# 043 - Seven Hundred and Sixty-third Night to Seven Hundred and Sixty-fifth Night

An episode of [Arabian Nights Volume 7 - Tales of Adventure and Intrigue](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1858984052), 27 Dec 2025, 22 min.

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Dive into the enchanting world of Arabian Nights, a mesmerizing collection of stories that have captivated audiences for centuries. This compilation, woven together through the artful storytelling of Shahrazad, features a rich tapestry of myths and folklore from the Indian subcontinent, Persia, and Arabia. Despite the absence of an original manuscript, this timeless collection is believed to have originated between AD 800-900. Among its many treasures are the iconic tales of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor. This volume is part of the renowned sixteen-volume translation by Richard Francis Burton, showcasing the allure of these age-old narratives. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia) This episode includes AI-generated content.

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[0:01] Speaker 1: Section forty three of the Book of A Thousand Knights
[0:03] Speaker 1: and a Knight, Volume seven. This is a LibriVox recording.
[0:09] Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
[0:14] Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. The
[0:21] Speaker 1: Book of A Thousand Knights and a Knight, Volume seven
[0:24] Speaker 1: by Anonymous, translated by Richard Francis Burton, section forty three.
[0:31] Speaker 1: When it was the seven hundred and sixty third night,
[0:35] Speaker 1: she continued, it hath reached me, o auspicious king, that
[0:39] Speaker 1: when Sa'id, son of the Wazir Faris, had read to
[0:43] Speaker 1: sayf al Muluk, son of King Asim, the writ on
[0:46] Speaker 1: the tunic which showed the portraiture of by D al Jamal,
[0:51] Speaker 1: daughter of Shahyal bin Sharruk, a king of the kings
[0:55] Speaker 1: of the Moslem Djinns, dwelling in Babel City and in
[0:59] Speaker 1: the garden of Iram, son of Ad the Greater. He cried, O,
[1:05] Speaker 1: my brother knowest thou of what woman? This is the
[1:08] Speaker 1: presentment that we may seek for her? Sayf al Muluk
[1:12] Speaker 1: replied no, by Allah, O, my brother, I know her not.
[1:18] Speaker 1: And Sa'id rejoined, come read this writing on the crown.
[1:24] Speaker 1: So Sayf al Muluk read it and cried out from
[1:27] Speaker 1: his heart's core and very vitals, saying, alas alas alas
[1:34] Speaker 1: quoth sa'id, O, my brother, an original of the portrait exists,
[1:38] Speaker 1: and her name be Badiyah al Jamau, and she abide
[1:42] Speaker 1: in the world. I will hasten to seek her, that
[1:45] Speaker 1: thou mayst win thy will without delay. But Allah upon thee, O,
[1:51] Speaker 1: my brother, leave this weeping and ascend thy throne, that
[1:55] Speaker 1: the officers of the state may come in to do
[1:58] Speaker 1: their service to thee. And in the undurn, do thou
[2:02] Speaker 1: summon the merchants and fakirs, and travelers and pilgrims and paupers,
[2:07] Speaker 1: and ask of them concerning this city and the garden
[2:10] Speaker 1: of Iram. Haply, by the help and blessing of Allah
[2:14] Speaker 1: extolled and exalted be he, some one of them shall
[2:18] Speaker 1: direct us thither. So when it was day, Sayf al
[2:22] Speaker 1: Muluk went forth and mounted the throne, clasping the tunic
[2:26] Speaker 1: in his arms, for he could neither stand nor sit
[2:29] Speaker 1: without it, nor would sleep visit him save it were
[2:33] Speaker 1: with him, and the emirs and wazirs and lords and
[2:36] Speaker 1: officers came in to him. When the divan was complete,
[2:40] Speaker 1: all being assembled in their places, he said to his minister,
[2:44] Speaker 1: go forth to them and tell them that the king
[2:47] Speaker 1: hath been suddenly struck by sickness, and he, by allah
[2:51] Speaker 1: hath passed the night in ill case. So Sa'id fared
[2:56] Speaker 1: forth and told the folk what he said, which when
[2:58] Speaker 1: old King Asim hard, he was concerned for his son,
[3:02] Speaker 1: and summoning the physicians and astrologers, carried them into Sayf
[3:06] Speaker 1: al Muluk. They looked at him and prescribed him to
[3:10] Speaker 1: zands and diet drinks, simples and medicinal waters, and wrote
[3:16] Speaker 1: him characts, and incensed him with nod and aloes, wood
[3:20] Speaker 1: and ambergris three days space. But his malady persisted three
[3:25] Speaker 1: months till King Asim was wroth with the leeches, and
[3:29] Speaker 1: said to them, woe to you, o dogs, What are
[3:34] Speaker 1: all of you impotent to cure my son? Except ye
[3:37] Speaker 1: heal him forthright? I will put the whole of you
[3:39] Speaker 1: to death. The archiater replied, O, King of the age,
[3:44] Speaker 1: in very sooth we know that this is thy son,
[3:47] Speaker 1: and thou wottest that we fail not of diligence and
[3:50] Speaker 1: tending a stranger so how much more with medicining thy son.
