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 THE TWO KINGS AND THE VIZIER’S DAUGHTERS.

[Aforetime] I journeyed in [many] lands and climes and towns and visited the great cities and traversed the ways and [exposed myself to] dangers and hardships. Towards the last of my life, I entered a city [of the cities of China], wherein was a king of the Chosroës and the Tubbas and the Cæsars. Now that city had been peopled with its inhabitants by means of justice and equitable dealing; but its [then] king was a tyrant, who despoiled souls and [did away] lives; there was no wanning oneself at his fire, for that indeed he