t it after the same manner, as soon as they had passed
through it.

25. The band of negroes who were posted at a little distance from the
gate, seeing two such beautiful apparitions, that shewed themselves
to'aclvantage by the light of the full moon, and being ravished with the
odour that flowed from their garments, immediately concluded them to be
the ghosts of the two persons lately deceased.

26. They fell upon their faces as they passed through the midst of them,
and continued prostrate on the earth until such time as they were out of
sight. They reported the next day what they had seen, but this was
looked upon by the king himself and most others, as the compliment that
was usually paid to any of the deceased of his family.

27. Helim had placed two of his own mules about a mile's distance from
the black temple, on the spot which they had agreed upon for their
rendezvous. Here he met them, and conducted them to one of his own
houses, which was situated on mount _Khacan_.

28. The air of this mountain was so very healthful, that Helim had
formerly transported the king thither, in order to recover him out of a
long fit of sickness, which succeeded so well, that the king made him a
present of the whole mountain, with a beautiful house and garden that
were on the top of it.

29. In this retirement lived Abdallah and Balsora. They were both so
fraught with all kinds of knowledge, and possessed with so constant and
mutual a passion for each other, that their solitude never lay heavy on
them.

30. Abdallah applied himself to those arts Which were agreeable to his
manner of living, and the situation of the place; insomuch that in a few
years he converted the whole mountain into a kind of garden, and covered
every part of it with plantations or spots of flowers.

Helim was too good a father to let him want any thing that might conduce
to make his retirement pleasant.

31. In about ten years after their abode in this place, the old king
died, and was succeeded by his son Ibrahim, who upon the supposed death
of his brother, had been called to court, and entertained there as heir
to the Persian empire. Though he was some years inconsolable for the
death of his brother, Helim durst not trust him with the secret, which
he knew would have fatal consequences, should it by any means come to
the knowledge of the old king.

32. Ibrahim was no sooner mounted to the throne, but Helim sought after
a proper opportunity of maki