[3:55] Speaker 1: But thy son is afflicted with a malady hard to heal,
[3:58] Speaker 1: which if thou desire to know, we will discover it.
[4:02] Speaker 1: To thee quoth Asim, what then find ye to be
[4:06] Speaker 1: the malady of my son? And quoth the leech O,
[4:10] Speaker 1: King of the Age, thy son is in love, and
[4:12] Speaker 1: he loveth one to whose enjoyment he hath no way
[4:15] Speaker 1: of access. At this the king was wroth and asked,
[4:20] Speaker 1: how know ye that my son is in love? And
[4:22] Speaker 1: how came love to him? They answered, inquire of his
[4:26] Speaker 1: wazir and brother Sa'id, for he knoweth his case. The
[4:31] Speaker 1: king rose and repaired to his private closet, and, summoning Sa'id,
[4:36] Speaker 1: said to him, tell me the truth of thy brother's malady.
[4:40] Speaker 1: But Sa'id replied, I know it not so. King Asim
[4:44] Speaker 1: said to the sworder, take Sa'id and bind his eyes
[4:48] Speaker 1: and strike his neck. Whereupon Sa'id feared for himself and cried, O,
[4:53] Speaker 1: King of the Age, grant me immunity, replied the King, speak,
[4:58] Speaker 1: and thou shalt have it. Thy son is in love
[5:02] Speaker 1: with whom? Is he in love with? The King's daughter
[5:06] Speaker 1: of the jan and where could he have spied the
[5:09] Speaker 1: daughter of the Djinns. Her portrait is wroughten on the
[5:13] Speaker 1: tunic that was in the bundle given Thee by Solomon,
[5:16] Speaker 1: Prophet of Allah. When the king heard this, he rose, and,
[5:20] Speaker 1: going in to sayf al Muluk, said to him, O,
[5:23] Speaker 1: my son, what hath afflicted thee? What is this portrait?
[5:27] Speaker 1: Whereof thou art enamored? And why didst thou not tell me?
[5:32] Speaker 1: He replied, O, my sire, I was ashamed to name
[5:36] Speaker 1: this to THEE, and could not bring myself to discover
[5:39] Speaker 1: aught thereof to any one at all. But now thou
[5:43] Speaker 1: knowest my case. Look how thou mayest do to cure me?
[5:47] Speaker 1: Rejoined his father. What is to be done for this
[5:51] Speaker 1: one of the daughters of men? We might devise a
[5:53] Speaker 1: device for coming at her, but she is the king's
[5:56] Speaker 1: daughter of the Djinns, and who can woo and win her?
