led to t of the deep,

    and said,  to me?

    And t I may speak hee,

    for I hings.

    So er, and leaned his

    ened.

    And to  turned my face to the

    East and journeyed.  From t comet is wise.

    Six days I journeyed, and on th day I came

    to a  is in try of tartars.  I sat down under

    tamarisk tree to ser myself from the

    land  up .  t to and

    fro over the plain like flies crawling upon a disk of polished

    copper.

    rose up from t rim of

    tartars sa, trung ted bows,

    and  upon ttle o meet it.

    to themselves behind

    t curtains.

    At tars returned, but five of them were missing,

    and of t came back not a few hey

    o tily away.

    t of a cave and peered after they

    sniffed up trils, and trotted off in the

    opposite direction.

    he plain, and

    to.  A company of mercs ed round it on

    carpets.  ted behe negroes

    cents of tanned skin upon the

    sand, and making a he prickly pear.

    As I came near ts rose up and drew

    his sword, and asked me my business.

    I ans I  I had

    escaped from tartars, o make me their slave.

    the chief smiled, and showed me five heads fixed upon long reeds of

    bamboo.

    t of God, and I answered him

    Mohammed.

    , ook me

    by t me some

    mares milk in a wooden dised.

    At daybreak arted on our journey.  I rode on a red-haired

    camel by