sand, when 500 more people emerged, including the brothers.  Afterwards the eldest brother was sitting in his ship when a Maghrebi told him to clean his turban; which his mother interpreted to mean that his sister had misconducted herself, and he should kill her.  He refused, and fled with her to the desert.  Hearing voices, he entered a cave where thirty nine robbers were dividing rations; and he contrived to appropriate a share, and then to return it when missed; but as he was detected, he gave himself out as a fellow-robber, engaged himself to them, and watching his opportunity, slew them.  Afterwards he brought his sister two young lions.  She found a wounded negro in the cave, whom she nursed, and after having had two children by him, plotted against her brother.  She pretended to be ill, and sent him to find the grapes of Paradise.  He met a Ghuleh who gave him a ball which directed him to Paradise, and he returned safely.  Then his sister sent him for the Water of Life when the two young lions followed him, and he could not drive them back.  After travelling for a year the brother reached the Sea of the Water of Life, and while resting under a tree heard two pigeons telling each other that the king’s daughter was ill, and every doctor who failed to restore her was put to death, and she could only be cured by the Water of Life.  “Mohammed l’Avise” filled two bottles and a jar with the water, cured the princess with the water in the jar, married her, and after forty days, gave her one bottle, and set out to visit his family.  At the sister’s instigation, the negro slew Mohammed, cut him to pieces, and put the remains into a sack, which they loaded on the ass.  Then the lions drove the ass to the wife of Mohammed, who restored his life with the water which he had left with her.  Mohammed then shut up the lions, dressed himself as a negro, and went to visit his sister, taking with him some rings and mastic (ladin).  His sister recognised his eyes, and while she and the negro were disputing, Mohammed slew the negro and the three [sic] children, and buried his sister alive.  He then returned to his wife, announced that his relations were dead, and asked for a hundred camels; and it took them a week to convey away the treasures of the robbers.

XI .—­Histoire d’ Arab-Zandyq.

This story is translated by Mr. W. A. Clouston, Suppl.  Nights, iii., p. 411, and need not be repeated here.

XII.—­Histoire du prince et de son cheval.

A prince and foal were born at the same time, and some time afterwards the mother and the mare died.  The king married again, and the new queen had an intrigue with a Jew.  They plotted to poison the prince, but his horse wept and warned him.  Then the queen pretended to be ill, and asked for the heart of the horse, but the prince fled to another kingdom, and bought clothes from a poor man, packing his own on his horse.  Then he parted from the horse, who gave him a hair and a flint, telling him to light