28 THE FIRST VOYAGE OF

some circumstances that had occurred between
me and him. Upon this, therefore, the master
and the merchants were convinced of my vera-
city, and recognised me; and they congratu-
lated me on my safety, all of them saying,
“By Allah, we believed not, that. thou hadst
escaped drowning; but God hath granted thee
a new life.” They then gave me the goods,
and I found my name written upon them, and
nought of them was missing. So I opened
them, and took forth from them something
precious and costly; the sailors of the ship
carried it with me, and I went up with it
to the King to offer it as a present, and
informed him that this ship was the one in
which I was a passenger. I told him also
that my goods had arrived all entire, and that
this present was a part of them. And the
King wondered at this affair extremely; my
veracity in all that I had said became manifest
to him, and he loved me greatly, and treated
me with exceeding honour, giving me a large
present in return for mine.

Then I sold my bales, as well as the other
goods that I had, and gained upon them abun-
dantly; and I purchased other goods and mer-
chandise and commodities of that city. And