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diff --git a/54525-h/54525-h.htm b/54525-h/54525-h.htm index 51a7d02..8ae424f 100644 --- a/54525-h/54525-h.htm +++ b/54525-h/54525-h.htm @@ -1,11 +1,10 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> - <title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Vol VI, by Richard F. Burton</title> - <link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg" /> - <style type="text/css"> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <title>The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Vol 6 (of 10) | Project Gutenberg</title> + <link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg" > + <style> body { margin-left: 8%; margin-right: 10%; } h1 { text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: xx-large; } h2 { text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: x-large; } @@ -23,11 +22,8 @@ .under { text-decoration: underline; } .color_red { color: red; } .lg-container-b { text-align: center; } - @media handheld { .lg-container-b { clear: both; } } .lg-container-r { text-align: right; } - @media handheld { .lg-container-r { clear: both; } } .linegroup { display: inline-block; text-align: left; } - @media handheld { .linegroup { display: block; margin-left: 1.5em; } } .linegroup .group { margin: 1em auto; } .linegroup .line { text-indent: -3em; padding-left: 3em; } div.linegroup > :first-child { margin-top: 0; } @@ -45,16 +41,12 @@ text-align: right; } div.pbb { page-break-before: always; } hr.pb { border: none; border-bottom: thin solid; margin-bottom: 1em; } - @media handheld { hr.pb { display: none; } } .chapter { clear: both; page-break-before: always; } .figcenter { clear: both; max-width: 100%; margin: 2em auto; text-align: center; } .figcenter img { max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .id001 { width:60%; } .id002 { width:40%; } .id003 { width:10%; } - @media handheld { .id001 { margin-left:20%; width:60%; } } - @media handheld { .id002 { margin-left:30%; width:40%; } } - @media handheld { .id003 { margin-left:45%; width:10%; } } .ig001 { width:100%; } .table0 { margin: auto; margin-top: 2em; } .nf-center { text-align: center; } @@ -63,11 +55,6 @@ p.drop-capi1 { text-indent: 0; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; } p.drop-capi1:first-letter { color: transparent; visibility: hidden; margin-left: -1em; } - @media handheld { - img.drop-capi { display: none; visibility: hidden; } - p.drop-capi1:first-letter { color: inherit; visibility: visible; - margin-left: 0em; } - } .c000 { margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; } .c001 { margin-top: 1em; } .c002 { text-align: right; } @@ -92,7 +79,6 @@ border:1px solid silver; margin:2em 10% 0 10%; } .covernote { visibility: hidden; display: none; } div.tnotes p { text-align:left; } - @media handheld { .covernote { visibility: visible; display: block;} } div.titlepage {text-align: center; page-break-before: always; page-break-after: always; border: solid red; } div.titlepage p {text-align: center; text-indent: 0em; font-weight: bold; @@ -114,14 +100,14 @@ </div> -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_grid.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id001'> +<img src='images/i_grid.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c001' /> + <hr class='pb c001' > </div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_forequote.jpg' alt='لا لابرار كلّ شي تبر' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_forequote.jpg' alt='لا لابرار كلّ شي تبر' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='nf-center-c1'> @@ -169,22 +155,22 @@ part of these truly enchanting fictions.”</p> <div class='c002'>—<span class='sc'>Crichton’s</span> “<cite>History of Arabia</cite>.”</div> <div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c001' /> + <hr class='pb c001' > </div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_frontis.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_frontis.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c001' /> + <hr class='pb c001' > </div> <div class='c000'> - <img class='drop-capi' src='images/i_titlepage_dc.jpg' width='100' alt='' /> + <img class='drop-capi' src='images/i_titlepage_dc.jpg' alt='' style="width: 100px"> </div><p class='drop-capi1'> <span class='large'><em>A PLAIN AND LITERAL TRANSLATION OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. NOW ENTITULED</em></span></p> <div> - <h1 class='c004' title='The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Vol VI'><span class='xlarge'><em>THE BOOK OF THE</em></span><br /> <span class='color_red'>Thousand Nights and a Night</span><br /> <br /> <span class='xlarge'><em>WITH INTRODUCTION EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF MOSLEM MEN AND A TERMINAL ESSAY UPON THE HISTORY OF <span class='c005'><span class='color_red'><em class='gesperrt'>THE NIGHTS</em></span></span></em><br /> <br />VOLUME VI.</span></h1> + <h1 class='c004' title='The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Vol VI'><span class='xlarge'><em>THE BOOK OF THE</em></span><br > <span class='color_red'>Thousand Nights and a Night</span><br > <br > <span class='xlarge'><em>WITH INTRODUCTION EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF MOSLEM MEN AND A TERMINAL ESSAY UPON THE HISTORY OF <span class='c005'><span class='color_red'><em class='gesperrt'>THE NIGHTS</em></span></span></em><br > <br >VOLUME VI.</span></h1> </div> <div class='nf-center-c1'> @@ -194,8 +180,8 @@ part of these truly enchanting fictions.”</p> </div> </div> -<div class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_titlepage_a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id003'> +<img src='images/i_titlepage_a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='nf-center-c1'> @@ -205,7 +191,7 @@ part of these truly enchanting fictions.”</p> </div> <div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c001' /> + <hr class='pb c001' > </div> <div class='nf-center-c1'> @@ -230,7 +216,7 @@ of which this is</p> </div> <div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c001' /> + <hr class='pb c001' > </div> <div class='nf-center-c1'> @@ -257,289 +243,289 @@ of which this is</p> <h2 class='c007'>CONTENTS OF THE SIXTH VOLUME.</h2> </div> -<table class='table0' summary='CONTENTS OF THE SIXTH VOLUME.'> +<table class="table0"> <tr> <th class='c008'></th> <th class='c008'> </th> <th class='c008'> </th> <th class='c009'><span class='small'>PAGE</span></th> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008' colspan='3'>SINDBAD THE SEAMAN AND SINDBAD THE LANDSMAN</td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c1'>1</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c010' colspan='4'>(<em>Lane, Vol. III., Chapt. XXII., Story of Es Sindbad of the Sea and Es Sindbad of the Land. pp. 1–78.</em>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>a.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The First Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c4'>4</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>b.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c14'>14</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>c.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Third Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c22'>22</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>d.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Fourth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c34'>34</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>e.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Fifth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c48'>48</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>f.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Sixth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c58'>58</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>g.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Seventh Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c68'>68</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Seventh Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman</span> (<em>according to the version of the Calcutta Edition</em>)</td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c78'>78</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008' colspan='3'>THE CITY OF BRASS</td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c83'>83</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c010' colspan='4'>(<em>Lane, Vol. III., Chapt. XXIII. Story of the City of Brass. pp. 118–152.</em>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008' colspan='3'>THE CRAFT AND MALICE OF WOMAN</td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c122'>122</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c010' colspan='4'>(<em>Lane, Vol. III., Chapt. XXI., Abstract of the Story of the King and his Son and the Damsel and the Seven Wezeers. pp. 158–183.</em>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>a.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The King and His Wazir’s Wife</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c129'>129</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>b.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Confectioner, his Wife, and the Parrot</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c132'>132</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>c.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Fuller and His Son</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c134'>134</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>d.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Rake’s Trick against the Chaste Wife</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c135'>135</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_viii'>viii</span> </td> <td class='c008'><em>e.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Miser and the Loaves of Bread</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c137'>137</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>f.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Lady and her Two Lovers</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c138'>138</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>g.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The King’s Son and the Ogress</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c139'>139</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>h.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Drop of Honey</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c142'>142</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>i.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Woman who made Her Husband Sift Dust</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c143'>143</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>j.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Enchanted Spring</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c145'>145</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>k.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Wazir’s Son and the Hammam-keeper’s Wife</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c150'>150</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>l.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Wife’s Device to Cheat her Husband</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c152'>152</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>m.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Goldsmith and the Cashmere Singing-Girl</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c156'>156</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>n.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Man who Never Laughed during the rest of his Days</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c160'>160</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>o.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The King’s Son and the Merchant’s Wife</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c167'>167</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>p.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Page who feigned to know the Speech of Birds</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c169'>169</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>q.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Lady and her Five Suitors</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c172'>172</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>r.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Three Wishes, or the Man who longed to see the Night of Power</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c180'>180</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>s.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Stolen Necklace</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c182'>182</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>t.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Two Pigeons</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c183'>183</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>u.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>Prince Behram and the Princess Al-Datma</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c184'>184</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>v.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The House with the Belvedere</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c188'>188</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>w.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The King’s Son and the Ifrit’s Mistress</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c199'>199</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>x.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Sandal-Wood Merchant and the Sharpers</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c202'>202</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>y.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Debauchee and the Three-Year-Old Child</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c208'>208</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>z.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Stolen Purse</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c209'>209</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008'> </td> <td class='c008'><em>aa.</em></td> <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Fox and the Folk</span></td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c211'>211</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008' colspan='3'>JUDAR AND HIS BRETHREN</td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c213'>213</a></td> </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='c010' colspan='4'>(<em>Lane, Vol. III, Chapt. XXII., Story of Joodar. pp. 183–233.</em>)</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> + <tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class='c008' colspan='3'>THE HISTORY OF GHARIB AND HIS BROTHER AJIB</td> <td class='c009'><a href='#c257'>257</a></td> @@ -548,12 +534,12 @@ of which this is</p> <div class='chapter'> <span class='pageno' id='Page_1'>1</span> - <h2 id='c1' class='c007'>SINDBAD THE SEAMAN<a id='r1' /><a href='#f1' class='c011'><sup>[1]</sup></a> AND SINDBAD THE LANDSMAN.</h2> + <h2 id='c1' class='c007'>SINDBAD THE SEAMAN<a id='r1' href='#f1' class='c011'><sup>[1]</sup></a> AND SINDBAD THE LANDSMAN.</h2> </div> <p class='c012'>There lived in the city of Baghdad, during the reign of the Commander of the Faithful, Harun al-Rashid, a man named Sindbád -the Hammál,<a id='r2' /><a href='#f2' class='c011'><sup>[2]</sup></a> one in poor case who bore burdens on his head for +the Hammál,<a id='r2' href='#f2' class='c011'><sup>[2]</sup></a> one in poor case who bore burdens on his head for hire. It happened to him one day of great heat that whilst he was carrying a heavy load, he became exceeding weary and sweated profusely, the heat and the weight alike oppressing him. Presently, @@ -581,7 +567,7 @@ bench, and at once heard from within the melodious sound of lutes and other stringed instruments, and mirth-exciting voices singing and reciting, together with the song of birds warbling and glorifying Almighty Allah in various tunes and tongues; turtles, mocking-birds, -merles, nightingales, cushats and stone-curlews,<a id='r3' /><a href='#f3' class='c011'><sup>[3]</sup></a> whereat +merles, nightingales, cushats and stone-curlews,<a id='r3' href='#f3' class='c011'><sup>[3]</sup></a> whereat <span class='pageno' id='Page_2'>2</span>he marvelled in himself and was moved to mighty joy and solace. Then he went up to the gate and saw within a great flower-garden wherein were pages and black slaves and such a train of servants @@ -667,7 +653,7 @@ house bade him draw near and be seated and bespoke him kindly, bidding him welcome. Then he set before him various kinds of viands, rich and delicate and delicious, and the Porter, after saying his Bismillah, fell to and ate his fill, after which he exclaimed, -“Praised be Allah whatso be our case!<a id='r4' /><a href='#f4' class='c011'><sup>[4]</sup></a>” and, washing his hands, +“Praised be Allah whatso be our case!<a id='r4' href='#f4' class='c011'><sup>[4]</sup></a>” and, washing his hands, <span class='pageno' id='Page_4'>4</span>returned thanks to the company for his entertainment. Quoth the host, “Thou art welcome and thy day is a blessed. But what is thy name and calling?” Quoth the other, “O my lord, my name @@ -693,7 +679,7 @@ and all this came to pass by doom of fortune and fate; for from what destiny doth write there is neither refuge nor flight. Know, then, good my lords (continued he) that I am about to relate the</p> -<h3 id='c4' class='c013'><em>FIRST VOYAGE OF SINDBAD HIGHT THE SEAMAN.</em><a id='r5' /><a href='#f5' class='c011'><sup>[5]</sup></a></h3> +<h3 id='c4' class='c013'><em>FIRST VOYAGE OF SINDBAD HIGHT THE SEAMAN.</em><a id='r5' href='#f5' class='c011'><sup>[5]</sup></a></h3> <p class='c014'>My father was a merchant, one of the notables of my native place, a monied man and ample of means, who died whilst I was yet a @@ -710,7 +696,7 @@ stricken with dismay and confusion and bethought me of a saying of our lord Solomon, son of David (on whom be peace!), which I had heard aforetime from my father, “Three things are better than other three; the day of death is better than the day of birth, a live -dog is better than a dead lion and the grave is better than want.”<a id='r6' /><a href='#f6' class='c011'><sup>[6]</sup></a> +dog is better than a dead lion and the grave is better than want.”<a id='r6' href='#f6' class='c011'><sup>[6]</sup></a> Then I got together my remains of estates and property and sold all, even my clothes, for three thousand dirhams, with which I resolved to travel to foreign parts, remembering the saying of @@ -735,7 +721,7 @@ and selling and bartering everywhere the ship touched, and continued our course till we came to an island as it were a garth of the gardens of Paradise. Here the captain cast anchor and making fast to the shore, put out the landing planks. So all -on board landed and made furnaces<a id='r7' /><a href='#f7' class='c011'><sup>[7]</sup></a> and lighting fires therein, +on board landed and made furnaces<a id='r7' href='#f7' class='c011'><sup>[7]</sup></a> and lighting fires therein, busied themselves in various ways, some cooking and some washing, whilst other some walked about the island for solace, and the crew fell to eating and drinking and playing and sporting. @@ -747,7 +733,7 @@ and hasten back to the ship and leave your gear and save yourselves whereon ye stand is no true island, but a great fish stationary a-middlemost of the sea, whereon the sand hath settled and trees have sprung up of old time, so that it is become like unto an -island;<a id='r8' /><a href='#f8' class='c011'><sup>[8]</sup></a> but, when ye lighted fires on it, it felt the heat and +island;<a id='r8' href='#f8' class='c011'><sup>[8]</sup></a> but, when ye lighted fires on it, it felt the heat and moved; and in a moment it will sink with you into the sea and ye will all be drowned. So leave your gear and seek your safety ere ye die!”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and @@ -810,7 +796,7 @@ a man from under the earth and followed me, crying out and saying, “Who and whence art thou, and what caused thee to come hither?” “O my lord,” answered I, “I am in very sooth, a waif, a stranger, and was left to drown with sundry others by -the ship we voyaged in;<a id='r9' /><a href='#f9' class='c011'><sup>[9]</sup></a> but Allah graciously sent me a wooden +the ship we voyaged in;<a id='r9' href='#f9' class='c011'><sup>[9]</sup></a> but Allah graciously sent me a wooden tub; so I saved myself thereon and it floated with me, till the waves cast me up on this island.” When he heard this, he took my hand and saying, “Come with me,” carried me into a great @@ -826,7 +812,7 @@ me who thou art and why thou abidest here under the earth and why thou hast tethered yonder mare on the brink of the sea.” Answered he, “Know, that I am one of the several who are stationed in different parts of this island, and we are of the grooms -of King Mihrján<a id='r10' /><a href='#f10' class='c011'><sup>[10]</sup></a> and under our hand are all his horses. Every +of King Mihrján<a id='r10' href='#f10' class='c011'><sup>[10]</sup></a> and under our hand are all his horses. Every month, about new-moon tide we bring hither our best mares which have never been covered, and picket them on the sea-shore and hide ourselves in this place under the ground, so that none may @@ -856,7 +842,7 @@ permitted say.</p> </div> <p class='c000'>She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the -Syce<a id='r11' /><a href='#f11' class='c011'><sup>[11]</sup></a> said to Sindbad the Seaman, “I will bear thee to King +Syce<a id='r11' href='#f11' class='c011'><sup>[11]</sup></a> said to Sindbad the Seaman, “I will bear thee to King Mihrjan and show thee our country. And know that hadst thou not happened on us thou hadst perished miserably and none had known of thee: but I will be the means of the saving of thy life @@ -867,11 +853,11 @@ and, giving a great cry, sprang upon the mare and covered her. When he had done his will of her, he dismounted and would have carried her away with him, but could not by reason of the tether. She kicked and cried out at him, whereupon the groom took a -sword and target<a id='r12' /><a href='#f12' class='c011'><sup>[12]</sup></a> and ran out of the underground saloon, smiting +sword and target<a id='r12' href='#f12' class='c011'><sup>[12]</sup></a> and ran out of the underground saloon, smiting the buckler with the blade and calling to his company, who came up shouting and brandishing spears; and the stallion took fright at them and plunging into the sea, like a buffalo, disappeared under -the waves.<a id='r13' /><a href='#f13' class='c011'><sup>[13]</sup></a> After this we sat awhile, till the rest of the grooms +the waves.<a id='r13' href='#f13' class='c011'><sup>[13]</sup></a> After this we sat awhile, till the rest of the grooms came up, each leading a mare, and seeing me with their fellow-Syce, questioned me of my case and I repeated my story to them. Thereupon they drew near me and spreading the table, ate and @@ -919,19 +905,19 @@ her permitted say.</p> <p class='c000'>She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Sindbad the Seaman said:—When they asked me of my country I questioned them of theirs and they told me that they were of -various castes, some being called Shakiriyah<a id='r14' /><a href='#f14' class='c011'><sup>[14]</sup></a> who are the noblest +various castes, some being called Shakiriyah<a id='r14' href='#f14' class='c011'><sup>[14]</sup></a> who are the noblest of their castes and neither oppress nor offer violence to any, and others Brahmans, a folk who abstain from wine, but live in delight and solace and merriment and own camels and horses and cattle. Moreover, they told me that the people of India are divided into two-and-seventy castes, and I marvelled at this with exceeding <span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>marvel. Amongst other things that I saw in King Mihrjan’s -dominions was an island called Kásil,<a id='r15' /><a href='#f15' class='c011'><sup>[15]</sup></a> wherein all night is heard +dominions was an island called Kásil,<a id='r15' href='#f15' class='c011'><sup>[15]</sup></a> wherein all night is heard the beating of drums and tabrets; but we were told by the neighbouring islanders and by travellers that the inhabitants are people -of diligence and judgment.<a id='r16' /><a href='#f16' class='c011'><sup>[16]</sup></a> In this sea I saw also a fish two +of diligence and judgment.<a id='r16' href='#f16' class='c011'><sup>[16]</sup></a> In this sea I saw also a fish two hundred cubits long and the fishermen fear it; so they strike -together pieces of wood and put it to flight.<a id='r17' /><a href='#f17' class='c011'><sup>[17]</sup></a> I also saw another +together pieces of wood and put it to flight.<a id='r17' href='#f17' class='c011'><sup>[17]</sup></a> I also saw another fish, with a head like that of an owl, besides many other wonders and rarities, which it would be tedious to recount. I occupied myself thus in visiting the islands till, one day, as I stood in the port, @@ -979,7 +965,7 @@ Sindbad the Seaman said to the captain, “These bales are mine, the goods which Allah hath given me,” the other exclaimed, “There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great! Verily, there is neither conscience nor good -faith left among men!” said I, “O Rais,<a id='r18' /><a href='#f18' class='c011'><sup>[18]</sup></a> what mean these words, +faith left among men!” said I, “O Rais,<a id='r18' href='#f18' class='c011'><sup>[18]</sup></a> what mean these words, seeing that I have told thee my case?” And he answered, “Because thou heardest me say that I had with me goods whose owner was drowned, thou thinkest to take them without right; @@ -1036,7 +1022,7 @@ story of my first voyage, and to-morrow, Inshallah! I will tell you the tale of the second of my seven voyages. (Saith he who telleth the tale), Then Sindbad the Seaman made Sindbad the Landsman sup with him and bade him give an hundred gold pieces, -saying, “Thou hast cheered us with thy company this day.”<a id='r19' /><a href='#f19' class='c011'><sup>[19]</sup></a> The +saying, “Thou hast cheered us with thy company this day.”<a id='r19' href='#f19' class='c011'><sup>[19]</sup></a> The <span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>Porter thanked him and, taking the gift, went his way, pondering that which he had heard and marvelling mightily at what things betide mankind. He passed the night in his own place and with @@ -1083,11 +1069,11 @@ selling and bartering. At last Destiny brought us to an island, fair and verdant, in trees abundant, with yellow-ripe fruits luxuriant, and flowers fragrant and birds warbling soft descant; and streams crystalline and radiant; but no sign of man showed to the descrier, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>no, not a blower of the fire.<a id='r20' /><a href='#f20' class='c011'><sup>[20]</sup></a> The captain made fast with us to +<span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>no, not a blower of the fire.<a id='r20' href='#f20' class='c011'><sup>[20]</sup></a> The captain made fast with us to this island, and the merchants and sailors landed and walked about, enjoying the shade of the trees and the song of the birds, that chanted the praises of the One, the Victorious, and marvelling -at the works of the Omnipotent King.<a id='r21' /><a href='#f21' class='c011'><sup>[21]</sup></a> I landed with the rest; +at the works of the Omnipotent King.<a id='r21' href='#f21' class='c011'><sup>[21]</sup></a> I landed with the rest; and, sitting down by a spring of sweet water that welled up among the trees, took out some vivers I had with me and ate of that which Allah Almighty had allotted unto me. And so sweet @@ -1152,7 +1138,7 @@ day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> the Seaman continued in these words:—My wonder redoubled and I remembered a story I had heard aforetime of pilgrims and travellers, how in a certain island dwelleth a huge bird, called the -“Rukh”<a id='r22' /><a href='#f22' class='c011'><sup>[22]</sup></a> which feedeth its young on elephants; and I was certified +“Rukh”<a id='r22' href='#f22' class='c011'><sup>[22]</sup></a> which feedeth its young on elephants; and I was certified <span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>that the dome which caught my sight was none other than a Rukh’s egg. As I looked and wondered at the marvellous works of the Almighty, the bird alighted on the dome and brooded over @@ -1193,7 +1179,7 @@ its soil was of diamond, the stone wherewith they pierce minerals and precious stones and porcelain and the onyx, for that it is a dense stone and a dure, whereon neither iron nor hardhead hath effect, neither can we cut off aught therefrom nor break it, save by -means of lead-stone.<a id='r23' /><a href='#f23' class='c011'><sup>[23]</sup></a> Moreover, the valley swarmed with snakes +means of lead-stone.<a id='r23' href='#f23' class='c011'><sup>[23]</sup></a> Moreover, the valley swarmed with snakes and vipers, each big as a palm tree, that would have made but one gulp of an elephant; and they came out by night, hiding during the day, lest the Rukhs and eagles pounce on them and tear them @@ -1299,8 +1285,8 @@ the folk have a mind to get camphor, they bore into the upper part of the bole with a long iron; whereupon the liquid camphor, which is the sap of the tree, floweth out and they catch it in vessels, where it concreteth like gum; but, after this, the tree -<span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>dieth and becometh firewood.<a id='r24' /><a href='#f24' class='c011'><sup>[24]</sup></a> Moreover, there is in this island a -kind of wild beast, called “Rhinoceros,”<a id='r25' /><a href='#f25' class='c011'><sup>[25]</sup></a> that pastureth as do +<span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>dieth and becometh firewood.<a id='r24' href='#f24' class='c011'><sup>[24]</sup></a> Moreover, there is in this island a +kind of wild beast, called “Rhinoceros,”<a id='r25' href='#f25' class='c011'><sup>[25]</sup></a> that pastureth as do steers and buffaloes with us; but it is a huge brute, bigger of body than the camel and like it feedeth upon the leaves and twigs of trees. It is a remarkable animal with a great and thick horn, ten @@ -1395,7 +1381,7 @@ anchors. So we said to him, “O Rais, what is the matter?” “Know, O my brethren (Allah preserve you!), that the wind hath gotten the better of us and hath driven us out of our course into mid-ocean, and destiny, for our ill luck, hath brought us to the -Mountain of the Zughb, a hairy folk like apes,<a id='r26' /><a href='#f26' class='c011'><sup>[26]</sup></a> among whom no +Mountain of the Zughb, a hairy folk like apes,<a id='r26' href='#f26' class='c011'><sup>[26]</sup></a> among whom no man ever fell and came forth alive; and my heart presageth that we all be dead men.” Hardly had the master made an end of his speech when the apes were upon us. They surrounded the ship @@ -1432,8 +1418,8 @@ creature in the likeness of a man, black of colour, tall and big of bulk, as he were a great date-tree, with eyes like coals of fire and eye-teeth like boar’s tusks and a vast big gape like the mouth of a well. Moreover, he had long loose lips like camel’s, hanging down -upon his breast, and ears like two Jarms<a id='r27' /><a href='#f27' class='c011'><sup>[27]</sup></a> falling over his shoulder-blades -and the nails of his hands were like the claws of a lion.<a id='r28' /><a href='#f28' class='c011'><sup>[28]</sup></a> +upon his breast, and ears like two Jarms<a id='r27' href='#f27' class='c011'><sup>[27]</sup></a> falling over his shoulder-blades +and the nails of his hands were like the claws of a lion.<a id='r28' href='#f28' class='c011'><sup>[28]</sup></a> When we saw this frightful giant, we were like to faint and every moment increased our fear and terror; and we became as dead <span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span>men for excess of horror and affright.