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 . 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 XXXXX he had never seen before .
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