore there
terrible place, for the
is
mountain
no escape from
this
inaccessible
and
is
the strong current prevents escape by sea.
"At first we divided our provisions as equally we could and thus everyone lived a longer or shorter
time,
according to
was inevitable and
at
length
his I
strength
;
as
a
but death
was the only survivor
of the party, and expecting almost hourly to breathe
my
last.
"But
it
pleased
God once more
to
take
com-
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in
it
303
my mind
to
go to the
bank of the river which ran into the great cavern. Considering I
its
probable course with great attention,
said to myself, 'This river,
which runs thus under-
ground, must somewhere have an issue. a raft,
and leave mvself to the current,
me
some inhabited country, or
I
to
be drowned,
and
kind of death for another; place,
fatal
my
not
shall
I
will
convev If
only change one
if
get out of this
I
avoid
only
it
shall perish.
I
lose nothing, but
I
make
If I
sad
the
of
fate
comrades, but perhaps find some new occasion
of enriching myself.'
"I immediately went to work upon large pieces of timber and tied
them together
soon made a very solid I
loaded other
all
it
with
precious
so strongly that
When
raft.
I
stones
were
that
and
ambergris
emeralds,
rubies,
I
had finished lying
that
in
place and went on board with two oars that
I
had
made.
"As soon
as I
entered the cavern
and the stream carried I
floated
some days
me in
I
knew not
my
head.
tell
how
At long
length it
a
very nearly touched
it
stupor seized
continued, but
Thus
whither.
darkness, and once
perfect
found the arch so low that
I lost all light,
when
I
me
;
I
cannot
revived
I
was
surprised to find myself in an extensive plain on the
brink of a river, where
my
raft
number of negroes. "They spoke to me, but
was
tied,
amidst a
great
I
did not
understand
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304
their language
but on
;
my
speaking a few words of
Arabic one of the blacks came forward and answered me. He told me that he and his companions had
been working raft
upon the
in the
when they observed my
fields
river and brought
He
ashore.
it
them mv history and how venture myself upon the river.
me
to
tell
"Before satisfying their curiosity something to I
to
related
with
my
and when
eat,
attentive
that
I
begged
I
to
for
which they listened
me
and then wished
surprise,
accompany them
came
hunger was appeased
that had befallen me,
all
I
asked
might go and
my
tell
to
history
to their king.
"As
I
was quite willing
go with them we
to
we came to the capital of Serendib, which was the name of the island in which I had
marched
till
landed.
"The king received me with great kindness and condescension, and when T had told all my history T caused the precious things I had brought with me on the
raft
to
be brought
him the whole of
my
in
and strai2;htwav ollered
cargo.
"But he would take nothing from charged one of sent all
my
his
officers
goods to
begged the king granted
me
to
allow
permission
honourable manner.
to take care of me, and
a lodging
"I spent a short time
in
He
me.
in
me
provided for me. the
to
and
then
home.
He
island
return
the most obliging and most
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. "He would and when
me for
went
1
me
needs force upon
my
to take
305 a rich present,
leave of him he gave
much more considerable present and a letter the commander of the faithful, our sovereign,
a
saying to me,
and
this
pray you give
'I
letter,
from me,
this present
my
and assure him of
to the caliph,
friendship.'
"I took the present and the
and went on board
king,
and
a ship
Bussorah, and from thence the
first
which
set sail at once,
we landed
very successful navigation
after a
thing
I
did
went
I
was
at
Bagdad, where
to
my
myself of
acquit
to
thanked the
letter,
commission.
now
"Being voyage
I
elling
for,
I
;
absolutely laid aside besides
my
that
thoughts
all
age
my
from
returned
safely
now
as
had
I
encountered
One day servants
as
I
was treating
came and
thought of
my days in my friends,
tranquillity.
that
me.'
I
to the caliph.
he
said
service
;
to
me: 'Sindbad,
you must carry
the king of Serendib. his civilitv.'
This
presence
prostrated myself in the
I
my
It
one of
my
is
from the table
rose
and went to him, and he requested
him forthwith
such
'That an officer of the
told me,
wished to see
caliph
to
rest,
I
so
;
nothing but to pass the rest of
of trav-
required
was resolved no more to expose myself
risks
sixth
stand
me I
accompany
to
did and having
of our
need of your
in
answer and but just
sovereign
I
a present to
should return
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
3o6
command
"This
clap of thunder.
me
of the caliph was to
had no wish
I
other voyage, moreover
like a
ever to take
an-
had made a vow never to
I
go out of Bagdad.