——And Shahrazad perceived @@ -1488,14 +1474,14 @@ Glorious, the Great! We shall assuredly perish miserably and Then we arose and roamed about the island, hoping that haply we might find a place to hide us in or a means of flight, for indeed death was a light matter to us, provided we were not roasted over -the fire<a id='r29' /><a href='#f29' class='c011'><sup>[29]</sup></a> and eaten. However, we could find no hiding-place and +the fire<a id='r29' href='#f29' class='c011'><sup>[29]</sup></a> and eaten. However, we could find no hiding-place and the evening overtook us; so, of the excess of our terror, we returned to the castle and sat down awhile. Presently, the earth trembled under our feet and the black ogre came up to us and turning us over, felt one after other, till he found a man to his liking, whom he took and served as he had done the captain, killing and roasting and eating him: after which he lay down on -the bench<a id='r30' /><a href='#f30' class='c011'><sup>[30]</sup></a> and slept all night, snarking and snoring like a beast +the bench<a id='r30' href='#f30' class='c011'><sup>[30]</sup></a> and slept all night, snarking and snoring like a beast with its throat cut, till daybreak, when he arose and went out as before. Then we drew together and conversed and said one to other, “By Allah, we had better throw ourselves into the sea and @@ -1544,7 +1530,7 @@ escape, committing our affair to Allah.” But, as we spoke, behold, up came the blackamoor with other two as they were Ghuls, fouler and more frightful than he, with eyes like red-hot coals; which when we saw, we hurried into the boat and casting off the -moorings paddled away and pushed out to sea.<a id='r31' /><a href='#f31' class='c011'><sup>[31]</sup></a> As soon as the +moorings paddled away and pushed out to sea.<a id='r31' href='#f31' class='c011'><sup>[31]</sup></a> As soon as the ogres caught sight of us, they cried out at us and running down to the sea-shore, fell a-pelting us with rocks, whereof some fell amongst us and others fell into the sea. We paddled with all our @@ -1600,7 +1586,7 @@ into a high tree and went to sleep there, I being on the topmost bough. As soon as it was dark night, up came the serpent, looking right and left; and, making for the tree whereon we were, climbed up to my comrade and swallowed him down to his shoulders. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span>Then it coiled about the bole<a id='r32' /><a href='#f32' class='c011'><sup>[32]</sup></a> with him, whilst I, who could not +<span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span>Then it coiled about the bole<a id='r32' href='#f32' class='c011'><sup>[32]</sup></a> with him, whilst I, who could not take my eyes off the sight, heard his bones crack in its belly, and it swallowed him whole, after which it slid down from the tree. When the day broke and the light showed me that the serpent was @@ -1613,7 +1599,7 @@ fashion on my right and left sides and over my breast; and the broadest and largest I bound across my head and made them fast with ropes. Then I lay down on the ground on my back, so that I was completely fenced in by the pieces of wood, which enclosed -me like a bier.<a id='r33' /><a href='#f33' class='c011'><sup>[33]</sup></a> So as soon as it was dark, up came the serpent, +me like a bier.<a id='r33' href='#f33' class='c011'><sup>[33]</sup></a> So as soon as it was dark, up came the serpent, as usual, and made towards me, but could not get at me to swallow me for the wood that fenced me in. So it wriggled round me on every side, whilst I looked on, like one dead by reason of my @@ -1633,7 +1619,7 @@ they said to one another, “We must stand in and see what this presently heard my cries, whereupon they took me on board and questioned me of my case. I told them all my adventures from first to last, whereat they marvelled mightily and covered my -shame<a id='r34' /><a href='#f34' class='c011'><sup>[34]</sup></a> with some of their clothes. Moreover, they set before me +shame<a id='r34' href='#f34' class='c011'><sup>[34]</sup></a> with some of their clothes. Moreover, they set before me somewhat of food and I ate my fill and I drank cold sweet water and was mightily refreshed; and Allah Almighty quickened me after I was virtually dead. So I praised the Most Highest and @@ -1641,7 +1627,7 @@ thanked Him for His favours and exceeding mercies, and my heart revived in me after utter despair, till meseemed as if all I had suffered were but a dream I had dreamed. We sailed on with a fair wind the Almighty sent us till we came to an Island, called -Al-Saláhitah,<a id='r35' /><a href='#f35' class='c011'><sup>[35]</sup></a> which aboundeth in sandal-wood when the captain +Al-Saláhitah,<a id='r35' href='#f35' class='c011'><sup>[35]</sup></a> which aboundeth in sandal-wood when the captain cast anchor,——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> @@ -1764,11 +1750,11 @@ ginger and all manner spices; and thence we fared on to the land of Sind, where also we bought and sold. In these Indian seas, I saw wonders without number or count, amongst others a fish like a cow which bringeth forth its young and suckleth them like -human beings; and of its skin bucklers are made.<a id='r36' /><a href='#f36' class='c011'><sup>[36]</sup></a> There were -eke fishes like asses and camels<a id='r37' /><a href='#f37' class='c011'><sup>[37]</sup></a> and tortoises twenty cubits wide.<a id='r38' /><a href='#f38' class='c011'><sup>[38]</sup></a> +human beings; and of its skin bucklers are made.<a id='r36' href='#f36' class='c011'><sup>[36]</sup></a> There were +eke fishes like asses and camels<a id='r37' href='#f37' class='c011'><sup>[37]</sup></a> and tortoises twenty cubits wide.<a id='r38' href='#f38' class='c011'><sup>[38]</sup></a> And I saw also a bird that cometh out of a sea-shell and layeth eggs and hatcheth her chicks on the surface of the water, never -coming up from the sea to the land.<a id='r39' /><a href='#f39' class='c011'><sup>[39]</sup></a> Then we set sail again +coming up from the sea to the land.<a id='r39' href='#f39' class='c011'><sup>[39]</sup></a> Then we set sail again with a fair wind and the blessing of Almighty Allah; and, after a prosperous voyage, arrived safe and sound at Bassorah. Here I abode a few days and presently returned to Baghdad where I went @@ -1843,7 +1829,7 @@ I scrambled on to a plank with some others of the merchants and, mounting it as we would a horse, paddled with our feet in the sea. We abode thus a day and a night, the wind and waves helping us on, and on the second day shortly before the mid-time between -sunrise and noon<a id='r40' /><a href='#f40' class='c011'><sup>[40]</sup></a> the breeze freshened and the sea wrought and +sunrise and noon<a id='r40' href='#f40' class='c011'><sup>[40]</sup></a> the breeze freshened and the sea wrought and the rising waves cast us upon an island, well-nigh dead bodies for weariness and want of sleep, cold and hunger and fear and thirst. We walked about the shore and found abundance of herbs, whereof @@ -1856,7 +1842,7 @@ not walking till we reached the door thereof when lo! a number of naked men issued from it and without saluting us or a word said, laid hold of us masterfully and carried us to their king, who signed us to sit. So we sat down and they set food before us such -<span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span>as we knew not<a id='r41' /><a href='#f41' class='c011'><sup>[41]</sup></a> and whose like we had never seen in all our lives. +<span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span>as we knew not<a id='r41' href='#f41' class='c011'><sup>[41]</sup></a> and whose like we had never seen in all our lives. My companions ate of it, for stress of hunger, but my stomach revolted from it and I would not eat; and my refraining from it was, by Allah’s favour, the cause of my being alive till now: for @@ -1869,7 +1855,7 @@ fell to eating greedily, against their wont. When I saw this, I was confounded and concerned for them, nor was I less anxious about myself, for fear of the naked folk. So I watched them narrowly, and it was not long before I discovered them to be a tribe of -Magian cannibals whose King was a Ghul.<a id='r42' /><a href='#f42' class='c011'><sup>[42]</sup></a> All who came to their +Magian cannibals whose King was a Ghul.<a id='r42' href='#f42' class='c011'><sup>[42]</sup></a> All who came to their country or whoso they caught in their valleys or on their roads they brought to this King and fed them upon that food and anointed them with that oil, whereupon their stomachs dilated that @@ -1878,7 +1864,7 @@ power of thought and became idiots. Then they stuffed them with cocoa-nut oil and the aforesaid food, till they became fat and gross, when they slaughtered them by cutting their throats and roasted them for the King’s eating; but, as for the savages themselves, -they ate human flesh raw.<a id='r43' /><a href='#f43' class='c011'><sup>[43]</sup></a> When I saw this, I was sore dismayed +they ate human flesh raw.<a id='r43' href='#f43' class='c011'><sup>[43]</sup></a> When I saw this, I was sore dismayed <span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>for myself and my comrades, who were now become so stupefied that they knew not what was done with them and the naked folk committed them to one who used every day to lead them out and @@ -1912,7 +1898,7 @@ and the next night, staying my greed with roots and herbs; nor of the eighth day, when I caught sight of a faint object in the distance. So I made towards it, though my heart quaked for all I had suffered first and last, and behold it was a company -of men gathering pepper-grains.<a id='r44' /><a href='#f44' class='c011'><sup>[44]</sup></a> As soon as they saw me, they +of men gathering pepper-grains.<a id='r44' href='#f44' class='c011'><sup>[44]</sup></a> As soon as they saw me, they hastened up to me and surrounding me on all sides, said to me, “Who art thou and whence come?” I replied, “Know, O folk, that I am a poor stranger,” and acquainted them with my case @@ -1972,7 +1958,7 @@ made felt of it, and, covering the saddle-tree with leather, stuffed it and polished it and attached the girth and stirrup leathers; after which I fetched a blacksmith and described to him the fashion of the stirrups and bridle-bit. So he forged a fine pair of stirrups and -a bit, and filed them smooth and tinned<a id='r45' /><a href='#f45' class='c011'><sup>[45]</sup></a> them. Moreover, I made +a bit, and filed them smooth and tinned<a id='r45' href='#f45' class='c011'><sup>[45]</sup></a> them. Moreover, I made fast to them fringes of silk and fitted bridle-leathers to the bit. Then I fetched one of the best of the royal horses and saddling and bridling him, hung the stirrups to the saddle and led him to @@ -1999,7 +1985,7 @@ who is wealthy as she is beautiful; so thou mayst be naturalised and domiciled with us: I will lodge thee with me in my palace; wherefore oppose me not neither cross me in this.” When I heard these words I was ashamed and held my peace nor could make -him any answer,<a id='r46' /><a href='#f46' class='c011'><sup>[46]</sup></a> by reason of my much bashfulness before him. +him any answer,<a id='r46' href='#f46' class='c011'><sup>[46]</sup></a> by reason of my much bashfulness before him. Asked he, “Why dost thou not reply to me, O my son?”; and I answered, saying, “O my master, it is thine to command, O King of the age!” So he summoned the Kazi and the witnesses and @@ -2038,7 +2024,7 @@ in very ill plight, full of trouble and weary of soul and mind. I condoled with him and comforted him, saying, “Mourn not for thy wife who hath now found the mercy of Allah; the Lord will surely give thee a better in her stead and thy name shall be great and thy -life shall be long in the land, Inshallah!”<a id='r47' /><a href='#f47' class='c011'><sup>[47]</sup></a> But he wept bitter +life shall be long in the land, Inshallah!”<a id='r47' href='#f47' class='c011'><sup>[47]</sup></a> But he wept bitter tears and replied, “O my friend, how can I marry another wife and how shall Allah replace her to me with a better than she, whenas I have but one day left to live?” “O my brother,” said I, @@ -2058,12 +2044,12 @@ Presently they laid the dead woman out, as was their wont; and, setting her on a bier, carried her and her husband without the city, till they came to a place in the side of a mountain at the end of the island by the sea; and here they raised a great rock and -discovered the mouth of a stone-rivetted pit or well,<a id='r48' /><a href='#f48' class='c011'><sup>[48]</sup></a> leading +discovered the mouth of a stone-rivetted pit or well,<a id='r48' href='#f48' class='c011'><sup>[48]</sup></a> leading down into a vast underground cavern that ran beneath the mountain. Into this pit they threw the corpse, then tying a rope of palm-fibres under the husband’s armpits, they let him down into the cavern, and with him a great pitcher of fresh water and seven -scones by way of viaticum.<a id='r49' /><a href='#f49' class='c011'><sup>[49]</sup></a> When he came to the bottom, he +scones by way of viaticum.<a id='r49' href='#f49' class='c011'><sup>[49]</sup></a> When he came to the bottom, he loosed himself from the rope and they drew it up; and, stopping the mouth of the pit with the great stone, they returned to the <span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span>city, leaving my friend in the cavern with his dead wife. When I @@ -2162,14 +2148,14 @@ Quoth I, “I wonder what is the matter: haply they have brought another corpse.” Then I espied folk standing about the mouth of the pit, who presently let down a dead man and a live woman, weeping and bemoaning herself, and with her an ampler -supply of bread and water than usual.<a id='r50' /><a href='#f50' class='c011'><sup>[50]</sup></a> I saw her and she was a +supply of bread and water than usual.<a id='r50' href='#f50' class='c011'><sup>[50]</sup></a> I saw her and she was a beautiful woman; but she saw me not; and they closed up the opening and went away. Then I took the leg-bone of a dead man and, going up to the woman, smote her on the crown of the head; and she cried one cry and fell down in a swoon. I smote her a second and a third time, till she was dead, when I laid hands on her bread and water and found on her great plenty of ornaments -and rich apparel, necklaces, jewels and gold trinkets;<a id='r51' /><a href='#f51' class='c011'><sup>[51]</sup></a> for it was +and rich apparel, necklaces, jewels and gold trinkets;<a id='r51' href='#f51' class='c011'><sup>[51]</sup></a> for it was their custom to bury women in all their finery. I carried the vivers to my sleeping place in the cavern-side and ate and drank of them sparingly, no more than sufficed to keep the life in me, lest @@ -2199,7 +2185,7 @@ after having died a death. So I went on, as in a dream, and making shift to scramble through the breach found myself on the slope of a high mountain, overlooking the salt sea and cutting off all access thereto from the island, so that none could come at that -part of the beach from the city.<a id='r52' /><a href='#f52' class='c011'><sup>[52]</sup></a> I praised my Lord and thanked +part of the beach from the city.<a id='r52' href='#f52' class='c011'><sup>[52]</sup></a> I praised my Lord and thanked Him, rejoicing greatly and heartening myself with the prospect of deliverance; then I returned through the crack to the cavern and brought out all the food and water I had saved up and donned @@ -2239,7 +2225,7 @@ to the people in the ship, till they espied me and hearing my shouts, sent a boat to fetch me off. When it drew near, the crew called out to me, saying, “Who art thou and how camest thou to be on this mountain, whereon never saw we any in our born days?” I -answered, “I am a gentleman<a id='r53' /><a href='#f53' class='c011'><sup>[53]</sup></a> and a merchant, who hath been +answered, “I am a gentleman<a id='r53' href='#f53' class='c011'><sup>[53]</sup></a> and a merchant, who hath been wrecked and saved myself on one of the planks of the ship, with some of my goods; and by the blessing of the Almighty and the decrees of Destiny and my own strength and skill, after much toil @@ -2252,7 +2238,7 @@ thou, O man, to yonder place on yonder mountain behind which lieth a great city? All my life I have sailed these seas and passed to and fro hard by these heights; yet never saw I here any living thing save wild beasts and birds.” I repeated to him the -story I had told the sailors,<a id='r54' /><a href='#f54' class='c011'><sup>[54]</sup></a> but acquainted him with nothing of +story I had told the sailors,<a id='r54' href='#f54' class='c011'><sup>[54]</sup></a> but acquainted him with nothing of that which had befallen me in the city and the cavern, lest there should be any of the islandry in the ship. Then I took out some of the best pearls I had with me and offered them to the captain, @@ -2272,7 +2258,7 @@ shuddered in horror. Then we pursued our voyage and sailed from island to island and sea to sea, till we arrived at the Island of <span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>the Bell, which containeth a city two days’ journey in extent, whence after a six days’ run we reached the Island Kala, hard by -the land of Hind.<a id='r55' /><a href='#f55' class='c011'><sup>[55]</sup></a> This place is governed by a potent and +the land of Hind.<a id='r55' href='#f55' class='c011'><sup>[55]</sup></a> This place is governed by a potent and puissant King and it produceth excellent camphor and an abundance of the Indian rattan: here also is a lead mine. At last by the decree of Allah, we arrived in safety at Bassorah-town where @@ -2325,7 +2311,7 @@ my fourth voyage; and when, in my comfort and pleasures and merry-makings and in my rejoicing over my large gains and profits, I had forgotten all I had endured of perils and sufferings, the carnal man was again seized with the longing to travel and to -see foreign countries and islands.<a id='r56' /><a href='#f56' class='c011'><sup>[56]</sup></a> Accordingly I bought costly +see foreign countries and islands.<a id='r56' href='#f56' class='c011'><sup>[56]</sup></a> Accordingly I bought costly merchandise suited to my purpose and, making it up into bales, repaired to Bassorah, where I walked about the river-quay till I found a fine tall ship, newly builded with gear unused and fitted @@ -2351,10 +2337,10 @@ the ship and knew not what they did; but presently one of the at the egg that we thought to be a dome.” So I looked and seeing the merchants beating it with stones, called out to them, “Stop, stop! do not meddle with that egg, or the bird Rukh will come -out and break our ship and destroy us.”<a id='r57' /><a href='#f57' class='c011'><sup>[57]</sup></a> But they paid no heed +out and break our ship and destroy us.”<a id='r57' href='#f57' class='c011'><sup>[57]</sup></a> But they paid no heed to me and gave not over smiting upon the egg, when behold, the day grew dark and dun and the sun was hidden from us, as if -some great cloud had passed over the firmament.<a id='r58' /><a href='#f58' class='c011'><sup>[58]</sup></a> So we raised +some great cloud had passed over the firmament.<a id='r58' href='#f58' class='c011'><sup>[58]</sup></a> So we raised our eyes and saw that what we took for a cloud was the Rukh poised between us and the sun, and it was his wings that darkened the day. When he came and saw his egg broken, he cried a loud @@ -2376,7 +2362,7 @@ the ocean appeared to us. Then the she-Rukh let fall her rock, which was bigger than that of her mate, and as Destiny had decreed, it fell on the poop of the ship and crushed it, the rudder flying into twenty pieces; whereupon the vessel foundered and all and everything -on board were cast into the main.<a id='r59' /><a href='#f59' class='c011'><sup>[59]</sup></a> As for me I struggled +on board were cast into the main.<a id='r59' href='#f59' class='c011'><sup>[59]</sup></a> As for me I struggled for sweet life, till Almighty Allah threw in my way one of the <span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span>planks of the ship, to which I clung and bestriding it, fell a-paddling with my feet. Now the ship had gone down hard by an island in @@ -2415,8 +2401,8 @@ Then I lay down, well-nigh dead for travail and trouble and terror, and slept without surcease till morning, when I arose and walked about under the trees, till I came to the channel of a draw-well fed by a spring of running water, by which well sat an old man of -venerable aspect, girt about with a waist-cloth<a id='r60' /><a href='#f60' class='c011'><sup>[60]</sup></a> made of the fibre -of palm-fronds.<a id='r61' /><a href='#f61' class='c011'><sup>[61]</sup></a> Quoth I to myself, “Haply this Shaykh is of +venerable aspect, girt about with a waist-cloth<a id='r60' href='#f60' class='c011'><sup>[60]</sup></a> made of the fibre +of palm-fronds.<a id='r61' href='#f61' class='c011'><sup>[61]</sup></a> Quoth I to myself, “Haply this Shaykh is of those who were wrecked in the ship and hath made his way to this island.” So I drew near to him and saluted him, and he returned my salam by signs, but spoke not; and I said to him, “O nuncle @@ -2429,7 +2415,7 @@ Heaven for he may be a paralytic.” So I took him on my back and carrying him to the place whereat he pointed, said to him, “Dismount at thy leisure.” But he would not get off my back and wound his legs about my neck. I looked at them and seeing -that they were like a buffalo’s hide for blackness and roughness,<a id='r62' /><a href='#f62' class='c011'><sup>[62]</sup></a> +that they were like a buffalo’s hide for blackness and roughness,<a id='r62' href='#f62' class='c011'><sup>[62]</sup></a> was affrighted and would have cast him off; but he clung to me and gripped my neck with his legs, till I was well-nigh choked, the world grew black in my sight and I fell senseless to the ground @@ -2492,8 +2478,8 @@ of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> </div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_052fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_052fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <p class='c000'>She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Sindbad the @@ -2517,7 +2503,7 @@ all hastened up to me and gathering round me questioned me of my case and how I came thither. I told them all that had betided me, whereat they marvelled with exceeding marvel and said, “He who rode on thy shoulder is called the ‘Shaykh al-Bahr’ or Old -Man of the Sea,<a id='r63' /><a href='#f63' class='c011'><sup>[63]</sup></a> and none ever felt his legs on neck and came off +Man of the Sea,<a id='r63' href='#f63' class='c011'><sup>[63]</sup></a> and none ever felt his legs on neck and came off alive but thou; and those who die under him he eateth: so praised be Allah for thy safety!” Then they set somewhat of food before me, whereof I ate my fill, and gave me somewhat of clothes @@ -2551,7 +2537,7 @@ did every night, for if any tarried in the town by night the apes came down on him and slew him. As soon as it was day, the apes left the place and ate of the fruits of the gardens, then went back to the mountains and slept there till nightfall, when they -again came down upon the city.<a id='r64' /><a href='#f64' class='c011'><sup>[64]</sup></a> Now this place was in the +again came down upon the city.<a id='r64' href='#f64' class='c011'><sup>[64]</sup></a> Now this place was in the farthest part of the country of the blacks, and one of the strangest things that befel me during my sojourn in the city was on this wise. One of the company with whom I passed the night in the @@ -2583,7 +2569,7 @@ and swarmed up among the branches; whereupon my companions began to pelt them with what they had in their bags, and the apes fell to plucking of the fruit of the trees and casting them at the folk. I looked at the fruits they cast at us and found them to be -Indian<a id='r65' /><a href='#f65' class='c011'><sup>[65]</sup></a> or cocoa-nuts; so I chose out a great tree, full of apes, +Indian<a id='r65' href='#f65' class='c011'><sup>[65]</sup></a> or cocoa-nuts; so I chose out a great tree, full of apes, and going up to it, began to pelt them with stones, and they in return pelted me with nuts, which I collected, as did the rest; so that even before I had made an end of my bagful of pebbles, I @@ -2601,7 +2587,7 @@ thyself; but lay up the rest here, so haply thou mayst collect enough to serve thee for thy return home.” “Allah requite thee!” answered I and did as he advised me, going out daily with the cocoa-nut gatherers, who commended me to one another and -showed me the best-stocked trees.<a id='r66' /><a href='#f66' class='c011'><sup>[66]</sup></a> Thus did I for some time, till +showed me the best-stocked trees.<a id='r66' href='#f66' class='c011'><sup>[66]</sup></a> Thus did I for some time, till I had laid up great store of excellent nuts, besides a large sum of money, the price of those I had sold. I became thus at my ease and bought all I saw and had a mind to, and passed my time @@ -2634,22 +2620,22 @@ my cocoa-nuts and what else I possessed. We weighed anchor the same day and sailed from island to island and sea to sea; and whenever we stopped, I sold and traded with my cocoa-nuts, and the Lord requited me more than I erst had and lost. Amongst -other places, we came to an island abounding in cloves<a id='r67' /><a href='#f67' class='c011'><sup>[67]</sup></a> and cinnamon +other places, we came to an island abounding in cloves<a id='r67' href='#f67' class='c011'><sup>[67]</sup></a> and cinnamon and pepper; and the country people told me that by the side of each pepper-bunch groweth a great leaf which shadeth it from the sun and casteth the water off it in the wet season; but, when the rain ceaseth the leaf turneth over and droopeth down by the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span>side of the bunch.<a id='r68' /><a href='#f68' class='c011'><sup>[68]</sup></a> Here I took in great store of pepper and +<span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span>side of the bunch.<a id='r68' href='#f68' class='c011'><sup>[68]</sup></a> Here I took in great store of pepper and cloves and cinnamon, in exchange for cocoa-nuts, and we passed -thence to the Island of Al-Usirát,<a id='r69' /><a href='#f69' class='c011'><sup>[69]</sup></a> whence cometh the Comorin +thence to the Island of Al-Usirát,<a id='r69' href='#f69' class='c011'><sup>[69]</sup></a> whence cometh the Comorin aloes-wood and thence to another island, five days’ journey in length, where grows the Chinese lign-aloes, which is better than the -Comorin; but the people of this island<a id='r70' /><a href='#f70' class='c011'><sup>[70]</sup></a> are fouler of condition +Comorin; but the people of this island<a id='r70' href='#f70' class='c011'><sup>[70]</sup></a> are fouler of condition and religion than those of the other, for that they love fornication and wine-bibbing, and know not prayer nor call to prayer. Thence we came to the pearl-fisheries, and I gave the divers some of my cocoa-nuts and said to them, “Dive for my luck and lot!” They -did so and brought up from the deep bight<a id='r71' /><a href='#f71' class='c011'><sup>[71]</sup></a> great store of large +did so and brought up from the deep bight<a id='r71' href='#f71' class='c011'><sup>[71]</sup></a> great store of large and priceless pearls; and they said to me, “By Allah, O my master, thy luck is a lucky!” Then we sailed on, with the blessing of Allah (whose name be exalted!); and ceased not sailing till we @@ -2748,7 +2734,7 @@ the mountain and broke up, and all and everything on board of her were plunged into the sea. Some of the merchants were drowned and others made shift to reach the shore and save themselves upon the mountain; I amongst the number, and when we -got ashore, we found a great island, or rather peninsula<a id='r72' /><a href='#f72' class='c011'><sup>[72]</sup></a> whose +got ashore, we found a great island, or rather peninsula<a id='r72' href='#f72' class='c011'><sup>[72]</sup></a> whose base was strewn with wreckage of crafts and goods and gear cast up by the sea from broken ships whose passengers had been drowned; and the quantity confounded compt and calculation. @@ -2761,12 +2747,12 @@ hither and thither, were confounded at what they saw and became like madmen at the sight of the wealth and treasures wherewith the shores were strewn. As for me I looked into the bed of the stream aforesaid and saw therein great plenty of rubies, -and great royal pearls<a id='r73' /><a href='#f73' class='c011'><sup>[73]</sup></a> and all kinds of jewels and precious stones +and great royal pearls<a id='r73' href='#f73' class='c011'><sup>[73]</sup></a> and all kinds of jewels and precious stones which were as gravel in the bed of the rivulets that ran through the fields, and the sands sparkled and glittered with gems and precious ores. Moreover we found in the island abundance of the finest lign-aloes, both Chinese and Comorin; and there also -is a spring of crude ambergris<a id='r74' /><a href='#f74' class='c011'><sup>[74]</sup></a> which floweth like wax or gum +is a spring of crude ambergris<a id='r74' href='#f74' class='c011'><sup>[74]</sup></a> which floweth like wax or gum over the stream-banks, for the great heat of the sun, and runneth down to the sea-shore, where the monsters of the deep come up and swallowing it, return into the sea. But it burneth in their @@ -2780,7 +2766,7 @@ scenteth the whole valley with a musk-like fragrance: then, when the sun ceaseth from it, it congealeth again. But none can get to this place where is the crude ambergris, because of the mountains <span class='pageno' id='Page_61'>61</span>which enclose the island on all sides and which foot of man cannot -ascend.<a id='r75' /><a href='#f75' class='c011'><sup>[75]</sup></a> We continued thus to explore the island, marvelling at +ascend.<a id='r75' href='#f75' class='c011'><sup>[75]</sup></a> We continued thus to explore the island, marvelling at the wonderful works of Allah and the riches we found there, but sore troubled for our own case, and dismayed at our prospects. Now we had picked up on the beach some small matter of victual @@ -2818,7 +2804,7 @@ I arose and dug me a deep grave on the sea-shore, saying to myself, “Whenas I grow weak and know that death cometh to me, I will cast myself into the grave and die there, so the wind may drift the sand over me and cover me and I be -buried therein.”<a id='r76' /><a href='#f76' class='c011'><sup>[76]</sup></a> Then I fell to reproaching myself for my +buried therein.”<a id='r76' href='#f76' class='c011'><sup>[76]</sup></a> Then I fell to reproaching myself for my little wit in leaving my native land and betaking me again to <span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span>travel, after all I had suffered during my first five voyages, and when I had not made a single one without suffering more horrible @@ -2831,7 +2817,7 @@ However, after a while Allah sent me a thought and I said to myself, “By God, needs must this stream have an end as well as a beginning; ergo an issue somewhere, and belike its course may lead to some inhabited place; so my best plan is to make me a -little boat<a id='r77' /><a href='#f77' class='c011'><sup>[77]</sup></a> big enough to sit in, and carry it and launching it on +little boat<a id='r77' href='#f77' class='c011'><sup>[77]</sup></a> big enough to sit in, and carry it and launching it on the river, embark therein and drop down the stream. If I escape, I escape, by God’s leave; and if I perish, better die in the river than here.” Then, sighing for myself, I set to work collecting @@ -2855,7 +2841,7 @@ embarking, did according to the saying of the poet:—</p> <div class='line'>Land after land shalt thou seek and find ✿ But no other life on thy wish shall wait:</div> <div class='line'>Fret not thy soul in thy thoughts o’ night; ✿ All woes shall end or sooner or late.</div> <div class='line'>Whoso is born in one land to die, ✿ There and only there shall gang his gait:</div> - <div class='line'>Nor trust great things to another wight, ✿ Soul hath only soul for confederate.<a id='r78' /><a href='#f78' class='c011'><sup>[78]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>Nor trust great things to another wight, ✿ Soul hath only soul for confederate.