When you go on from the Place of Gifts , be sure you do not take the right-hand road ; take the left , for the other leads by the negro castle , which is known as the Place of Clashing Swords , and where there are forty negro captains each over three thousand or four thousand more . Their chief is Taramtaq . -LSB- 11 -RSB- Further on than this is the home of the Simurgh . ' Having stored these things in the prince 's memory , she said : ` You will see everything happen just as I have said . ' Then she escorted him a little way ; they parted , and she went home to mourn his absence . Prince Almas , relying on the Causer of Causes , rode on to the Place of Gifts and dismounted at the platform . Everything happened just as Jamila had foretold ; when one or two watches of the night had passed , he saw that the open ground around him was full of such stately and splendid animals as he had never seen before . By-and-by , they made way for a wonderfully big lion , which was eighty yards from nose to tail-tip , and was a magnificent creature . The prince advanced and saluted it ; it proudly drooped its head and forelocks and paced to the platform . Seventy or eighty others were with it , and now encircled it at a little distance . It laid its right paw over its left , and the prince took the kerchief Jamila had given him for the purpose , and rubbed the dust and earth from its face ; then brought forward the game he had prepared , and crossing his hands respectfully on his breast stood waiting before it . When it wished for food he cut off pieces of the meat and put them in its mouth . The serving lions also came near and the prince would have stayed his hand , but the king-lion signed to him to feed them too . This he did , laying the meat on the platform . Then the king-lion beckoned the prince to come near and said : ` Sleep at ease ; my guards will watch . ' . So , surrounded by the lion-guard , he slept till dawn , when the king lion said good-bye , and gave him a few of his own hairs and said : ` When you are in any difficulty , burn one of these and I will be there . ' Then it went off into the jungle . Prince Almas immediately started ; he rode till he came to the parting of the ways . He remembered quite well that the right-hand way was short and dangerous , but he bethought himself too that whatever was written on his forehead would happen , and took the forbidden road .
By-and-by he saw a castle , and knew from what XXXXX had told him that it was the Place of Clashing Swords .
Causes Gifts Jamila Simurgh Taramtaq burn left lion-guard night tail-tip