"But the and
insisted
upon
to
submit.
He
to
pay for the
for
my
caliph
was forced
I
thousand
sequins
my
compliance
me one
ordered expenses
of
my
journey.
"I
and
as
prepared
soon
delivered
as the
barked and had at
Serendib
as
soon
as
a
very happy voyage.
my
commission and
I
went
to Bussorah,
I
speedily executed
I
conveniently could
was the king
ious
to
me
keep
I
received permission,
me
a
very considerable
good fortune
to
there
it,
with him. the
so anx-
When,
king dismissed
present.
immediately to return to Bagdad, arrive
leave to
solicited
difficulty to obtain
however, with
few days,
a
and present were
caliph's letter
had much
depart, and
in
where I emHaving arrived
me,
to
departure
I
but
embarked
had not the
speedily as
so
had
I
hoped.
"Three or four days were our
attacked ship,
by
because
pirates, it
after
my
who
easily
was no vessel of
departure,
lives,
but for myself and the
rest,
upon
seized
Some
force.
of the crew offered resistance which cost
them
who were
we
their
not so
imprudent, the pirates saved us on purpose to make slaves of us.
"We
were
all
stripped, and instead of our
own
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
307
clothes they gave us sorry rags, and carried us into a
remote "I soon
as
Some me if
davs
'But
into
by.
It
it
home,
his
I
slave.
asked
answered that and
of
all I
that
I
the
possessed.
replied he, 'can you shoot with a bow?'
me
could, and he gave
I
me
a
bow and
behind him upon an elephant,
some leagues from the
to a thick forest
and shoot
a great tree he
elephants that passed
the
at
bade me climb
appeared there were a great number of them
mv
that forest and
"I remained
any
to
merchant,
a
Then showing me
up in
but
me had robbed me
sold
arrows and, taking
town.
me
me handsomely for a knowing who I was, he
not
after,
answered that
me
merchant, who,
and clad
well,
tell me,'
carried
us.
a rich
he bought me, carried
mechanic,
who
pirates
hands of
into the
understood any trade.
I
no
was
I
as
me
treated
where they sold
island,
fell
elephants;
in
but
master was an ivorv merchant.
the tree
night without seeing
morning
the
in
all
T
perceived
a
number and succeeded in shooting one. The other elephants at once made off and I came down
great
the tree and went to inform
my
dexterity and
where we dug
meaning
we
a hole
to return
my
master.
He
praised
returned to the forest together, for the
when
it
was
elephant, rotten,
my
patron
and take
his
teeth to trade with.
"I continued
this
employment
for
two months,
and killed an elephant every day, getting sometimes
upon one tree and sometimes upon another.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
3o8
"One morning,
me
with
tree
me
horrible
a
alarmed that
fall
fixed their eyes
all
from
my
"My
fears
it
up, and
me
taking
He
tree, fell
I
me up I
with
more
sat
then put himself
elephants,
considerable way, and then
a
ground and retired with
the
was upon
I
at
who followed him
After seeing the elephants go
companions.
up and found
for the largest
back, where
alive.
me down on
laid
and arrows to
on the ground.
it
his
other
troops, carried
his
on
one dead than
the head of the in
was
I
round the foot of the
threw
me
trunk, laid
like
the
trunks
upon me.
were not without cause,
with the tree, and the elephant, his
their
hands.
elephant put his trunk
plucked
with
my bow
allowed
I
and came to
They encompassed
concealed,
I
instead of
that,
they stopped
noise.
was
I
extended, and so
amazement
usual,
as
which
in
looked for the elephants,
I
extreme
perceived with passing by
as
a
I
long and broad
all
got hill,
almost covered with the bones and teeth of elephants. This object furnished I
admired
me
with abundance of reflections.
not but that this was their
they
and doubted
the instinct of those animals,
me
carried
thither
burying place, and that
on
purpose
to
should forbear to persecute them, since for their teeth.
towards the
I
city,
did not stay on the and,
after
my
having
I
hill,
tell
did
me it
I
only
but turned
travelled
a
day
met no elephant on mv wav, which made me think thev had retired and
a night,
I
came
to
patron.