<a id='r78' href='#f78' class='c011'><sup>[78]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> @@ -2864,7 +2850,7 @@ embarking, did according to the saying of the poet:—</p> affair; and the drifting ceased not till I came to the place where <span class='pageno' id='Page_63'>63</span>it disappeared beneath the mountain. I rowed my conveyance into the place which was intensely dark; and the current carried -the raft with it down the underground channel.<a id='r79' /><a href='#f79' class='c011'><sup>[79]</sup></a> The thin stream +the raft with it down the underground channel.<a id='r79' href='#f79' class='c011'><sup>[79]</sup></a> The thin stream bore me on through a narrow tunnel where the raft touched either side and my head rubbed against the roof, return therefrom being impossible. Then I blamed myself for having thus risked my life, @@ -2882,7 +2868,7 @@ knowing not an the time were long or short. When I awoke at last, I found myself in the light of Heaven and opening my eyes I saw myself in a broad of the stream and the raft moored to an island in the midst of a number of Indians and Abyssinians. As soon as -these blackamoors<a id='r80' /><a href='#f80' class='c011'><sup>[80]</sup></a> saw that I was awake, they came up to me and +these blackamoors<a id='r80' href='#f80' class='c011'><sup>[80]</sup></a> saw that I was awake, they came up to me and bespoke me in their speech; but I understood not what they said and thought that this was a dream and a vision which had betided me for stress of concern and chagrin. But I was delighted at my @@ -2919,8 +2905,8 @@ ceased to say her permitted say.</p> </div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_064fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_064fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <p class='c000'>She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Sindbad the @@ -2931,7 +2917,7 @@ no help for it but we carry him with us and present him to our King, that he may acquaint him with his adventures.” So they took me, together with the raft-boat and its lading of monies and merchandise; jewels, minerals and golden gear, and brought me -to their King, who was King of Sarandib,<a id='r81' /><a href='#f81' class='c011'><sup>[81]</sup></a> telling him what had +to their King, who was King of Sarandib,<a id='r81' href='#f81' class='c011'><sup>[81]</sup></a> telling him what had happened; whereupon he saluted me and bade me welcome. Then he questioned me of my condition and adventures through the man who had spoken Arabic and I repeated to him my story @@ -2945,14 +2931,14 @@ they paid me the utmost respect. And I quitted not the royal palace. Now the Island Sarandib lieth under the equinoctial line, its night and day both numbering twelve hours. It measureth eighty leagues long by a breadth of thirty and its width is -bounded by a lofty mountain<a id='r82' /><a href='#f82' class='c011'><sup>[82]</sup></a> and a deep valley. The mountain +bounded by a lofty mountain<a id='r82' href='#f82' class='c011'><sup>[82]</sup></a> and a deep valley. The mountain is conspicuous from a distance of three days and it containeth many kinds of rubies and other minerals, and spice-trees of all sorts. The surface is covered with emery wherewith gems are cut and fashioned; diamonds are in its rivers and pearls are in its valleys. I ascended that mountain and solaced myself with a view of its marvels which are indescribable and afterwards I returned to -the King.<a id='r83' /><a href='#f83' class='c011'><sup>[83]</sup></a> Thereupon, all the travellers and merchants who came +the King.<a id='r83' href='#f83' class='c011'><sup>[83]</sup></a> Thereupon, all the travellers and merchants who came to the place questioned me of the affairs of my native land and of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid and his rule and I told them of him and of that wherefor he was renowned, and they praised him @@ -2988,7 +2974,7 @@ present for the Caliph Harun al-Rashid. Moreover he gave me a sealed letter, saying, “Carry this with thine own hand to the Commander of the Faithful and give him many salutations from us!” “Hearing and obedience,” I replied. The missive was -written on the skin of the Kháwi<a id='r84' /><a href='#f84' class='c011'><sup>[84]</sup></a> (which is finer than lamb-parchment +written on the skin of the Kháwi<a id='r84' href='#f84' class='c011'><sup>[84]</sup></a> (which is finer than lamb-parchment and of yellow colour), with ink of ultramarine and the contents were as follows. “Peace be with thee from the King of Al-Hind, before whom are a thousand elephants and upon whose @@ -2998,11 +2984,11 @@ which be thou pleased to accept. Thou art to us a brother and a sincere friend; and great is the love we bear for thee in heart; favour us therefore with a reply. The gift besitteth not thy dignity: but we beg of thee, O our brother, graciously to accept it and peace -be with thee.” And the present was a cup of ruby a span high<a id='r85' /><a href='#f85' class='c011'><sup>[85]</sup></a> +be with thee.” And the present was a cup of ruby a span high<a id='r85' href='#f85' class='c011'><sup>[85]</sup></a> the inside of which was adorned with precious pearls; and a bed covered with the skin of the serpent which swalloweth the elephant, which skin hath spots each like a dinar and whoso sitteth upon -it never sickeneth;<a id='r86' /><a href='#f86' class='c011'><sup>[86]</sup></a> and an hundred thousand miskals of Indian +it never sickeneth;<a id='r86' href='#f86' class='c011'><sup>[86]</sup></a> and an hundred thousand miskals of Indian <span class='pageno' id='Page_67'>67</span>lign-aloes and a slave-girl like a shining moon. Then I took leave of him and of all my intimates and acquaintances in the island and embarked with the merchants aforesaid. We sailed with a fair @@ -3021,17 +3007,17 @@ throne is set for him upon a huge elephant, eleven cubits high: and upon this he sitteth having his great lords and officers and guests standing in two ranks, on his right hand and on his left. At his head is a man hending in hand a golden javelin and behind -him another with a great mace of gold whose head is an emerald<a id='r87' /><a href='#f87' class='c011'><sup>[87]</sup></a> +him another with a great mace of gold whose head is an emerald<a id='r87' href='#f87' class='c011'><sup>[87]</sup></a> a span long and as thick as a man’s thumb. And when he mounteth horse there mount with him a thousand horsemen clad in gold brocade and silk; and as the King proceedeth a man precedeth him, crying, This is the King of great dignity, of high authority! And he continueth to repeat his praises in words I remember not, saying at the end of his panegyric, This is the -King owning the crown whose like nor Solomon nor the Mihraj<a id='r88' /><a href='#f88' class='c011'><sup>[88]</sup></a> +King owning the crown whose like nor Solomon nor the Mihraj<a id='r88' href='#f88' class='c011'><sup>[88]</sup></a> ever possessed. Then he is silent and one behind him proclaimeth, saying, He will die! Again I say he will die!; and the other -addeth, Extolled be the perfection of the Living who dieth not!<a id='r89' /><a href='#f89' class='c011'><sup>[89]</sup></a> +addeth, Extolled be the perfection of the Living who dieth not!<a id='r89' href='#f89' class='c011'><sup>[89]</sup></a> Moreover by reason of his justice and ordinance and intelligence, there is no Kazi in his city, and all his lieges distinguish between Truth and Falsehood.” Quoth the Caliph, “How great is this @@ -3118,11 +3104,11 @@ without hope of escape; for that this ocean is called the Sea of the Clime of the King, wherein is the sepulchre of our lord Solomon, son of David (on both be peace!) and therein are serpents of vast bulk and fearsome aspect: and what ship soever cometh to these -climes there riseth to her a great fish<a id='r90' /><a href='#f90' class='c011'><sup>[90]</sup></a> out of the sea and swalloweth +climes there riseth to her a great fish<a id='r90' href='#f90' class='c011'><sup>[90]</sup></a> out of the sea and swalloweth her up with all and everything on board her.” Hearing these <span class='pageno' id='Page_70'>70</span>words from the captain great was our wonder, but hardly had he made an end of speaking, when the ship was lifted out of the water -and let fall again and we applied to praying the death-prayer<a id='r91' /><a href='#f91' class='c011'><sup>[91]</sup></a> and +and let fall again and we applied to praying the death-prayer<a id='r91' href='#f91' class='c011'><sup>[91]</sup></a> and committing our souls to Allah. Presently we heard a terrible great cry like the loud-pealing thunder, whereat we were terror-struck and became as dead men, giving ourselves up for lost. Then behold, @@ -3293,7 +3279,7 @@ such time as prices rise?” “O my lord,” answered I, “the business is in thy hands: do as thou wilt.” Then asked he, “Wilt thou sell the wood to me, O my son, for an hundred gold pieces over and above what the merchants have bidden for it?” and I -answered, “Yes: I have sold it to thee for monies received.”<a id='r92' /><a href='#f92' class='c011'><sup>[92]</sup></a> So +answered, “Yes: I have sold it to thee for monies received.”<a id='r92' href='#f92' class='c011'><sup>[92]</sup></a> So he bade his servants transport the wood to his storehouses and, carrying me back to his house, seated me and counted out to me the purchase money; after which he laid it in bags and setting @@ -3319,7 +3305,7 @@ undergone many hardships: while for stress of that which I have suffered naught of judgment or knowledge is left to me. It is for thee, therefore, to decide what I shall do.” Hereupon he sent his servants for the Kazi and the witnesses and married me to his -daughter making for us a noble marriage-feast<a id='r93' /><a href='#f93' class='c011'><sup>[93]</sup></a> and high festival. +daughter making for us a noble marriage-feast<a id='r93' href='#f93' class='c011'><sup>[93]</sup></a> and high festival. When I went in to her, I found her perfect in beauty and loveliness and symmetry and grace, clad in rich raiment and covered with a profusion of ornaments and necklaces and other trinkets of @@ -3344,7 +3330,7 @@ to one of the townsfolk and said to him, “Allah upon thee! carry me with thee, that I might divert myself with the rest and return with you.” “This may not be,” answered he; but I ceased not to solicit him and I importuned him till he consented. Then I went -out in his company, without telling any of my family<a id='r94' /><a href='#f94' class='c011'><sup>[94]</sup></a> or servants +out in his company, without telling any of my family<a id='r94' href='#f94' class='c011'><sup>[94]</sup></a> or servants or friends, and he took me on his back and flew up with me so high in air, that I heard the angels glorifying God in the heavenly dome, whereat I wondered and exclaimed, “Praised be Allah! @@ -3368,7 +3354,7 @@ High Allah, abiding in this mountain;” and, giving me a rod of red gold they had with them, went their ways and left me. I walked on along the mountain-ridge staying my steps with the staff and pondering the case of the two youths, when behold, a -serpent came forth from under the mountain, with a man in her<a id='r95' /><a href='#f95' class='c011'><sup>[95]</sup></a> +serpent came forth from under the mountain, with a man in her<a id='r95' href='#f95' class='c011'><sup>[95]</sup></a> jaws, whom she had swallowed even to below his navel, and he was crying out and saying, “Whoso delivereth me, Allah will <span class='pageno' id='Page_76'>76</span>deliver him from all adversity!” So I went up to the serpent @@ -3376,8 +3362,8 @@ and smote her on the head with the golden staff, whereupon she cast the man forth of her mouth.——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_074fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_074fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='ph3'> @@ -3452,12 +3438,12 @@ O Landsman,” continued Sindbad the Seaman, “what sufferings I have undergone and what perils and hardships I have endured before coming to my present state.” “Allah upon thee, O my Lord!” answered Sindbad the Landsman, “pardon me the wrong -I did thee.”<a id='r96' /><a href='#f96' class='c011'><sup>[96]</sup></a> And they ceased not from friendship and fellowship, +I did thee.”<a id='r96' href='#f96' class='c011'><sup>[96]</sup></a> And they ceased not from friendship and fellowship, abiding in all cheer and pleasures and solace of life, till there came to them the Destroyer of delights and the Sunderer of Societies, and the Shatterer of palaces and the Caterer for Cemeteries to wit, the Cup of Death, and glory be to the Living One -who dieth not!<a id='r97' /><a href='#f97' class='c011'><sup>[97]</sup></a></p> +who dieth not!<a id='r97' href='#f97' class='c011'><sup>[97]</sup></a></p> <div> <span class='pageno' id='Page_78'>78</span> @@ -3518,19 +3504,19 @@ and offered him the present and the letter which he read and at which he rejoiced with passing joy. The present consisted of a mare worth ten thousand ducats, bearing a golden saddle set with jewels; a book; a sumptuous suit of clothes and an hundred -different kinds of white Cairene cloths and silks of Suez,<a id='r98' /><a href='#f98' class='c011'><sup>[98]</sup></a> Cufa and -Alexandria; Greek carpets and an hundred maunds<a id='r99' /><a href='#f99' class='c011'><sup>[99]</sup></a> weight of +different kinds of white Cairene cloths and silks of Suez,<a id='r98' href='#f98' class='c011'><sup>[98]</sup></a> Cufa and +Alexandria; Greek carpets and an hundred maunds<a id='r99' href='#f99' class='c011'><sup>[99]</sup></a> weight of linen and raw silk. Moreover there was a wondrous rarety, a marvellous cup of crystal middlemost of which was the figure of a lion faced by a kneeling man grasping a bow with arrow drawn to -the very head, together with the food-tray<a id='r100' /><a href='#f100' class='c011'><sup>[100]</sup></a> of Sulayman the son +the very head, together with the food-tray<a id='r100' href='#f100' class='c011'><sup>[100]</sup></a> of Sulayman the son of David (on whom be peace!). The missive ran as follows:—Peace from King Al-Rashid, the aided of Allah (who hath vouchsafed to him and his forefathers noble rank and wide-spread glory), be on the fortunate Sultan. But after. Thy letter came to our hands and we rejoiced thereat; and we have sent the book entituled “Delight of the Intelligent and for Friends the Rare -Present,”<a id='r101' /><a href='#f101' class='c011'><sup>[101]</sup></a> together with sundry curiosities suitable for Kings; so +Present,”<a id='r101' href='#f101' class='c011'><sup>[101]</sup></a> together with sundry curiosities suitable for Kings; so do thou favour us by accepting them: and peace be with thee! Then the King lavished upon me much wealth and entreated me with all honour; so I prayed for him and thanked him for his @@ -3571,7 +3557,7 @@ perched in hiding on the tree there came on suddenly and unexpectedly an innumerable host of elephants whose screaming and trumpeting were such that I imagined the earth trembled under them. All surrounded my tree, whose circumference was -some fifty cubits,<a id='r102' /><a href='#f102' class='c011'><sup>[102]</sup></a> and one enormous monster came up to it +some fifty cubits,<a id='r102' href='#f102' class='c011'><sup>[102]</sup></a> and one enormous monster came up to it and winding his trunk round the bole haled it up by the roots, and dashed it to the ground. I fell down fainting amongst the beasts when the monster elephant wound his trunk about me @@ -3583,7 +3569,7 @@ I rested a little; and, when my terror had subsided, I looked about me and I found myself among the bones of elephants, whereby I concluded that this was their burial-place, and that <span class='pageno' id='Page_82'>82</span>the monster elephant had led me thither on account of the -tusks.<a id='r103' /><a href='#f103' class='c011'><sup>[103]</sup></a> So I arose and walked a whole day and night till I +tusks.<a id='r103' href='#f103' class='c011'><sup>[103]</sup></a> So I arose and walked a whole day and night till I arrived at the house of my master, who saw my colour changed by stress of affright and famine. He rejoiced in my return and said to me, “By Allah, thou hast made my heart sore! I went @@ -3642,7 +3628,7 @@ and how tasteful! How sweet and how grateful!” She replied, night?” Quoth the King, “What may it be?” And she said:—It is a tale touching</p> -<hr class='c015' /> +<hr class='c015' > <div class='footnote' id='f1'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r1'>1</a>. </span>Lane (vol. iii. 1) calls our old friend “Es-Sindibád of the Sea,” and Benfey @@ -3850,7 +3836,7 @@ is called “Al-Ríhah” which is the Arab name for Jericho-town.</p> <div class='footnote' id='f25'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r25'>25</a>. </span>In Bul. Edit. Kazkazan: Calc. Karkaddan and others Karkand and Karkadan; -the word being Persian, Karg or Kargadan; the <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">καρτάζυνον</span> of Ælian (Hist. Anim. +the word being Persian, Karg or Kargadan; the <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">καρτάζυνον</span> of Ælian (Hist. Anim. xvi. 21). The length of the horn (greatly exaggerated) shows that the white species is meant; and it supplies only walking-sticks. Cups are made of the black horn (a bundle of fibres) which, like Venetian glass, sweat at the touch of poison. A section of @@ -4214,7 +4200,7 @@ Lane, iii. 86.</p> <div class='footnote' id='f70'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r70'>70</a>. </span>Insula, pro peninsula. “Comorin” is a corrupt. of “Kanyá” (= Virgo, the goddess Durgá) and “Kumári” (a maid, a princess); from a temple of Shiva’s wife: hence -Ptolemy’s <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Κῶρυ ἄκρον</span> and near it to the N. East <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Κομαρία ἄκρον καὶ πολις</span>, +Ptolemy’s <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Κῶρυ ἄκρον</span> and near it to the N. East <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Κομαρία ἄκρον καὶ πολις</span>, “Promontorium Cori quod Comorini caput insulæ vocant,” says Maffæus (Hist. Indic. i. p. 16). In the text “Al’úd” refers to the eagle-wood (Aloekylon Agallochum) so called because spotted like the bird’s plume. That of Champa (Cochin-China, mentioned by @@ -4439,7 +4425,7 @@ every tenth year.” In Arabian literature the elephant is always connected with </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c83' class='c007'>THE CITY OF BRASS.<a id='r104' /><a href='#f104' class='c011'><sup>[104]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c83' class='c007'>THE CITY OF BRASS.<a id='r104' href='#f104' class='c011'><sup>[104]</sup></a></h2> </div> <p class='c012'>It is related that there was, in tide of yore and in times and years @@ -4457,7 +4443,7 @@ the Lord (extolled and exalted be He!) vouchsafed unto none the like of that which He vouchsafed unto our lord Solomon and that he attained unto that whereto never attained other than he, in that he was wont to imprison Jinns and Marids and Satans in cucurbites -of copper and to stop them with lead and seal<a id='r105' /><a href='#f105' class='c011'><sup>[105]</sup></a> them with +of copper and to stop them with lead and seal<a id='r105' href='#f105' class='c011'><sup>[105]</sup></a> them with his ring.”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> @@ -4530,7 +4516,7 @@ deeming that Solomon is still alive and can pardon them, make their submission to him and say, “I repent, O Prophet of Allah!” The Caliph marvelled at Talib’s story and said, “Glory be to God! Verily, to Solomon was given a mighty dominion.” Now Al-Nábighah -al-Zubyání<a id='r106' /><a href='#f106' class='c011'><sup>[106]</sup></a> was present, and he said, “Talib hath +al-Zubyání<a id='r106' href='#f106' class='c011'><sup>[106]</sup></a> was present, and he said, “Talib hath <span class='pageno' id='Page_86'>86</span>spoken soothly as is proven by the saying of the All-wise, the Primæval One:—</p> @@ -4549,14 +4535,14 @@ he said, “By Allah, I long to look upon some of these Solomonic vessels, which must be a warning to whoso will be warned.” “O Commander of the Faithful,” replied Talib, “it is in thy power to do so, without stirring abroad. Send to thy brother Abd al-Azíz -bin Marwán, so he may write to Músá bin Nusayr,<a id='r107' /><a href='#f107' class='c011'><sup>[107]</sup></a> governor of +bin Marwán, so he may write to Músá bin Nusayr,<a id='r107' href='#f107' class='c011'><sup>[107]</sup></a> governor of the Maghrib or Morocco, bidding him take horse thence to the mountains whereof I spoke and fetch thee therefrom as many of such cucurbites as thou hast a mind to; for those mountains adjoin the frontiers of his province.” The Caliph approved his counsel and said “Thou hast spoken sooth, O Talib, and I desire that, touching this matter, thou be my messenger to Musa bin Nusayr; -wherefore thou shalt have the White Flag<a id='r108' /><a href='#f108' class='c011'><sup>[108]</sup></a> and all thou hast a +wherefore thou shalt have the White Flag<a id='r108' href='#f108' class='c011'><sup>[108]</sup></a> and all thou hast a mind to of monies and honour and so forth; and I will care for thy family during thine absence.” “With love and gladness, O Commander of the Faithful!” answered Talib. “Go, with the @@ -4572,7 +4558,7 @@ the royal ensigns before him and make his utmost speed, and he gave him treasure and horsemen and footmen, to further him on his way, and made provision for the wants of his household <span class='pageno' id='Page_87'>87</span>during his absence. So Talib set out and arrived in due course -at Cairo.<a id='r109' /><a href='#f109' class='c011'><sup>[109]</sup></a>——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and +at Cairo.<a id='r109' href='#f109' class='c011'><sup>[109]</sup></a>——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> <div class='ph3'> @@ -4599,7 +4585,7 @@ Then he deemed it best to assemble his chief officers and when all were present he acquainted them with the contents of the Caliph’s letter and sought counsel of them how he should act. “O Emir,” answered they, “if thou seek one who shall guide thee to the place -summon the Shaykh ‘Abd al-Samad, ibn ‘Abd al-Kuddús, al-Samúdí;<a id='r110' /><a href='#f110' class='c011'><sup>[110]</sup></a> +summon the Shaykh ‘Abd al-Samad, ibn ‘Abd al-Kuddús, al-Samúdí;<a id='r110' href='#f110' class='c011'><sup>[110]</sup></a> for he is a man of varied knowledge, who hath travelled much and knoweth by experience all the seas and wastes and wolds and countries of the world and the inhabitants and wonders @@ -4619,7 +4605,7 @@ that the road thither is long and difficult and the ways few.” “How far is it?” asked Musa, and the Shaykh answered, “It is a journey of two years and some months going and the like returning; and the way is full of hardships and terrors and things -wondrous and marvellous. Now thou art a champion of the Faith<a id='r111' /><a href='#f111' class='c011'><sup>[111]</sup></a> +wondrous and marvellous. Now thou art a champion of the Faith<a id='r111' href='#f111' class='c011'><sup>[111]</sup></a> and our country is hard by that of the enemy; and peradventure the Nazarenes may come out upon us in thine absence; wherefore it behoveth thee to leave one to rule thy government in thy stead.” @@ -4638,12 +4624,12 @@ Musa, “Knowest thou if any of the Kings have trodden this land before us?”; and quoth the Shaykh, “Yes, it belonged aforetime to Darius the Greek, King of Alexandria.” But he said to Musa privily, “O Emir, take with thee a thousand camels laden with -victual and store of gugglets.”<a id='r112' /><a href='#f112' class='c011'><sup>[112]</sup></a> The Emir asked, “And what +victual and store of gugglets.”<a id='r112' href='#f112' class='c011'><sup>[112]</sup></a> The Emir asked, “And what shall we do with these?”; and the Shaykh answered, “On our way is the desert of Kayrawán or Cyrene, the which is a vast wold four days’ journey long, and lacketh water; nor therein doth sound of voice ever sound nor is soul at any time to be seen. -Moreover, there bloweth the Simoon<a id='r113' /><a href='#f113' class='c011'><sup>[113]</sup></a> and other hot winds called +Moreover, there bloweth the Simoon<a id='r113' href='#f113' class='c011'><sup>[113]</sup></a> and other hot winds called <span class='pageno' id='Page_89'>89</span>Al-Juwayb, which dry up the water-skins; but if the water be in gugglets, no harm can come to it.” “Right,” said Musa and sending to Alexandria, let bring thence great plenty of gugglets. @@ -4746,7 +4732,7 @@ advanced and read as follows:—</p> <p class='c000'>At this the Emir Musa wept bitter tears; and the world waxed yellow before his eyes and he said, “Verily, we were created for -a mighty matter!”<a id='r114' /><a href='#f114' class='c011'><sup>[114]</sup></a> Then they proceeded to explore the palace +a mighty matter!”<a id='r114' href='#f114' class='c011'><sup>[114]</sup></a> Then they proceeded to explore the palace and found it desert and void of living thing, its courts desolate and dwelling-places waste laid. In the midst stood a lofty pavilion with a dome rising high in air, and about it were four hundred @@ -4785,7 +4771,7 @@ precious stones. On the first door were written these verses:—</p> <div class='line'>My troops I had collected availed me not, and none ✿ Of my friends and of my neighbours had power to mend my plight:</div> <div class='line'>Through my life I was wearied in journeying to death ✿ In stress or in solace, in joyance or despight:</div> <div class='line'>So when money-bags are bloated, and dinar unto dinar ✿ Thou addest, all may leave thee with fleeting of the night:</div> - <div class='line'>And the driver of a camel and the digger of a grave<a id='r115' /><a href='#f115' class='c011'><sup>[115]</sup></a> ✿ Are what thine heirs shall bring ere the morning dawneth bright:</div> + <div class='line'>And the driver of a camel and the digger of a grave<a id='r115' href='#f115' class='c011'><sup>[115]</sup></a> ✿ Are what thine heirs shall bring ere the morning dawneth bright:</div> <div class='line'>And on Judgment Day alone shalt thou stand before thy Lord, ✿ Overladen with thy sins and thy crimes and thine affright:</div> <div class='line'>Let the world not seduce thee with lurings, but behold ✿ What measure to thy family and neighbours it hath doled.</div> </div> @@ -4824,7 +4810,7 @@ it is flattering, deceitful and treacherous, and the things thereof are but a loan to us which it will borrow back from all borrowers. It is like unto the dreams of the dreamer and the sleep-visions of the sleeper or as the mirage of the desert, which the thirsty take -for water;<a id='r116' /><a href='#f116' class='c011'><sup>[116]</sup></a> and Satan maketh it fair for men even unto death. +for water;<a id='r116' href='#f116' class='c011'><sup>[116]</sup></a> and Satan maketh it fair for men even unto death. These are the ways of the world; wherefore put not thou thy trust therein neither incline thereto, for it bewrayeth him who leaneth upon it and who committeth himself thereunto in his @@ -4844,7 +4830,7 @@ his poverty, or feareth the King for all his bidding or forbidding. Verily, we abode safe and secure in this palace, till there descended upon us the judgement of the Lord of the Three Worlds, Lord of the Heavens, and Lord of the Earths, the vengeance of -the Manifest Truth<a id='r117' /><a href='#f117' class='c011'><sup>[117]</sup></a> overtook us, when there died of us every +the Manifest Truth<a id='r117' href='#f117' class='c011'><sup>[117]</sup></a> overtook us, when there died of us every day two, till a great company of us had perished. When I saw that destruction had entered our dwellings and had homed with us and in the sea of deaths had drowned us, I summoned a writer @@ -4863,7 +4849,7 @@ not unto this and said, “How shall we battle with Him to whom no chamberlain barreth access, the Lord of the door which hath no doorkeeper?” Then quoth I to them, “Bring me my treasures.” Now I had in my treasuries a thousand cisterns in each -of which were a thousand quintals<a id='r118' /><a href='#f118' class='c011'><sup>[118]</sup></a> of red gold and the like of +of which were a thousand quintals<a id='r118' href='#f118' class='c011'><sup>[118]</sup></a> of red gold and the like of white silver, besides pearls and jewels of all kinds and other things of price, beyond the attainment of the kings of the earth. So they did that and when they had laid all the treasure in my @@ -4881,7 +4867,7 @@ upon the tablets were engraved these lines:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>An thou wouldst know my name, whose day is done ✿ With shifts of time and changes ‘neath the sun,</div> <div class='line'>Know I am Shaddád’s son, who ruled mankind ✿ And o’er all earth upheld dominion!</div> - <div class='line'>All stubborn peoples abject were to me; ✿ And Shám to Cairo and to Adnanwone;<a id='r119' /><a href='#f119' class='c011'><sup>[119]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>All stubborn peoples abject were to me; ✿ And Shám to Cairo and to Adnanwone;<a id='r119' href='#f119' class='c011'><sup>[119]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>I reigned in glory conquering many kings; ✿ And peoples feared my mischief every one.</div> <div class='line'>Yea, tribes and armies in my hand I saw; ✿ The world all dreaded me, both friends and fone.</div> <div class='line'>When I took horse, I viewed my numbered troops, ✿ Bridles on neighing steeds a million.</div> @@ -4889,7 +4875,7 @@ upon the tablets were engraved these lines:—</p> <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_95'>95</span>Fain had I bought my life with all my wealth, ✿ And for a moment’s space my death to shun;</div> <div class='line'>But God would naught save what His purpose willed; ✿ So from my brethren cut I ‘bode alone:</div> <div class='line'>And Death, that sunders man, exchanged my lot ✿ To pauper hut from grandeur’s mansion,</div> - <div class='line'>When found I all mine actions gone and past ✿ Wherefor I’m pledged<a id='r120' /><a href='#f120' class='c011'><sup>[120]</sup></a> and by my sin undone.</div> + <div class='line'>When found I all mine actions gone and past ✿ Wherefor I’m pledged<a id='r120' href='#f120' class='c011'><sup>[120]</sup></a> and by my sin undone.</div> <div class='line'>Then fear, O man, who by a brink dost range, ✿ The turns of Fortune and the chance of Change.</div> </div> </div> @@ -4899,7 +4885,7 @@ upon the tablets were engraved these lines:—</p> what he saw of the slaughtering-places of the folk; and, as they went about the highways and bye-ways of the palace, viewing its sitting-chambers and pleasaunces, behold they came upon a table -of yellow onyx, upborne on four feet of juniper-wood,<a id='r121' /><a href='#f121' class='c011'><sup>[121]</sup></a> and thereon +of yellow onyx, upborne on four feet of juniper-wood,<a id='r121' href='#f121' class='c011'><sup>[121]</sup></a> and thereon these words graven:—“At this table have eaten a thousand kings blind of the right eye and a thousand blind of the left and yet other thousand sound of both eyes, all of whom have departed the @@ -4955,7 +4941,7 @@ hindered from thee and from all others by that wherein he is.” So Abd al-Samad drew near to the pillar and said to him which was therein, “O creature, what is thy name and what art thou and how camest thou here in this fashion?” “I am an Ifrit of the Jinn,” -replied he, “by name Dáhish, son of Al-A’amash,<a id='r122' /><a href='#f122' class='c011'><sup>[122]</sup></a> and am confined +replied he, “by name Dáhish, son of Al-A’amash,<a id='r122' href='#f122' class='c011'><sup>[122]</sup></a> and am confined here by the All-might, prisoned here by the Providence and punished by the judgement of Allah, till it pleases Him, to whom belong Might and Majesty, to release me.” Then said Musa, “Ask @@ -5036,7 +5022,7 @@ Prophet heard, he raged like Doomsday and addressed himself to the fray and levied armies of men and Jann and birds and reptiles. He commanded his Wazir Al-Dimiryát, King of the Jann, to gather together the Marids of the Jinn from all parts, and he -collected for him six hundred thousand thousand of devils.<a id='r123' /><a href='#f123' class='c011'><sup>[123]</sup></a> Moreover, +collected for him six hundred thousand thousand of devils.