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father with the death of his son, whom he loves so passionately;
‘but his joy will be the ere when he hears you are alive
and happy.’

‘Brave Marzavan, replied the prince, ‘I cannot but approve such
an ingenious stratagem, or sufficiently admire your conduct: I am
under fresh obligations to you for it.’

The prince and Marzavan, well provided with cash for their
expenses, continued their journey both by land and sea, and found
no other obstacle but the length of time which it necessarily took

up. They, however, arrived at length at the capital of China, where
Marzavan, instead of going to his lodgings, carried the prince to a
public inn. They tarried there zncogneto for three days to rest them-
selves after the fatigue of the voyage ; during which time Marzavan
caused an astrologer’s dress to be made for the prince. The three
days being expired, the prince put on his astrologer’s habit; and
Marzavan left him to go and acquaint his mother, the Princess
Badoura’s nurse, of his uae to the end that she might ee
the Princess.

Prince Camaralzaman, instructed . by Marzavan as. to what
he was to do, and provided with all he wanted as an astrologer,
came next morning to the gate of the king’s palace, before the
guards and porters, and cried aloud, ‘I am an astrologer, and
am come to effect a cure on the estimable Princess _Badoura,
daughter of the most high and. mighty monarch Gaiour, King
of China, on the conditions proposed by his majesty, to marry
her if I succeed, or else to lose ye life - for my fruitless and
‘presumptuous attempt.’

‘Besides the guards and porters at the eae this drew together a
great number of people about Prince Camaralzaman. No physician,
astrologer, nor magician had appeared for a long time, deterred by
the many tragic examples of ill success that appeared before their
eyes; it was therefore thought that there were no more men of these