, O King, that my
brother and my mother and the daughters of my uncle have conceived a
great love for thee in consequence of my praising thee to them, and they
have said, 'We will not depart from thee to our country until we have an
interview with the king, and salute him.'" And the king said to her: "I
hear and obey; for this is what I desire." He then rose from his place,
and went to them, and saluted them with the best salutation; and they
hastened to rise to him; they met him in the most polite manner, and he
sat with them in the pavilion, ate with them at the table, and remained
with them for a period of thirty days. Then they desired to return to
their country and abode. So they took leave of the king and Queen
Gulnare of the Sea, and departed from them, after the king had treated
them with the utmost honour.

After this, Gulnare gave birth to a boy, resembling the moon at the
full, whereat the king experienced the utmost happiness, because he had
not before been blessed with a son nor a daughter during his life. They
continued the rejoicings, and the decoration of the city, for a period
of seven days, in the utmost happiness and enjoyment; and on the seventh
day, the mother of Gulnare, and her brother, and the daughters of her
uncle, all came, when they knew that she had given birth to her child.
The king met them, rejoicing at their arrival, and said to them: "I said
that I would not name my son until ye should come, and that ye should
name him according to your knowledge." And they named him Bedr Basim
(_Smiling Full Moon_), all of them agreeing as to this name. They then
presented the boy to his maternal uncle, Saleh, who took him upon his
hands, and, rising with him from among them, walked about the palace to
the right and left; after which he went forth with him from the palace,
descended with him to the sea, and walked on until he became concealed
from the eye of the king. So when the king saw that he had taken his
son, and disappeared from him at the bottom of the sea, he despaired of
him, and began to weep and wail. But Gulnare, seeing him in this state,
said to him, "O King of the age, fear not nor grieve for thy son; for I
love my child more than thou, and my child is with my brother; therefore
fear not his being drowned. If my brother knew that any injury would
betide the little one, he had not done what he hath done; and presently
he will bring thee thy son safe, if it be the will of God, whose name be