[5:59] Speaker 1: Save be Solomon Davidson, and hardly he. However, O, my son,
[6:05] Speaker 1: do thou arise forthright and harden thy heart, and take
[6:09] Speaker 1: horse and ride out a hunting or to weapon play
[6:12] Speaker 1: in the maidan, divert thyself with eating and drinking, and
[6:16] Speaker 1: put away kark in care from thy heart, and I
[6:19] Speaker 1: will bring thee an hundred maids to the daughters of kings,
[6:23] Speaker 1: for thou hast no need to the daughters of the Jhan,
[6:26] Speaker 1: over whom we lack control, and of kind other than ours.
[6:30] Speaker 1: But he said, I cannot renounce her, nor will I
[6:33] Speaker 1: seek other than her. As King Asim, how then shall
[6:37] Speaker 1: we do o, my son, and say, if al Muluk answered,
[6:41] Speaker 1: bring us all the merchants and travelers and wanderers in
[6:45] Speaker 1: the city, that we may question them thereof peradventure, Allah
[6:50] Speaker 1: will lead us to the city of Babel and to
[6:52] Speaker 1: the garden of Iram. So King Asim bade summon all
[6:56] Speaker 1: the merchants in the city, and strangers and sea capons,
[7:00] Speaker 1: And as each came inquired of him, annt the city
[7:03] Speaker 1: of Babel and its peninsula and the garden of Iram.
[7:08] Speaker 1: But none of them knew these places, nor could any
[7:10] Speaker 1: give him tidings thereof. However, when the seance broke up,
[7:16] Speaker 1: one of them said, O, King of the Age, and
[7:20] Speaker 1: thou be minded to kin this thing up and high
[7:23] Speaker 1: thee to the land of China, for it hath a
[7:25] Speaker 1: vast city and the safe wherein our store of rarities
[7:29] Speaker 1: and things of price, and folk of all kinds, And
[7:32] Speaker 1: thou shalt not come to the knowledge of this city
[7:35] Speaker 1: and garden, but from its folk, it may be one
[7:38] Speaker 1: of them will direct thee to that thou seekest. Whereupon,
[7:43] Speaker 1: quoth Sayf al Muluk, O, my sire, equip me a
[7:47] Speaker 1: ship that I may fare to the China land, and
[7:50] Speaker 1: do thou rule the reign in my stead, replied the
[7:53] Speaker 1: old king, O, my son, abide thou on the throne
[7:57] Speaker 1: of thy kingship and govern thy commons. And I myself
[8:01] Speaker 1: will make the voyage to China and ask for thee
[8:03] Speaker 1: of the city of Babel and the garden of Iram.
[8:06] Speaker 1: But Sayf al Muluk rejoined, O, my sire, in very
[8:10] Speaker 1: sooth this affair concerneth me, and none can search after
[8:13] Speaker 1: it like myself. So come what will an thou give
[8:17] Speaker 1: me leave to make the voyage. I will depart and
[8:20] Speaker 1: wander awhile. If I find trace or tidings of her,
[8:24] Speaker 1: my wish will be won. And if not, belike, the
[8:27] Speaker 1: voyage will broaden my breast and recruit my courage, and
[8:31] Speaker 1: haply by foreign travel, my case will be made easy
[8:34] Speaker 1: to me. And if I live, I shall return to
[8:37] Speaker 1: THEE safe and sound. And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of
[8:41] Speaker 1: day and ceased to say her permitted. Say when it
[8:47] Speaker 1: was the seven hundred and sixty fourth night, she pursued it.
[8:51] Speaker 1: Hath reached me, O auspicious king that Sayf al Muluk
[8:54] Speaker 1: said to his sire King Asim, equip me a ship
[8:57] Speaker 1: that I may fare therein to the China land, and
[9:00] Speaker 1: searched for the object of my desire. If I live,
[9:04] Speaker 1: I shall return to THEE safe and sound. The old
[9:08] Speaker 1: king looked at his son and saw nothing for it
[9:11] Speaker 1: but to do what he desired. So he gave him
[9:14] Speaker 1: the leave he wanted, and fitted him forty ships, manned
[9:18] Speaker 1: with twenty thousand armed mamelukes beside servants, and presented him
[9:23] Speaker 1: with great plenty of money and necessaries and warlike gear,
[9:27] Speaker 1: as much as he required. When the ships were laden
[9:31] Speaker 1: with water and victual weapons and troops, Sayf al Muluk's
[9:36] Speaker 1: father and mother farewelled him, and King Asim said, depart O,
[9:41] Speaker 1: my son, and travel in weeel and health and safety.
