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 first could scarcely credit her tale; but when he saw the robbers dead in the jars, he could not sufficiently praise her courage and sagacity; and without letting any one else into the secret, he and Morgiana, the next night, buried the thirty-seven thieves  a deep trench at the bottom of the gordengarden [sic]. The jars and the mules as he had no for them, were sent from to time to the different markets, and sold. [sic]

While Ali Baba took these measures to prevent his and Cassim's adventures in the forest from being known, the captain returned to his cave, and for some time abandoned himself to grief and despair. At length however he determined to adopt a new scheme for the destruction of Ali Baba. He removed by degrees all the valuable merchandise from the cave to the city, and took a shop exactly opposite to Ali Baba's house.

He furnished this shop with every thing that was rare and costly, and went by the name of the merchant Cogio Hassan. Many persons made acquaintance with the stranger, and among others, Ali Baba's son went every day to his shop. The pretended Cogia Hassan soon appeared to be very