Help me , if you can , and give me your counsel . ' ' O very stuff of my life , ' replied Jamila ' I will give you things that are not in kings ' treasuries , and which will be of the greatest use to you . First , there are the bow and arrows of his Reverence the Prophet Salih . Secondly , there is the Scorpion of Solomon -LRB- on whom be peace -RRB- , which is a sword such as no king has ; steel and stone are one to it ; if you bring it down on a rock it will not be injured , and it will cleave whatever you strike . Thirdly , there is the dagger which the sage Timus himself made ; this is most useful , and the man who wears it would not bend under seven camels ' loads . What you have to do first is to get to the home of the Simurgh , -LSB- 10 -RSB- and to make friends with him . If he favours you , he will take you to Waq of Qaf ; if not , you will never get there , for seven seas are on the way , and they are such seas that if all the kings of the earth , and all their wazirs , and all their wise men considered for a thousand years , they would not be able to cross them . ' ' O most delicious person ! where is the Simurgh 's home ? How shall I get there ? ' ' O new fruit of life ! you must just do what I tell you , and you must use your eyes and your brains , for if you do n't you will find yourself at the place of the negroes , who are a bloodthirsty set ; and God forbid they should lay hands on your precious person . ' Then she took the bow and quiver of arrows , the sword , and the dagger out of a box , and the prince let fall a Bismillah , and girt them all on . Then Jamila of the houri-face , produced two saddle-bags of ruby-red silk , one filled with roasted fowl and little cakes , and the other with stones of price . Next she gave him a horse as swift as the breeze of the morning , and she said : ` Accept all these things from me ; ride till you come to a rising ground , at no great distance from here , where there is a spring . It is called the Place of Gifts , and you must stay there one night . There you will see many wild beasts -- lions , tigers , leopards , apes , and so on . Before you get there you must capture some game . On the long road beyond there dwells a lion-king , alla if other beasts did not fear him they would ravage the whole country and let no one pass . The lion is a red transgressor , so when he comes rise and do him reverence ; take a cloth and rub the dust and earth from his face , then set the game you have taken before him , well cleansed , and lay the hands of respect on your breast .
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