[9:44] Speaker 1: I commend THEE to him, with whom deposits are not lost.
[9:48] Speaker 1: So the prince bade adieu to his parents and embarked
[9:51] Speaker 1: with his brother Sa'id, and they weighed anchor and sailed
[9:55] Speaker 1: till they came to the city of China. When the
[9:58] Speaker 1: Chinaman heard of the coming of forty ships full of
[10:01] Speaker 1: armed men and stores, weapons and hordes, they made sure
[10:05] Speaker 1: that these were enemies come to battle with them and
[10:09] Speaker 1: siege them. So they bolted the gates of the town
[10:12] Speaker 1: and made ready the manganals. But Sayf al Muluk, hearing
[10:16] Speaker 1: of this, sent two of his chief mamelukes to the
[10:19] Speaker 1: King of China, bidding them say to him, this is
[10:22] Speaker 1: Sayf al Muluk, son of King Asim of Egypt, who
[10:26] Speaker 1: has come to thy city as a guest to divert
[10:29] Speaker 1: himself by viewing thy country awhile, and not for conquest
[10:33] Speaker 1: or contention. Wherefore, and thou wilt perceive him, he will
[10:38] Speaker 1: come ashore to thee and if not, he will return,
[10:41] Speaker 1: and will not disquiet thee nor the people of thy capital.
[10:46] Speaker 1: They presented themselves at the city gates and said, we
[10:49] Speaker 1: are messengers from King Saif al Muluk, whereupon the townsfolk
[10:54] Speaker 1: opened the gates and carried them to their king, whose
[10:56] Speaker 1: name was fog Fur Shah, and between whom and King
[10:59] Speaker 1: Issuis there had erst been acquaintance. So when he heard
[11:03] Speaker 1: that the newcomer prince was the son of King Asim,
[11:06] Speaker 1: he bestowed robes of honor on the messengers, and, bidding
[11:10] Speaker 1: open the gates, made ready guest gifts, and went forth
[11:14] Speaker 1: in person with the chief officers of his realm to
[11:17] Speaker 1: meet Sayf al Muluk, and the two kings embraced. Then
[11:22] Speaker 1: Fogfor said to his guests, welcome and welcome and fair
[11:26] Speaker 1: cheer to him who cometh to us. I am thy slave,
[11:29] Speaker 1: in the slave of thy sire. My city is between
[11:33] Speaker 1: thy hands to command, and whatso thou seekest shall be
[11:36] Speaker 1: brought before thee. Then he presented him with the guest
[11:39] Speaker 1: gifts and victual for the folk at their stations, and
[11:43] Speaker 1: they took horse with the Wazir Sa'id and the chiefs
[11:46] Speaker 1: of their officers and the rest of their troops, and
[11:49] Speaker 1: rode from the sea shorts of the city, which they
[11:52] Speaker 1: entered with cymbals clashing and drums beating in token of rejoicing.
[11:57] Speaker 1: There they abode in the enjoyment of fair entertaperment for
[12:00] Speaker 1: forty days at the end of which quoth the King
[12:03] Speaker 1: of China to sayf al Muluk, O, son of my brother,
[12:07] Speaker 1: how is thy case? Doth my country please THEE? And
[12:11] Speaker 1: quoth sayf al Muluk, May Allah Almighty long honor it
[12:16] Speaker 1: with THEE, O King, said fogfort naught hath brought THEE
[12:21] Speaker 1: hither save some need which hath occurred to THEE. And
[12:24] Speaker 1: whatso thou desirest of my country? I will accomplish it?
