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The princess slept a long time, and, when she awoke, wondered
that Prince Camaralzaman was not with her ; she called her women,
and asked them if they knew where he was. They told her they
saw him enter the tent, but did not see him go out again. While
they were talking to her, she took up her girdle, found the little
purse open, and the talisman gone. She did not doubt but that
Camaralzaman had taken it to see what it was, and that he
would bring it back with him. She waited for him impatiently
till night, and could not imagine what made him stay away from
her so long.

When it was quite dark, and she could hear no news of him, she
fell into violent grief; she cursed the talisman, and the man that
made it. She could not imagine how her talisman should have
caused the prince’s separation from her: she did not however lose
her judgment, and came to a courageous decision as to what she
should do. :

She only and her women knew of the prince’s being gone; for
his men were asleep in their tents. The princess, fearing they would
betray her if they had any knowledge of it, moderated her grief, and
forbade her women to say or do anything that might create the least
suspicion. “She then laid aside her robe, and put on one of Prince
Camaralzaman’s, being so like him that next day, when she came

out, his men took her for him. Lhe

She commanded them to pack up their baggage and begin their
march; and when all things were ready, she ordered one of her
women to go into her litter, she herself mounting on horseback, and
-riding by her side.

They travelled for several months by land and sea; the prin-
cess continuing the journey under the name of Camaralzaman.
They took the Isle of Ebony on their way to the Isles of the Children
of Khaledan. They went to the capital of the Isle of Ebony, where

a king reigned whose name was Armanos. The persons who first.