<a id='r123' href='#f123' class='c011'><sup>[123]</sup></a> Moreover, by his order, his Wazir Ásaf bin Barkhiyá levied him an army of men, to the number of a thousand thousand or more. These all he furnished with arms and armour and mounting, with @@ -5064,7 +5050,7 @@ fallen upon thee, or else make thy submission to me and confess my apostleship and give me thy daughter to lawful wife and break thine idol and worship the one God, the alone Worshipful; and testify, thou and thine, and say, There is no God but <em>the</em> God, and -Solomon is the Apostle of Allah!<a id='r124' /><a href='#f124' class='c011'><sup>[124]</sup></a> This if thou do, thou shalt +Solomon is the Apostle of Allah!<a id='r124' href='#f124' class='c011'><sup>[124]</sup></a> This if thou do, thou shalt have pardon and peace; but if not, it will avail thee nothing to fortify thyself in this island, for Allah (extolled and exalted be He!) hath bidden the Wind obey me; so I will bid it bear me to @@ -5088,7 +5074,7 @@ wings; and they answered, saying, “We hear and we obey Allah and thee, O Prophet of Allah!” Then Solomon seated himself on a throne of alabaster, studded with precious stones and plated with red gold; and, commanding the wind to bear him aloft, set -his Wazir Asaf bin Barkhiya<a id='r125' /><a href='#f125' class='c011'><sup>[125]</sup></a> and the kings of mankind on his +his Wazir Asaf bin Barkhiya<a id='r125' href='#f125' class='c011'><sup>[125]</sup></a> and the kings of mankind on his right and his Wazir Al-Dimiryat and the kings of the Jinn on his left, arraying the beasts and vipers and serpents in the van. Thereupon they all set on us together, and we gave them battle two days @@ -5100,7 +5086,7 @@ them and provoke Al-Dimiryat to combat singular.” And behold, he came forth to the duello as he were a vast mountain, with his fires flaming and his smoke spireing, and shot at me a falling star of fire; but I swerved from it and it missed me. Then I cast at -him in my turn, a flame of fire, and it smote him; but his shaft<a id='r126' /><a href='#f126' class='c011'><sup>[126]</sup></a> +him in my turn, a flame of fire, and it smote him; but his shaft<a id='r126' href='#f126' class='c011'><sup>[126]</sup></a> overcame my fire and he cried out at me so terrible a cry that meseemed the skies were fallen flat upon me, and the mountains trembled at his voice. Then he commanded his hosts to charge; @@ -5155,7 +5141,7 @@ would fain ask thee of a thing, whereof do thou inform us.” “Ask what thou wilt,” answered the Ifrit Dahish and the Shaykh said, “Are there hereabouts any of the Ifrits imprisoned in bottles of brass from the time of Solomon (on whom be peace!)?” “Yes,” -replied the Jinni; “there be such in the sea of Al-Karkar<a id='r127' /><a href='#f127' class='c011'><sup>[127]</sup></a> on the +replied the Jinni; “there be such in the sea of Al-Karkar<a id='r127' href='#f127' class='c011'><sup>[127]</sup></a> on the shores whereof dwell a people of the lineage of Noah (on whom be peace!); for their country was not reached by the Deluge and they are cut off there from the other sons of Adam.” Quoth Abd @@ -5169,7 +5155,7 @@ Shaykh, “What is yonder vast blackness and its twin fires?”; and the guide answered, “Rejoice O Emir, for this is the City of Brass, as it is described in the Book of Hidden Treasures which I have by me. Its walls are of black stone and it hath two towers of -Andalusian brass,<a id='r128' /><a href='#f128' class='c011'><sup>[128]</sup></a> which appear to the beholder in the distance as +Andalusian brass,<a id='r128' href='#f128' class='c011'><sup>[128]</sup></a> which appear to the beholder in the distance as they were twin fires, and hence is it named the City of Brass.” Then they fared on without ceasing till they drew near the city and behold, it was as it were a piece of a mountain or a mass of @@ -5208,7 +5194,7 @@ a city with gates impregnable; but void and still, without a voice or a cheering inhabitant. The owl hooted in its quarters; the bird skimmed circling over its squares and the raven croaked in its great thoroughfares weeping and bewailing the dwellers who erst -made it their dwelling.<a id='r129' /><a href='#f129' class='c011'><sup>[129]</sup></a> The Emir stood awhile, marvelling and +made it their dwelling.<a id='r129' href='#f129' class='c011'><sup>[129]</sup></a> The Emir stood awhile, marvelling and <span class='pageno' id='Page_103'>103</span>sorrowing for the desolation of the city and saying, “Glory to Him whom nor ages nor changes nor times can blight, Him who created all things of His Might!” Presently, he chanced to look aside and @@ -5300,7 +5286,7 @@ were written these verses:—</p> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>Where is the wight who peopled in the past ✿ Hind-land and Sind; and there the tyrant played?</div> - <div class='line'>Who Zanj<a id='r130' /><a href='#f130' class='c011'><sup>[130]</sup></a> and Habash bound beneath his yoke, ✿ And Nubia curbed and low its puissance laid.</div> + <div class='line'>Who Zanj<a id='r130' href='#f130' class='c011'><sup>[130]</sup></a> and Habash bound beneath his yoke, ✿ And Nubia curbed and low its puissance laid.</div> <div class='line'>Look not for news of what is in his grave. ✿ Ah, he is far who can thy vision aid!</div> <div class='line'>The stroke of death fell on him sharp and sure; ✿ Nor saved him palace, nor the lands he swayed.</div> </div> @@ -5375,7 +5361,7 @@ And at the foot of the tablet were these couplets:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Where be the Kings who ruled the Franks of old? ✿ Where be the King who peopled Tingis-wold<a id='r131' /><a href='#f131' class='c011'><sup>[131]</sup></a>?</div> + <div class='line'>Where be the Kings who ruled the Franks of old? ✿ Where be the King who peopled Tingis-wold<a id='r131' href='#f131' class='c011'><sup>[131]</sup></a>?</div> <div class='line'>Their works are written in a book which He, ✿ The One, th’ All-father shall as witness hold.</div> </div> </div> @@ -5394,8 +5380,8 @@ thee; thou wastest the sweet of thy life and the joyance of thine hours. Give ear, then, to my rede and put thy trust in the Lord of Lords and know that in the world is no stability, but it is as it were a spider’s web to thee and all that is therein shall die and -cease to be. Where is he who laid the foundation of Amid<a id='r132' /><a href='#f132' class='c011'><sup>[132]</sup></a> and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_107'>107</span>builded it and builded Fárikín<a id='r133' /><a href='#f133' class='c011'><sup>[133]</sup></a> and exalted it? Where be the +cease to be. Where is he who laid the foundation of Amid<a id='r132' href='#f132' class='c011'><sup>[132]</sup></a> and +<span class='pageno' id='Page_107'>107</span>builded it and builded Fárikín<a id='r133' href='#f133' class='c011'><sup>[133]</sup></a> and exalted it? Where be the peoples of the strong places? Whenas them they had inhabited, after their might into the tombs they descended. They have been carried off by death and we shall in like manner be afflicted @@ -5459,7 +5445,7 @@ the grace of God Most High!” So the folk all agreed to let him mount the ladder, and he arose and heartening himself, said, “In the name of Allah, the Compassionating, the Compassionate!” and mounted the ladder, calling on the name of the Lord and -reciting the Verses of Safety.<a id='r134' /><a href='#f134' class='c011'><sup>[134]</sup></a> When he reached the top of the +reciting the Verses of Safety.<a id='r134' href='#f134' class='c011'><sup>[134]</sup></a> When he reached the top of the wall, he clapped his hands and gazed fixedly down into the city; whereupon the folk below cried out to him with one accord, saying, “O Shaykh Abd al-Samad, for the Lord’s sake, cast not thyself @@ -5489,7 +5475,7 @@ the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> <p class='c000'>She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the Shaykh Abd al-Samad answered, “I saw ten maidens like Houris -of Heaven,<a id='r135' /><a href='#f135' class='c011'><sup>[135]</sup></a> and they calling and signing<a id='r136' /><a href='#f136' class='c011'><sup>[136]</sup></a>:—Come hither to us; +of Heaven,<a id='r135' href='#f135' class='c011'><sup>[135]</sup></a> and they calling and signing<a id='r136' href='#f136' class='c011'><sup>[136]</sup></a>:—Come hither to us; and meseemed there was below me a lake of water. So I thought to throw myself down, when behold, I espied my twelve companions lying dead; so I restrained myself and recited somewhat @@ -5501,7 +5487,7 @@ place. And it hath succeeded in slaying our companions.” Then he walked on along the wall, till he came to the two towers of brass aforesaid and saw therein two gates of gold, without padlocks or visible means of opening. Hereat he paused as long as -Allah pleased<a id='r137' /><a href='#f137' class='c011'><sup>[137]</sup></a> and gazed about him awhile, till he espied in the +Allah pleased<a id='r137' href='#f137' class='c011'><sup>[137]</sup></a> and gazed about him awhile, till he espied in the middle of one of the gates, a horseman of brass with hand outstretched as if pointing, and in his palm was somewhat written. So he went up to it and read these words, “O thou who @@ -5511,7 +5497,7 @@ he examined the horseman and finding in his navel a pin of gold, firm-set and fast fixed, he turned it twelve times, whereupon the horseman revolved like the blinding lightning <span class='pageno' id='Page_110'>110</span>and the gate swung open with a noise like thunder. He entered -and found himself in a long passage,<a id='r138' /><a href='#f138' class='c011'><sup>[138]</sup></a> which brought him down +and found himself in a long passage,<a id='r138' href='#f138' class='c011'><sup>[138]</sup></a> which brought him down some steps into a guard-room furnished with goodly wooden benches, whereon sat men dead, over whose heads hung fine shields and keen blades and bent bows and shafts ready notched. @@ -5577,12 +5563,12 @@ Emir Musa saw this, he stood still, glorifying Allah the Most High and hallowing Him and contemplating the beauty of the palace and the massiveness of its masonry and fair perfection of its ordinance, for it was builded after the goodliest and stablest -fashion and the most part of its adornment was of green<a id='r139' /><a href='#f139' class='c011'><sup>[139]</sup></a> lapis-lazuli; +fashion and the most part of its adornment was of green<a id='r139' href='#f139' class='c011'><sup>[139]</sup></a> lapis-lazuli; <span class='pageno' id='Page_112'>112</span>and on the inner door, which stood open, were written in characters of gold and ultramarine, these couplets:—</p> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_110fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_110fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> @@ -5632,8 +5618,8 @@ it full of gold and silver and pearls and jacinths and other precious <span class='pageno' id='Page_113'>113</span>stones and metals, besides chests filled with brocades, red and yellow and white. Then they repaired to the second pavilion, and, opening a closet there, found it full of arms and armour, such as gilded -helmets and Davidean<a id='r140' /><a href='#f140' class='c011'><sup>[140]</sup></a> hauberks and Hindi swords and Arabian -spears and Chorasmian<a id='r141' /><a href='#f141' class='c011'><sup>[141]</sup></a> maces and other gear of fight and fray. +helmets and Davidean<a id='r140' href='#f140' class='c011'><sup>[140]</sup></a> hauberks and Hindi swords and Arabian +spears and Chorasmian<a id='r141' href='#f141' class='c011'><sup>[141]</sup></a> maces and other gear of fight and fray. Thence they passed to the third pavilion, wherein they saw closets padlocked and covered with curtains wrought with all manner of embroidery. They opened one of these and found it full of @@ -5651,18 +5637,18 @@ manner of embroideries; and on this door were locks of white silver, that opened by artifice without a key. The Shaykh Abd al-Samad went valiantly up thereto and by the aid of his knowledge and skill opened the locks, whereupon the door admitted them into a -corridor paved with marble and hung with veil-like<a id='r142' /><a href='#f142' class='c011'><sup>[142]</sup></a> tapestries embroidered +corridor paved with marble and hung with veil-like<a id='r142' href='#f142' class='c011'><sup>[142]</sup></a> tapestries embroidered with figures of all manner beasts and birds, whose bodies were of red gold and white silver and their eyes of pearls and rubies, amazing all who looked upon them. Passing onwards they came to a saloon builded all of polished marble, inlaid with jewels, which seemed to the beholder as though the floor were flowing -water<a id='r143' /><a href='#f143' class='c011'><sup>[143]</sup></a> and whoso walked thereon slipped. The Emir bade the +water<a id='r143' href='#f143' class='c011'><sup>[143]</sup></a> and whoso walked thereon slipped. The Emir bade the Shaykh strew somewhat upon it, that they might walk over it; which being done, they made shift to fare forwards till they came <span class='pageno' id='Page_114'>114</span>to a great domed pavilion of stone, gilded with red gold and crowned with a cupola of alabaster, about which were set lattice-windows -carved and jewelled with rods of emerald,<a id='r144' /><a href='#f144' class='c011'><sup>[144]</sup></a> beyond the +carved and jewelled with rods of emerald,<a id='r144' href='#f144' class='c011'><sup>[144]</sup></a> beyond the competence of any King. Under this dome was a canopy of brocade, reposing upon pillars of red gold and wrought with figures of birds whose feet were of smaragd, and beneath each bird was a @@ -5711,7 +5697,7 @@ beyond measure and said, “Glory be to God who subjugateth His creatures to the dominion of Death!” Now the couch on which the damsel lay, had steps, and thereon stood two statues of Andalusian copper representing slaves, one white and the -other black. The first held a mace of steel<a id='r145' /><a href='#f145' class='c011'><sup>[145]</sup></a> and the second a +other black. The first held a mace of steel<a id='r145' href='#f145' class='c011'><sup>[145]</sup></a> and the second a sword of watered steel which dazzled the eye; and between them, on one of the steps of the couch, lay a golden tablet, whereon were written, in characters of white silver, the following @@ -5733,12 +5719,12 @@ them and they have departed from kindred and home. Where be the Kings of Arab and Ajem? They are dead, all of them, and gone and are become rotten bones. Where be the lords so high in stead? They are all done dead. Where are Kora and Haman? -Where is Shaddad son of Ad? Where be Canaan and Zu’l-Autád,<a id='r146' /><a href='#f146' class='c011'><sup>[146]</sup></a> +Where is Shaddad son of Ad? Where be Canaan and Zu’l-Autád,<a id='r146' href='#f146' class='c011'><sup>[146]</sup></a> Lord of the Stakes? By Allah, the Reaper of lives hath <span class='pageno' id='Page_116'>116</span>reaped them and made void the lands of them. Did they provide them against the Day of Resurrection or make ready to answer the Lord of men? O thou, if thou know me not, I will acquaint -thee with my name: I am Tadmurah,<a id='r147' /><a href='#f147' class='c011'><sup>[147]</sup></a> daughter of the Kings of +thee with my name: I am Tadmurah,<a id='r147' href='#f147' class='c011'><sup>[147]</sup></a> daughter of the Kings of the Amalekites, of those who held dominion over the lands in equity and brought low the necks of humanity. I possessed that which never King possessed and was righteous in my rule and @@ -5748,7 +5734,7 @@ all ease and delight of life, till Death knocked at my door and to me and to my folk befel calamities galore; and it was on this wise. There betided us seven successive years of drought, wherein no drop of rain fell on us from the skies and no green thing -sprouted for us on the face of earth.<a id='r148' /><a href='#f148' class='c011'><sup>[148]</sup></a> So we ate what was with us +sprouted for us on the face of earth.<a id='r148' href='#f148' class='c011'><sup>[148]</sup></a> So we ate what was with us of victual, then we fell upon the cattle and devoured them, until nothing was left. Thereupon I let bring my treasures and meted them with measures and sent out trusty men to buy food. They @@ -5760,7 +5746,7 @@ weight for weight. So, when we despaired of succour, we displayed all our riches and things of price and, shutting the gates of the city and its strong places, resigned ourselves to the deme of our Lord and committed our case to our King. Then we all -died,<a id='r149' /><a href='#f149' class='c011'><sup>[149]</sup></a> as thou seest us, and left what we had builded and all we +died,<a id='r149' href='#f149' class='c011'><sup>[149]</sup></a> as thou seest us, and left what we had builded and all we had hoarded. This, then, is our story, and after the substance naught abideth but the trace.” Then they looked at the foot of the tablet and read these couplets:—</p> @@ -5809,7 +5795,7 @@ feared her Lord and made fair her dealings and provided herself with provaunt against the appointed marching-day. Whoso cometh to our city and Allah vouchsafeth him competence to enter it, let him take of the treasure all he can, but touch not -<span class='pageno' id='Page_118'>118</span>aught that is on my body, for it is the covering of my shame<a id='r150' /><a href='#f150' class='c011'><sup>[150]</sup></a> +<span class='pageno' id='Page_118'>118</span>aught that is on my body, for it is the covering of my shame<a id='r150' href='#f150' class='c011'><sup>[150]</sup></a> and the outfit for the last journey; wherefore let him fear Allah and despoil naught thereof; else will he destroy his own self. This have I set forth to him for a warning from me and a solemn @@ -5894,7 +5880,7 @@ partner none, and His is the kingdom and His is the praise. He giveth life and death and He over all things is Almighty. Nor <span class='pageno' id='Page_120'>120</span>do we draw near unto Allah (be He exalted and extolled!) except with these words, for we know none other; but every eve before -Friday<a id='r151' /><a href='#f151' class='c011'><sup>[151]</sup></a> we see a light upon the face of earth and we hear a voice +Friday<a id='r151' href='#f151' class='c011'><sup>[151]</sup></a> we see a light upon the face of earth and we hear a voice saying, Holy and glorious, Lord of the Angels and the Spirit! What He willeth is, and what He willeth not, is not. Every boon is of His grace and there is neither Majesty nor is there Might @@ -5923,7 +5909,7 @@ they dived and brought up twelve cucurbites, whereat the Emir and the Shaykh and all the company rejoiced in the accomplishment of the Caliph’s need. Then Musa gave the King of the blacks many and great gifts; and he, in turn, made him a present -<span class='pageno' id='Page_121'>121</span>of the wonders of the deep, being fishes in human form,<a id='r152' /><a href='#f152' class='c011'><sup>[152]</sup></a> saying +<span class='pageno' id='Page_121'>121</span>of the wonders of the deep, being fishes in human form,<a id='r152' href='#f152' class='c011'><sup>[152]</sup></a> saying “Your entertainment these three days hath been of the meat of these fish.” Quoth the Emir, “Needs must we carry some of these to the Caliph, for the sight of them will please him more @@ -5969,7 +5955,7 @@ that hath come down to us of the story of the City of Brass, and <span class='pageno' id='Page_122'>122</span>God is All-knowing!——Now (continued Shahrazad) I have another tale to tell anent the</p> -<hr class='c015' /> +<hr class='c015' > <div class='footnote' id='f104'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r104'>104</a>. </span>This is a true “City of Brass.” (Nuhás asfar = yellow copper), as we learn in @@ -6067,7 +6053,7 @@ wrought.”</p> <div class='footnote' id='f121'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r121'>121</a>. </span>There is a constant clerical confusion in the texts between “Arar” (Juniperus Oxycedrus used by the Greeks for the images of their gods) and “Marmar” marble -or alabaster, in the Talmud “Marmora” = marble, evidently from <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">μάρμαρος</span> = brilliant, +or alabaster, in the Talmud “Marmora” = marble, evidently from <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">μάρμαρος</span> = brilliant, the brilliant stone.</p> </div> @@ -6125,7 +6111,7 @@ etc., chapt. i.</p> </div> <div class='footnote' id='f131'> -<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r131'>131</a>. </span>Arab. “Tanjah” = Strabo <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Τίγγις</span> (derivation uncertain), Tingitania, Tangiers. But +<p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r131'>131</a>. </span>Arab. “Tanjah” = Strabo <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Τίγγις</span> (derivation uncertain), Tingitania, Tangiers. But why the terminal <em>s</em>?</p> </div> @@ -6267,7 +6253,7 @@ women of Hanno were gorillas.</p> </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c122' class='c007'>CRAFT AND MALICE OF WOMEN,<a id='r153' /><a href='#f153' class='c011'><sup>[153]</sup></a> OR THE TALE OF THE KING, HIS SON, HIS CONCUBINE AND THE SEVEN WAZIRS.</h2> + <h2 id='c122' class='c007'>CRAFT AND MALICE OF WOMEN,<a id='r153' href='#f153' class='c011'><sup>[153]</sup></a> OR THE TALE OF THE KING, HIS SON, HIS CONCUBINE AND THE SEVEN WAZIRS.</h2> </div> <p class='c012'>There was, in days of yore and in ages and times long gone @@ -6333,7 +6319,7 @@ night. The lieges of the realm congratulated one another thereanent and the King commanded an assembly of his Olema and philosophers, astrologers and horoscopists, whom he thus addressed, “I desire you to forecast the fortune of my son and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_124'>124</span>to determine his ascendant<a id='r154' /><a href='#f154' class='c011'><sup>[154]</sup></a> and whatever is shown by his +<span class='pageno' id='Page_124'>124</span>to determine his ascendant<a id='r154' href='#f154' class='c011'><sup>[154]</sup></a> and whatever is shown by his nativity.” They replied “‘Tis well, in Allah’s name, let us do so!” and cast his nativity with all diligence. After ascertaining his ascendant, they pronounced judgement in these words, “We @@ -6363,7 +6349,7 @@ my son omnem rem scibilem; for whenas I see the youth perfect in all science, I will share my dignity with the Prince and make him partner with me in my possessions.” “Know, O King,” they replied, “that among us none is more learned or more excellent -than Al-Sindibad,<a id='r155' /><a href='#f155' class='c011'><sup>[155]</sup></a> hight the Sage, who woneth in thy capital +than Al-Sindibad,<a id='r155' href='#f155' class='c011'><sup>[155]</sup></a> hight the Sage, who woneth in thy capital <span class='pageno' id='Page_125'>125</span>under thy protection. If such be thy design, summon him and bid him do thy will.” The King acted upon their advice and the Sage, standing in the presence, expressed his loyal sentiments with @@ -6396,9 +6382,9 @@ I will teach him in seven months what he would not learn hearken to thee,” quoth the King, “and I submit myself to thy conditions;” and quoth Al-Sindibad, “Hear from me, Sire, and bear in mind these three sayings, whereof the first is:—Do not to -others what thou wouldest not they do unto thee;<a id='r156' /><a href='#f156' class='c011'><sup>[156]</sup></a> and second:—Do +others what thou wouldest not they do unto thee;<a id='r156' href='#f156' class='c011'><sup>[156]</sup></a> and second:—Do naught hastily without consulting the experienced; and -thirdly:—Where thou hast power show pity.<a id='r157' /><a href='#f157' class='c011'><sup>[157]</sup></a> In teaching this +thirdly:—Where thou hast power show pity.<a id='r157' href='#f157' class='c011'><sup>[157]</sup></a> In teaching this <span class='pageno' id='Page_126'>126</span>lad I require no more of thee but to accept these three dictes and adhere thereto.” Cried the King, “Bear ye witness against me, O all ye here assembled, that I stand firm by these conditions!”; @@ -6407,7 +6393,7 @@ security and the testimony of his courtiers. Thereupon the Sage, taking the Prince’s hand, led him to his place, and the King sent them all requisites of provaunt and kitchen-batteries, carpets and other furniture. Moreover the tutor bade build a house whose -walls he lined with the whitest stucco painted over with ceruse,<a id='r158' /><a href='#f158' class='c011'><sup>[158]</sup></a> +walls he lined with the whitest stucco painted over with ceruse,<a id='r158' href='#f158' class='c011'><sup>[158]</sup></a> and, lastly, he delineated thereon all the objects concerning which he proposed to lecture his pupil. When the place was duly furnished, he took the lad’s hand and installed him in the apartment @@ -6468,7 +6454,7 @@ Prince passed one night; but, on the following morning, the King’s favourite concubine happened to cast eyes upon his beauty and loveliness, his symmetrical stature, his brilliancy and his perfect grace, and love gat hold of her heart and she was ravished with -his charms.<a id='r159' /><a href='#f159' class='c011'><sup>[159]</sup></a> So she went up to him and threw herself upon him, +his charms.<a id='r159' href='#f159' class='c011'><sup>[159]</sup></a> So she went up to him and threw herself upon him, <span class='pageno' id='Page_128'>128</span>but he made her no response; whereupon, being dazed by his beauty, she cried out to him and required him of himself and importuned him; then she again threw herself upon him and @@ -6513,14 +6499,14 @@ there hath reached me, O King, a tale entituled</p> <div> <span class='pageno' id='Page_129'>129</span> - <h3 id='c129' class='c013'><em>THE KING AND HIS WAZIR’S WIFE.</em><a id='r160' /><a href='#f160' class='c011'><sup>[160]</sup></a></h3> + <h3 id='c129' class='c013'><em>THE KING AND HIS WAZIR’S WIFE.</em><a id='r160' href='#f160' class='c011'><sup>[160]</sup></a></h3> </div> <p class='c014'>There was once a King of the Kings, a potent man and a proud, who was devoted to the love of women and one day being in the privacy of his palace, he espied a beautiful woman on the terrace-roof of her house and could not contain himself from falling -consumedly in love with her.<a id='r161' /><a href='#f161' class='c011'><sup>[161]</sup></a> He asked his folk to whom the +consumedly in love with her.<a id='r161' href='#f161' class='c011'><sup>[161]</sup></a> He asked his folk to whom the house and the damsel belonged and they said, “This is the dwelling of the Wazir such an one and she is his wife.” So he called the Minister in question and despatched him on an errand to a @@ -6556,7 +6542,7 @@ King!” replied she, “this is a parable I have set for thee, that thou mayst be admonished thereby.” He asked, “And what is its meaning?”; and she answered, “Allah amend the case of our lord the King!; in thy palace are ninety concubines of various -colours, but their taste is one.”<a id='r162' /><a href='#f162' class='c011'><sup>[162]</sup></a> When the King heard this, he +colours, but their taste is one.”<a id='r162' href='#f162' class='c011'><sup>[162]</sup></a> When the King heard this, he was ashamed and rising hastily, went out, without offering her any affront and returned to his palace; but, in his haste and confusion, he forgot his signet-ring and left it under the cushion where he @@ -6588,7 +6574,7 @@ wrath. At last, being weary of the longsome neglect, she sent for her sire and told him the case; whereupon quoth he, “I will complain of him to the King, at some time when he is in the presence.” So, one day, he went in to the King and, finding the -Wazir and the Kazi of the army before him,<a id='r163' /><a href='#f163' class='c011'><sup>[163]</sup></a> complained thus +Wazir and the Kazi of the army before him,<a id='r163' href='#f163' class='c011'><sup>[163]</sup></a> complained thus saying, “Almighty Allah amend the King’s case! I had a fair flower-garden, which I planted with mine own hand and thereon spent my substance till it bare fruit; and its fruitage was ripe for @@ -6609,7 +6595,7 @@ obedience,” answered the Minister and, returning home sent for his wife and made his peace with her and thenceforth put faith in her chastity. This I tell thee, O King (continued the Wazir), for no other purpose save to let thee know how great is their craft -<span class='pageno' id='Page_132'>132</span>and how precipitancy bequeatheth repentance.<a id='r164' /><a href='#f164' class='c011'><sup>[164]</sup></a> And I have also +<span class='pageno' id='Page_132'>132</span>and how precipitancy bequeatheth repentance.<a id='r164' href='#f164' class='c011'><sup>[164]</sup></a> And I have also heard the following</p> <h3 id='c132' class='c013'><em>STORY OF THE CONFECTIONER, HIS WIFE, AND THE PARROT.</em></h3> @@ -6691,7 +6677,7 @@ concerning</p> day to go forth to the Tigris-bank a-cleaning clothes; and his son was wont to go with him that he might swim whilst his father was fulling, nor was he forbidden from this. One day, as -the boy was swimming,<a id='r165' /><a href='#f165' class='c011'><sup>[165]</sup></a> he was taken with cramp in the forearms +the boy was swimming,<a id='r165' href='#f165' class='c011'><sup>[165]</sup></a> he was taken with cramp in the forearms and sank, whereupon the fuller plunged into the water and caught hold of him; but the boy clung about him and pulled him down and so father and son were both drowned. Thus it is with thee, @@ -6748,7 +6734,7 @@ hand and looked at it and deemed it man’s seed; whereat he stared at the young man with eyes of wrath, and asked him, “Where is thy mistress?”; and he answered, “She is gone forth to the Hammam and will return forthright after she has made her -ablutions.”<a id='r166' /><a href='#f166' class='c011'><sup>[166]</sup></a> When the man heard this, his suspicion concerning +ablutions.”<a id='r166' href='#f166' class='c011'><sup>[166]</sup></a> When the man heard this, his suspicion concerning the semen was confirmed; and he waxed furious and said, “Go at once and bring her back.” The steward accordingly fetched her and when she came before her husband, the jealous man sprang @@ -6778,7 +6764,7 @@ O King, that this is an instance of the malice of men and their perfidy. When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration. Whereupon the King said, -“Raise thy head: prostration must be made to Allah only.”<a id='r167' /><a href='#f167' class='c011'><sup>[167]</sup></a> So +“Raise thy head: prostration must be made to Allah only.”<a id='r167' href='#f167' class='c011'><sup>[167]</sup></a> So the Minister rose from before him and said, “O King, hasten not to slay thy son, for he was not granted to his mother by the Almighty but after despair, nor didst thou expect such good @@ -6818,7 +6804,7 @@ bade us knead flour with butter into a plaster and lay it on the place of pain, where it abode all night. In the morning, I used to take that flour and turn it into dough and make it into two scones, which I cooked and sold to thee or to another; but presently the -man died and I was cut off from making cakes.”<a id='r168' /><a href='#f168' class='c011'><sup>[168]</sup></a> When the +man died and I was cut off from making cakes.”<a id='r168' href='#f168' class='c011'><sup>[168]</sup></a> When the merchant heard this, he repented whenas repentance availed him naught, saying, “Verily, we are Allah’s and verily unto Him we are returning! There is no Majesty and there is no Might save @@ -6839,7 +6825,7 @@ the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> old trot told the merchant the provenance of the scones, he cried, <span class='pageno' id='Page_138'>138</span>“There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great!” And he repeated the saying of the Most -High, “Whatever evil falleth to thee it is from thyself;”<a id='r169' /><a href='#f169' class='c011'><sup>[169]</sup></a> and +High, “Whatever evil falleth to thee it is from thyself;”<a id='r169' href='#f169' class='c011'><sup>[169]</sup></a> and vomited till he fell sick and repented whenas repentance availed him naught. Moreover, O King (continued the second Wazir), I have heard tell, of the malice of women, a tale of</p> @@ -6870,7 +6856,7 @@ the lover saw him, he was ashamed and sheathing his scymitar, went forth the house. Said the man to his wife, “What means this?”; and she replied, “O man, how blessed is the hour of thy coming! Thou hast saved a True Believer from slaughter, and it -happed after this fashion. I was on the house-terrace, spinning,<a id='r170' /><a href='#f170' class='c011'><sup>[170]</sup></a> +happed after this fashion. I was on the house-terrace, spinning,<a id='r170' href='#f170' class='c011'><sup>[170]</sup></a> <span class='pageno' id='Page_139'>139</span>when behold, there came up to me a youth, distracted and panting for fear of death, fleeing from yonder man, who followed upon him as hard as he could with his drawn sword. The young man fell @@ -6902,7 +6888,7 @@ counsellor of his.” Quoth he, “And how was that?” Quoth she:—There hath been told me, O auspicious and well-advised King, a tale of</p> -<h3 id='c139' class='c013'><em>THE KING’S SON AND THE OGRESS</em>.