I
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
The
elephant, taking
into
farther
the
come back to "As soon had been
He
of me. a tree
in
Sindbad up, laid him upon
to
forest,
leave
me
as
my
liberty
at
to
me he told me he know what had become
patron saw
great trouble to
had been
into the forest
and
up,
a
bow
the ground, and having sought for
me
despaired of ever seeing
"I told him
all
that
went the next morning with as
Ids hack.
the hill without any obstacle.
newly pulled
"We
309
and had found and arrows on
me
in vain
had
more.
had happened and we both
to the hill.
loaded the elephant which had carried us
manv
teeth as he could bear, and
when we
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
3IO
had returned
my
master said: 'Brother, for
you no more
treat
my
as
such a discovery as will
will
having made
slave, after
enrich me,
I
give you your
I
liberty.'
"My
me what
master then told
he had hitherto
'The elephants of our
concealed from me.
said he, 'have everv vear killed a great slaves,
whom we
sent
we could
cautions
seek
to
them,
give
manv For
ivory.
those
forest,'
crafty
of our all
the
animals
You only have have procured me incredible
destroyed them one time or another. escaped, and besides that
Formerly we could only procure ivory by exposing the lives of our slaves, and now our whole
wealth.
city
enriched
is
Do
by your means.
not think
I
pretend to have rewarded you by giving you your
you considerable riches.' "'Your giving me my liberty is enough to discharge what you owe me,' I said, 'and I deserve no other reward for the service I had the good fortune liberty,
to
I
will also give
do to you and your
my own
but leave
to
return to
country.'
"'Verv little
city,
time bring ships
monsoon*
'the
well,' said he,
ivory.
for
I
will
will
then
in a
send
you home and give you money to pay your charges.' "I stayed with him expecting the monsoon;
made
and during that time we to
the *
A
hill,
that
we
filled
regular wind that blows
many from
the west.
six
all
so
many journeys
our warehouses with
months from the
cast,
and as
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. The
ivory.
same, for
arrived
ships
at
laid
provisions
in
passage, and besides obliged
of
some
After
favours,
his
all
"On
our
islands to take
come to a we touched of the
by
land.
several
a
time
on the way,
all
with
serpents,
arrived
my
fear
or
Our
safely
I
vessel being
the
my
landed
Indies,
my
to
journey
ivory,
bought
intended for presents, ready,
set
out in
of merchants.
I
ven-
proportion
my
proceed on
some
at
and
company
was
a
long
and suffered much, but endured
when
from
these at
thanks for
in
considered
I
the
sea,
from
that pirates,
from other perils to which
All
exposed.
wait
caravan
patience,
nothing to
thousand
sums of
vast
which
with
for
being willing
I
to
when my equipage was large
to accept a present
a
and not
Bussorah,
made
I
me
mainland
the
resolving
rarities,
abundance
fresh provisions.
on
there,
ivory,
my my
in
voyage we stopped
return in
to
with ivory on
it
I
went aboard.
1
port
by sea
ture
him
had returned
patron,
country of great value.
of the
curiosities
1
did the
of the ship wherein
embark, loaded half of
account,
it
my
and
last,
made choice
himself having to
traded in
could not be long concealed from them.
it
"The was
who
other merchants
311
ended
fatigues
Bagdad.
I
went
at
I
I
had from
had been
last,
and
I
immediately to
upon the caliph, and gave him an account of embassy, and moreover related to him all the
surprising
adventures
I
had met with.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
312
"He deemed my them I
retired well
I
and
received,
ever since
my
of
to be so curious,
secretaries
his
characters of gold, and lay
in
treasury.
and
one
ordered
he
that
adventures
have
devoted
Hindbad, the "Well,
who Is
enjoy
so
"You them
such
as
I
have
done,
or
of any
that,
after
all
should
this,
I
his
hand
and kissing
near,
said
:
but are worthy
life,
you enjoy, because you make of good and "generous use. Mav vou
a
continue
to
live in happiness
and joy
till
sequins,
re-
day of your death."
Sindbad ceived
him
to
riches
the
therefore
himself
vou ever hear of any person
not only deserve a quiet
all
the
addressing
seventh
and pleasant life?"