[12:28] Speaker 1: To THEE, replied sayf al Muluk, O King, my case
[12:32] Speaker 1: is a wondrous, and told him how he had fallen
[12:35] Speaker 1: in love with the portrait of by thee Al Jamal
[12:39] Speaker 1: then wept better tears. When the King of China heard
[12:42] Speaker 1: his story, he wept for pity and solicitude for him,
[12:46] Speaker 1: and cried, and what wouldst thou have now, O, sayf
[12:50] Speaker 1: al Muluk, And he rejoined, I would have THEE bring
[12:53] Speaker 1: me all the wanderers and travelers, the seafarers and sea captains,
[12:58] Speaker 1: that I may question them the original of this portrait.
[13:02] Speaker 1: Perhaps one of them may give me tidings of her.
[13:06] Speaker 1: So fogfor Shah set out his nabobs and chamberlains and
[13:10] Speaker 1: bodyguards to fetch all the wanderers and travelers in the land.
[13:15] Speaker 1: And they brought them before the two kings, and they
[13:18] Speaker 1: were a numerous company. Then Saif al Muluk questioned them
[13:22] Speaker 1: of the city of Battel and the garden of Iram,
[13:25] Speaker 1: but none of them returned him a reply. Whereupon he
[13:29] Speaker 1: was bewildered and wist not what to do. But one
[13:33] Speaker 1: of the sea captains said to him, auspicious King, and
[13:37] Speaker 1: thou wouldst know of this city and that garden up
[13:40] Speaker 1: in high thee to the islands of the Indian realm. Thereupon,
[13:44] Speaker 1: Sayf al Muluk bade bring the ships, which being done,
[13:47] Speaker 1: they freighted them with vivers and water and all that
[13:51] Speaker 1: they needed, and the prince and his wazir re embarked
[13:54] Speaker 1: with all their men. After they had farewelled King fog
[13:58] Speaker 1: Fur Shah. They sailed the seas four months with a
[14:01] Speaker 1: fair wind, in safety and satisfaction, till a chance that
[14:05] Speaker 1: one day of the days there came upon them a wind,
[14:09] Speaker 1: and the billows buffeted them from all quarters. The rain
[14:13] Speaker 1: and hail descended on them, and during twenty days the
[14:17] Speaker 1: sea was troubled for the violence of the wind, wherefore
[14:20] Speaker 1: the ships drave one against others and brake up, as
[14:23] Speaker 1: did the carraks, and all on board were drowned, except
[14:27] Speaker 1: Sayf al Muluk and some of his servants, who saved
[14:30] Speaker 1: themselves in a little cock boat. Then the wind fell
[14:33] Speaker 1: by the decree of Allah Almighty, and the sun shone out.
[14:38] Speaker 1: Whereupon Sayif al Muluk opened his eyes, and, seeing no
[14:42] Speaker 1: sign of the ships nor aught but sky and sea,
[14:45] Speaker 1: said to the mamelukes who were with him, where are
[14:48] Speaker 1: the carraks and cockboats? And where is my brother sa'id?
[14:53] Speaker 1: They replied, O King of the age, there remained nor ships,
[14:57] Speaker 1: nor boats, nor those who were therein for they are
[15:01] Speaker 1: all drowned and become food for fishes. Now, when he
[15:06] Speaker 1: heard this, he cried aloud and repeated the saying which
[15:09] Speaker 1: whoso saith shall not be confounded, and it is there
[15:14] Speaker 1: is no majesty and there is no might save in
[15:16] Speaker 1: Allah the Glorious the Great. Then he fell to buffeting
[15:20] Speaker 1: his face and would have cast himself into the sea,
[15:24] Speaker 1: but his mamelukes withheld him, saying, O King, what will
[15:28] Speaker 1: this profit thee thou hast brought all this on thyself,
[15:32] Speaker 1: For hadst thou hearkened to thy father's words, naught thereof
[15:36] Speaker 1: had betided thee. But this was written from all eternity
[15:40] Speaker 1: by the will of the creator of souls. And Shahrazad
[15:44] Speaker 1: perceived the dawn of day and ceased, saying her permitted
[15:48] Speaker 1: say when it was the seven hundred and sixty fifth night,
[15:53] Speaker 1: she resumed it. Hath reached me o auspicious King, that
[15:57] Speaker 1: when Sayf al Muluk would have cast himself into the
[15:59] Speaker 1: man a hiss, Mamelukes withheld him, saying, what will this
[16:03] Speaker 1: profit thee? Thou hast done this deed by thyself. Yet
[16:07] Speaker 1: was it written from all eternity, by the will of
[16:09] Speaker 1: the creator of souls, that the creature might accomplish that
[16:13] Speaker 1: which Allah hath decreed unto him. And indeed, at the
[16:16] Speaker 1: time of thy birth, the astrologers assured thy sire that
[16:20] Speaker 1: all manner trouble should befall thee. So there is naught
[16:24] Speaker 1: for it, but patience till Allah deliver us from this
[16:27] Speaker 1: our strait replied the Prince. There is no majesty and
[16:32] Speaker 1: there is no might save in Allah the Glorious, the Great.