<a id='r171' /><a href='#f171' class='c011'><sup>[171]</sup></a></h3> +<h3 id='c139' class='c013'><em>THE KING’S SON AND THE OGRESS</em>.<a id='r171' href='#f171' class='c011'><sup>[171]</sup></a></h3> <p class='c014'>A certain King had a son, whom he loved and favoured with exceeding favour, over all his other children; and this son said to @@ -6927,7 +6913,7 @@ he said to the Wazir, “I have a mind to follow that gazelle;” and the Minister replied, “Do what seemeth good to thee.” Thereupon the Prince rode single-handed after the gazelle, till he lost sight of his companions, and chased her all that day till dusk, -when she took refuge in a bit of rocky ground<a id='r172' /><a href='#f172' class='c011'><sup>[172]</sup></a> and darkness +when she took refuge in a bit of rocky ground<a id='r172' href='#f172' class='c011'><sup>[172]</sup></a> and darkness closed in upon him. Then he would have turned back, but knew not the way; whereat he was sore concerned and said, “There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the @@ -6944,7 +6930,7 @@ one of the city walls wailing and weeping copious tears. So he drew nigh to her and asked, “Who art thou and who brought thee <span class='pageno' id='Page_141'>141</span>hither?” She answered, “I am called Bint al-Tamímah, daughter of Al-Tiyákh, King of the Gray Country. I went out one day to -obey a call of nature,<a id='r173' /><a href='#f173' class='c011'><sup>[173]</sup></a> when an Ifrit of the Jinn snatched me up +obey a call of nature,<a id='r173' href='#f173' class='c011'><sup>[173]</sup></a> when an Ifrit of the Jinn snatched me up and soared with me between heaven and earth; but as he flew there fell on him a shooting-star in the form of a flame of fire and burned him, and I dropped here, where these three days I have @@ -7015,7 +7001,7 @@ destroyed one another, because of a drop of honey.” Asked the King, “How was that?”; and the Wazir answered, saying:—Know, O King, that I have heard this story anent</p> -<h3 id='c142' class='c013'><em>THE DROP OF HONEY</em>.<a id='r174' /><a href='#f174' class='c011'><sup>[174]</sup></a></h3> +<h3 id='c142' class='c013'><em>THE DROP OF HONEY</em>.<a id='r174' href='#f174' class='c011'><sup>[174]</sup></a></h3> <p class='c014'>A certain hunter used to chase wild beasts in wold, and one day he came upon a grotto in the mountains, where he found a hollow @@ -7039,7 +7025,7 @@ Almighty Allah. And amongst other stories of the malice of women (continued the Wazir) I have heard tell, O King, one concerning</p> -<h3 id='c143' class='c013'><em>THE WOMAN WHO MADE HER HUSBAND SIFT DUST</em>.<a id='r175' /><a href='#f175' class='c011'><sup>[175]</sup></a></h3> +<h3 id='c143' class='c013'><em>THE WOMAN WHO MADE HER HUSBAND SIFT DUST</em>.<a id='r175' href='#f175' class='c011'><sup>[175]</sup></a></h3> <p class='c014'>A man once gave his wife a dirham to buy rice; so she took it and went to the rice-seller, who gave her the rice and began to @@ -7075,11 +7061,11 @@ clay, till his face and beard were covered with dust; and he discovered not her trick, neither knew what had befallen her. “This then, O King,” said the Wazir, “is an instance of the malice of women, and consider the saying of Allah Almighty:—Surely the -cunning of you (women) is great!<a id='r176' /><a href='#f176' class='c011'><sup>[176]</sup></a> And again:—Indeed, the +cunning of you (women) is great!<a id='r176' href='#f176' class='c011'><sup>[176]</sup></a> And again:—Indeed, the malice of Satan is weak in comparison with the malice of -women.”<a id='r177' /><a href='#f177' class='c011'><sup>[177]</sup></a> The King gave ear to his Wazir’s speech and was +women.”<a id='r177' href='#f177' class='c011'><sup>[177]</sup></a> The King gave ear to his Wazir’s speech and was persuaded thereby and was satisfied by what he cited to him of -the signs of Allah<a id='r178' /><a href='#f178' class='c011'><sup>[178]</sup></a>; and the lights of good counsel arose and +the signs of Allah<a id='r178' href='#f178' class='c011'><sup>[178]</sup></a>; and the lights of good counsel arose and shone in the firmament of his understanding and he turned from his purpose of slaying his son. But on the fourth day, the favourite came in to him weeping and wailing and, kissing the @@ -7094,7 +7080,7 @@ King; and she answered:—I have heard tell, O King, a tale of</p> <div> <span class='pageno' id='Page_145'>145</span> - <h3 id='c145' class='c013'><em>THE ENCHANTED SPRING</em>.<a id='r179' /><a href='#f179' class='c011'><sup>[179]</sup></a></h3> + <h3 id='c145' class='c013'><em>THE ENCHANTED SPRING</em>.<a id='r179' href='#f179' class='c011'><sup>[179]</sup></a></h3> </div> <p class='c014'>There was once in times gone by a King who had one son and @@ -7108,7 +7094,7 @@ noble present to the Wazir of the bridegroom’s father and much treasure, desiring him to use craft for slaying the Prince or contrive to make him leave his intent of espousing the girl and adding, “O Wazir, indeed jealousy moveth me to this for she is -my cousin.”<a id='r180' /><a href='#f180' class='c011'><sup>[180]</sup></a> The Wazir accepted the present and sent an answer, +my cousin.”<a id='r180' href='#f180' class='c011'><sup>[180]</sup></a> The Wazir accepted the present and sent an answer, saying, “Be of good cheer and of eyes cool and clear, for I will do all that thou wishest.” Presently, the bride’s father wrote to the Prince, bidding him to his capital, that he might go in to his @@ -7118,12 +7104,12 @@ horse, besides presents and litters, tents and pavilions. The Minister set out with the Prince, plotting the while in his heart to do him a mischief; and when they came into the desert, he called to mind a certain spring of running water in the mountains -there, called Al-Zahrá,<a id='r181' /><a href='#f181' class='c011'><sup>[181]</sup></a> whereof whosoever drank from a man +there, called Al-Zahrá,<a id='r181' href='#f181' class='c011'><sup>[181]</sup></a> whereof whosoever drank from a man became a woman. So he called a halt of the troops near the fountain and presently mounting steed again, said to the Prince, “Hast thou a mind to go with me and look upon a spring of water near hand?” The Prince mounted, knowing not what -should befal him in the future,<a id='r182' /><a href='#f182' class='c011'><sup>[182]</sup></a> and they rode on, unattended by +should befal him in the future,<a id='r182' href='#f182' class='c011'><sup>[182]</sup></a> and they rode on, unattended by <span class='pageno' id='Page_146'>146</span>any, and without stopping till they came to the spring. The Prince being thirsty said to the Wazir, “O Minister, I am suffering from drouth,” and the other answered, “Get thee down and drink @@ -7138,7 +7124,7 @@ refuge in thine affliction! How came this calamity upon thee and this great misfortune to betide thee, and we carrying thee with joy and gladness, that thou mightest go in to the King’s daughter? Verily, now I know not whether we shall go to her or -not; but the rede<a id='r183' /><a href='#f183' class='c011'><sup>[183]</sup></a> is thine. What dost thou command me to +not; but the rede<a id='r183' href='#f183' class='c011'><sup>[183]</sup></a> is thine. What dost thou command me to do?” Quoth the Prince, “Go back to my sire and tell him what hath betided me, for I will not stir hence till this matter be removed from me or I die in my regret.” So he wrote a letter to @@ -7159,7 +7145,7 @@ Meanwhile, the Prince abode by the stream three days and three nights, eating not nor drinking and committing himself, in his strait, unto Allah (extolled and exalted be He!) who disappointeth not whoso relieth on him. On the fourth -night, lo! there came to him a cavalier on a bright-bay steed<a id='r184' /><a href='#f184' class='c011'><sup>[184]</sup></a> +night, lo! there came to him a cavalier on a bright-bay steed<a id='r184' href='#f184' class='c011'><sup>[184]</sup></a> <span class='pageno' id='Page_147'>147</span>with a crown on his head, as he were of the sons of the Kings, and said to him, “Who brought thee hither, O youth?” The Prince told him his mishap, how he was wending to his wedding, @@ -7241,7 +7227,7 @@ next day in eating and drinking till nightfall, when the King’s son of the Jinn asked the Prince, “Hast thou a mind to return to thy people this very night?” “Yes,” he answered; “for indeed I long for them.” Then the Jinni called one of his father’s slaves, -Rájiz<a id='r185' /><a href='#f185' class='c011'><sup>[185]</sup></a> hight, and said to him, “Take this young man mounted on +Rájiz<a id='r185' href='#f185' class='c011'><sup>[185]</sup></a> hight, and said to him, “Take this young man mounted on thy shoulders, and let not the day dawn ere he be with his father-in-law and his wife.” Replied the slave. “Hearkening and obedience, and with love and gladness, and upon my head and eyes!” @@ -7305,15 +7291,15 @@ there befalleth him what befel the Hammam-keeper with his wife.” “And what betided him?” asked the King. And the Wazir answered:—I have heard tell, O King, a tale of the</p> -<h3 id='c150' class='c013'><em>WAZIR’S SON AND THE HAMMAM-KEEPER’S WIFE</em>.<a id='r186' /><a href='#f186' class='c011'><sup>[186]</sup></a></h3> +<h3 id='c150' class='c013'><em>WAZIR’S SON AND THE HAMMAM-KEEPER’S WIFE</em>.<a id='r186' href='#f186' class='c011'><sup>[186]</sup></a></h3> <p class='c014'>There was once a bath-keeper, to whom resorted the notables of the folk and head men, and one day there came in to him a handsome youth of the sons of Wazirs who was fat and bulky of body. So he stood to serve him and when the young man put off his -clothes,<a id='r187' /><a href='#f187' class='c011'><sup>[187]</sup></a> he saw not his yard, for that it was hidden between his +clothes,<a id='r187' href='#f187' class='c011'><sup>[187]</sup></a> he saw not his yard, for that it was hidden between his thighs, by reason of the excess of his fat, and there appeared -thereof but what was like unto a filbert.<a id='r188' /><a href='#f188' class='c011'><sup>[188]</sup></a> At this the bath-keeper +thereof but what was like unto a filbert.<a id='r188' href='#f188' class='c011'><sup>[188]</sup></a> At this the bath-keeper fell a-lamenting and smiting hand upon hand, which when the youth saw, he said to him, “What ails thee, O bath-keeper, to lament thus?” And he answered, saying, “O my lord, my lamentation @@ -7389,7 +7375,7 @@ way. When the morning morrowed she appeared before the woman and, renewing an old acquaintance with her, fell to visiting her daily, eating the undertime with her and the evening meal and carrying away food for her children. Moreover, she -used to sport and jest with her, till the wife became corrupted<a id='r189' /><a href='#f189' class='c011'><sup>[189]</sup></a> +used to sport and jest with her, till the wife became corrupted<a id='r189' href='#f189' class='c011'><sup>[189]</sup></a> and could not endure an hour without her company. Now she was wont, when she left the lady’s house, to take bread and fat wherewith she mixed a little pepper and to feed a bitch, that was @@ -7542,7 +7528,7 @@ drink up this poison-cup and die, and the sin of my blood shall be on thy head at the Day of Doom. These thy Ministers accuse <span class='pageno' id='Page_156'>156</span>me of malice and perfidy, but there be none in the world more perfidious than men. Hast thou not heard the story of the -Goldsmith and the Cashmere<a id='r190' /><a href='#f190' class='c011'><sup>[190]</sup></a> singing-girl?” “What befel the +Goldsmith and the Cashmere<a id='r190' href='#f190' class='c011'><sup>[190]</sup></a> singing-girl?” “What befel the twain, O damsel?” asked the King; and she answered, saying:—There hath come to my knowledge, O august King, a tale of</p> @@ -7613,7 +7599,7 @@ back parts, a palpable outer wound, whereupon she awoke in terror; but, when she saw him, she was afraid to cry out, thinking he came to steal her goods. So she said to him, “Take the box and what is therein, but slay me not, for I am in thy protection -<span class='pageno' id='Page_158'>158</span>and under thy safeguard<a id='r191' /><a href='#f191' class='c011'><sup>[191]</sup></a> and my death will profit thee nothing.” +<span class='pageno' id='Page_158'>158</span>and under thy safeguard<a id='r191' href='#f191' class='c011'><sup>[191]</sup></a> and my death will profit thee nothing.” Accordingly, he took the box and went away.——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> @@ -7644,7 +7630,7 @@ and finding the gate locked and barred, threw me down to sleep without the walls; but, as I lay betwixt sleep and wake, behold, I saw four women come up; one riding on a broom-stick, another on a wine-jar, a third on an oven-peel and a fourth on a black -bitch,<a id='r192' /><a href='#f192' class='c011'><sup>[192]</sup></a> and I knew that they were witches making for thy city. +bitch,<a id='r192' href='#f192' class='c011'><sup>[192]</sup></a> and I knew that they were witches making for thy city. One of them came up to me and kicked me with her foot and beat me with a fox’s tail she had in her hand, hurting me grievously, whereat I was wroth and smote her with a knife I had @@ -7652,7 +7638,7 @@ with me, wounding her in the back parts, as she turned to flee from me. When she felt the wound, she fled before me and in her flight let drop this casket, which I picked up and opening, found these costly jewels therein. So do thou take it, for I have -no need thereof, being a wanderer in the mountains,<a id='r193' /><a href='#f193' class='c011'><sup>[193]</sup></a> who hath +no need thereof, being a wanderer in the mountains,<a id='r193' href='#f193' class='c011'><sup>[193]</sup></a> who hath rejected the world from my heart and renounced it and all that is in it, seeking only the face of Allah the Most High.” Then he set the casket before the King and fared forth. The King opened @@ -7771,7 +7757,7 @@ chest what is fitting for our entertainment and thine own; and be thou faithful and remember that wherewith I charged thee.” “I hear and I obey,” answered he and served them days and nights, till one of them died, whereupon his fellows washed him and -shrouded him and buried him in a garden behind the house,<a id='r194' /><a href='#f194' class='c011'><sup>[194]</sup></a> nor +shrouded him and buried him in a garden behind the house,<a id='r194' href='#f194' class='c011'><sup>[194]</sup></a> nor did death cease to take them, one after other, till there remained but the Shaykh who had hired the youth for service. Then the two men, old and young, dwelt together in that house alone for @@ -7792,7 +7778,7 @@ so importune me not of what I may not do: for I have vowed to Almighty Allah that I would acquaint none of His creatures with this, lest he be afflicted with what befel me and my comrades. If, then, thou desire to be delivered from that into which we fell, look -thou open not yonder door”<a id='r195' /><a href='#f195' class='c011'><sup>[195]</sup></a> and pointed to a certain part of the +thou open not yonder door”<a id='r195' href='#f195' class='c011'><sup>[195]</sup></a> and pointed to a certain part of the house; “but, if thou have a mind to suffer what we have suffered, then open it and thou shalt learn the cause of that thou hast seen us do; and whenas thou knowest it, thou shalt repent what time @@ -7834,7 +7820,7 @@ fated and fore-ordained of Allah the Most High; nor doth aught <span class='pageno' id='Page_163'>163</span>befal but by His will.” So saying, he rose and broke the padlocks and opening the door saw a narrow passage, which he followed for some three hours when lo! he came out on the shore of a vast -ocean<a id='r196' /><a href='#f196' class='c011'><sup>[196]</sup></a> and fared on along the beach, marvelling at this main, +ocean<a id='r196' href='#f196' class='c011'><sup>[196]</sup></a> and fared on along the beach, marvelling at this main, whereof he had no knowledge and turning right and left. Presently, a great eagle swooped down upon him from the lift and seizing him in its talons, flew away with him betwixt heaven and earth, @@ -7863,7 +7849,7 @@ me. Presently, we drew near to land, and I saw the shore full of troops none knoweth their number save Allah (extolled and exalted be He!) and all were magnificently arrayed and clad in complete steel. As soon as the vessel had made fast to the land, -they brought me five marked<a id='r197' /><a href='#f197' class='c011'><sup>[197]</sup></a> horses of noble breeds, housed and +they brought me five marked<a id='r197' href='#f197' class='c011'><sup>[197]</sup></a> horses of noble breeds, housed and <span class='pageno' id='Page_164'>164</span>saddled with gold, inlaid with all manner pearls and high-priced bezel stones. I chose out one of them and mounted it, whilst they led the four others before me. Then they raised the banners and @@ -7876,7 +7862,7 @@ till we drew near to the green mead, full of palaces and gardens and trees and streams and blooms and birds chanting the praises of Allah the One, the Victorious. Hereupon, behold, an army sallied out from amid the palaces and gardens, as it were the -torrent when it poureth down,<a id='r198' /><a href='#f198' class='c011'><sup>[198]</sup></a> and the host overflowed the mead. +torrent when it poureth down,<a id='r198' href='#f198' class='c011'><sup>[198]</sup></a> and the host overflowed the mead. These troops halted at a little distance from me and presently there rode forth from amongst them a King, preceded by some of his chief officers on foot. When he came up to the young man @@ -7905,7 +7891,7 @@ room followed by his suite, and making him sit down on a throne of gold, seated himself beside him. Then he unbound the swathe from his lower face; and behold, the King was a young lady, like the splendid sun shining in the sheeny sky, perfect in beauty and -loveliness, brilliancy and grace, arrogance<a id='r199' /><a href='#f199' class='c011'><sup>[199]</sup></a> and all perfection. The +loveliness, brilliancy and grace, arrogance<a id='r199' href='#f199' class='c011'><sup>[199]</sup></a> and all perfection. The youth looked upon this singular blessing and embodied boon and <span class='pageno' id='Page_165'>165</span>was lost in wonder at her charms and comeliness and seemlihead and at the splendour and affluence he saw about him, when she said @@ -7958,7 +7944,7 @@ first carried him off and flew away. When he came to his senses, he remembered his late estate, great, grand and glorious, and the troops which rode before him and his lordly rule and all the honour and fair fortune he had lost and fell to weeping and -wailing.<a id='r200' /><a href='#f200' class='c011'><sup>[200]</sup></a> He abode two months on the sea-shore, where the +wailing.<a id='r200' href='#f200' class='c011'><sup>[200]</sup></a> He abode two months on the sea-shore, where the bird had set him down, hoping yet to return to his wife, till, as he sat one night wakeful, mourning and musing, behold, he heard one speaking, albeit he saw no one, and saying, “How great were @@ -8016,19 +8002,19 @@ town, but built her a pavilion without the city, apart from all other buildings. And he raised its height and strengthened its doors and provided them with curious locks; and when he had occasion to go into the city, he locked the doors and hung the keys about his -neck.<a id='r201' /><a href='#f201' class='c011'><sup>[201]</sup></a> One day, when the merchant was abroad, the King’s son +neck.<a id='r201' href='#f201' class='c011'><sup>[201]</sup></a> One day, when the merchant was abroad, the King’s son of that city came forth, to take his pleasure and solace in the open country without the walls, and seeing the solitary pavilion, stood still to examine it for a long while. At last he caught sight of a -charming lady looking and leaning out of one of the windows,<a id='r202' /><a href='#f202' class='c011'><sup>[202]</sup></a> and +charming lady looking and leaning out of one of the windows,<a id='r202' href='#f202' class='c011'><sup>[202]</sup></a> and being smitten with amazement at her grace and charms, cast about for a means of getting to her, but could find none. So he called up -one of his pages, who brought him ink-case<a id='r203' /><a href='#f203' class='c011'><sup>[203]</sup></a> and paper and wrote +one of his pages, who brought him ink-case<a id='r203' href='#f203' class='c011'><sup>[203]</sup></a> and paper and wrote her a letter, setting forth his condition for love of her. Then he set <span class='pageno' id='Page_168'>168</span>it on the pile-point of an arrow and shot it at the pavilion, and it fell in the garden, where the lady was then walking with her maidens. She said to one of the girls, “Hasten and bring me yon -letter,” for she could read writing;<a id='r204' /><a href='#f204' class='c011'><sup>[204]</sup></a> and, when she had read it and +letter,” for she could read writing;<a id='r204' href='#f204' class='c011'><sup>[204]</sup></a> and, when she had read it and understood what he said in it of his love and passion, yearning and longing, she wrote him a merciful reply, to the effect that she was smitten with a yet fiercer desire for him; and then threw the letter @@ -8036,11 +8022,11 @@ down to him from one of the windows of the pavilion. When he saw her, he picked up the reply and after reading it, came under the window and said to her, “Let me down a thread, that I may send thee this key; which do thou take and keep by thee.” So -she let down a thread and he tied the key to it.<a id='r205' /><a href='#f205' class='c011'><sup>[205]</sup></a> Then he went +she let down a thread and he tied the key to it.<a id='r205' href='#f205' class='c011'><sup>[205]</sup></a> Then he went away and repairing to one of his father’s Wazirs, complained to him of his passion for the lady and that he could not live without her; and the Minister said, “And how dost thou bid me contrive?” -Quoth the Prince, “I would have thee set me in a chest<a id='r206' /><a href='#f206' class='c011'><sup>[206]</sup></a> and commit +Quoth the Prince, “I would have thee set me in a chest<a id='r206' href='#f206' class='c011'><sup>[206]</sup></a> and commit it to the merchant, feigning to him that it is thine and desiring him to keep it for thee in his country-house some days, that I may have my will of her; then do thou demand it back from him.” @@ -8093,7 +8079,7 @@ with him. As soon as they were gone, the merchant put away his wife and swore that he would never marry again. And, continued the damsel, I have heard tell, also, O King, a tale of</p> -<h3 id='c169' class='c013'><em>THE PAGE WHO FEIGNED TO KNOW THE SPEECH OF BIRDS</em>.<a id='r207' /><a href='#f207' class='c011'><sup>[207]</sup></a></h3> +<h3 id='c169' class='c013'><em>THE PAGE WHO FEIGNED TO KNOW THE SPEECH OF BIRDS</em>.<a id='r207' href='#f207' class='c011'><sup>[207]</sup></a></h3> <p class='c014'>A certain man of rank once entered the slave-market and saw a page being cried for sale; so he bought him and carrying him @@ -8109,7 +8095,7 @@ third, in the way his mistress must pass. When morning morrowed the husband bade him accompany the lady to that garden carrying with him all the provisions required for the day; so she took horse and riding thither with him, dismounted and entered. -Presently, as they were walking about, a crow croaked,<a id='r208' /><a href='#f208' class='c011'><sup>[208]</sup></a> and the +Presently, as they were walking about, a crow croaked,<a id='r208' href='#f208' class='c011'><sup>[208]</sup></a> and the page said, “Thou sayst sooth;” whereupon his mistress asked him, “Dost thou know what the crow said?” and he answered, “Yes, O my lady, he said, Under yonder tree is meat; go and eat @@ -8145,7 +8131,7 @@ him to come and do her need, when, lo! her husband, who had followed them unawares and saw this, called out to the page, saying, “Harkye, boy! What ails thy mistress to lie there, weeping?” Answered the page, “O my lord, she fell off the tree and -was killed;<a id='r209' /><a href='#f209' class='c011'><sup>[209]</sup></a> and none but Allah (be He extolled and exalted!) +was killed;<a id='r209' href='#f209' class='c011'><sup>[209]</sup></a> and none but Allah (be He extolled and exalted!) restored her to thee. Wherefore she lay down awhile to recover herself by rest.” When the lady saw her husband standing by her head, she rose and made a show of weakness and pain, saying, @@ -8181,13 +8167,13 @@ for falsehood is as smoke and fact is built on base which shall not be broken; yea, and the light of sooth dispelleth the night of <span class='pageno' id='Page_172'>172</span>untruth. Know that the perfidy of women is great, even as saith Allah the Most High in His Holy Book, “Verily, the malice of -you is great.”<a id='r210' /><a href='#f210' class='c011'><sup>[210]</sup></a> And indeed a tale hath reached me that a certain +you is great.”<a id='r210' href='#f210' class='c011'><sup>[210]</sup></a> And indeed a tale hath reached me that a certain woman befooled the Chiefs of the State on such wise as never did any before her.” Asked the King, “And how was that?” And the Wazir answered:—I have heard tell a tale, O King, as follows concerning</p> -<h3 id='c172' class='c013'><em>THE LADY AND HER FIVE SUITORS</em>.<a id='r211' /><a href='#f211' class='c011'><sup>[211]</sup></a></h3> +<h3 id='c172' class='c013'><em>THE LADY AND HER FIVE SUITORS</em>.<a id='r211' href='#f211' class='c011'><sup>[211]</sup></a></h3> <p class='c014'>A woman of the daughters of the merchants was married to a man who was a great traveller. It chanced once that he set out for a @@ -8311,7 +8297,7 @@ the ground before him; then, taking him by the hand, made him sit down by her on the couch and lay with him and fell to jesting and toying with him. By and by, he would have her do his desire, but she said, “O my lord, doff thy clothes and turband and -assume this yellow cassock and this head-kerchief,<a id='r212' /><a href='#f212' class='c011'><sup>[212]</sup></a> whilst I bring +assume this yellow cassock and this head-kerchief,<a id='r212' href='#f212' class='c011'><sup>[212]</sup></a> whilst I bring thee meat and drink; and after thou shalt win thy will.” So saying, she took his clothes and turband and clad him in the cassock and the kerchief; but hardly had she done this, when lo! @@ -8427,7 +8413,7 @@ days, during which time they held their water until at last the carpenter could retain his no longer; so he staled on the King’s head, and the King urined on the Wazir’s head, and the Wazir piddled on the Wali and the Wali pissed on the head of the Kazi; -whereupon the Judge cried out and said, “What nastiness<a id='r213' /><a href='#f213' class='c011'><sup>[213]</sup></a> is this? +whereupon the Judge cried out and said, “What nastiness<a id='r213' href='#f213' class='c011'><sup>[213]</sup></a> is this? Doth not what strait we are in suffice us, but you must make water upon us?” The Chief of Police recognised the Kazi’s voice and answered, saying aloud, “Allah increase thy reward, O Kazi!” @@ -8438,7 +8424,7 @@ reward, O Wali!” whereupon he knew him to be the Minister. Then the Wazir lifted up his voice and said, “What means this nastiness?” But when the King heard and recognised his Minister’s voice, he held his peace and concealed his affair. -Then said the Wazir, “May God damn<a id='r214' /><a href='#f214' class='c011'><sup>[214]</sup></a> this woman for her +Then said the Wazir, “May God damn<a id='r214' href='#f214' class='c011'><sup>[214]</sup></a> this woman for her dealing with us! She hath brought hither all the Chief Officers of the state, except the King.” Quoth the King, “Hold your peace, for I was the first to fall into the toils of this lewd strumpet.” @@ -8493,11 +8479,11 @@ played off upon the folk! And I have heard tell also a tale of</p> <div> <span class='pageno' id='Page_180'>180</span> - <h3 id='c180' class='c013'><em>THE THREE WISHES,<a id='r215' /><a href='#f215' class='c011'><sup>[215]</sup></a> OR THE MAN WHO LONGED TO SEE THE NIGHT OF POWER</em>.</h3> + <h3 id='c180' class='c013'><em>THE THREE WISHES,<a id='r215' href='#f215' class='c011'><sup>[215]</sup></a> OR THE MAN WHO LONGED TO SEE THE NIGHT OF POWER</em>.</h3> </div> <p class='c014'>A certain man had longed all his life to look upon the Night of -Power,<a id='r216' /><a href='#f216' class='c011'><sup>[216]</sup></a> and one night it befel that he gazed at the sky and saw +Power,<a id='r216' href='#f216' class='c011'><sup>[216]</sup></a> and one night it befel that he gazed at the sky and saw the angels, and Heaven’s gates thrown open; and he beheld all things prostrating themselves before their Lord, each in its several stead. So he said to his wife, “Harkye, such an one, verily Allah @@ -8556,7 +8542,7 @@ and quoth she:—I have heard tell, O King, this tale concerning</p> <p class='c014'>There was once a devotee, a recluse, a woman who had devoted herself to religion. Now she used to resort to a certain King’s -palace,<a id='r217' /><a href='#f217' class='c011'><sup>[217]</sup></a> whose dwellers were blessed by her presence and she was +palace,<a id='r217' href='#f217' class='c011'><sup>[217]</sup></a> whose dwellers were blessed by her presence and she was held of them in high honour. One day she entered that palace according to her custom and sat down beside the King’s wife. Presently the Queen gave her a necklace, worth a thousand @@ -8565,7 +8551,7 @@ Hammam.” So she entered the bath, which was in the palace, and the pious woman remaining in the place where the Queen was and awaiting her return laid the necklace on the prayer-carpet and stood up to pray. As she was thus engaged, there -came a magpie<a id='r218' /><a href='#f218' class='c011'><sup>[218]</sup></a> which snatched up the necklace, while she went +came a magpie<a id='r218' href='#f218' class='c011'><sup>[218]</sup></a> which snatched up the necklace, while she went out to obey a call of nature and carrying it off, hid it inside a crevice in a corner of the palace-walls. When the Queen came out of the bath, she sought the necklace of the recluse, who also @@ -8613,7 +8599,7 @@ God until she died, and Almighty Allah have mercy upon her! And for an instance of the malice of the male sex (continued the damsel), I have heard, O King, tell this tale of</p> -<h3 id='c183' class='c013'><em>THE TWO PIGEONS</em>.<a id='r219' /><a href='#f219' class='c011'><sup>[219]</sup></a></h3> +<h3 id='c183' class='c013'><em>THE TWO PIGEONS</em>.<a id='r219' href='#f219' class='c011'><sup>[219]</sup></a></h3> <p class='c014'>A pair of pigeons once stored up wheat and barley in their nest during the winter, and when the summer came, the grain shrivelled @@ -8765,7 +8751,7 @@ he answered, “With love and gladness,” and gave her jewels and ornaments of the finest and costliest. Then he rose to kiss her, and she off her guard and fearing nothing but, when he came up to her, he suddenly laid hold of her with a strong hand and -instantly throwing her down, on the ground abated her maidenhead.<a id='r220' /><a href='#f220' class='c011'><sup>[220]</sup></a> +instantly throwing her down, on the ground abated her maidenhead.<a id='r220' href='#f220' class='c011'><sup>[220]</sup></a> Then he pulled the beard from his face and said to her, “Dost thou not know me?” Asked she, “Who art thou?” and he answered, “I am Behram, the King’s son of Persia, who have @@ -8816,7 +8802,7 @@ with its warning instances.” Asked the King, “And what fell out between them, O Wazir?” and the seventh Wazir answered:—I have heard tell, O King, the tale of</p> -<h3 id='c188' class='c013'><em>THE HOUSE WITH THE BELVEDERE</em>.<a id='r221' /><a href='#f221' class='c011'><sup>[221]</sup></a></h3> +<h3 id='c188' class='c013'><em>THE HOUSE WITH THE BELVEDERE</em>.