Hindbad drew of
his
said
much
reasonable quiet
a
to
has gone through so niany vicissitudes?
that
not
it
porter,
then
friend, did
suffered
mortal
and
voyage,
last
me
gave
myself wholly
Sindbad here finished the relation of and
honours
the
he
his
in
and friends."
kindred
family,
which
presents
the I
them up
with
satisfied
write
to
him quit
to
and dine reason
to
gave
him
into the his
one
number
porter's
every day with
hundred of
his friends,
employment, him,
remember Sindbad
that
the
and
desired
come
he might have
Sailor.
THE STORY OF THE LITTLE HUNCHBACK. 'HpHERE was in former times at Caspar, on
j|^ the extreme boundaries
who
of Tartarv, a tailor
had he
a pretty wife,
affectionately
and
by
whom
w^hom loved,
was
he
beloved with equal tenderness.
One day The Hunchback.
^^^
hunchback seated himself sing and play
with his his
said
upon
The
tailor
"will
divert
carried
him tailor's
;
both
"This this
little
him
wife
Lnmediatelv
up
to
fellow,"
He
evening."
so the tailor shut
home.
he
little
him and the other readily
invited
cepted the invitation
arrival, the
his wife.
us
a
was pleased
performance, and resolved to take
accordingly
and
while
work,
the shop door and began to
a tabor.
house to entertain he,
at
at
his
after
ac-
shop their
placed before them a good
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
314
dish of
fish
but as the
;
man was
little
eating, he
unluckily swallowed a bone, which, notwithstanding the
that
all
and
tailor
his
could
wife
choked
do,
him.
This
accident
they dreaded that
alarmed
greatly
the magistrates should
if
they would be punished
it
the
husband
devised
took the corpse,
They knocked
at
of
to
led
stairs
get
rid
his plan, his wife
one by the
the
by the head, and carried
hear of
of the
that a Jewish doctor lived
and having formed
just by,
to
it
and he
and the other
feet
to the physician's house.
the door, from which a steep flight
The
chamber.
his
came down without any
light and,
asked what they wanted.
"Have
servant-maid
opening the door,
the goodness," said
the tailor, "to go up again and tell your master
have brought him his
money
him
very
ill
we do
that
we
and wants a piece of
mean
not
to
impose."
the servant had gone up to inform her master,
the tailor and
back's
is
"give him that beforehand, to
into her hand,
convince
When
man who
a
Here," continued he, putting
advice.
for
However,
murderers.
as
scheme
a
He remembered
corpse.
them both,
body
his wife
to the
hastily
head of the
conveyed the hunchstairs
and, leaving
it
there, hurried away.
In the meantime the maid told the doctor that a
man and
desiring
a
woman
waited
he would come
man whom
they had
for
him
at
down and look
brought with
them,
the door, at
a sick
and
put
"/
have killed the poor felloiv ivho ivas brought
to
me
to
be cured.''
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. money
the
had received
she
doctor was delighted
who should
one
he
cried
he
he
with
corpse
cipitated
with
"Bring me
it.
much
a light,"
As
head of the
and came against
light,
violence
and
and
quickly."
towards the
bottom,
the
to
it
so
patient,
"Bring
me
"follow
maid,
hastily ran
without waiting for a
stairs
the
have a good
not be neglected.
the
to
spoke,
The
hand.
his
being paid beforehand; he
at
must needs
thought he
into
317
he
that
had
nearly
a light," he cried again,
prefallen
"quick,
quick."
At
with her
stairs
kicked
;
he went down-
brought one, and
she
last
but
down was
a
when he saw that what he had dead man he was very much
frightened.
"Unhappy man that I am," said he, "why did I attempt to come without a light I have killed the poor fellow who was brought to me to be cured I doubtless I am the cause of his death am ruined. Mercy on me, they will be here out of hand, and drag me out of my house for a !
:
;
murderer."
Notwithstanding into
the
which he was thrown,
to shut his
and
perplexity
he
had the
confusion
precaution
door, for fear anyone passing by should
observe the accident of which he reckoned himself to be the
author.
He
told
his
wife,
who
likewise
exclaimed that they were ruined unless they could find a
means
to be rid of the
body
that very night.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
3i8
"If
we harbour
it
till
the
we
morning
are
lost,"
he
could
said she.
The doctor racked
his brain
vain,
in
not think of any stratagem to relieve his embarrass-
ment; but
his wife,
who was more
"Let us carrv the bodv
said,
fertile in invention,
to the terrace of our
throw
and
house,
down
it
the chimney of our Mussul-
man
neighbour.'
