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144 MALAYAN LITERATURE ing to the country of Roum he saw the baley situated outside the fort, and stopped there. Then he saw the portrait, and, observing it with the closest attention, he began to weep. Then he took it in his arms and covered it with kisses. " " Alas, my well-beloved ! he cried, ** here indeed is your picture, but where can I find you ? " He was immediately seized by the guard and led before the King of Roum. " " Biyapri," said the prince, whence do you come, and why " did you act thus? Biyapri answered: ** O my lord, king of the world, your slave asks pardon a thousand and a thousand times. I will tell the whole truth. If they kill me, I shall die ; if they hang me, I shall be lifted very high ; if they sell me, I shall be taken very far away. When I was engaged in commerce I passed under a tree, and saw that in this tree there was a woman of the most marvellous beauty. I took her and carried her to the city of Bassrah and installed her on the roof of my storehouse. A certain night she disappeared without my knowing where she had gone. Then, O king of the world, I became as one mad and left my native land. Arriving at the country of Roum I saw a baley outside the fort and came to sit down there. Then, my lord, I saw the portrait hanging at the baley. It exactly resembles my beloved, whom I lost. I pressed it in my arms and covered it with kisses. Such is the truth, O king of the world." " The prince then said to his minister : O minister, let this man be carefully guarded and give him food and clothes." The King of Damas, after abdicating the throne, had left his kingdom, and in the costume of a dervish had started to travel through the different countries. Arriving at Roum, the King Chah Djouhou saw a baley situated outside of the fort, and went to sit down near it. The prince looking closely at the portrait, which was exactly like the princess Djouher- Manikam, burst into a flood of tears and exclaimed : " Alas ! Fruit of my heart, my well-beloved, light of my eyes! It is, indeed, your picture. But you, whom I seek, oh, " where are you ? in his arms and Speaking thus, the prince took the portrait covered it with kisses. Seeing this, the guards of the baley seized him and carried him before the King. " My lord, whence do you come ? The King said to him :
THE PRINCESS DJOUHER-MANIKAM 145 How have you wandered into this country ? And why did you " behave thus about my portrait ? " The King Chah Djouhou answered : Know that my wife, who is named the princess Djouher-Manikam, has disappeared far from me. It is for that reason that I have left my kingdom, and that I, dressed as a dervish, have walked from country to country, from plain to plain, from village to village, seeking her whom I have never been able to find. But arriving in your Majesty's country I saw hanging at the haley that portrait, which is of a striking resemblance to my wife. It is for this reason that I wept in contemplating this picture." The princess smiled, and at the same time her heart was softened at seeing the conduct of her husband. She said to " her prime minister : O my minister, I confide this person to your care. Treat him worthily, give him the best of food and a suite of attendants. He is the King of Damas." The minister therefore, by command of the princess, de- parted and conducted the King of Damas to a fine house, furnished and equipped according to the needs of kings. The minister took all the riches which had been iritended as presents for the King Haroun-er-Raschid. The ingots of gold and of silver, the rich garments in fine stuffs of the country of Rouzoungga, as well as the vestments of the princess Djouher-Manikam and of her three children, were transported and sold in the city of Bagdad. But the King Haroun-er- Raschid, seeing that his name and that of his daughter, the princess Djouher-Manikam, were graven on these ingots of gold and silver, seized all these riches. The minister of the country of Damas said, " These riches are mine." On his side the King Haroun-er-Raschid said: "These riches are mine, for my name and that of my child are engraved on these ingots of gold and silver." The minister said, " Since your Majesty declares that these treasures are yours, we must try this case in a court of jus- tice." The King of Bagdad answered : wherever you wish." " Very well," said the minister ; 10 " It is well. We will go " let us go then before the
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