<a id='r221' href='#f221' class='c011'><sup>[221]</sup></a></h3> <p class='c014'>A wealthy merchant had a son who was very dear to him and who said to him one day, “O my father, I have a boon to beg of @@ -8825,7 +8811,7 @@ give it thee and bring thee to thy desire, though it were the light of mine eyes.” Quoth the youth, “Give me money, that I may <span class='pageno' id='Page_189'>189</span>journey with the merchants to the city of Baghdad and see its sights and sail on the Tigris and look upon the palace of the -Caliphs<a id='r222' /><a href='#f222' class='c011'><sup>[222]</sup></a>; for the sons of the merchants have described these +Caliphs<a id='r222' href='#f222' class='c011'><sup>[222]</sup></a>; for the sons of the merchants have described these things to me and I long to see them for myself.” Said the father, “O my child, O my little son, how can I endure to part from thee?” But the youth replied, “I have said my say and @@ -8858,11 +8844,11 @@ and spacious and elegant that on seeing it he well-nigh lost his wits for admiration; for therein were pavilions facing one another, with floors of coloured marbles and ceilings inlaid with gold and lapis lazuli, and its gardens were full of warbling birds. So he -asked the door-keeper<a id='r223' /><a href='#f223' class='c011'><sup>[223]</sup></a> what was its monthly rent, and he replied, +asked the door-keeper<a id='r223' href='#f223' class='c011'><sup>[223]</sup></a> what was its monthly rent, and he replied, “Ten dinars.” Quoth the young man, “Speakest thou soothly or dost thou but jest with me?”. Quoth the porter, “By Allah, I <span class='pageno' id='Page_190'>190</span>speak naught but the truth, for none who taketh up his abode in -this house lodgeth in it more than a week<a id='r224' /><a href='#f224' class='c011'><sup>[224]</sup></a> or two.” “And how +this house lodgeth in it more than a week<a id='r224' href='#f224' class='c011'><sup>[224]</sup></a> or two.” “And how is that?” quoth the youth; and quoth the porter, “O my son, whoso dwelleth in this house cometh not forth of it, except sick or dead, wherefore it is known amongst all the folk of Baghdad, @@ -8879,7 +8865,7 @@ One day as he sat upon the bench before his door, there came up a grizzled crone, as she were a snake speckled white and black, calling aloud on the name of Allah, magnifying Him inordinately and, at the same time, putting away the stones -and other obstacles from the path.<a id='r225' /><a href='#f225' class='c011'><sup>[225]</sup></a> Seeing the youth sitting +and other obstacles from the path.<a id='r225' href='#f225' class='c011'><sup>[225]</sup></a> Seeing the youth sitting there, she looked at him and marvelled at his case; whereupon quoth he to her, “O woman, dost thou know me or am I like any thou knowest?” When she heard him speak, @@ -8897,12 +8883,12 @@ way and he fell a-pondering her words and said to himself, “I have not gone up to the top of the house; nor did I know that there was a belvedere there.” Then he arose forthright and going in, searched the by-ways of the house till he espied, in a wall-corner -among the trees, a narrow door between whose posts<a id='r226' /><a href='#f226' class='c011'><sup>[226]</sup></a> the +among the trees, a narrow door between whose posts<a id='r226' href='#f226' class='c011'><sup>[226]</sup></a> the spider had woven her webs, and said in himself, “Haply the spider hath not webbed over the door, but because death and doom is within.” However, he heartened himself with the saying of God the Most High, “Say, nothing shall befal us but what -Allah hath written for us;”<a id='r227' /><a href='#f227' class='c011'><sup>[227]</sup></a> and opening the door, ascended a +Allah hath written for us;”<a id='r227' href='#f227' class='c011'><sup>[227]</sup></a> and opening the door, ascended a narrow flight of stairs, till he came to the terrace-roof, where he found a belvedere, in which he sat down to rest and solace himself with the view. Presently, he caught sight of a fine house and a @@ -8939,12 +8925,12 @@ whereby hangs the winning of thy wish.” Quoth he, “What wouldst thou have me do, O my mother?” Quoth she, “Go to the silk-market and enquire for the shop of Abú al-Fath bin Kaydám. Sit thee down on his counter and salute him and say -to him, “Give me the face-veil<a id='r228' /><a href='#f228' class='c011'><sup>[228]</sup></a> thou hast by thee orfrayed with +to him, “Give me the face-veil<a id='r228' href='#f228' class='c011'><sup>[228]</sup></a> thou hast by thee orfrayed with gold:” for he hath none handsomer in his shop. Then buy it of him, O my son, at his own price however high and keep it till I come to thee to-morrow, Allah Almighty willing.” So saying, she went away and he passed the night upon live coals of the -Ghazá<a id='r229' /><a href='#f229' class='c011'><sup>[229]</sup></a>-wood. Next morning he took a thousand ducats in his +Ghazá<a id='r229' href='#f229' class='c011'><sup>[229]</sup></a>-wood. Next morning he took a thousand ducats in his pocket and repairing to the silk-market, sought out the shop of Abu al-Fath to whom he was directed by one of the merchants. He found him a man of dignified aspect, surrounded by pages, @@ -8989,7 +8975,7 @@ house.” Replied the old woman, “O my daughter, I know thy mother is not with thee, for I have been with her in her home, and I come not to thee, but because I fear to pass the hour of prayer; wherefore I desire to make my Wuzu-ablution with thee, for I -know thou art clean and thy house pure.”<a id='r230' /><a href='#f230' class='c011'><sup>[230]</sup></a> The damsel admitted +know thou art clean and thy house pure.”<a id='r230' href='#f230' class='c011'><sup>[230]</sup></a> The damsel admitted the old trot who saluted her and called down blessings upon her. Then she took the ewer and went into the wash-house, where she made her ablutions and prayed in a place there. Presently, she @@ -9016,7 +9002,7 @@ to himself, “If I open up this chapter, I shall be put to shame before all Baghdad;” for he was one of the intimates of the Caliph and so he could do nothing save hold his peace. So he asked no questions, but said to his wife, whose name was Mahzíyah, “It -hath reached me that thy mother lieth ill of heart-ache<a id='r231' /><a href='#f231' class='c011'><sup>[231]</sup></a> and all +hath reached me that thy mother lieth ill of heart-ache<a id='r231' href='#f231' class='c011'><sup>[231]</sup></a> and all the women are with her, weeping over her; wherefore I order thee to go to her.” Accordingly, she repaired to her mother’s house and found her in the best of health; and she asked her daughter, @@ -9036,7 +9022,7 @@ mother fell a-weeping and lamented her daughter’s separation from the like of this man, by reason of his sufficiency and fortune and the greatness of his rank and dignity. On this wise things abode some days, after which the curst, ill-omened old woman, -whose name was Miryam the Koranist,<a id='r232' /><a href='#f232' class='c011'><sup>[232]</sup></a> paid a visit to Mahziyah +whose name was Miryam the Koranist,<a id='r232' href='#f232' class='c011'><sup>[232]</sup></a> paid a visit to Mahziyah <span class='pageno' id='Page_195'>195</span>in her mother’s house and saluted her cordially, saying, “What ails thee, O my daughter, O my darling? Indeed, thou hast troubled my mind.” Then she went in to her mother and said to her, “O @@ -9107,12 +9093,12 @@ lute and sang these couplets:-</p> <p class='c000'>And when the youth saw that she to his beauty did incline he waxt drunken without wine and his life was a light matter to him -compared with his love.<a id='r233' /><a href='#f233' class='c011'><sup>[233]</sup></a> Presently the old woman went out and +compared with his love.<a id='r233' href='#f233' class='c011'><sup>[233]</sup></a> Presently the old woman went out and left them alone together to enjoy their loves till the next morning, -when she went into them and gave them both good morrow<a id='r234' /><a href='#f234' class='c011'><sup>[234]</sup></a> and +when she went into them and gave them both good morrow<a id='r234' href='#f234' class='c011'><sup>[234]</sup></a> and asked the damsel, “How hast thou passed the night, O my lady?” Answered the girl, “Right well, thanks to thy adroitness and the -excellence of thy going-between<a id='r235' /><a href='#f235' class='c011'><sup>[235]</sup></a>.” Then said the old woman, +excellence of thy going-between<a id='r235' href='#f235' class='c011'><sup>[235]</sup></a>.” Then said the old woman, “Up, let us go back to thy mother.” At these words the young man pulled out an hundred sequins and gave them to her, saying, “Take this and leave her with me to-night.” So she left them @@ -9158,7 +9144,7 @@ and threaten me, demanding of me the veil. And do thou say to the merchant:—Thou knowest, O my lord, the face-veil I bought of thee for fifty dinars? It so chanced that my handmaid put it <span class='pageno' id='Page_198'>198</span>on and burnt a corner of it by accident; so she gave it to this old -woman, who took it, promising to get it fine-drawn<a id='r236' /><a href='#f236' class='c011'><sup>[236]</sup></a> and return it, +woman, who took it, promising to get it fine-drawn<a id='r236' href='#f236' class='c011'><sup>[236]</sup></a> and return it, and went away, nor have I seen her from that day to this.” “With joy and good will,” replied the young man, and rising forthright, walked to the shop of the silk merchant, with whom he sat awhile @@ -9201,11 +9187,11 @@ his feet and said, “Allah Almighty! I crave pardon of the Omnipotent One for my sins and for what my heart suspected!” And he praised the Lord who had discovered to him the truth. Then he accosted the old woman and said to her, “Dost thou use to visit -<span class='pageno' id='Page_199'>199</span>us?”<a id='r237' /><a href='#f237' class='c011'><sup>[237]</sup></a> Replied she, “O my son, I visit you and other than you, +<span class='pageno' id='Page_199'>199</span>us?”<a id='r237' href='#f237' class='c011'><sup>[237]</sup></a> Replied she, “O my son, I visit you and other than you, for the sake of alms; but from that day to this, none hath given me news of the veil.” Asked the merchant, “Hast thou enquired at my house?” and she answered, “O my lord, I did indeed go to -thy house and ask; but they told me that the person of the house<a id='r238' /><a href='#f238' class='c011'><sup>[238]</sup></a> +thy house and ask; but they told me that the person of the house<a id='r238' href='#f238' class='c011'><sup>[238]</sup></a> had been divorced by the merchant; so I went away and asked no farther; nor have I enquired of anybody else until this day.” Hereupon the merchant turned to the young man and said. “Let @@ -9219,7 +9205,7 @@ This then, O King, is an instance of the malice of women and for another to the same purport, I have heard tell the following tale anent</p> -<h3 id='c199' class='c013'><em>THE KING’S SON AND THE IFRIT’S MISTRESS</em>.<a id='r239' /><a href='#f239' class='c011'><sup>[239]</sup></a></h3> +<h3 id='c199' class='c013'><em>THE KING’S SON AND THE IFRIT’S MISTRESS</em>.<a id='r239' href='#f239' class='c011'><sup>[239]</sup></a></h3> <p class='c014'>A certain King’s son was once walking alone for his pleasure, when he came to a green meadow, abounding in trees laden with @@ -9260,7 +9246,7 @@ thyself, for the Ifrit will not awake yet awhile.” Hardly crediting what he had heard, the Prince returned to his father’s palace, but the King knew naught of the damsel’s malice (for she feared not this and took no count thereof), and seeing that his son had lost -his ring, he bade put him to death.<a id='r240' /><a href='#f240' class='c011'><sup>[240]</sup></a> Then he rose from his place +his ring, he bade put him to death.<a id='r240' href='#f240' class='c011'><sup>[240]</sup></a> Then he rose from his place and entered his palace; but his Wazirs came in to him and prevailed with him to abandon his purpose. The same night, the King sent for all of them and thanked them for having dissuaded @@ -9308,13 +9294,13 @@ permitted say.</p> Al-Sindibad said, “Answer thou, O my son,” the Prince replied, “I have heard tell that a merchant at whose house certain guests once alighted sent his slave-girl to the market to buy a -jar of clotted milk.<a id='r241' /><a href='#f241' class='c011'><sup>[241]</sup></a> So she bought it and set out on her return +jar of clotted milk.<a id='r241' href='#f241' class='c011'><sup>[241]</sup></a> So she bought it and set out on her return home; but on the way there passed over her a kite, holding and squeezing a serpent in its claws, and a drop of the serpent’s venom fell into the milk-jar, unknown of the girl. So, when she <span class='pageno' id='Page_202'>202</span>came back, the merchant took the milk from her and drank of it, he and his guests; but hardly had it settled in their stomachs -when they all died.<a id='r242' /><a href='#f242' class='c011'><sup>[242]</sup></a> Now consider, O King, whose was the fault +when they all died.<a id='r242' href='#f242' class='c011'><sup>[242]</sup></a> Now consider, O King, whose was the fault in this matter?” Thereupon some present said, “It was the fault of the company who drank the milk without examining it.” And other some, “That of the girl, who left the jar without cover.” @@ -9322,7 +9308,7 @@ But Al-Sindibad asked the Prince, “What sayest thou, O my son?” Answered he, “I say that the folk err; it was neither the fault of the damsel nor of the company, for their appointed hour was come, their divinely-decreed provision was exhausted and -Allah had fore-ordained them to die thus.”<a id='r243' /><a href='#f243' class='c011'><sup>[243]</sup></a> When the courtiers +Allah had fore-ordained them to die thus.”<a id='r243' href='#f243' class='c011'><sup>[243]</sup></a> When the courtiers heard this, they marvelled greatly and lifted up their voices, blessing the King’s son, and saying, “O our lord, thou hast made a reply <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">sans peur</span></i>, and thou art the sagest man of thine age <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">sans @@ -9333,7 +9319,7 @@ stories of these three who were wiser than thou art, O youth.” Answered he:—With all my heart. I have heard tell this tale concerning</p> -<h3 id='c202' class='c013'><em>THE SANDAL-WOOD MERCHANT AND THE SHARPERS</em>.<a id='r244' /><a href='#f244' class='c011'><sup>[244]</sup></a></h3> +<h3 id='c202' class='c013'><em>THE SANDAL-WOOD MERCHANT AND THE SHARPERS</em>.<a id='r244' href='#f244' class='c011'><sup>[244]</sup></a></h3> <p class='c014'>There once lived an exceeding rich merchant, who was a great traveller and who visited all manner of places. One day, being @@ -9362,7 +9348,7 @@ and, when it was night, he saw a merchant make fire of chanders-wood under his cooking-pot. Now this was the man who had spoken with him and this proceeding was a trick of his. When the townsman saw the merchant looking at him, he asked, -“Wilt thou sell me thy sandal-wood for a measure<a id='r245' /><a href='#f245' class='c011'><sup>[245]</sup></a> of whatever +“Wilt thou sell me thy sandal-wood for a measure<a id='r245' href='#f245' class='c011'><sup>[245]</sup></a> of whatever thy soul shall desire?” “I sell it to thee,” answered the merchant; and the buyer transported all the wood to his own house and stored it up there; whilst the seller purposed to take an @@ -9370,7 +9356,7 @@ equal quantity of gold for it. Next morning the merchant, who was a blue-eyed man, went out to walk in the city but, as he went along, one of the townsfolk, who was blue-eyed and one-eyed to boot, caught hold of him, saying, “Thou art he who stole -my eye and I will never let thee go.”<a id='r246' /><a href='#f246' class='c011'><sup>[246]</sup></a> The merchant denied +my eye and I will never let thee go.”<a id='r246' href='#f246' class='c011'><sup>[246]</sup></a> The merchant denied this, saying, “I never stole it: the thing is impossible.” Whereupon the folk collected round them and besought the one-eyed man to grant him till the morrow, that he might give him the @@ -9382,7 +9368,7 @@ what shall content thee.” Then he went on, till he came to some people sitting at play of forfeits and sat down with them, to divert his cark and care. They invited him to play with them and he did so; but they practised on him and overcoming him, offered -him his choice,<a id='r247' /><a href='#f247' class='c011'><sup>[247]</sup></a> either to drink up the sea or disburse all the money +him his choice,<a id='r247' href='#f247' class='c011'><sup>[247]</sup></a> either to drink up the sea or disburse all the money he had. “Have patience with me till to-morrow,” said he, and they granted him the delay he sought; whereupon he went away, sore concerned for what had betided him and knowing not how @@ -9399,7 +9385,7 @@ it is this. Go to such and such a gate whereby lives a blind Shaykh, a cripple, who is knowing, wise as a wizard and experienced; and all resort to him and ask him what they require, when he counsels them what will be for their advantage; for he -is versed in craft<a id='r248' /><a href='#f248' class='c011'><sup>[248]</sup></a> and magic and trickery. Now he is a sharper +is versed in craft<a id='r248' href='#f248' class='c011'><sup>[248]</sup></a> and magic and trickery. Now he is a sharper and the sharpers resort to him by night; therefore, I repeat, go thou to his lodging and hide thyself from thine adversaries, so thou mayst hear what they say, unseen of them; for he telleth @@ -9433,13 +9419,13 @@ they ate; then each began to tell what had befallen him during his day, and amongst the rest came forward he of the chanders-wood and told the Shaykh how he had bought of one man sandal below its price, and had agreed to pay for it a Sá’a or measure of -whatever the seller should desire.<a id='r249' /><a href='#f249' class='c011'><sup>[249]</sup></a> Quoth the old man, “Thine +whatever the seller should desire.<a id='r249' href='#f249' class='c011'><sup>[249]</sup></a> Quoth the old man, “Thine opponent hath the better of thee.” Asked the other, “How can that be?”; and the Shaykh answered, “What if he say, I will take the measure full of gold or silver, wilt thou give it to him?” “Yes,” replied the other, “I will give it to him and still be the gainer.” And the Shaykh answered, “And if he say, I will take -the measure full of fleas,<a id='r250' /><a href='#f250' class='c011'><sup>[250]</sup></a> half male and half female, what wilt +the measure full of fleas,<a id='r250' href='#f250' class='c011'><sup>[250]</sup></a> half male and half female, what wilt thou do?” So the sharper knew that he was worsted. Then came forward the one-eyed man and said, “O Shaykh, I met to-day a blue-eyed man, a stranger to the town; so I picked a @@ -9464,7 +9450,7 @@ and give thee nothing.” “How so?” quoth the cobbler, and quoth the Shaykh, “He has but to say to thee, The Sultan’s enemies are put to the rout; his foes are waxed weak and his children and helpers are multiplied. Art thou content or no? -If thou say, I am content,<a id='r251' /><a href='#f251' class='c011'><sup>[251]</sup></a> he will take his sandal and go away; +If thou say, I am content,<a id='r251' href='#f251' class='c011'><sup>[251]</sup></a> he will take his sandal and go away; and if thou say, I am not content, he will take his sandal and beat thee therewith over the face and neck.” So the cobbler owned himself worsted. Then came forward the gamester and said, “O @@ -9486,7 +9472,7 @@ he confessed himself beaten and redeemed his forfeit by paying him what should content him. Quoth the merchant, “Our lord the Sultan hath overcome his foes and hath destroyed his enemies and his children are multiplied. Art thou content or no?” “I -am content,” replied the cobbler and, giving up the shoe<a id='r252' /><a href='#f252' class='c011'><sup>[252]</sup></a> without +am content,” replied the cobbler and, giving up the shoe<a id='r252' href='#f252' class='c011'><sup>[252]</sup></a> without wage, went away. Next came the one-eyed man and demanded the legal price of his eye. Said the merchant, “Pluck out thine eye, and I will pluck out mine: then we will weigh them, and @@ -9543,7 +9529,7 @@ to visit her and, as he entered her abode, she stood up and received him with all honour and worship, kissing his hands and entertaining him with the best entertainment of meat and drink. Now she had a little son, but three years old, whom she left and busied -herself in cooking rice.<a id='r253' /><a href='#f253' class='c011'><sup>[253]</sup></a> Presently the man said to her, “Come, let +herself in cooking rice.<a id='r253' href='#f253' class='c011'><sup>[253]</sup></a> Presently the man said to her, “Come, let us go and lie together;” but she replied, “My son is sitting looking at us.” Quoth the man, “He is a little child, understanding not neither knowing how to speak.” Quoth the woman, “Thou wouldst @@ -9621,7 +9607,7 @@ she met a five-year-old boy who, seeing her troubled, said to her, “What ails thee, O my mother?” But she gave him no answer, contemning him because of his tender age, and he repeated his question a second time and a third time till, at -last, she told him all that had passed,<a id='r254' /><a href='#f254' class='c011'><sup>[254]</sup></a> not forgetting the condition +last, she told him all that had passed,<a id='r254' href='#f254' class='c011'><sup>[254]</sup></a> not forgetting the condition that she was to keep the purse until all four had demanded it of her. Said the boy, “Give me a dirham to buy sweetmeats withal and I will tell thee how thou mayst acquit thyself.” @@ -9636,7 +9622,7 @@ and this woman?”; and they answered, “Yes.” Quoth the Kazi, “Then bring me your comrade and take the purse.” So they went in quest of their fellow, whilst the keeper came off scot-free and went her way without let or hindrance. And Allah is -Omniscient!<a id='r255' /><a href='#f255' class='c011'><sup>[255]</sup></a> When the King and his Wazir and those present +Omniscient!<a id='r255' href='#f255' class='c011'><sup>[255]</sup></a> When the King and his Wazir and those present <span class='pageno' id='Page_211'>211</span>in the assembly heard the Prince’s words they said to his father, “O our lord the King, in very sooth thy son is the most accomplished man of his time;” and they called down blessings upon @@ -9657,7 +9643,7 @@ before the King, she said to him, “My case with thee is like unto naught save the tale of the fox and the folk.” “How so?” asked he; and she said:—I have heard, O King, tell a</p> -<h3 id='c211' class='c013'><em>STORY OF THE FOX AND THE FOLK</em>.<a id='r256' /><a href='#f256' class='c011'><sup>[256]</sup></a></h3> +<h3 id='c211' class='c013'><em>STORY OF THE FOX AND THE FOLK</em>.<a id='r256' href='#f256' class='c011'><sup>[256]</sup></a></h3> <p class='c014'>A fox once made his way into a city by the wall and, entering a currier’s storehouse, played havoc with all therein and spoiled the @@ -9696,7 +9682,7 @@ abode in his kingship, doing justice and righteousness; and his power was magnified and his sultanate strengthened and he abode in all delight and solace of life, till there came to him the Certainty.</p> -<hr class='c015' /> +<hr class='c015' > <div class='footnote' id='f153'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r153'>153</a>. </span>Here begins the Sindibad-namah, the origin of Dolopathos (thirteenth century by the @@ -9868,7 +9854,7 @@ and diffuseness.</p> <div class='footnote' id='f172'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r172'>172</a>. </span>Arab “Wa’ar” = rocky, hilly, tree-less ground unfit for riding. I have noted that the three Heb. words “Year” (<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">e.g.</span></i> Kiryath-Yearim = City of forest), “Choresh” (now -Hirsh, a scrub), and “Pardés” (<span lang="el" xml:lang="el">παράδεισος</span> a chase, a hunting-park opposed to <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">κῆπος</span>, an +Hirsh, a scrub), and “Pardés” (<span lang="el" xml:lang="el">παράδεισος</span> a chase, a hunting-park opposed to <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">κῆπος</span>, an orchard) are preserved in Arabic and are intelligible in Palestine (Unexplored Syria, i. 207).</p> </div> @@ -10468,7 +10454,7 @@ Rev. Mr. Tristram misinforms his readers (Nat. Hist. p. 85).</p> <div class='chapter'> <span class='pageno' id='Page_213'>213</span> - <h2 id='c213' class='c007'>JUDAR<a id='r257' /><a href='#f257' class='c011'><sup>[257]</sup></a> AND HIS BRETHREN.</h2> + <h2 id='c213' class='c007'>JUDAR<a id='r257' href='#f257' class='c011'><sup>[257]</sup></a> AND HIS BRETHREN.</h2> </div> <p class='c012'>There was once a man and a merchant named Omar and he had @@ -10505,7 +10491,7 @@ merchant had divided his money and stuff into four portions, he said, “This share shall be for my wife, their mother, wherewithal to provide for her subsistence whenas she shall be a widow.” A little while after this he died, and neither of the two elder brothers -was content with his share,<a id='r258' /><a href='#f258' class='c011'><sup>[258]</sup></a> but sought more of Judar, saying, “Our +was content with his share,<a id='r258' href='#f258' class='c011'><sup>[258]</sup></a> but sought more of Judar, saying, “Our father’s wealth is in thy hands.” So he appealed to the judges; and the Moslems who had been present at the partition came and bore witness of that which they knew, wherefore the judge forbade @@ -10515,7 +10501,7 @@ presently, however, they began again to plot against him and he appealed a second time to the magistrate, who once more decided in his favour; but all three lost much money which went to the judges. Nevertheless Sálim and Salím forbore not to seek his -hurt and to carry the case from court to court,<a id='r259' /><a href='#f259' class='c011'><sup>[259]</sup></a> he and they losing +hurt and to carry the case from court to court,<a id='r259' href='#f259' class='c011'><sup>[259]</sup></a> he and they losing till they had given all their good for food to the oppressors and they became poor, all three. Then the two elder brothers went to their mother and flouted her and beat her, and seizing her money @@ -10548,7 +10534,7 @@ and console thyself with the saying of the poet who said:—</p> her dwelling with him. Then he gat him a net and went a-fishing every day in the river or the banks about Bulák and old Cairo or some other place in which there was water; and one day he would -earn ten coppers,<a id='r260' /><a href='#f260' class='c011'><sup>[260]</sup></a> another twenty and another thirty, which he +earn ten coppers,<a id='r260' href='#f260' class='c011'><sup>[260]</sup></a> another twenty and another thirty, which he <span class='pageno' id='Page_215'>215</span>spent upon his mother and himself, and they ate well and drank well. But, as for his brothers, they plied no craft and neither sold nor bought; misery and ruin and overwhelming calamity entered @@ -10567,7 +10553,7 @@ they were eating, behold, in came their brother Judar, at whose sight the parent was put to shame and confusion, fearing lest he should be wroth with her; and she bowed her face earthwards abashed before her son. But he smiled in their faces, saying, -“Welcome, O my brothers! A blessed day!<a id='r261' /><a href='#f261' class='c011'><sup>[261]</sup></a> How comes it +“Welcome, O my brothers! A blessed day!<a id='r261' href='#f261' class='c011'><sup>[261]</sup></a> How comes it that ye visit me this blessed day?” Then he embraced them both and entreated them lovingly, saying to them, “I thought not that ye would have left me desolate by your absence nor that ye would @@ -10598,7 +10584,7 @@ thou art the most generous of us all, O my son!” Then he said <span class='pageno' id='Page_216'>216</span>and good aboundeth with me.” So he made peace with them, and they supped and nighted with him; and next morning, after they had broken their fast, Judar shouldered his net and went out, -trusting in The Opener<a id='r262' /><a href='#f262' class='c011'><sup>[262]</sup></a> whilst the two others also went forth and +trusting in The Opener<a id='r262' href='#f262' class='c011'><sup>[262]</sup></a> whilst the two others also went forth and were absent till midday, when they returned and their mother set the noon-meal before them. At nightfall Judar came home, bearing meat and greens, and they abode on this wise a month’s space, @@ -10609,7 +10595,7 @@ net, brought it up empty. He cast it a second time, but again it came up empty and he said in himself, “No fish in this place!” So he removed to another and threw the net there, but without avail. And he ceased not to remove from place to place till nightfall, -but caught not a single sprat<a id='r263' /><a href='#f263' class='c011'><sup>[263]</sup></a> and said to himself, “Wonderful! +but caught not a single sprat<a id='r263' href='#f263' class='c011'><sup>[263]</sup></a> and said to himself, “Wonderful! Hath the fish fled the river or what?” Then he shouldered the net and made for home, chagrined, concerned, feeling for his mother and brothers and knowing not how he should feed them that @@ -10649,7 +10635,7 @@ third day also he sallied forth and fished from tank to tank until the time of afternoon-prayer, but caught nothing; so he went to the baker and took the bread and silver as usual. On this wise he did seven days running, till he became disheartened and said -in himself, “To-day I go to the Lake Kárún.”<a id='r264' /><a href='#f264' class='c011'><sup>[264]</sup></a> So he went thither +in himself, “To-day I go to the Lake Kárún.”<a id='r264' href='#f264' class='c011'><sup>[264]</sup></a> So he went thither and was about to cast his net, when there came up to him unawares a Maghrabí, a Moor, clad in splendid attire and riding a she-mule with a pair of gold-embroidered saddle-bags on her back and all @@ -10661,7 +10647,7 @@ thou obey me, thou shalt get great good and shalt be my companion and manage my affairs for me.” Quoth Judar, “O my lord, tell me what is in thy mind and I will obey thee, without demur.” Said the Moor, “Repeat the Fatihah, the Opening -Chapter of the Koran.”<a id='r265' /><a href='#f265' class='c011'><sup>[265]</sup></a> So he recited it with him and the Moor +Chapter of the Koran.”<a id='r265' href='#f265' class='c011'><sup>[265]</sup></a> So he recited it with him and the Moor bringing out a silken cord, said to Judar, “Pinion my elbows behind me with this cord, as fast as fast can be, and cast me into the lake; then wait a little while; and, if thou see me put forth @@ -10722,7 +10708,7 @@ was alarmed and answered, “I saw none,” fearing lest the other say, “Whither went he?” and if he replied, “He was drowned in the lake,” that haply he should charge him with having drowned him; wherefore he could not but deny. Rejoined the Moor, -“Harkye, O unhappy!<a id='r266' /><a href='#f266' class='c011'><sup>[266]</sup></a> this was my brother, who is gone before +“Harkye, O unhappy!