apartment in a part of his house and charged his pages and slave-
girls to wait upon me and do my will and supply my wants. They
were assiduous in my service, and I abode with him in the guest-
chamber three days, taking my ease of good eating and good
drinking and good scents till life returned to me and my terrors
subsided and my heart was calmed and my mind was eased. On the
fourth day the Shaykh, my host, came in to me and said, "Thou
cheerest us with thy company, O my son, and praised be Allah for
thy safety! Say: wilt thou now come down with me to the beach and
the bazar and sell thy goods and take their price? Belike thou
mayst buy thee wherewithal to traffic. I have ordered my servants
to remove thy stock-in-trade from the sea and they have piled it
on the shore." I was silent awhile and said to myself, "What mean
these words and what goods have I?" Then said he, "O my son, be
not troubled nor careful, but come with me to the market and if
any offer for thy goods what price contenteth thee, take it; but,
an thou be not satisfied, I will lay them up for thee in my
warehouse, against a fitting occasion for sale." So I bethought
me of my case and said to myself, "Do his bidding and see what
are these goods!"; and I said to him, "O my nuncle the Shaykh, I
hear and I obey; I may not gainsay thee in aught for Allah's
blessing is on all thou dost." Accordingly he guided me to the
market-street, where I found that he had taken in pieces the raft
which carried me and which was of sandal-wood and I heard the
broker calling it for sale.--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of
day and ceased saying her permitted say.

When it was the Five Hundred and Sixty-fifth Night,

She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Sindbad the