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panions and friends. And I ceased not to live
thus, eating and drinking, and sporting and
making merry, eating well and drinking well,
associating familiarly and mingling in society;
and I forgot all that had happened to me, and
the distresses and horrors that I had suffered.
And. I gained during that voyage what could
not be numbered nor calculated. Such were
the most wonderful of the things that I beheld
during that voyage; and to-morrow, if it be the
will of God (whose name be exalted!), thou
shalt come, [O Sindibdd of the Land,] and I will
relate to thee the story of the fourth voyage;
for it is more wonderful than the stories of the
preceding voyages.

Then Es-Sindibad of the Sea gave orders to
present to the porter a hundred pieces of gold,
as usual, and commanded to spread the table.,
So they spread it, and the company supped,
wondering at that story and at the events de-
scribed in it; and after the supper, they went
their ways. Hs-Sindibad the Porter took the
gold that Es-Sindibdd of the Sea had ordered
to be given to him, and went his way, wonder-
ing at that which he had heard, and passed the
night in his house; and when the morning

came, and diffused its light and shone, he arose,
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