The young girl said to Mahomet, “I will ride a lame horse.”  Mahomet recognized her, and the Sultan gave her to him, with a serving-maid, a female slave, and another woman.

Mahomet and his companion departed.  Arriving at a certain road they separated.  Mahomet retained for himself his wife and the slave woman, and gave to his companion the two other women.  He gained the desert and left for a moment his wife and the slave woman.  In his absence an ogre took away his wife.  He ran in search of her and met some shepherds.

“O shepherds,” he said, “can you tell me where the ogre lives?”

They pointed out the place.  Arriving, he saw his wife.  Soon the ogre appeared, and Mahomet asked where he should find his destiny.

“My destiny is far from here,” answered the ogre.  “My destiny is in an egg, the egg in a pigeon, the pigeon in a camel, the camel in the sea.”

Mahomet arose, ran to dig a hole at the shore of the sea, stretched a mat over the hole; a camel sprang from the water and fell into the hole.  He killed it and took out an egg, crushed the egg in his hands, and the ogre died.  Mahomet took his wife and came to his father’s city, where he built himself a palace.  The father promised a flock to him who should kill his son.  As no one offered, he sent an army of soldiers to besiege him.  He called one of them in particular and said to him: 

“Kill Mahomet and I will enrich you.”

The soldiers managed to get near the young prince, put out his eyes, and left him in the field.  An eagle passed and said to Mahomet:  “Don’t do any good to your parents, but since your father has made you blind take the bark of this tree, apply it to your eyes, and you will be cured.”

The young man was healed.

A short time after his father said to him, “I will wed your wife.”

“You cannot,” he answered.  The Sultan convoked the Marabout, who refused him the dispensation he demanded.  Soon Mahomet killed his father and celebrated his wedding-feast for seven days and seven nights.