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 6 HISTORY OF THE THREE. heſitation made the widow acquainted with hi ſentiments. She was not much alarmed at their for befizes that his out-of-the-way figure began grow familiar to her, ſhe further conſidered the if Babakan left her, the ſhop would preſently lol its reputation, and that the little money he ha ſaved during her huſband's life, would ſoon t ſpear. Theſe reaſons induced her, like a ſenſible woman as ſhe way to make Babekan a promiſed marriage, ſo ſoon as the could do it with decency She kept her word with him ſome months after wards; and Babekan, not ſatisfied with his cut liog trade alone, whereby in a little time be go a great deal of money, fell likewiſe into the way of luiting brands of dates, which he had a very conſiderable demand for. The correſpondence that Babekan had in ſeve- ral towns of the eaſt, came to the ears of his two brothers, who, after having lived for almoſt five years in the utmoſt poverty, were at laſt met to- gether at Derbent *: here they learnt to their great joy the prosperity of Babekan, and not doubting but he would a fast them in their want, they reſolved to go together to Bagdad; they were no ſooner arrived there than they ſept for him by a poor woman who had taken them into her houſe out of charity. Babekan was prodigiouſly ſurpriſed at the fight of his brothers: Have you forgot, ſaid he to them in a violent paſſion, what happened to us at Da- maſcus ? have you a mind to make me the jeſt of this city too? I ſwear by my head that you ſhall die beneath the cudgel, if you dare to come near my houſe, or ſtay in Bagdad another hour. Ibad the foot of mount Caucaſus.
 * Derbent is a low of the province of Servan in Perfie, at