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When that Prince was in his presence, "Wretch!" said he to him, "how canst thou bear my sight, thou most ungrateful of mankind?" "I ungrateful?" replied Dakianos. "I have levied troops at my own expense; I have spent the greater part of my immense treasures; I have, therefore, bought this conquest. I have done more: I have fought; I have revenged thy quarrel. What canst thou reproach me with?"
No person interrupts its prayers: when they are finished, it plunges again to the bottom of the sea." The fish appeared as usual, and the genie said to Dakianos, "Though the fish will not believe your power, it has, however, declared to all the fishes of the sea that you are the god of the earth. It fears nothing, and comes now to inform itself.
I have never been an infidel; how can I then be a reprobate?" "If it had been three hundred years," replied the old man, "you will be no less the victim of darkness." These last words pierced the heart of Dakianos. He groaned, he sighed, he even wept, and he cried out, "Would that I had never found this golden tablet!
"Tremble, thou wretch!" said Catnier then to him, without any emotion or so much as raising his head, which lay upon his paws. "Shall I tremble?" returned Dakianos: "Allah Himself cannot make me tremble." "But He can punish thee," pursued Catnier; "thou drawest near thy last moment." Dakianos, at that word, listening only to his resentment, took his arrows and his bow.
"I am glad, however, that you are more reasonable, and that you begin to understand yourself." Dakianos again examined these riches with more avidity, and his eyes were still further dazzled by them.
Dakianos, what shame! what confusion But, however, I have concealed it, notwithstanding this God, who will torment me, and His efforts will be in vain against my regulations. How happy I am to have concealed from my subjects the knowledge of such a misfortune!
The Emperor of Greece, upon the news he had of the Persian army, immediately assembled his troops, and advanced to meet Dakianos with seven hundred thousand men. As soon as he perceived the enemy, he divided his army into two bodies, and gave the signal for battle.
Dakianos had an audience as soon as he appeared at Court, and to give a favourable impression of himself, and to deserve the favour of the King, he brought him presents which the greatest Kings upon earth could not, perhaps, have collected together. It is generally by nines that Eastern presents are given, when their magnificence is extended to the last degree.
Know, therefore, that He has made me the god of the heavens, and that He ordains that you should be the god of the earth." Dakianos answered him, "Who will believe that I am so?" And the genie immediately disappeared. Some time after, Dakianos had again the same apparition, and the genie repeated to him the same things; but he answered him, "You deceive me. How can I be the god of the earth?"
Those seven persons were to appear out of this cavern after having slept three hundred and nine years: their awakening was to confirm the people in their duty, and everything induces me to believe that this young man is the former slave of Dakianos."
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