They afterwards seized Assad, and bore him away asleep as he was.  They got over the wall into their boat, and rowed to the ship.  When they came near her, they cried out, Captain, sound your trumpets, beat your drums; we bring your slave again!

Behram, who could not imagine how the seamen could find and take him again, and did not see Assad in the boat, it being night, waited their coming on board with impatience, to ask what they meant by their shouts; but seeing it was true, and that they had really got him, he could not contain himself for joy.  He commanded him to be chained again, not staying to inquire how they came at him; and having hauled the boat on board, set sail for the Fiery Mountain.

In the mean while queen Margiana was in a dreadful fright.  She did not much concern herself at first when she found prince Assad was gone out, because she did not doubt that he would soon return.  When several minutes, and then an hour, were past, without hearing any thing, she began to be uneasy, and commanded her women to look for him.  They searched all about without finding him; and, night coming, she ordered them to search again with torches, which they did, but to as little purpose.

Queen Margiana was so impatient and frightened, that she went with lights all over the garden to seek him herself; and passing by the fountain, saw a slipper, which she took up, and knew to be prince Assad’s:  her women also said that it was his; and the water being spilled about the cistern in which the fountain played, made her suspect that Behram had again carried him off.  She sent immediately to see if he was still in the port; and hearing that he had set sail a little before it was dark, and had stopped some time off the shore, while he sent his boat for water from the fountain, she doubted no longer of the prince’s ill fortune.  So she commanded the commodore of ten men of war, who lay ready in the port to sail as occasion required, to prepare to put to sea, for that she would embark herself next morning as soon as it was day.  The commodore ordered the captains and subalterns, seamen and soldiers, on board, and was ready to sail at the time appointed.  She embarked, as she had said; and, when the squadron was at sea, told the commodore her intention.  Make all the sail you can, said she, and give chase to the merchantman that sailed yesterday out of this port:  I give it to you to be plundered, if you take it; if not, your life shall answer it.

The ten ships chased Behram’s two entire days, and could not come near her; but on the third day they got up with her, and encompassed her so that she could not escape.