The Brown Fairy Book, part 3 · page 21 2101“O new fruit of life! you must just do what I tell you, and you must use your eyes and your brains, for if you don’t you will find yourself at the place of the negroes, who are a bloodthirsty set; and God forbid they should lay hands on your precious person.”102Then she took the bow and quiver of arrows, the sword, and the dagger out of a box, and the prince let fall a Bismillah, and girt them all on.103Then Jamila of the houri-face, produced two saddle-bags of ruby-red silk, one filled with roasted fowl and little cakes, and the other with stones of price.104Next she gave him a horse as swift as the breeze of the morning, and she said: “Accept all these things from me; ride till you come to a rising ground, at no great distance from here, where there is a spring.105It is called the Place of Gifts, and you must stay there one night.106There you will see many wild beasts—lions, tigers, leopards, apes, and so on.107Before you get there you must capture some game.108On the long road beyond there dwells a lion-king, alla if other beasts did not fear him they would ravage the whole country and let no one pass.109The lion is a red transgressor, so when he comes rise and do him reverence; take a cloth and rub the dust and earth from his face, then set the game you have taken before him, well cleansed, and lay the hands of respect on your breast.110When he wishes to eat, take your knife and cut pieces of the meat and set them before him with a bow.checked by a teacher111In this way you will enfold that lion-king in perfect friendship, and he will be most useful to you, and you will be safe from molestation by the negroes.112When you go on from the Place of Gifts, be sure you do not take the right-hand road; take the left, for the other leads by the negro castle, which is known as the Place of Clashing Swords, and where there are forty negro captains each over three thousand or four thousand more.113Their chief is Taramtaq.114[11] Further on than this is the home of the Simurgh.”1 2← previousThe Brown Fairy Book, part 2next →The Brown Fairy Book, part 4↑ back to The Brown Fairy BookThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/3/page/2/