<a id='r266' href='#f266' class='c011'><sup>[266]</sup></a> this was my brother, who is gone before me.” Judar persisted, “I know naught of him.” Then the Moor enquired, “Didst thou not bind his arms behind him and throw him into the lake, and did he not say to thee:—If my hands appear @@ -10751,7 +10737,7 @@ not again to Lake Karun, indeed I fear for thee from the Moors.” Said he, “O my mother, I do but cast them in by their own wish, and what am I to do? This craft bringeth me an hundred dinars a day and I return speedily; wherefore, by Allah, I will not leave -<span class='pageno' id='Page_220'>220</span>going to Lake Karun, till the trace of the Magháribah<a id='r267' /><a href='#f267' class='c011'><sup>[267]</sup></a> is cut off +<span class='pageno' id='Page_220'>220</span>going to Lake Karun, till the trace of the Magháribah<a id='r267' href='#f267' class='c011'><sup>[267]</sup></a> is cut off and not one of them is left.” So, on the morrow which was the third day, he went down to the lake and stood there, till there came up a third Moor, riding on a mule with saddle-bags and still @@ -10804,7 +10790,7 @@ these drowned men were my two brothers, by name Abd al-Salám and Abd al-Ahad. My own name is Abd al-Samad, and the Jew also is our brother; his name is Abd al-Rahím and he is no Jew, but a true believer of the Maliki school. Our father, whose name -was Abd al-Wadúd,<a id='r268' /><a href='#f268' class='c011'><sup>[268]</sup></a> taught us magic and the art of solving +was Abd al-Wadúd,<a id='r268' href='#f268' class='c011'><sup>[268]</sup></a> taught us magic and the art of solving mysteries and bringing hoards to light, and we applied ourselves thereto, till we compelled the Ifrits and Marids of the Jinn to do us service. By-and-by, our sire died and left us much wealth, and @@ -10817,15 +10803,15 @@ the solution of every secret. Our father was wont to make use of this book, of which we had some small matter by heart, and each of us desired to possess it, that he might acquaint himself with what was therein. Now when we fell out there was in our company -an old man by name Cohen Al-Abtan,<a id='r269' /><a href='#f269' class='c011'><sup>[269]</sup></a> who had reared our +an old man by name Cohen Al-Abtan,<a id='r269' href='#f269' class='c011'><sup>[269]</sup></a> who had reared our sire and taught him divination and gramarye, and he said to us, “Bring me the book.” So we gave it him and he continued:—Ye are my son’s sons, and it may not be that I should wrong any of you. So whoso is minded to have the volume, let him address -himself to achieve the treasure of Al-Shamardal<a id='r270' /><a href='#f270' class='c011'><sup>[270]</sup></a> and bring me the +himself to achieve the treasure of Al-Shamardal<a id='r270' href='#f270' class='c011'><sup>[270]</sup></a> and bring me the celestial planisphere and the Kohl-phial and the seal-ring and the sword. For the ring hath a Marid that serveth it called Al-Ra’ad -al-Kásif;<a id='r271' /><a href='#f271' class='c011'><sup>[271]</sup></a> and whoso hath possession thereof, neither King nor +al-Kásif;<a id='r271' href='#f271' class='c011'><sup>[271]</sup></a> and whoso hath possession thereof, neither King nor Sultan may prevail against him; and if he will, he may therewith make himself master of the earth, in all the length and breadth thereof. As for the brand, if its bearer draw it and brandish it @@ -10897,7 +10883,7 @@ were fishes,” said Judar. “Nay,” answered the Maghribi, “they are Ifrits in the guise of fish. But, O Judar,” continued he, “thou must know that the treasure can be opened only by thy means: so say, wilt thou do my bidding and go with me to the city Fez and -Mequinez<a id='r272' /><a href='#f272' class='c011'><sup>[272]</sup></a> where we will open the treasure?; and after I will give +Mequinez<a id='r272' href='#f272' class='c011'><sup>[272]</sup></a> where we will open the treasure?; and after I will give thee what thou wilt and thou shalt ever be my brother in the bond of Allah and return to thy family with a joyful heart.” Said Judar, “O my lord the pilgrim, I have on my neck a mother and @@ -10944,7 +10930,7 @@ seeing no victual with the Moor, said to him, “O my lord the pilgrim, belike thou hast forgotten to bring us aught to eat by the way?” Asked the Moor, “Art thou hungry?” and Judar answered, “Yes.” So Abd al-Samad alighted and made Judar alight -and take down the saddle-bags<a id='r273' /><a href='#f273' class='c011'><sup>[273]</sup></a>; then he said to him, “What wilt +and take down the saddle-bags<a id='r273' href='#f273' class='c011'><sup>[273]</sup></a>; then he said to him, “What wilt thou have, O my brother?” “Anything.” “Allah upon thee, tell me what thou hast a mind to.” “Bread and cheese.” “O my poor fellow! bread and cheese besit thee not; wish for something @@ -10959,7 +10945,7 @@ nor kitchen? But I’ll say to him, ‘Tis enough!” So he cried, see nothing.” Quoth the Moor, “Thou art welcome, O Judar!” and, putting his hand into the saddle-bags, pulled out a golden <span class='pageno' id='Page_225'>225</span>dish containing two hot browned chickens. Then he thrust his -hand a second time and drew out a golden dish, full of kabobs<a id='r274' /><a href='#f274' class='c011'><sup>[274]</sup></a>; +hand a second time and drew out a golden dish, full of kabobs<a id='r274' href='#f274' class='c011'><sup>[274]</sup></a>; nor did he stint taking out dishes from saddle-bags, till he had brought forth the whole of the four-and-twenty kinds he had named, whilst Judar looked on. Then said the Moor, “Fall to, @@ -10992,7 +10978,7 @@ arrived at Fez and Mequinez and entered the city, where all who met the Maghribi saluted him and kissed his hands; and he continued riding through the streets, till he came to a certain door, at which he knocked, whereupon it opened and out came a girl -<span class='pageno' id='Page_226'>226</span>like the moon, to whom said he, “O my daughter, O Rahmah,<a id='r275' /><a href='#f275' class='c011'><sup>[275]</sup></a> +<span class='pageno' id='Page_226'>226</span>like the moon, to whom said he, “O my daughter, O Rahmah,<a id='r275' href='#f275' class='c011'><sup>[275]</sup></a> open us the upper chamber.” “On my head and eyes, O my papa!” replied she and went in, swaying her hips to and fro with a graceful and swimming gait like a thirsting gazelle, movements @@ -11008,7 +10994,7 @@ So they went up into it, and Judar was amazed at the profusion of rich furniture and pendants of gold and silver and jewels and other rare and precious things which he saw there. As soon as they were seated, the Moor bade Rahmah bring him a certain -bundle<a id='r276' /><a href='#f276' class='c011'><sup>[276]</sup></a> and opening it, drew out a dress worth a thousand dinars, +bundle<a id='r276' href='#f276' class='c011'><sup>[276]</sup></a> and opening it, drew out a dress worth a thousand dinars, which he gave to Judar, saying, “Don this dress, O Judar, and welcome to thee!” So Judar put it on and became a fair ensample of the Kings of the West. Then the Maghribi laid the @@ -11028,8 +11014,8 @@ saying her permitted say.</p> </div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_226fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_226fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <p class='c000'>She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the @@ -11046,7 +11032,7 @@ for the Maghribi bought neither meat nor bread nor aught else, nor cooked, but brought everything out of the bags, even to various sorts of fruit. On the twenty-first day, he said, “O Judar, up with thee; this is the day appointed for opening the hoard of Al-Shamardal.” -So he rose and they went afoot<a id='r277' /><a href='#f277' class='c011'><sup>[277]</sup></a> without the city, +So he rose and they went afoot<a id='r277' href='#f277' class='c011'><sup>[277]</sup></a> without the city, where they found two slaves, each holding a she-mule. The Moor mounted one beast and Judar the other, and they ceased not riding till noon, when they came to a stream of running water, on whose @@ -11165,7 +11151,7 @@ at the upper end of the hall, where thou wilt see a curtain drawn. Draw back the curtain and thou wilt descry the enchanter, Al-Shamardal, lying upon a couch of gold, with something at his head round and shining like the moon, which is the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_230'>230</span>celestial planisphere. He is baldrick’d with the sword<a id='r278' /><a href='#f278' class='c011'><sup>[278]</sup></a>; on his +<span class='pageno' id='Page_230'>230</span>celestial planisphere. He is baldrick’d with the sword<a id='r278' href='#f278' class='c011'><sup>[278]</sup></a>; on his finger is the ring and about his neck hangs a chain, to which hangs the Kohl-phial. Bring me the four talismans, and beware lest thou forget aught of that which I have told thee, or thou wilt @@ -11213,8 +11199,8 @@ treasure and the hoard-doors closed of themselves, whilst the waters of the river returned to their bed.——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_230fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_230fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='ph3'> @@ -11263,7 +11249,7 @@ after which Abd al-Samad brought out the wand and the tablets as before and, kindling the fire in the chafing-dish, made ready the incense. Then said he, “O Judar, I wish to renew my charge to thee.” “O my lord the pilgrim,” replied he, “if I have forgotten -the bastinado, I have forgotten the injunctions.”<a id='r279' /><a href='#f279' class='c011'><sup>[279]</sup></a> Asked the Moor, +the bastinado, I have forgotten the injunctions.”<a id='r279' href='#f279' class='c011'><sup>[279]</sup></a> Asked the Moor, “Dost thou indeed remember them?” and he answered, “Yes.” Quoth the Moor, “Keep thy wits, and think not that the woman is thy very mother; nay, she is but an enchantment in her semblance, @@ -11274,7 +11260,7 @@ Then Abd al-Samad cast the perfumes into the fire and recited the conjurations, till the river dried up; whereupon Judar descended and knocked. The door opened and he entered and undid the several enchantments, till he came to the seventh door and the -semblance of his mother appeared before him, saying, “Welcome,<a id='r280' /><a href='#f280' class='c011'><sup>[280]</sup></a> +semblance of his mother appeared before him, saying, “Welcome,<a id='r280' href='#f280' class='c011'><sup>[280]</sup></a> O my son!” But he said to her, “How am I thy son, O accursed? Strip!” And she began to wheedle him and put off garment after garment, till only her trousers remained; and he said to her, @@ -11303,7 +11289,7 @@ empty platters to the saddle-bags. Then quoth he, “O Judar, thou hast left home and native land on our account and thou hast accomplished our dearest desire; wherefore thou hast a right to require a reward of us. Ask, therefore, what thou wilt, it is -Almighty Allah who giveth unto thee by our means.<a id='r281' /><a href='#f281' class='c011'><sup>[281]</sup></a> Ask thy +Almighty Allah who giveth unto thee by our means.<a id='r281' href='#f281' class='c011'><sup>[281]</sup></a> Ask thy will and be not ashamed, for thou art deserving.” “O my lord,” quoth Judar, “I ask first of Allah the Most High and then of thee, that thou give me yonder saddle-bags.” So the Maghribi @@ -11333,11 +11319,11 @@ Almighty increase thy good!” replied Judar and, laying the two pairs of saddle-bags on the mule’s back, mounted and set forth. The slave went on before him and the mule followed him all that day and night, and on the morrow he entered Cairo by the Gate -of Victory,<a id='r282' /><a href='#f282' class='c011'><sup>[282]</sup></a> where he saw his mother seated, saying, “Alms, for +of Victory,<a id='r282' href='#f282' class='c011'><sup>[282]</sup></a> where he saw his mother seated, saying, “Alms, for the love of Allah!” At this sight he well-nigh lost his wits and alighting, threw himself upon her: and when she saw him she wept. Then he mounted her on the mule and walked by her -stirrup,<a id='r283' /><a href='#f283' class='c011'><sup>[283]</sup></a> till they came to the house, where he set her down and, +stirrup,<a id='r283' href='#f283' class='c011'><sup>[283]</sup></a> till they came to the house, where he set her down and, taking the saddle-bags, left the she-mule to the slave, who led her away and returned with her to his master, for that both slave and mule were devils. As for Judar, it was grievous to him that his @@ -11373,7 +11359,7 @@ it becometh thy rank to eat of sausages and stuffed cucumbers and stuffed lamb and stuffed ribs of mutton and vermicelli with broken almonds and nuts and honey and sugar and fritters and almond cakes.” But she thought he was laughing at her and -making mock of her; so she said to him, “Yauh! Yauh!<a id='r284' /><a href='#f284' class='c011'><sup>[284]</sup></a> what +making mock of her; so she said to him, “Yauh! Yauh!<a id='r284' href='#f284' class='c011'><sup>[284]</sup></a> what is come to thee? Dost thou dream or art thou daft?” Asked he, “Why deemest thou that I am mad?” and she answered, “Because thou namest to me all manner rich dishes. Who can @@ -11406,7 +11392,7 @@ added he; “and whenever thou hast a mind to aught, take it forth of the saddle-bags and give alms and feed my brothers, whether I be present or absent.” Then he fell to eating with her and behold, while they were thus occupied, in came his two -brothers, whom a son of the quarter<a id='r285' /><a href='#f285' class='c011'><sup>[285]</sup></a> had apprised of his return, +brothers, whom a son of the quarter<a id='r285' href='#f285' class='c011'><sup>[285]</sup></a> had apprised of his return, saying, “Your brother is come back, riding on a she-mule, with a slave before him, and wearing a dress that hath not its like.” So they said to each other, “Would to Heaven we had not evilly @@ -11444,7 +11430,7 @@ mother, “Put back the platters in the saddle-bags.” And when it was eventide, he entered the saloon and took forth of the saddle-bags a table of forty dishes; after which he went up to the upper room and, sitting down between his brothers, said to his mother, -“Bring the supper.”<a id='r286' /><a href='#f286' class='c011'><sup>[286]</sup></a> So she went down to the saloon and, finding +“Bring the supper.”<a id='r286' href='#f286' class='c011'><sup>[286]</sup></a> So she went down to the saloon and, finding there the dishes ready, laid the tray and brought up the forty dishes, one after other. Then they ate the evening meal, and when they had done, Judar said to his brothers, “Take and feed @@ -11520,10 +11506,10 @@ thousand kindnesses, as my brother here wotteth. I met him to-day and he invited me to his house, but I said to him:—I cannot leave my brother Judar. Quoth he, Bring him with thee; and quoth I:—He will not consent to that; but if ye will be my -guests, thou and thy brothers<a id='r287' /><a href='#f287' class='c011'><sup>[287]</sup></a> * * * * * (for his brothers were +guests, thou and thy brothers<a id='r287' href='#f287' class='c011'><sup>[287]</sup></a> * * * * * (for his brothers were sitting with him); and I invited them thinking that they would refuse. But he accepted my invitation for all of them, saying, -Look for me at the gate of the little mosque,<a id='r288' /><a href='#f288' class='c011'><sup>[288]</sup></a> and I will come to +Look for me at the gate of the little mosque,<a id='r288' href='#f288' class='c011'><sup>[288]</sup></a> and I will come to thee, I and my brothers. And now I fear they will come and am ashamed before thee. So wilt thou hearten my heart and entertain them this night, for thy good is abundant, O my brother? @@ -11552,7 +11538,7 @@ them, whilst his two brothers sat with the guests, till they sought to sleep. Accordingly Judar lay down and the others with him, who waited till he was asleep, when they fell upon him together and gagging and pinioning him, before he was awake, carried him -forth of the house,<a id='r289' /><a href='#f289' class='c011'><sup>[289]</sup></a> under cover of the night,——And Shahrazad +forth of the house,<a id='r289' href='#f289' class='c011'><sup>[289]</sup></a> under cover of the night,——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> <div class='ph3'> @@ -11569,7 +11555,7 @@ perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> Judar and carrying him forth of the house under cover of the night, at once packed him off to Suez, where they shackled him and set him to work as a galley-slave; and he ceased not to serve -thus in silence a whole year.<a id='r290' /><a href='#f290' class='c011'><sup>[290]</sup></a> So far concerning Judar; but as +thus in silence a whole year.<a id='r290' href='#f290' class='c011'><sup>[290]</sup></a> So far concerning Judar; but as for his brothers, they went in next morning to his mother and said to her, “O our mother, our brother Judar is not awake.” Said she, “Do ye wake him.” Asked they, “Where lieth he?” and @@ -11614,12 +11600,12 @@ each of you shall traffic with the folk for himself. Ye are my sons and I am your mother; wherefore let us abide as we are, lest your brother come back and we be disgraced.” But they accepted not her words and passed the night, wrangling with each -other. Now it chanced that a Janissary<a id='r291' /><a href='#f291' class='c011'><sup>[291]</sup></a> of the King’s guards was +other. Now it chanced that a Janissary<a id='r291' href='#f291' class='c011'><sup>[291]</sup></a> of the King’s guards was a guest in the house adjoining Judar’s and heard them through the open window. So he looked out and listening, heard all the angry words that passed between them and saw the division of the spoil. Next morning he presented himself before the King of Egypt, -whose name was Shams al-Daulah,<a id='r292' /><a href='#f292' class='c011'><sup>[292]</sup></a> and told him all he had heard, +whose name was Shams al-Daulah,<a id='r292' href='#f292' class='c011'><sup>[292]</sup></a> and told him all he had heard, whereupon he sent for Judar’s brothers and put them to the question, till they confessed; and he took the two pairs of saddle-bags from them and clapped them in prison, appointing a sufficient @@ -11630,7 +11616,7 @@ vessel upon a rock projecting from a mountain, where she broke up and all on board were drowned and none gat ashore save Judar. As soon as he landed he fared on inland, till he reached an encampment of Badawi, who questioned him of his case, and -he told them he had been a sailor.<a id='r293' /><a href='#f293' class='c011'><sup>[293]</sup></a> Now there was in camp a +he told them he had been a sailor.<a id='r293' href='#f293' class='c011'><sup>[293]</sup></a> Now there was in camp a merchant, a native of Jiddah, who took pity on him and said to him, “Wilt thou take service with me, O Egyptian, and I will clothe thee and carry thee with me to Jiddah?” So Judar took @@ -11639,7 +11625,7 @@ him much favour. After awhile, his master the merchant set out on a pilgrimage to Meccah, taking Judar with him, and when they reached the city, the Cairene repaired to the Haram temple, to circumambulate the Ka’abah. As he was making the prescribed -circuits,<a id='r294' /><a href='#f294' class='c011'><sup>[294]</sup></a> he suddenly saw his friend Abd al-Samad the Moor doing +circuits,<a id='r294' href='#f294' class='c011'><sup>[294]</sup></a> he suddenly saw his friend Abd al-Samad the Moor doing the like;——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -11672,11 +11658,11 @@ money?” asked the Moor, and he answered, “No.” Said Abd al-Samad, “Go thou and take leave of him and come back forthright, for bread hath claims of its own from the ingenuous.” So Judar returned to the merchant and farewelled him, saying, “I -have fallen in with my brother.”<a id='r295' /><a href='#f295' class='c011'><sup>[295]</sup></a> “Go bring him here,” said the +have fallen in with my brother.”<a id='r295' href='#f295' class='c011'><sup>[295]</sup></a> “Go bring him here,” said the merchant, “and we will make him an entertainment.” But Judar answered, saying, “He hath no need of that; for he is a man of wealth and hath many servants.” Then the merchant gave Judar -twenty dinars, saying, “Acquit me of responsibility”;<a id='r296' /><a href='#f296' class='c011'><sup>[296]</sup></a> and he +twenty dinars, saying, “Acquit me of responsibility”;<a id='r296' href='#f296' class='c011'><sup>[296]</sup></a> and he bade him adieu and went forth from him. Presently, he saw a poor man, so he gave him the twenty ducats and returned to the Moor, with whom he abode till they had accomplished the pilgrimage-rites @@ -11716,7 +11702,7 @@ saying, “Here am I! Ask and thou shalt have.” Quoth Judar, “I bid thee bring me my two brothers from the prison of the King.” So the Jinni sank into the earth and came not up but in the midst of the gaol where Sálim and Salím lay in piteous plight -and sore sorrow for the plagues of prison,<a id='r297' /><a href='#f297' class='c011'><sup>[297]</sup></a> so that they wished for +and sore sorrow for the plagues of prison,<a id='r297' href='#f297' class='c011'><sup>[297]</sup></a> so that they wished for death, and one of them said to the other, “By Allah, O my brother, affliction is longsome upon us! How long shall we abide in this prison? Death would be relief.” As he spoke, behold, the earth @@ -11756,7 +11742,7 @@ forgive us this time; and, if we return to our old ways, do with us as thou wilt.” Quoth he, “No harm shall befal you; but tell me what the King did with you.” Quoth they, “He beat us and threatened us with death and took the two pairs of saddle-bags -from us.” “Will he not care?”<a id='r298' /><a href='#f298' class='c011'><sup>[298]</sup></a> said Judar, and rubbed the ring, +from us.” “Will he not care?”<a id='r298' href='#f298' class='c011'><sup>[298]</sup></a> said Judar, and rubbed the ring, whereupon Al-Ra’ad appeared. When his brothers saw him, they were affrighted and thought Judar would bid him slay them; so they fled to their mother, crying, “O our mother, we throw ourselves @@ -11819,21 +11805,21 @@ the poet:—</p> <div class='lg-container-b c003'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Twas as a hive of bees that greatly thrived; ✿ But, when the bee-swarm fled, ‘twas clean unhived.<a id='r299' /><a href='#f299' class='c011'><sup>[299]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'>‘Twas as a hive of bees that greatly thrived; ✿ But, when the bee-swarm fled, ‘twas clean unhived.<a id='r299' href='#f299' class='c011'><sup>[299]</sup></a></div> </div> </div> </div> <p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_247'>247</span>So he gave a great cry and fell down in a fit. When he came to himself, he left the door open and going in to King Shams -al-Daulah, said to him, “O Commander of the Faithful,<a id='r300' /><a href='#f300' class='c011'><sup>[300]</sup></a> I have +al-Daulah, said to him, “O Commander of the Faithful,<a id='r300' href='#f300' class='c011'><sup>[300]</sup></a> I have to inform thee that the treasury hath become empty during the night.” Quoth the King, “What hast thou done with my monies which were therein?” Quoth he, “By Allah, I have not done aught with them nor know I what is come of them! I visited the place yesterday and saw it full; but to-day when I went in, I found -it clean empty, albeit the doors were locked, the walls were unpierced<a id='r301' /><a href='#f301' class='c011'><sup>[301]</sup></a> -and the bolts<a id='r302' /><a href='#f302' class='c011'><sup>[302]</sup></a> are unbroken; nor hath a thief entered +it clean empty, albeit the doors were locked, the walls were unpierced<a id='r301' href='#f301' class='c011'><sup>[301]</sup></a> +and the bolts<a id='r302' href='#f302' class='c011'><sup>[302]</sup></a> are unbroken; nor hath a thief entered it.” Asked the King, “Are the two pairs of saddle-bags gone?” “Yes,” replied the Treasurer; whereupon the King’s reason flew from his head——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and @@ -11915,7 +11901,7 @@ Othman waxed wroth and said to him, “O pestilent slave, art thou not ashamed, when I speak to thee, to answer me, sprawling at thy length, like a gallows-bird?” Replied the eunuch, “Off and multiply not words.” Hardly had Othman heard -this, when he was filled with rage and drawing his mace<a id='r303' /><a href='#f303' class='c011'><sup>[303]</sup></a> would +this, when he was filled with rage and drawing his mace<a id='r303' href='#f303' class='c011'><sup>[303]</sup></a> would have smitten the eunuch, knowing not that he was a devil; but Al-Ra’ad leapt upon him and taking the mace from him, dealt him four blows with it. Now when the fifty men saw @@ -11967,7 +11953,7 @@ and bring this eunuch in haste, and with him his master Judar and his brothers.” Replied the Wazir, “O King of the age, I need no soldiers, but will go down to him alone and unarmed.” “Go,” quoth the King, “and do as thou seest suitable.” So the Wazir -laid down his arms and donning a white habit,<a id='r304' /><a href='#f304' class='c011'><sup>[304]</sup></a> took a rosary in +laid down his arms and donning a white habit,<a id='r304' href='#f304' class='c011'><sup>[304]</sup></a> took a rosary in his hand and set out afoot alone and unattended. When he came to Judar’s gate, he saw the slave sitting there; So he went up to him and seating himself by his side courteously, said to him, @@ -12037,7 +12023,7 @@ day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> <p class='c000'>She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the King entered, Judar rose not to him, nor did him honour nor even -said “Be seated!”; but left him standing,<a id='r305' /><a href='#f305' class='c011'><sup>[305]</sup></a> so that fear entered +said “Be seated!”; but left him standing,<a id='r305' href='#f305' class='c011'><sup>[305]</sup></a> so that fear entered into him and he could neither sit nor go away and said to himself, “If he feared me, he would not leave me thus unheeded; peradventure he will do me a mischief, because of that which I did with @@ -12132,7 +12118,7 @@ taking thy daughter to wife,” the other replied, “The dowry I have already received, and the girl is his handmaid; he will do me honour by accepting her.” So they spent the rest of that night together and on the morrow the King held a court, to which he summoned -great and small, together with the Shaykh al-Islam.<a id='r306' /><a href='#f306' class='c011'><sup>[306]</sup></a> Then Judar +great and small, together with the Shaykh al-Islam.<a id='r306' href='#f306' class='c011'><sup>[306]</sup></a> Then Judar demanded the Princess in marriage and the King said, “The dowry I have received.” Thereupon they drew up the marriage-contract and Judar sent for the saddle-bags containing the jewels and gave @@ -12144,11 +12130,11 @@ died; whereupon the troops proclaimed Judar Sultan, and he refused; but they importuned him, till he consented and they made him King in his father-in-law’s stead. Then he bade build a cathedral-mosque over the late King’s tomb in the -Bundukániyah<a id='r307' /><a href='#f307' class='c011'><sup>[307]</sup></a> quarter and endowed it. Now the quarter of +Bundukániyah<a id='r307' href='#f307' class='c011'><sup>[307]</sup></a> quarter and endowed it. Now the quarter of Judar’s house was called Yamániyah; but, when he became Sultan he built therein a congregational mosque and other buildings, wherefore the quarter was named after him and was called the -Judariyah<a id='r308' /><a href='#f308' class='c011'><sup>[308]</sup></a> quarter. Moreover, he made his brother Sálim his +Judariyah<a id='r308' href='#f308' class='c011'><sup>[308]</sup></a> quarter. Moreover, he made his brother Sálim his <span class='pageno' id='Page_255'>255</span>Wazir of the right and his brother Salím his Wazir of the left hand; and thus they abode a year and no more; for, at the end of that time, Sálim said to Salím, “O my brother, how long is @@ -12169,7 +12155,7 @@ shall the banquet be?” “In mine,” said Sálim “and after thou hast eaten of my victual, thou shalt be the guest of my brother.” Said Judar, “‘Tis well,” and went with him to his house, where he set before him poisoned food, of which when he had eaten, his -flesh rotted from his bones and he died.<a id='r309' /><a href='#f309' class='c011'><sup>[309]</sup></a> Then Sálim came up to +flesh rotted from his bones and he died.<a id='r309' href='#f309' class='c011'><sup>[309]</sup></a> Then Sálim came up to him and would have drawn the ring from his finger, but it resisted him; so he cut off the finger with a knife. Then he rubbed the ring and the Marid presented himself, saying, “Adsum! Ask what @@ -12211,7 +12197,7 @@ some of the folk followed the funeral, whilst others forewent him in state procession to the audience-hall of the palace, where he sat down on the throne and they did homage to him as King; after which he said, “It is my will to marry my brother Judar’s -wife.” Quoth they, “Wait till the days of widowhood are accomplished.”<a id='r310' /><a href='#f310' class='c011'><sup>[310]</sup></a> +wife.” Quoth they, “Wait till the days of widowhood are accomplished.”<a id='r310' href='#f310' class='c011'><sup>[310]</sup></a> Quoth he, “I know not days of widowhood nor aught else. As my head liveth, I needs must go in unto her this very night.” So they drew up the marriage-contract and sent to @@ -12224,9 +12210,9 @@ after which she sent to the Shaykh al-Islam and other great Officers of state, telling them what had passed and saying to them, “Choose you out a King to rule over you.” And this is <span class='pageno' id='Page_257'>257</span>all that hath come down to us of the Story of Judar and his -Brethren.<a id='r311' /><a href='#f311' class='c011'><sup>[311]</sup></a> But I have also heard, O King, a tale called the</p> +Brethren.<a id='r311' href='#f311' class='c011'><sup>[311]</sup></a> But I have also heard, O King, a tale called the</p> -<hr class='c015' /> +<hr class='c015' > <div class='footnote' id='f257'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r257'>257</a>. </span>The name is old and classical Arabic: in Antar the young Amazon Jaydá was called @@ -12576,14 +12562,14 @@ and Windus, Piccadilly, 1884.</p> </div> <div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='c257' class='c007'>HISTORY OF GHARIB AND HIS BROTHER AJIB.<a id='r312' /><a href='#f312' class='c011'><sup>[312]</sup></a></h2> + <h2 id='c257' class='c007'>HISTORY OF GHARIB AND HIS BROTHER AJIB.<a id='r312' href='#f312' class='c011'><sup>[312]</sup></a></h2> </div> <p class='c012'>There was once in olden time a King of might, Kundamir hight, -who had been a brave and doughty man of war, a Kahramán,<a id='r313' /><a href='#f313' class='c011'><sup>[313]</sup></a> in +who had been a brave and doughty man of war, a Kahramán,<a id='r313' href='#f313' class='c011'><sup>[313]</sup></a> in his day, but was grown passing old and decrepit. Now it pleased Allah to vouchsafe him, in his extreme senility, a son, whom he -named Ajíb<a id='r314' /><a href='#f314' class='c011'><sup>[314]</sup></a>—the Wonderful—because of his beauty and loveliness; +named Ajíb<a id='r314' href='#f314' class='c011'><sup>[314]</sup></a>—the Wonderful—because of his beauty and loveliness; so he committed the babe to the midwives and wet-nurses and handmaids and serving-women, and they reared him till he was full seven years old, when his father gave him in charge to a @@ -12592,7 +12578,7 @@ and tenets of their Misbelief and instructed him in philosophy and all manner of other knowledge, and it needed but three full-told years ere he was proficient therein and his spirit waxed resolute and his judgment mature; and he became learned, eloquent -and philosophic<a id='r315' /><a href='#f315' class='c011'><sup>[315]</sup></a>; consorting with the wise and disputing with the +and philosophic<a id='r315' href='#f315' class='c011'><sup>[315]</sup></a>; consorting with the wise and disputing with the <span class='pageno' id='Page_258'>258</span>doctors of the law. When his father saw this of him, it pleased him and he taught him to back the steed and stab with spear and smite with sword, till he grew to be an accomplished cavalier, @@ -12698,12 +12684,12 @@ Now behold, one day, there came horsemen and footmen into the forest with hawks and hounds and horses laden with partridges and cranes and wild geese and divers and other waterfowl; and young ostriches and hares and gazelles and wild oxen -and lynxes and wolves and lions.<a id='r316' /><a href='#f316' class='c011'><sup>[316]</sup></a> Presently, these Arabs entered +and lynxes and wolves and lions.<a id='r316' href='#f316' class='c011'><sup>[316]</sup></a> Presently, these Arabs entered the thicket and came upon the damsel, sitting with her child on her breast a-suckling him: so they drew near and asked her, “Say art thou a mortal or a Jinniyah?” Answered she, “I am a mortal, O Chiefs of the Arabs.” Thereupon they told their Emir, whose -name was Mardás, Prince of the Banú Kahtán,<a id='r317' /><a href='#f317' class='c011'><sup>[317]</sup></a> and who had come +name was Mardás, Prince of the Banú Kahtán,<a id='r317' href='#f317' class='c011'><sup>[317]</sup></a> and who had come forth that day to hunt with five hundred of his cousins and the nobles of his tribe, and who in the course of the chase had happened upon her. He bade them bring her before him, which they @@ -12714,7 +12700,7 @@ where the Emir appointed her a separate dwelling-place and five damsels to serve her; and he loved her with exceeding love <span class='pageno' id='Page_261'>261</span>and went in to her and lay with her. She conceived by him straightway, and, when her months were accomplished, she bare a -man child and named him Sahím al-Layl.<a id='r318' /><a href='#f318' class='c011'><sup>[318]</sup></a> He grew up with his +man child and named him Sahím al-Layl.