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liar properties” Camaralzaman took the talisman, and ap-
proached a light to examine it, He no sooner recognised it,
than with a degree of surprise which delighted the princess, he
exclaimed, “Ah sire, your majesty asks me the properties of
this talisman? Alas! its properties are such as to make me die
with grief and sadness, if 1 do not shortly find the most charm-
ing and amiable princess that was ever beheld under heaven, to
whom this talisman belonged, and which was the cause of my
losing her.”

No sooner had he said this than the princess went into a
closet, where she took off the royal turban, and having in a few
minutes put on a woman’s dress, together with the girdle she
wore on the day of their separation, she returned to the chamber
where she had left the prince.

Camaralzaman instantly knew his dear princess. He ran to
her, and embracing her with the utmost tenderness, “ Ah,” cried
he, “how much I am obliged to the king for having surprised
me so agreeably.” “Do not expect to see the king again,” re-
plied the princess, embracing him in her turn, and with tears in
her eyes; “in me you behold the king. Sit down, that I may
explain to you this enigma.” a

They seated themselves, and the princess related to Camaral-
zaman the resolution she had formed in the plain, where they
had encamped together for the last time, when she discovered
that she waited for him in vain; in what manner she had exe-
cuted it until her arrival at the Isle of Ebony, where she had
been obliged to marry the Princess Haiatalnefous, and to accept
the crown, which King Armanos had offered her in consequence
of the marriage ; that the princess, of whose merits she spoke in
enthusiastic terms, had received the declaration she had made
of her sex in a favourable manner ; and at last acquainted him
with the adventure of the talisman, found in one of the jars of
olives and gold dust, which she had purchased, and which had
induced her to send for him to the city of idolaters.

When the Princess Badoura had concluded, she begged the
prince to inform her by what accident the talisman had occa-
sioned his departure, and he at once satisfied her curiosity.
Next day, the princess having resumed her own dress, des-
patched a slave to request King Armanos, her father-in-law, to
take the trouble of coming to her apurtment.