166 ES-SINDIBAD OF THE SEA

with wisdom and dominion!” Then the Kha-
leefeh conferred favours upon me, and com-
manded me to depart to my abode. So I
came to my house, and gave the legal and
other alms, and continued to live in the same
pleasant. circumstances as at present. I forgot
the arduous troubles that I had experienced,
discarded from my heart the anxieties of travel,
rejected from my mind distress, and betook myself
to eating and drinking, and pleasures and joy.

And when Es-Sindibad of the Sea had finished
his story, every one who was present wondered
at the events that had happened to him. He
then ordered his treasurer to give to Es-Sindi-
bad of the Land a hundred pieces of gold, and
commanded him to depart, and to return the
next day with the boon-companions, to hear
his seventh story. So the porter went away
happy to his abode, and on the morrow he
was present with all the boon-companions; and
they sat according to their usual custom, and
employed themselves, in eating and drinking
and enjoyment until the end of the day, when
Es-Sindibid of the Sea made a sign to them
that they should hear his seventh story, and
said—