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1 62 MALAYAN LITERATURE rived, Sultan Zayad mounted his horse and traversed the city with an escort of cavaHers. Outside of the city he came to a place and saw a man standing under a tree in the middle of a flock of sheep and goats. He said to him, " Who are you? " The man said : " I come from a far-off village, and I am bringing sheep and goats to the city to sell them, and with their price to buy what I can for my wife and children. When arrived at this place I was so tired that I could not enter the city, and was obHged to stay here, with the intention of enter- ing at daybreak and selling my sheep and goats." Sultan Zayad, having heard this response, said : " Your words are true, but what can I do? If I do not put you to death to-morrow, when the news spreads, they will say Sultan Zayad is not faithful to his word. They will regard me with disdain, and no one will obey my orders. And the wicked ones will commit violent acts upon the good ones, and my country will be ruined. Heaven is better for you than this world." So he had him put to death and ordered that they should take his head. During that same night all that he met were killed and be- headed. They say that in the course of that first day 500 persons were put to death. At dawn he had all these heads exposed on the highways, and published this proclamation : " Whosoever shall not obey the commands of Sultan Zayad shall suffer the same fate." When the people of the country saw these heads exposed at all sides on the earth, they were frightened, and a respectful fear of Sultan Zayad filled all hearts. The second night Sultan Zayad went out again from the city, and that night 500 persons were killed. The third night he remained out of the till city he did not meet a soul. morning, but The following Friday Sultan Zayad went to the said his prayers, and declared : mosque, " O servants of God, let no one after to-day shut the door of his house nor his shop. I take upon myself the charge of replacing those of your goods which shall be destroyed or stolen." They all obeyed his orders, for they feared him greatly. Their doors remained opened for several nights, and they never suffered the slightest loss. But after a while a man
MAKOTA RADJA-RADJA 163 complained to the Sultan, saying, '' from me 400 tahil." " Can you swear to it ? " The Sultan said : Last night someone stole The man swore to the facts, and the Sultan had 400 tahil counted out to him in place of those he had lost. The following Friday, after prayers, forbidding anyone to leave the " mosque, the Sultan said : O servants of the Lord, know that 400 tahil have been stolen from the shop of a certain man. Unless you denounce the robber, not one of you shall escape, but to-day shall all of you be put to death." Now, as he had rigorously commanded attendance at Fri- day's prayer service, the whole town had come to the mosque. They were seized with fright, for they knew that the Sultan kept his word, and they denounced the robber. The latter gave back the 400 tahil and received his punishment. A long time afterward the Sultan Zayad asked, " At what place in my kingdom do " they fear robbers most of all ? " In the Valley of the Beni Ardou, in the country of Bassrah, for there they are numerous." Sultan Zayad one day had the highways and paths of the valley strewn with gold and silver, precious stones, and stuffs of great price. All these things lay there a long time and not one was taken. Then the Sultan ordered them to take up these riches and give them to the fakirs and the poor. Then he rendered thanks unto God that he had thus securely es- tabHshed his law among his subjects. Now it was in the times when Nouchirvau governed with justice and equity, protecting his subjects and causing his kingdom to prosper. One day he asked the grandees of his court, " Are there in my kingdom any places deserted and without inhabitants ? " The grandees who were there answered, " O king of the world, we know not in all your Majesty's realm a place which is not inhabited." Nouchirvau kept silence, and for many days did not leave the palace. He summoned to his private chamber a learned doctor named Bouzor Djambour, and said to him : " I desire to know with certainty if all parts of my realm are peopled, or if there is any which is not. How can I be sure of this?"
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