[16:36] Speaker 1: Neither is there refuge nor fleeing from that which he decreeth,
[16:40] Speaker 1: and he sighed and recited these couplets by the compassionate.
[16:45] Speaker 1: I am dazed about my case for low troubles in
[16:49] Speaker 1: griefs beset me sore. I know not whence they grow,
[16:53] Speaker 1: I will be patient. So the folk that I against
[16:56] Speaker 1: a thing bitterer than very Allah's self and dured have
[17:01] Speaker 1: may know less bitter than my patience is the taste
[17:05] Speaker 1: of aloes juice I've borne with patience. What's more hot
[17:09] Speaker 1: than coals with fire aglow in this my trouble? What
[17:12] Speaker 1: resource have I save to commit my case to him
[17:16] Speaker 1: who orders all that is for weal or woe? Then
[17:20] Speaker 1: he became drowned in the depth of thoughts, and his
[17:23] Speaker 1: tears ran down upon his cheeks like torrent rain, and
[17:26] Speaker 1: he slept awhile of the day, after which he awoke
[17:29] Speaker 1: and sought a food somewhat. So they set meat before him,
[17:33] Speaker 1: and he ate his sufficiency till they removed the food
[17:37] Speaker 1: from before him. Whilst the boat drove on with them,
[17:41] Speaker 1: they knew not whither it was wandering. It drifted with
[17:45] Speaker 1: them at the will of the winds and the waves,
[17:48] Speaker 1: night and day a great while till their victual was spent,
[17:52] Speaker 1: and they saw themselves shent, and were reduced to extreme
[17:55] Speaker 1: hunger and thirst and exhaustion, when behold suddenly they sighted
[18:00] Speaker 1: an island from afar, and the breezes wafted them on
[18:04] Speaker 1: till they came thither. Then making the cock boat fast
[18:08] Speaker 1: to the coast, and leaving one therein to guard it,
[18:11] Speaker 1: they fared on into the island, where they found abundance
[18:14] Speaker 1: of fruits of all colors, and ate of them till
[18:17] Speaker 1: they were satisfied. Presently they saw a person sitting among
[18:21] Speaker 1: those trees, and he was long faced of strange favor,
[18:25] Speaker 1: and white of beard and body. He called to one
[18:28] Speaker 1: of the mamelukes by his name, saying, eat not of
[18:31] Speaker 1: these fruits, for they are unripe. But come hither to me,
[18:35] Speaker 1: that I may give thee to eat of the best
[18:37] Speaker 1: and the ripest. The slave looked at him and thought
[18:40] Speaker 1: that he was one of the shipwrecked who had made
[18:43] Speaker 1: his way to that island. So he joyed with exceeding
[18:47] Speaker 1: joy at the sight of him, and went close up
[18:49] Speaker 1: to him, knowing not what was decreed to him in
[18:52] Speaker 1: the secret purpose, nor what was writ upon his brow.
