The princes carried off the three fairies, and on Friday, three days afterwards, the six bulls appeared.  Badialzaman was about to mount upon a red one, when a black one prevented him, and compelled him to mount his back, when he plunged through the earth till he stopped at a large town in another world.  He entered the town, and took up his abode with an old woman, to whom he gave a piece of gold to provide him with something to eat, for he was almost famished.  When he had eaten enough, he asked for something to drink.  “You cannot be a native of this country,” said the old woman ["or you would not ask for drink"].  She then brought him a sponge, saying that she had no other water.  She then informed him that the town was supplied with water from a very copious spring, the flow of which was interrupted by a monster.  They were obliged to offer up a girl to be devoured by it on every Friday.  To-day the princess, the Sultan’s daughter, was to be given up to him, and while the monster emerged from his lair to devour her, enough water would flow for everyone to supply himself until the following Friday.

Badialzaman then requested the old woman to show him the way to the place where the princess was already exposed; but she was so much afraid that he had much trouble in persuading her to come out of her house to show him what direction to take.  He went out of the town, and went on till he saw the princess, who made a sign to him from a distance to approach no nearer; and the nearer he came, the more anxiety she displayed.  As soon as he was within hearing, he shouted to her not to be afraid; and he sat down beside her, and fell asleep, after having begged her to wake him as soon as the monster appeared.  Presently a tear from the princess fell upon his face, and he woke up, and saw the monster, which he slew with the sword of Morhagian, and the water flowed in abundance The princess thanked her deliverer, and begged him to take her back to the Sultan her father, who would give proofs of his gratitude; but he excused himself.  She then marked his shoulder with the blood of the monster without his noticing it.  The princess then returned to the town, and was led back to the palace, where she related to the Sultan [all that had happened].  Then the Sultan commanded that all the men in the town should pass before himself and the princess under pain of death.  Badialzaman tried to conceal himself in a khan, but he was compelled to come with the others.  The princess recognised him, and threw an apple at him to point him out.  He was seized, and brought before the Sultan, who demanded what he could do to serve him.  The prince hesitated, but at length he requested the Sultan to show him the way to return to the world from whence he came.  The Sultan was furious, and would have ordered him to be burned as a heretic [but the princess interceded for his life].  The Sultan then treated him as a madman, and drove him ignominiously from the town,