out, but he continued to descend till he reached the bottom of the well, when he untied himself from the rope, and called out to his brothers that the air was very foul.  At the bottom of the well he found an open door and he advanced for some distance between two walls, at the end of which he found a golden door, which he opened, and beheld a magnificent palace.  He entered and passed through the kitchen and the storerooms, which were filled with all kinds of provisions, and then inspected the rooms, when he entered one magnificently furnished with sofas and divans.  He was curious to find out who lived there, so he hid himself.  Soon afterwards he beheld a flight of doves alight at the edge of a basin of water in the middle of the court The doves plunged into the water, and emerged from it as women, each of whom immediately set about her appointed work.  One went to the store room, another to the kitchen a third began to sweep [and so on].  They prepared a feast [as if for expected guests].  Some time afterwards, Badialza man beheld another flight of ten doves of different colours who surrounded an eleventh, which was quite white, and these also perched on the edge of the basin.  The ten doves plunged into the basin and came forth as women, more beautiful than the first and more magnificently robed.  They took the white dove and plunged her into a smaller basin, which was [filled with] rose [water] and she became a woman of extraordinary beauty.  She was the eldest daughter of the genius, and her name was Fattane. (Fattanah = The Temptress.)

Two of her attendants then took Fattane under the armpits, and led her to her apartment, followed by the others.  She took her seat on a small raised sofa, and her women separated, some to the right and some to the left, and set about their work.  Prince Badialzaman had dropped his handkerchief.  One of the waiting women saw it and picked it up, and when she looked round, she saw the prince.  She was alarmed, and warned Fattane, who sent some of her women to see who the stranger was.  The prince came forward, and presented himself before Fattane, who beheld a young prince, and gave him a most gracious reception.  She made him sit next to her, and inquired what brought him there?  He told his story from the beginning to the end, and asked where he could find the genius, on whom he wished to take vengeance.  Fattane smiled, and told him to think no more about it, but only to enjoy himself in the good company in which he found himself.  They spread the table, and she made him sit next to her, and her women played on all kinds of musical instruments before they retired to rest.