[18:56] Speaker 1: But when he drew near the stranger in human shape
[19:00] Speaker 1: leapt upon him, for he was a marid, and riding
[19:03] Speaker 1: upon his shoulder blades, and twisting one of his legs
[19:06] Speaker 1: about his neck, let the other hang down upon his back, saying,
[19:10] Speaker 1: walk on, fellow, for there is no escape for thee
[19:13] Speaker 1: from me, and thou art become mine ass. Thereupon the
[19:18] Speaker 1: Mameluke fell a weeping and cried out to his comrades, Alas,
[19:22] Speaker 1: my lord, flee ye forth of this wood, and save yourselves,
[19:25] Speaker 1: for one of the dwellers therein half mounted on my shoulders,
[19:29] Speaker 1: and the rest seek you, desiring to ride you like me.
[19:34] Speaker 1: When they heard these words, thou fled down to the
[19:36] Speaker 1: boat and pushed off to sea, whilst the islanders followed
[19:40] Speaker 1: them into the water, saying, whither when ye come, tarry
[19:44] Speaker 1: with us, and we will mount in your backs and
[19:46] Speaker 1: give you meat and drink, and you shall be our donkeys.
[19:50] Speaker 1: Hearing this, they hastened the more seawards till they left
[19:53] Speaker 1: them in the distance, and fared on, trusting in Allah Almighty.
[19:58] Speaker 1: Nor did they leave faring for a month till another
[20:01] Speaker 1: island rose before them, and they are on. They landed
[20:04] Speaker 1: here they found fruits of various kinds, and busied themselves
[20:07] Speaker 1: with eating of them, when behold they saw from afar
[20:11] Speaker 1: somewhat lying in the road a hideous creature, as it
[20:15] Speaker 1: were a column of silver. So they went up to it,
[20:18] Speaker 1: and one of the men gave it a kick, when lo,
[20:21] Speaker 1: it was a thing of human semblance, long of eyes
[20:24] Speaker 1: and cloven of head, and hidden under one of his ears,
[20:28] Speaker 1: for he was wont when as he lay down to sleep,
[20:31] Speaker 1: to spread one ear under his head and cover his
[20:34] Speaker 1: face with the other ear. He snatched up the mameluke
[20:38] Speaker 1: who had kicked him, and carried him off into the
[20:40] Speaker 1: middle of the island. And behold it was all full
[20:43] Speaker 1: of ghouls who eat the sons of atom. The men
[20:47] Speaker 1: cried out to his fellows, save yourselves, for this is
[20:51] Speaker 1: the island of the man eating ghouls, and they mean
[20:54] Speaker 1: to tear me to bits and devour me. When they
[20:57] Speaker 1: heard these words, they fled back to the boat, without
[21:00] Speaker 1: gathering any store of the fruits, and putting out. The
[21:03] Speaker 1: sea fared on some days till it so happened that
[21:06] Speaker 1: they came to another island, where they found a high mountain.
[21:10] Speaker 1: So they climbed to the top, and there saw a
[21:13] Speaker 1: thick copse. Now they were sore and hungered, so they
[21:16] Speaker 1: took to eating of the fruits. But before they were aware,
[21:20] Speaker 1: there came upon them from among the trees, black men
[21:23] Speaker 1: of terrible aspect, each fifty cubits high, with eye teeth
[21:27] Speaker 1: protruding from their mouths like elephants tusks, and laying hands on.
[21:31] Speaker 1: Sayf al Muluk and his company carried them to their king,
[21:36] Speaker 1: whom they found seated on a piece of black felt
[21:38] Speaker 1: laid on a rock, and about him a great company
[21:41] Speaker 1: of Zenzebar blacks standing in his service. The blackamoors, who
[21:46] Speaker 1: had captured the prince and his mamelukes, set them before
[21:49] Speaker 1: the king and said to him, we found these birds
[21:53] Speaker 1: among the trees. And the king was sharp set, so
[21:56] Speaker 1: he took two of the servants and cut their throats
[21:59] Speaker 1: and ate them. And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day
[22:03] Speaker 1: and ceased to say her permitted say end of Section
[22:07] Speaker 1: forty three.

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