I Inscribe these pages
to
An Old And Valued Friend,
John W. Larking
(Whilome of Alexandria).
In Whose Hospitable Home (“The Sycamores”) I Made My Final
Preparations For A Pilgrimage To Meccah
and El-Medinah.
R. F. Burton
When it was the Six Hundred and Thirty-seventh Night,
Shahrazad continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Sa’adan havingbroken into the palace of King Jamak and pounded to pieces those therein, thesurvivors cried out, “Quarter! Quarter!”; and Sa’adan said to them, “Pinionyour King!” So they bound Jamak and took him up, and Sa’adan drove them beforehim like sheep and brought them to Gharib’s presence, after the most part ofthe citizens had perished by the enemy’s swords. When the King of Babel came tohimself, he found himself bound and heard Sa’adan say, “I will sup to-night offthis King Jamak:” whereupon he turned to