Presently, as he sat upon his throne of kingship, he saw enter to him an Ifrit fair of face and form, the which was none other than King ’Atrus[FN#398] of the Jann, who cried, “The Peace be upon thee, Ho thou the King! and know that I have come to thee from my liege lord who affecteth thee.  In my sleep it befel that I heard a Voice crying to me, ’During all the King’s days never hath he been vouchsafed a child, boy or girl; so now let him accept my command and he shall win to his wish.  Let him distribute justice and largesse and further the rights of the wronged and bid men to good and forbid them from evil and lend not aid to tyranny or to innovation in the realm and persecute not the unfortunate, and release from gaol all the prisoners he retaineth.’  At these words of the Voice I awoke astartled by my vision and I hastened to thee without delay and I come with design to inform thee, O King of the Age, that I have a daughter, hight Kamar al-Zaman, who hath none like her in her time, and no peer in this tide, and her I design giving thee to bride.  The Kings of the Jann have ofttimes asked her in marriage of me but I would have none of them save a ruler of men like thyself and Alhamdolillah—­glory be to God, who caused thy Highness occur to my thought, for that thy fame in the world is goodly fair and thy works make for righteousness.  And haply by the blessing of these thou shalt beget upon my daughter a man child, a pious heir and a virtuous.”  Replied the King, “Ho thou who comest to us and desirest our weal, I accept thine offer with love and good will.”  Then Sabur, the King of the Crystalline Isles, bade summon the Kazi and witnesses, and quoth the Ifrit, “I agree to what thou sayest, and whatso thou proposest that will I not oppose.”  So they determined upon the dowry and bound him by the bond of marriage with the daughter of Al-’Atrus, King of the Jinns, who at once sent one of his Flying Jann to bring the bride.  She arrived forthright when they dressed and adorned her with all manner ornaments, and she came forth surpassing all the maidens of her era.  And when King Sabur went in unto her he found her a clean maid:  so he lay that night with her and Almighty Allah so willed that she conceived of him.  When her days and months of pregnancy were sped, she was delivered of a girl-babe as the moon, whom they committed to wet-nurses and dry-nurses, and when she had reached her tenth year, they set over her duennas who taught her Koran-reading and writing and learning and belles-lettres; brief, they brought her up after the fairest of fashions.  Such was the lot[FN#399] of Durrat al-Ghawwas, the child of Kamar al-Zaman, daughter to King ’Atrus by her husband King Sabur.  But as regards the Sultan Habib and his governor Al-Abbus, the twain ceased not wandering from place to place in search of the promised damsel until one day of the days when the youth entered his father’s garden and strolled the walks adown amid the borders[FN#400] and blossoms