Perhaps , by your favour , I shall accomplish my task and avenge my brothers . ' In reply the Simurgh . ' first blessed the deliverer of his children , and then went on : ` What you have done no child of man has ever done before ; you assuredly have a claim on all my help , for every year up till now that dragon has come here and has destroyed my nestlings , and I have never been able to find who was the murderer and to avenge myself . By God 's grace you have removed my children 's powerful foe . I regard you as a child of my own . Stay with me ; I will give you everything you desire , and I will establish a city here for you , and will furnish it with every requisite ; I will give you the land of the Caucasus , and will make its princes subject to you . Give up the journey to Waq , it is full of risk , and the jins there will certainly kill you . ' 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 !
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