This Mussulman was one of the sultan's purvevors for
furnishing articles
of a
and
butter
oil,
similar
nature,
and had a storehouse where
made
the rats and mice
pro-
digious havoc.
The Jewish doctor The
racked
doctor
his
brain
proving
the
pedient,
his
took
up
to
under
the his
roof of the armpits,
let
the
house
proposed
little
he
hunchback
fastening
and,
ex-
and
wife
ap-
ropes
him down the chimney
into
the purveyor's chamber so dexterously that he stood
upright against the wall,
When
as
if
he
had
been
alive.
they found he had reached the bottom they
pulled
up the
ropes,
and
left
the
body
in
that
position.
They were scarcely seated in their chamber when the purveyor, who had just returned from a
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. went
wedding-feast, in
He
hand.
his
cover a
man
stout fellow,
up
a
stick,
"Ah!"
a
he,
making
but being a
butter and tallow
;
straight for the hunchback,
discover a
but
it
is
man
you who come down
However,
chimney
will
have no wish to come here again."
rob
me.
mice ate
standing in his chimney.
the
to
he took
a thief,
"I thought the rats and
to
lanthorn
a
surprised to dis-
little
and taking him to be
The purveyor was surprised
my
room with
his
standing in his chimney;
and,
said
into
was not
319
I
think
Upon
you this
he attacked the hunchback and struck him several times with his stick.
The corpse
fell
down
flat
on
the ground, and the purveyor redoubled his blows.
But,
observing
that
the
body did not
move, he
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
320
regarded
have
done!
I
my
carried
He to
that
revenge too
saw
already
the
am," said he, "what
man;
a
alas!
thunderstruck
come
officers
and
punishment,
condign
be
to
it
have
I
far."
and
pale
perceived
I
have killed
I
stood
and
nearly
"Wretched man
dead.
he
more
it
he
;
could
fancied
him
drag
to
not
what
tell
to do.
But when he had recovered himself took his
against
where he shop
a
few
come
minutes
that
in
When
he
passed
by the
had it,
when
fell
thinking he
w^as
down,
after
and,
"Thieves
to
shop
placed it
very
davbreak,
posture,
once
end
where
upon
the
by
his
to
bath.
he
street
jostle
to
against
The merchant, knocked
a robber,
redoubling
the
hunchback's body
back.
his
the
happened to
the
of
happened
attacked
furnished
way
his
Christian
a
articles,
on
the
and
and
rich,
various
direction
came
been
the
without
returned
before
with
palace
sultan's
upright
upon of
him.
who was
merchant
an
in
it
end
the
to
it
then
he
;
looking behind
A
placed
hunchback
the
of
and carried
shoulders,
street,
body
crooked
the
he
a little
blows,
cried
it
out
!"
The outcry alarmed immediately,
and
finding
Mussulman asked him abuse a Mussulman in
watch,
the
Christian
a
what that
who came up
reason
manner.
beating
he
had
a
to
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. "He would "and
chant,
order to
have robbed me," replied the mer-
pounced
"If he
did,"
venged yourself
At
the
a Christian dares
he
saying
him
said
him.
kept In
of the
out
"is
observing thus that
Mussulman?"
and
to
more
reflected
upon
his
adventure
conceive
how
could have
The
was ready
the
he
such
the
killed
So
and carried
Christian,
the judge
re-
hand
his
it
meantime,
the
merchant could
till
in
off him."
but
up, he,
have
to the house of the officer of the police,
he was
fist
he stretched
to assassinate a
hold
laid
come, get
hunchback
"Oh!"
behind
"you
watch,
sufficiently;
little
from
throat."
the
said
was dead,
that he
the
same time
the
help
to
me
upon
me bv
take
321
the
where
examine Christian
the
blows of
slight
less
his
man.
judge, having heard the report of the watch
viewed
who could
the
body,
interrogated
not deny the crime,
the
prisoner,
though he had not
But the judge, considering the little hunchback belonged to the sultan, for he was one committed
of
it.
buffoons,
his
would
not
put
went
the
to
sultan's
officers
ceived this a
Christian
the
judge
and
palace with
answer:
who
all
the
a
Christian
to
this
end
he
acquainted
one
of
the
and
re-
had happened,
"I have
kills
ordered
and sent criers
what
the
For
death without higher authority.
