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Rh satisfaction, and having testified his thanks, he dismissed me with a handsome present.

Sindbad here left off speaking, and they all returned the following day to hear the relation of the last voyage.

Being returned from my sixth voyage, I absolutely laid aside all thoughts of travelling any farther. But one day as I was



entertaining a company of my friends, I was sent for by the caliph. "Sindbad," said the monarch, "I stand in need of your services, you must bear an answer and present from me to the king of Serindib." I used my endeavours to be excused,