TIO THE FOURTH VOYAGE OF

and crying out for herself; and they let down
with her a large quantity of food and water. I
saw the woman; but she saw not me; and
they covered the mouth of the pit with the
stone, and went their ways. Then I rose, and,
taking in my hand a long bone of a dead man,
I went to the woman, and struck her upon the
middle of the head; whereupon she fell down
senseless; and I struck her a second and a
third time, and she died. So I took her bread
and what else she had, and I found upon her
abundance of ornaments and apparel, necklaces
and jewels and minerals. And having taken |
the water and food that was with her, I sat in
a place that I had prepared in a side of the
cavern, wherein to sleep, and proceeded to eat a
little of that food, as much only as would sus-
tain me, lest it should be exhausted quickly,
and I should die of hunger and thirst.

I remained in that cavern a length of time ;
and whenever they buried a corpse, I killed
the person who was buried with it alive, and
took that person’s food and drink, to subsist _
upon it, until I was sleeping one day, and I
awoke from my sleep, and heard something
make a noise in a side of the cavern. So I
said, “What can this be?” I then arose and