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 . When he wishes to eat , take your knife and cut pieces of the meat and set them before him with a bow . In this way you will enfold that lion-king in perfect friendship , and he will be most useful to you , and you will be safe from molestation by the negroes . 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 XXXXX ease ; my guards will watch . '
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