no mercy to show to
Mussulman." execution
over the
city
to to
Upon take
this
place,
proclaim that
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
322
they were killing
about to
The
the
his
the
done
every circumstance
body
to
the
had found put
to
be
guilty
the
a
with
having
the
exe-
who
told
killed
the
how he had conveyed
the
his
where
the
merchant
Christian
added
about,"
?
person
for
;
my
Mussulman, without loading the
death
"to
he,
how can he of a man who was dead It is enough for me to
death
touched him
have killed
of
innocent
an
purveyor,
the
"You were
it.
of
he
science
and
place
death
the
that
for
who attended
officer
began to question hunchback,
stop,
through
it.
the
little
to
pushed
committed the murder, but he
not
that
him
to
the
to
purveyor
sultan's
calling
himself had
Upon
brought
and the executioner was about to do
had
Christian
before
for
of
crowd,
him
death
to
place
when
cution
Christian
a
merchant was
execution, duty,
put
Mussulman.
a
Christian
of a
who
connot
is
guilty."
The himself the
purveyor having publicly charged
sultan's
with
officer
the
could
on
the
he,
"and execute
appears
death
do no
by
this
own
the
execute
Christian
the
man
hunchback,
little
than
less
"Let
merchant.
his
of
in
confession
his
go,"
he
said
since
stead,
that
justice
is
it
guilty."
merchant
Thereupon the executioner released
the
and seized the purveyor;
he was going
to
carry
out
the
sentence
but
he
just as
heard
the
voice
of
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. the Jewish doctor,
pend
the
323
earnestly entreating
make
and
execution,
room
him
to sus-
for
him
to
approach.
When "My
he
lord,
appeared before the judge he said
Mussulman you
this
going to exe-
are
am the criminal. Last night a man and a woman, who are unknown to me, came to my door with a sick man my maid went cute
not
is
guilty.
I
;
opened
and
them
piece
a
come and look
her
message,
the
stair-head,
in
and
discovered
and
My
conveying next
death
was dead,
up
neighbour, unjustly,
him
concluded
and
it
;
though
I it
am
will
the
the
finding a
thief,
killed
be
sole
sick
soon
I
!
crooked
now about and
body,
after
our
into
to his
his
house,
after
beating
in
and
put
to
chimney it
to
purveyor,
were going
down
had
he
was not so you
deposition
are
the
was the
roof of the
The purveyor little man for
the
you
whom you let
took
it
took the
I
the
to
Alas
and
and
a candle,
upon
stumble
death
and
wife
it
chamber.
it
had lighted to
without
went,
I
;
him downstairs.
Mussulman whose avenge.
to
name, to step down
disappeared
servant
kick
he
commission
a
While she was delivering conveyed the sick person to
happened
dark
the
with
in their
patient.
they
my
till
person
me,
the
at
and received from
light,
money
of
desire
and
waiting
without a
it
him.
But
convinced by author of the
that
this
mv
murder
was committed undesignedly,
I
;
am
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
324
to
have
charge
to
my
expiate
resolved
crime,
myself
with
that
I
may
not
of
two
deaths
the
Mussulmen.
The
chief
the
Jewish
for
the
doctor was the
executioner to
executioner to hold
for
him
the
"My
made,
appeared,
crying
to
and make room
make
and
Room "you
he,
said
lord,"
the to
judge.
chief
release
about
might come
he
that to
and
hand,
his
that
gave orders
doctor was
tailor
the
fession
him
the
executed when the
be
murderer,
seize
Accordingly
purveyor.
now persuaded
being
justice
con-
his
been
having
narrowly
have
away the lives of three innocent persons; but if you will have the patience to hear me, I will discover to you the real murderer of escaped
the
crookbacked man.
by
piated day,
taking
another's,
and
was
sang a
little,
evening
a
him
gave
I
few^
did
in
plate
his
our utmost
minutes.
be
to
is
to
him
accepted
We
sat
of
fish
throat,
and
relieve
His death
invitation to
supper
in
eating,
my
though
with
us it,
he
;
spend the
to
the
him,
little
down
but
;
my
in
the
sat
ex-
Yester-
work
down
afflicted
and for fear of being charged
at
merry,
be
invited
me. a
was
I
door and
He
house.
with
bone stuck
and a
I
in
I
as
to
my
to
and so
my
at
and went
disposed
came
hunchback
death
his
must be the man.
