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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Now it is thy turn," said she; "throw it up, and see whether it will fall on thy head." Jussuf took it and threw it as high as he could; but it did not from his hand attain the sunny height, and the garland fell quickly, and at a great distance, to the ground before him.
However terrified Jussuf might have been at this appearance, he yet collected himself, and said, "Her dear servants seem to mean very well, but " Before he had finished his speech, both of them were grumbling and buzzing at him. He understood still so much, that each of them wished to lessen the reputation of his fellow, and to make him suspected in his eyes.
When he had said some words to her, she asked Jussuf, "My King and foster-father asks who taught you the name Haschanascha?" Jussuf knew that he ought not to betray the faithful slave, and yet he wished to confess the truth. He said, therefore,
Towards evening they chose a place for encampment, and struck some tents. Jussuf was watched in a distinct tent. As he observed that stillness reigned in the camp, he approached the entrance of his tent, and called out, half aloud, "I am very thirsty. Is no one here who could bring me a refreshing drink?"
Immediately the other dervishes surrounded him, and screamed out, as from a cave, "Glutton! impudent creature! avaricious man!" "And what dost thou want now?" asked the dervish. Then Jussuf said the word that Hassan had taught him for this occasion, "Ketlafgat." He had hardly spoken it, when the other dervishes sat down, and he who had asked the question went out of the summer-house.
Thou wert, then, pleased with it?" Jussuf assured him of his perfect satisfaction with the supply. "Ah," continued the dealer, "thou must now again give me a commission; for I have at present a much better supply, and I can let thee have it at a very moderate price, although it is of a superior quality."
This man had once been his master, and to his instruction Jussuf owed his intimate knowledge of the manifold productions of nature out of which the various goods were manufactured in different lands, and which afforded him the means of always purchasing the best and most superior articles, whereby he obtained such a crowd of customers.
Whoever perceived or heard, that Jussuf had set out on a distant journey believed that he had gone to fetch some rare goods which he could not entrust to his servants; and people were generally in curious expectation to see what could be the interest in any jewels that should induce the so greatly-altered merchant, who till now let everything be managed by his servants, to go himself on the journey, and with so small an escort.
Thou art also a mortal, who mayest be overwhelmed by the dangers thou hast to encounter. Here, take this as a token of remembrance." At these words he reached him a small leathern pouch. "What is this?" asked Jussuf, after he had opened it, and saw in it a rather opaque milk-white stone, at the bottom of which a red spark seemed to shine. "That is certainly a talisman."
At the entrance, two slaves approached him, who bowed to him respectfully, but silently, and beckoned to him to follow them. They led him into a large summer-house: there sat some men whom Jussuf took for dervishes; they stood up and greeted him. "Thou comest to fetch the treasure of the poor," said one of them: "thy desires shall be fulfilled."
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