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with patience, when I considered that I had nothing to fear from the
seas, from pirates, from serpents, nor from the other perils I had
undergone. :

All these fatigues ended at last, and I came safe to Bagdad. I
went immediately to wait upon the caliph, and gave him an account
of my embassy. That prince told me he had been uneasy, by reason —
that I was so long in returning, but that he always hoped’ God would

“preserve me. When I told him the adventure of the elephants,
he seemed to be much surprised at it, and would never have given any
credit to it had he not known my sincerity. He reckoned this story,
and the other narratives I had given him, to be so curious that he

_ ordered one of his secretaries to write them in characters of gold, and
lay them up in his treasury. I retired very well satisfied with the
honours I received and the presents which he gave me; and after
that .I gave myself up wholly to my family, kindred and friends.