I
towards the evening,
shop
and
If
he
wife
died
in
extremely,
we
carried
the body to the Jewish doctor's house and knocked.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. The maid came and opened her to
325
door
the
down and give his advice to we had brought along with encourage him,
I
of money,
which
was
I
gone,
a sick
to
come
person
whom
and
us,
desired
I
;
np again and ask her master
go
withal,
to
charged her to give him a piece I
the
When
her hand.
put into
carried
hunchback
she
and
upstairs,
him upon the upper-
laid
most
step,
wife
and
best
of
and then
made the our way home. I
The doctor
accidentally
body down-
threw the
concluded
and
stairs
my
himself to be the author
This being
of his death.
the
case,
doctor and
The The
executioner was
making ready.
^^^
let
me
die
stead."
his
in
the
release
^||
chief
^^^
justice
Spectators
wondered at the strange events which had ensued upon the death of the little hunchback. "Let the Jewish doctor go," said the judge, "and seize the tailor,
since
he
While the put
an
end
to
confesses
crime.'
executioner was the
company where he was. One
wanting the
the
tailor,
of his
the
making ready Sultan
crooked
of
jester,
to
Caspar,
asked
of his officers replied that he
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
326
been
had
dead
found
circumstance
strange
merchant,
Christian
Jewish doctor and selves
Upon an
a
the
to
"with
bring
that
I
own purveyor,
a
charged them-
all
crime.
the
place
of
the
at
and
me
said
judge
the
tell
to
immediately,
place
called to
and happened to
officer went,
of execution
executioner had
He
"Go,"
execution.
body of my poor hunchback him once more."
see
Accordingly the
tailor.
a
the
also
may
the
had
tailor
was
that
accused persons before
and
that
sultan's
expedition,
all
bring the
arrive
death
the
most
and the
city,
receiving this intelligence the sultan sent
officer
he,
about the
with
turn
in
the
in
him
laid
at
the verv time
hands upon the
his
to suspend the execution,
and acquainted the judge with the sultan's pleasure.
The judge obeyed, and went accompanied by the
directly to the palace,
the Jewish doctor,
tailor,
the
purveyor and the Christian merchant, and four men
conveyed the
body of the
hunchback
along with
them.
When
they appeared
the judge
threw himself
afterwards
gave him
a
the
in
at
the
sultan's
prince's
record
faithful
of
presence, feet,
and
all
that
had happened.
The sultan,
said: as
has
story
appeared most extraordinary to the
and addressing himself to the audience,
"Did you ever hear such happened
to
my
little
a
he
surprising event
crooked buffoon?"
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
Now
bodv
a
This
being
down on knees,
and
fastly,
fell
ground,
into
took
great
so
head
his
little
examine
to
a
fit
himself
of
him,
sat
between
his
upon
had looked
he
command
little
storv of the
approached
he
granted,
after
had
nearer.
little
the
who
barber
a
and who now asked leave
hunchback,
so
present
very attentively to the
listened
the
was
there
327
him
stead-
of laughter and had
he
that
back-
fell
wards on the ground, without considering that he
was before the Sultan of Caspar.
"why do vou laugh?"
"Barber," said the sultan,
answered the barber,
"Sir,"
benevolence
Majesty's
and
dead, if
I
be
shall
that
So several
saying,
he
hunchback
the
is
not
content to pass for a dotard
do not convince you of
I
"I swear by your
took
a
it
minute."
this
box
wherein
he
had
medicines that he carried about him to use
drew out a little phial of balsam, with which he rubbed the hunchback's neck a long time; then he took out of his as
might require,
occasion
case
a
neat
tween
the
opened
his
down bone. forth
iron
and
instrument which he inserted be-
hunchback's
teeth,
mouth, he thrust
a
and
after
he
had
pair of small pincers
throat, with which he drew out a fish Immediately the hunchback sneezed, stretched
his
his
arms
and
feet,
opened
his
eyes,
and
showed several other signs of life. The sultan was transported with jov and ad-
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
328
miration to
and
ordered the
down and
be written
Nor Jewish
did
he
doctor,
stop
story
purveyor
the
hunchback
be preserved for ever.
to
here
of
;
but,
and
that
Christian
the
tailor,
merchant
might remember with pleasure the adventure which the accident of the hunchback had occasioned them,
he
did
not
send them away
till
he had given each
them a very rich robe, with which he caused them to be clothed in his presence. As for the barber, he honoured him with a great pension, and kept him near his own person always. of
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