But nothing could move the prince , and seeing this the bird went on : ` Well , so be it ! When you wish to set forth you must go into the plain and take seven head of deer , and must make water-tight bags of their hides and keep their flesh in seven portions . Seven seas lie on our way -- I will carry you over them ; but if I have not food and drink we shall fall into the sea and be drowned . When I ask for it you must put food and water into my mouth . So we shall make the journey safely . ' The prince did all as he was told , then they took flight ; they crossed the seven seas , and at each one the prince fed the Simurgh When they alighted on the shore of the last sea , it said : ' O my son ! there lies your road ; follow it to the city . Take thee three feathers of mine , and , if you are in a difficulty , burn one and I will be with you in the twinkling of an eye . ' The prince walked on in solitude till he reached the city . He went in and wandered about through all quarters , and through bazaars and lanes and squares , in the least knowing from whom he could ask information about the riddle of Mihr-afruz . He spent seven days thinking it over in silence . From the first day of his coming he had made friends with a young cloth-merchant , and a great liking had sprung up between them . One day he said abruptly to his companion : ' O dear friend ! I wish you would tell me what the rose did to the cypress , and what the sense of the riddle is . ' The merchant started , and exclaimed : ` If there were not brotherly affection between us , I would cut off your head for asking me this ! ' ` If you meant to kill me , ' retorted the prince , ` you would still have first to tell me what I want to know . ' When the merchant saw that the prince was in deadly earnest , he said : ` If you wish to hear the truth of the matter you must wait upon our king . There is no other way ; no one else will tell you . I have a well-wisher at the Court , named Farrukh-fal , -LSB- 12 -RSB- and will introduce you to him . ' ` That would be excellent , ' cried the prince .
A meeting was arranged between Farrukhfal and Almas , and then the amir took him to the king 's presence and introduced him XXXXX a stranger and traveller who had come from afar to sit in the shadow of King Sinaubar .
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