<a id='r318' href='#f318' class='c011'><sup>[318]</sup></a> He grew up with his brother Gharib among the nurses and throve and waxed upon the lap of the Emir Mardas who, in due time committed the two boys to a Fakih for instruction in the things of their faith; after which @@ -12725,7 +12711,7 @@ all they needed and surpassed each and every brave of their tribe; for Gharib would undertake a thousand horse and Sahim al-Layl no fewer. Now Mardas had many enemies, and the men of his tribe were the bravest of all the Arabs, being doughty cavaliers, -none might warm himself at their fire.<a id='r319' /><a href='#f319' class='c011'><sup>[319]</sup></a> In his neighbourhood was +none might warm himself at their fire.<a id='r319' href='#f319' class='c011'><sup>[319]</sup></a> In his neighbourhood was an Emir of the Arabs, Hassán bin Sábit hight, who was his intimate friend; and he took to wife a noble lady of his tribe and bade all his friends to the wedding, amongst them Mardas lord of @@ -12744,9 +12730,9 @@ this case, O Gharib?”; and quoth Gharib, “Al-Hamal bin Májid attacked us with five hundred horsemen of his tribe.” Now the reason of this was that the Emir Mardas had a daughter called Mahdíyah, seer never saw fairer than she, and Al-Hamal, lord of -<span class='pageno' id='Page_262'>262</span>the Banu Nabhán,<a id='r320' /><a href='#f320' class='c011'><sup>[320]</sup></a> heard of her charms; whereupon he took +<span class='pageno' id='Page_262'>262</span>the Banu Nabhán,<a id='r320' href='#f320' class='c011'><sup>[320]</sup></a> heard of her charms; whereupon he took horse with five hundred of his men and rode to Mardas to demand -her hand; but he was not accepted and was sent away disappointed.<a id='r321' /><a href='#f321' class='c011'><sup>[321]</sup></a> +her hand; but he was not accepted and was sent away disappointed.<a id='r321' href='#f321' class='c011'><sup>[321]</sup></a> So he awaited till Mardas was absent on his visit to Hassan, when he mounted with his champions and, falling upon the camp of the Banu Kahtan, slew a number of their knights @@ -12757,7 +12743,7 @@ had seized the camp and all therein and had carried off the maidens, among whom was Mahdiyah, driving her away with the captives. When Gharib saw this, he lost his wits for rage and cried out to Sahim, saying, “O my brother, O son of an -accursed dam,<a id='r322' /><a href='#f322' class='c011'><sup>[322]</sup></a> they have plundered our camp and carried off our +accursed dam,<a id='r322' href='#f322' class='c011'><sup>[322]</sup></a> they have plundered our camp and carried off our women and children! Up and at the enemy, that we may deliver the captives!” So Gharib and Sahim and their hundred horse rushed upon the foe, and Gharib’s wrath redoubled, and he reaped @@ -12776,7 +12762,7 @@ couplets:—</p> <div class='group'> <div class='line'>I am he who is known on the day of fight, ✿ And the Jinn of earth at my shade take fright:</div> <div class='line'>And a sword have I when my right hand wields, ✿ Death hastens from left on mankind to alight;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_263'>263</span>I have eke a lance and who look thereon ✿ See a crescent-head of the liveliest light.<a id='r323' /><a href='#f323' class='c011'><sup>[323]</sup></a></div> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_263'>263</span>I have eke a lance and who look thereon ✿ See a crescent-head of the liveliest light.<a id='r323' href='#f323' class='c011'><sup>[323]</sup></a></div> <div class='line'>And Gharib I’m hight of my tribe the brave ✿ And if few my men I feel naught affright.</div> </div> </div> @@ -12820,7 +12806,7 @@ reached the ears of Mardas, who thundered and lightened and <span class='pageno' id='Page_264'>264</span>rose up and sat down and snarked and snorted and reviled the sun and the moon, saying, “This is the reward of him who reareth the sons of adultery! But except I kill Gharib, I shall -be put to shame.”<a id='r324' /><a href='#f324' class='c011'><sup>[324]</sup></a> Then he consulted one of the wise men of +be put to shame.”<a id='r324' href='#f324' class='c011'><sup>[324]</sup></a> Then he consulted one of the wise men of his tribe and after telling his secret took counsel with him of killing the youth. Quoth the elder, “O Emir, ‘twas but yesterday that he freed thy daughter from captivity. If there be no @@ -12832,7 +12818,7 @@ till he go forth to hunt and chase, when do thou take an hundred horse and lie in wait for him in some cave till he pass; then fall upon him unawares and cut him in pieces, so shalt thou be quit of his reproach.” Said Mardas, “This should serve me well;” and -chose out an hundred and fifty of his furious knights and Amalekites<a id='r325' /><a href='#f325' class='c011'><sup>[325]</sup></a> +chose out an hundred and fifty of his furious knights and Amalekites<a id='r325' href='#f325' class='c011'><sup>[325]</sup></a> whom he lessoned to his will. Then he watched Gharib till one day, he went forth to hunt and rode far away amongst the dells and hills; whereupon Mardas followed him with his men, ill-omened @@ -12846,7 +12832,7 @@ Gharib put Al-Hamal and his men to the sword, the rest fled and <span class='pageno' id='Page_265'>265</span>ceased not flying till they reached their lord’s brother and told him what had happened, whereat his Doom-day rose and he gathered together his Amalekites and choosing out five hundred -cavaliers, each fifty ells high,<a id='r326' /><a href='#f326' class='c011'><sup>[326]</sup></a> set out with them in quest of blood-revengement +cavaliers, each fifty ells high,<a id='r326' href='#f326' class='c011'><sup>[326]</sup></a> set out with them in quest of blood-revengement for his brother. By the way he fell in with Mardas and his companions and there happened between them what happened; after which he bade his men alight and rest, saying, “O @@ -12906,7 +12892,7 @@ they were all far from the foe. Then he sent them their weapons and war-horses, saying to them, “Mount ye and scatter yourselves round about the enemy and cry out, Ho, sons of Kahtan! And when they awake, do ye remove from them and encircle them in a -thin ring.”<a id='r327' /><a href='#f327' class='c011'><sup>[327]</sup></a> So he waited till the last and third watch of the +thin ring.”<a id='r327' href='#f327' class='c011'><sup>[327]</sup></a> So he waited till the last and third watch of the night, when he cried out, “Ho, sons of Kahtan!” and his men answered in like guise, crying, “Ho, sons of Kahtan,” as with one voice; and the mountains echoed their slogan, so that it seemed to @@ -12926,7 +12912,7 @@ ceased saying her permitted say.</p> </div> <p class='c000'>She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the -raiders<a id='r328' /><a href='#f328' class='c011'><sup>[328]</sup></a> awoke from sleep and heard Gharib and his men crying +raiders<a id='r328' href='#f328' class='c011'><sup>[328]</sup></a> awoke from sleep and heard Gharib and his men crying <span class='pageno' id='Page_267'>267</span>out, “Ho, sons of Kahtan!”; they imagined that the whole tribe was assailing them; wherefore they snatched up their arms and fell one upon other with mighty slaughter. Gharib and his men @@ -12955,7 +12941,7 @@ said Gharib, “O uncle, thou madest me a promise; do thou fulfil it.” Replied the Emir, “O my son, she is thine to all time; but thou lackest wealth.” Quoth Gharib, “O uncle, ask of me what thou wilt, and I will fall upon the Emirs of the Arabs in their -houses and on the Kings in their towns and bring thee fee<a id='r329' /><a href='#f329' class='c011'><sup>[329]</sup></a> enough +houses and on the Kings in their towns and bring thee fee<a id='r329' href='#f329' class='c011'><sup>[329]</sup></a> enough to fence the land from East to West.” “O my son,” quoth <span class='pageno' id='Page_268'>268</span>Mardas, “I have sworn by all the Idols that I would not give Mahdiyah save to him who should take my blood-wite of mine @@ -13004,7 +12990,7 @@ facing end of the cave a Shaykh, three hundred and forty years old, whose eyebrows overhung his eyes and whose moustachios hid his mouth. Gharib at this sight was filled with awe and veneration, and the hermit said to him, “Methinks thou art of the idolaters, O -my son, stone-worshipping<a id='r330' /><a href='#f330' class='c011'><sup>[330]</sup></a> in the stead of the All-powerful King, +my son, stone-worshipping<a id='r330' href='#f330' class='c011'><sup>[330]</sup></a> in the stead of the All-powerful King, the Creator of Night and Day and of the sphere rolling on her way.” When Gharib heard his words, his side muscles quivered and he said, “O Shaykh, where is this Lord of whom thou speakest, @@ -13022,10 +13008,10 @@ my son,” answered the Shaykh, “I am of the tribe of Ad, which were transgressors in the land and believed not in Allah. So He sent unto them a Prophet named Húd, but they called him liar and he destroyed them by means of a deadly wind; but I believed together -with some of my tribe, and we were saved from destruction.<a id='r331' /><a href='#f331' class='c011'><sup>[331]</sup></a> +with some of my tribe, and we were saved from destruction.<a id='r331' href='#f331' class='c011'><sup>[331]</sup></a> Moreover, I was present with the tribe of Thamúd and saw what befel them with their Prophet Sálih. After Salih, the Almighty -<span class='pageno' id='Page_270'>270</span>sent a prophet, called Abraham the Friend,<a id='r332' /><a href='#f332' class='c011'><sup>[332]</sup></a> to Nimrod son of +<span class='pageno' id='Page_270'>270</span>sent a prophet, called Abraham the Friend,<a id='r332' href='#f332' class='c011'><sup>[332]</sup></a> to Nimrod son of Canaan, and there befel what befel between them. Then my companions died in the Saving Faith and I continued in this cave to serve Allah the Most High, who provideth my daily bread without @@ -13033,7 +13019,7 @@ my taking thought.” Quoth Gharib, “O uncle, what shall I say, that I may become of the troop of this mighty Lord?” “Say,” replied the old man:—“There is no god but <em>the</em> God and Abraham is the Friend of God.” So Gharib embraced the Faith -of Submission<a id='r333' /><a href='#f333' class='c011'><sup>[333]</sup></a> with heart and tongue and the Shaykh said to +of Submission<a id='r333' href='#f333' class='c011'><sup>[333]</sup></a> with heart and tongue and the Shaykh said to him, “May the sweetness of belief and devotion be stablished in thy heart!” Then he taught him somewhat of the biblical ordinances and scriptures of Al-Islam and said to him, “What is @@ -13084,7 +13070,7 @@ is most Great! for, saying, There is no god but <em>the</em> God confoundeth those who misbelieve.” Then the Shaykh gave him a steel mace, an hundred pounds in weight, with ten rings which clashed like thunder whenas the wielder brandished it, and a sword forged of -a thunderbolt,<a id='r334' /><a href='#f334' class='c011'><sup>[334]</sup></a> three ells long and three spans broad, wherewith if +a thunderbolt,<a id='r334' href='#f334' class='c011'><sup>[334]</sup></a> three ells long and three spans broad, wherewith if one smote a rock, the stroke would cleave it in sunder. Moreover he gave him a hauberk and target and a book and said to him, “Return to thy tribe and expound unto them Al-Islam.” So Gharib @@ -13096,7 +13082,7 @@ islamised. Early next morning, Gharib mounted and rode to the hermit to farewell him, after which he set out to return to his camp when behold, on his way, there met him a horseman cap-à-pie armed so that only his eyes appeared, who made at him, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_272'>272</span>saying, “Doff what is on thee, O scum<a id='r335' /><a href='#f335' class='c011'><sup>[335]</sup></a> of the Arabs; or I will +<span class='pageno' id='Page_272'>272</span>saying, “Doff what is on thee, O scum<a id='r335' href='#f335' class='c011'><sup>[335]</sup></a> of the Arabs; or I will do thee die!” Therewith Gharib drave at him and there befel between them a battle such as would make a new-born child turn grey and melt the flinty rock with its sore affray; but presently the @@ -13122,7 +13108,7 @@ When Gharib saw the five Amalekites approaching, he plied shovel-iron upon his steed’s flank and cried out, saying, “Who are ye, and what is your race and what do ye require?” Whereupon Falhún bin Sa’adan, the eldest of the five, came out and -said, “Dismount ye and bind one another<a id='r336' /><a href='#f336' class='c011'><sup>[336]</sup></a> and we will drive you +said, “Dismount ye and bind one another<a id='r336' href='#f336' class='c011'><sup>[336]</sup></a> and we will drive you to our father, that he may roast various of you and boil various, for it is long since he has tasted the flesh of Adam-son.” When Gharib heard these words he drove at Falhun, shaking his mace, @@ -13132,7 +13118,7 @@ between the shoulders, and he fell to the ground like a tall-trunked palm-tree; whereupon Sahim and some of his men fell upon him and pinioned him; then, putting a rope about his neck, they haled <span class='pageno' id='Page_273'>273</span>him along like a cow. Now when his brothers saw him a prisoner, -they charged home upon Gharib, who took three<a id='r337' /><a href='#f337' class='c011'><sup>[337]</sup></a> of them captive +they charged home upon Gharib, who took three<a id='r337' href='#f337' class='c011'><sup>[337]</sup></a> of them captive and the fifth fled back to his sire, who said to him, “What is behind thee and where are the brothers of thee?” Quoth he, “Verily, a beardless youth, forty cubits high, hath taken them @@ -13149,7 +13135,7 @@ was wroth and throwing down the weapon, sprang upon Sahim and caught him in his pounces as the sparrow-hawk catcheth up the sparrow. Now when Gharib saw his brother in the Ghul’s clutches, he cried out, saying, “Allaho Akbar—God is most Great! -Oh the favour of Abraham the Friend, the Muhammad,<a id='r338' /><a href='#f338' class='c011'><sup>[338]</sup></a> the +Oh the favour of Abraham the Friend, the Muhammad,<a id='r338' href='#f338' class='c011'><sup>[338]</sup></a> the Blessed One (whom Allah keep and assain!)”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> @@ -13179,7 +13165,7 @@ haled them all six along like baggage-camels, till they reached the Ghul’s castle, which they found full of goods and treasures and things of price; and there they also came upon twelve hundred Ajamis, men of Persia, bound and shackled. Gharib sat down on -Sa’adan’s chair, which had aforetime belonged to Sásá<a id='r339' /><a href='#f339' class='c011'><sup>[339]</sup></a> bin Shays +Sa’adan’s chair, which had aforetime belonged to Sásá<a id='r339' href='#f339' class='c011'><sup>[339]</sup></a> bin Shays bin Shaddad bin Ad causing Sahim to stand on his right and his companions on his either hand, and sending for the Ghul of the Mountain, said to him, “How findest thou thyself, O accursed?” @@ -13200,7 +13186,7 @@ Gharib, “What are these captives?” “O my lord,” quoth the Ghul, “these are my game from the land of the Persians and are not the only ones.” Asked Gharib, “And who is with them?”; and Sa’adan answered, “O my lord, there is with them the -Princess Fakhr Táj, daughter of King Sabúr of Persia,<a id='r340' /><a href='#f340' class='c011'><sup>[340]</sup></a> and an +Princess Fakhr Táj, daughter of King Sabúr of Persia,<a id='r340' href='#f340' class='c011'><sup>[340]</sup></a> and an hundred damsels like moons.” When Gharib heard this, he <span class='pageno' id='Page_275'>275</span>marvelled and said, “O Emir, how came ye by these?” Replied Sa’adan, “I went forth one night with my sons and @@ -13264,7 +13250,7 @@ made the Wuzu-ablution and prayed a two-bow prayer, after the rite of our father Abraham the Friend (on whom be peace!), whilst the Ghul and his sons and Gharib’s company all did the like after him. Then he turned to the Ghul and said to him, “O Sa’adan, -wilt thou not show me the Wady of Blossoms?”<a id='r341' /><a href='#f341' class='c011'><sup>[341]</sup></a> “I will, O my +wilt thou not show me the Wady of Blossoms?”<a id='r341' href='#f341' class='c011'><sup>[341]</sup></a> “I will, O my lord,” answered he. So Gharib and his company and Princess Fakhr Taj and her maidens all rose and went forth, whilst Sa’adan commanded his slaves and slave-girls to slaughter and cook and @@ -13297,8 +13283,8 @@ moan the mansions made by the Deity, the bulbul singing as if faileth utterly; the turtle, whose plaining maddens men for love-ecstasy and the ringdove and the popinjay answering her with fluency. There also were trees laden with all manner of fruitery, -of each two kinds,<a id='r342' /><a href='#f342' class='c011'><sup>[342]</sup></a> the pomegranate, sweet and sour upon branches -growing luxuriantly, the almond-apricot,<a id='r343' /><a href='#f343' class='c011'><sup>[343]</sup></a> the camphor-apricot<a id='r344' /><a href='#f344' class='c011'><sup>[344]</sup></a> and +of each two kinds,<a id='r342' href='#f342' class='c011'><sup>[342]</sup></a> the pomegranate, sweet and sour upon branches +growing luxuriantly, the almond-apricot,<a id='r343' href='#f343' class='c011'><sup>[343]</sup></a> the camphor-apricot<a id='r344' href='#f344' class='c011'><sup>[344]</sup></a> and the almond Khorasan hight; the plum, with whose branches the boughs of the myrobalan were entwined tight; the orange, as it were a cresset flaming light, the shaddock weighed down with @@ -13352,7 +13338,7 @@ he will eat thy flesh and drink thy blood.” When the Ghul heard this, he laughed a loud laugh, as it were the pealing thunder, and said, “O my lord, by the life of thy head, if the Persians and Medes united against me, I would make them quaff the cup of -annihilation.” Quoth Gharib, “‘Tis as thou sayest;<a id='r345' /><a href='#f345' class='c011'><sup>[345]</sup></a> but tarry +annihilation.” Quoth Gharib, “‘Tis as thou sayest;<a id='r345' href='#f345' class='c011'><sup>[345]</sup></a> but tarry thou here in fort till I return to thee;” and quoth the Ghul, “I hear and I obey.” Then Sahim departed with his comrades of the Banu Kahtan for the dwelling-places of their tribe, and Gharib set @@ -13370,7 +13356,7 @@ and, summoning the chief of the couriers, said to him, “Wend thou forthright to the Monastery.” So he lost no time and when he reached it, he asked the monks of the King’s daughter, but they said, “We have not seen her this year.” So the courier returned -to the city of Isbánír<a id='r346' /><a href='#f346' class='c011'><sup>[346]</sup></a> and told the Wazir, who went in to the +to the city of Isbánír<a id='r346' href='#f346' class='c011'><sup>[346]</sup></a> and told the Wazir, who went in to the King and acquainted him with the message. Now when Sabur heard this, he cast his crown on the ground, tore his beard and fell down in a trance. They sprinkled water upon him, and @@ -13502,7 +13488,7 @@ crying, “God is most Great! Help and Victory for us and shame and defeat for the Miscreant!” Now when the Infidels heard the name of the All-powerful King, the One, the All-conquering, whom the sight comprehendeth not, but He comprehendeth -<span class='pageno' id='Page_282'>282</span>the sight,<a id='r347' /><a href='#f347' class='c011'><sup>[347]</sup></a> they looked at one another and said, “What is this +<span class='pageno' id='Page_282'>282</span>the sight,<a id='r347' href='#f347' class='c011'><sup>[347]</sup></a> they looked at one another and said, “What is this say that maketh our side-muscles tremble and weakeneth our resolution and causeth the life to fail in us? Never in our lives heard we aught goodlier than this saying!” adding, “Let us leave @@ -13518,7 +13504,7 @@ him and wished him glory and lasting life. Quoth he to them, “What made you leave fighting?”; and quoth they, “O, my lord, thou didst affright us with the words thou shoutest out at us.” Then asked Gharib, “What calamity do ye worship?”; and they -answered, “We worship Wadd and Suwá’a and Yaghús,<a id='r348' /><a href='#f348' class='c011'><sup>[348]</sup></a> lords of +answered, “We worship Wadd and Suwá’a and Yaghús,<a id='r348' href='#f348' class='c011'><sup>[348]</sup></a> lords of the tribe of Noah”; and Gharib, “We serve none but Allah Almighty, Maker of all things and Provider of all livings. He it is who created the heavens and the earth and stablished the @@ -13546,7 +13532,7 @@ thee, since Allah hath guided us into the right way at thy hands.” Replied he, “Allah abundantly requite you! Return to your dwellings and march forth with your good and your children and forego me to the Wady of Blossoms and the castle of Sásá bin -Shays,<a id='r349' /><a href='#f349' class='c011'><sup>[349]</sup></a> whilst I carry the Princess Fakhr Taj, daughter of Sabur, +Shays,<a id='r349' href='#f349' class='c011'><sup>[349]</sup></a> whilst I carry the Princess Fakhr Taj, daughter of Sabur, King of the Persians, back to her father and return to you.” “Hearkening and obedience,” said they and straightway returned to their encampment, rejoicing in Al-Islam, and expounded the @@ -13613,7 +13599,7 @@ fainting and they sprinkled rose-water on him, till he recovered <span class='pageno' id='Page_285'>285</span>and cried to Tuman, “Draw near to me and tell me all the good which hath befallen her.” So he came forward and acquainted him with all that had betided the Princess; and Sabur beat hand upon -hand, saying, “Unhappy thou, O Fakhr Taj!”<a id='r350' /><a href='#f350' class='c011'><sup>[350]</sup></a> And he bade +hand, saying, “Unhappy thou, O Fakhr Taj!”<a id='r350' href='#f350' class='c011'><sup>[350]</sup></a> And he bade give Tuman ten thousand gold pieces and conferred on him the government of Isfáhán City and its dependencies. Then he cried out to his Emirs, saying, “Mount, all of you, and fare we forth to @@ -13626,7 +13612,7 @@ Tuman took horse and rode till they had sight of Gharib, when Sabur footed it and made some steps towards Gharib, who also dismounted and advanced to meet him; and they embraced and saluted each other, and Sabur bent over Gharib’s hand and kissed -it and thanked him for his favours.<a id='r351' /><a href='#f351' class='c011'><sup>[351]</sup></a> They pitched their pavilions +it and thanked him for his favours.<a id='r351' href='#f351' class='c011'><sup>[351]</sup></a> They pitched their pavilions in face of each other and Sabur went in to his daughter, who rose and embracing him told him, all that had befallen her and how Gharib had rescued her from the clutches of the Ghul of the @@ -13635,7 +13621,7 @@ I will overwhelm him with gifts!”; and quoth she, “O my papa, make him thy son-in-law, that he may be to thee a force against thy foes, for he is passing valiant.” Her father replied, “O my daughter, knowst thou not that King Khirad Sháh seeketh thee in -marriage and that he hath cast the brocade<a id='r352' /><a href='#f352' class='c011'><sup>[352]</sup></a> and hath given an +marriage and that he hath cast the brocade<a id='r352' href='#f352' class='c011'><sup>[352]</sup></a> and hath given an hundred thousand dinars in settlement, and he is King of Shiraz and its dependencies and is lord of empire and horsemen and footmen?” But when the Princess heard these words she said, “O @@ -13672,8 +13658,8 @@ man, and belike thou wilt ask a heavy dowry.” Replied the King, thereof, seeketh her in marriage and hath appointed an hundred thousand dinars to her dower; but I have chosen thee before all men, that I may make thee the sword of my kingship -and my shield against vengeance.”<a id='r353' /><a href='#f353' class='c011'><sup>[353]</sup></a> Then he turned to his Chief -Officers and said to them, “Bear witness<a id='r354' /><a href='#f354' class='c011'><sup>[354]</sup></a> against me, O Lords of +and my shield against vengeance.”<a id='r353' href='#f353' class='c011'><sup>[353]</sup></a> Then he turned to his Chief +Officers and said to them, “Bear witness<a id='r354' href='#f354' class='c011'><sup>[354]</sup></a> against me, O Lords of mine Empire, that I marry my daughter Fakhr Taj to my son Gharib.”——And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.</p> @@ -13691,13 +13677,13 @@ ceased to say her permitted say.</p> <p class='c000'>She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Sabur, King of Ajam-land said to his Chief Officers, “Bear ye <span class='pageno' id='Page_287'>287</span>witness against me that I marry my daughter, Fakhr Taj, to my -son Gharib!” With that he joined palms<a id='r355' /><a href='#f355' class='c011'><sup>[355]</sup></a> with him and she +son Gharib!” With that he joined palms<a id='r355' href='#f355' class='c011'><sup>[355]</sup></a> with him and she became his wife. Then said Gharib, “Appoint me a dower and I will bring it to thee, for I have in the Castle of Sasa wealth and treasures beyond count.” Replied Sabur, “O my son, I want of thee neither treasure nor wealth and I will take nothing for her dower save the head of Jamrkán King of Dasht and the city of -Ahwáz.<a id='r356' /><a href='#f356' class='c011'><sup>[356]</sup></a>” Quoth Gharib, “O King of the age, I will fetch my +Ahwáz.<a id='r356' href='#f356' class='c011'><sup>[356]</sup></a>” Quoth Gharib, “O King of the age, I will fetch my folk forthright and go to thy foe and spoil his realm.” Quoth Sabur, “Allah requite thee with good!” and dismissed the lords and commons, thinking, “If Gharib go forth against Jamrkan, he @@ -13728,7 +13714,7 @@ champions rushed out to him, but Gharib let him not stand long <span class='pageno' id='Page_288'>288</span>before him ere he marked him and covered his breast with saffron, and as he turned away, he smote him on the nape with the shaft of his lance, and he fell to the ground and his pages bore him -from the lists.<a id='r357' /><a href='#f357' class='c011'><sup>[357]</sup></a> Then a second champion came forth against him +from the lists.<a id='r357' href='#f357' class='c011'><sup>[357]</sup></a> Then a second champion came forth against him and he overcame him and marked him on the breast; and thus did he with a third and a fourth and a fifth; and there came out against him champion after champion till he had overcome them @@ -13761,7 +13747,7 @@ out, “O my lord, this is my brother, whom I had sent on an errand, and I will go forth to meet him.” So saying, he mounted, with his hundred men of the Banu Kahtan and a thousand Persians, and rode to meet his brother in great state, but greatness belongeth -to God alone.<a id='r358' /><a href='#f358' class='c011'><sup>[358]</sup></a> When the two came up with each other, they +to God alone.<a id='r358' href='#f358' class='c011'><sup>[358]</sup></a> When the two came up with each other, they <span class='pageno' id='Page_289'>289</span>dismounted and embraced, and Gharib said to Sahim, “O my brother, hast thou brought our tribe to the Castle of Sasa and the Wady of Blossoms?” “O my brother,” replied Sahim, “when the @@ -13787,7 +13773,7 @@ the Castle of Sasa whence the Ghul and his sons came forth to meet him and dismounting, kissed his feet in the stirrups. He told them all that had passed and the giant said, “O my lord, do thou abide in this thy castle, whilst I with my sons and servants -repair to Irak and lay waste the city Al-Rusták<a id='r359' /><a href='#f359' class='c011'><sup>[359]</sup></a> and bring to +repair to Irak and lay waste the city Al-Rusták<a id='r359' href='#f359' class='c011'><sup>[359]</sup></a> and bring to thy hand all its defenders bound in straitest bond.” But Gharib thanked him and said, “O Sa’adan, we will all go.” So he made him ready and the whole body set out for Irak, leaving a thousand @@ -13820,7 +13806,7 @@ is none other than a youth whom I reared in my bosom. I found him in his mother’s lap in a certain valley and took her to wife. She brought me a son, whom I named Sahim al-Layl, and her own son, Gharib hight, grew up on my knees and became a -blasting thunderbolt and a lasting calamity,<a id='r360' /><a href='#f360' class='c011'><sup>[360]</sup></a> for he smote Al-Hamal,<a id='r361' /><a href='#f361' class='c011'><sup>[361]</sup></a> +blasting thunderbolt and a lasting calamity,<a id='r360' href='#f360' class='c011'><sup>[360]</sup></a> for he smote Al-Hamal,<a id='r361' href='#f361' class='c011'><sup>[361]</sup></a> Prince of the Banu Nabhan, and slew footmen and threw horsemen. Now I have a daughter, who befitteth thee alone, and he sought her of me; so I required of him the head of the Ghul of @@ -13855,7 +13841,7 @@ silk-bordered stuffs and kerchiefs and golden collars. So he went forth with this mighty fine dowry and set himself to equip Mahdiyah in all diligence. Such was their case; but as regards Gharib, he fared on till he came to Al-Jazírah, which is the first -town of Al-Irak<a id='r362' /><a href='#f362' class='c011'><sup>[362]</sup></a> and is a walled and fortified city and he hard by +town of Al-Irak<a id='r362' href='#f362' class='c011'><sup>[362]</sup></a> and is a walled and fortified city and he hard by it called a halt. When the townsfolk saw his army encamped before it, they bolted the gates and manned the walls, then went to the King of the city, who was called Al-Dámigh, the Brainer, @@ -13933,7 +13919,7 @@ brother, wait till I make ready mine affairs and mount among my men and fare with thee at thy stirrup.” Replied Gharib, “I have no patience to wait; do thou equip thy troops and join me at Cufa.” Thereupon Gharib mounted with his troops and -rode, till he came to the town of Babel,<a id='r363' /><a href='#f363' class='c011'><sup>[363]</sup></a> whose folk took fright +rode, till he came to the town of Babel,<a id='r363' href='#f363' class='c011'><sup>[363]</sup></a> whose folk took fright at him. Now there was in this town a King called Jamak, under whose hand were twenty thousand horsemen, and there gathered themselves together to him from the villages other @@ -13989,7 +13975,7 @@ his brain-pan, and he fell like a long-stemmed palm-tree. Thereupon Sa’adan cried to his slaves, saying, “Take this fatted calf and roast him quickly.” So they hastened to skin the Infidel and roasted him and brought him to the Ghul, who ate -his flesh and crunched his bones.<a id='r364' /><a href='#f364' class='c011'><sup>[364]</sup></a> Now when the Kafirs saw +his flesh and crunched his bones.<a id='r364' href='#f364' class='c011'><sup>[364]</sup></a> Now when the Kafirs saw how Sa’adan did with their fellow, their hair and pile stood on end; their skins quaked, their colour changed, their hearts died within them and they said to one another, “Whoso goeth out @@ -14014,11 +14000,11 @@ were left cried out, “Quarter! Quarter!” and Sa’adan said to them, “Pinion your King.”——And Shahrazad saw the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.</p> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_294fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i_294fp.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> </div> -<hr class='c015' /> +<hr class='c015' > <div class='footnote' id='f312'> <p class='c000'><span class='label'><a href='#r312'>312</a>. </span>Von Hammer holds this story to be a satire on Arab superstition and the compulsory @@ -14306,7 +14292,7 @@ at Najrán Al-Uzzá was widely worshipped: her idol (of the tree Semurat) belong Ghatafán was destroyed after the Prophet’s order by Khálid bin Walíd. Allát or Al-Lát is written by Pocock (spec. 110) “Ilahat” <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> deities in general. But Herodotus evidently refers to one god when he makes the Arabs worship Dionysus as <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Ὀροτὰλ</span> and -Urania as <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Ἀλιλάτ</span> and the “tashdid” in Allát would, to a Greek ear, introduce +Urania as <span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Ἀλιλάτ</span> and the “tashdid” in Allát would, to a Greek ear, introduce another syllable (Alilat). This was the goddess of the Kuraysh and Thakíf whose temple at Táif was circuited like the Ka’abah before Mohammed destroyed it.</p> </div> @@ -14407,8 +14393,8 @@ devoured; and this seems instinctive to the undeveloped mind.</p> </div> </div> -<div class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_295.jpg' alt='والسلام' class='ig001' /> +<div class='figcenter id003'> +<img src='images/i_295.jpg' alt='والسلام' class='ig001'> </div> <div class='chapter'> @@ -14889,7 +14875,7 @@ devoured; and this seems instinctive to the undeveloped mind.</p> </ul> <div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c001' /> + <hr class='pb c001' > </div> <div class='tnotes'> diff --git a/54525-h/images/cover.jpg b/54525-h/images/cover.jpg Binary files differindex b94e4f8..f1b4e58 100644 --- a/54525-h/images/cover.jpg +++ b/54525-h/images/cover.jpg |
