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and respecting the events that had happened
to me. I therefore acquainted him with all my
story, and what I had experienced, from first
to last; and the King wondered at this narrative
extremely, and congratulated me on my safety.
Then I arose and took forth from the raft a
quantity of the minerals and jewels, and aloes-
wood and crude ambergris, and gave it to the
King; and he accepted it from me, and treated
me with exceeding honour, lodging me in a place
in his abode. I associated with the best and
the greatest of the people, who paid me great
respect, and I quitted not the abode of the
King.

The island of Sarandeeb is under the equinoctial
line; its night being always twelve hours, and its
day also twelve hours. Its length is eighty leagues ;
and its breadth, thirty; and it extendeth largely
between a lofty mountain and a deep valley. This
mountain is seen from a distance of three days,
and it containeth varieties of jacinths, and different
kinds of minerals, and trees of all sorts of spices,
and its surface is covered with emery, wherewith
jewels are cut into shape: in its rivers also are
diamonds, and pearls are in its valleys. I ascended
to the summit of the mountain, and diverted my-
self with a view of its wonders, which are not to