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chant and his gang of robbers, Ali Baba at first could scarcely credit her tale; but when he saw the robbers dead in the jars, he could not sufficiently praise her courage and sagacity, and without letting any one else into the secret. he and Morgiana, the next night, buried the thirty-seven thieves in a deep trench at the bottom of the gar- den. The jars and the mules, as he had no use for them, were sent from time to time to the different markets, and sold. While Ali Baba took these measures to prevent his and Cassim's adventures in the forest from being known, the captain re turned to his Cave, and for some time aban- doned himself to grief and despair. A length however he determined to adop (illegible text) new scheme for the destruction of Ali Baba He removed by degrees all the valuable merchandise from the cave to the city, and took a shop exactly opposite to Ali Baba' house. He furnished this shop with every thing that was rare and costly, and went by the name of the merchant Cogia Hassan. Many persons made acquaintance with the stran- ger, among others, Ali Baba's son went every day to his shop. The pretended Cogia Hassan soon appeared to be very fond of Ali Baba's son, offered him many presents, and often detained him to dinner on which occasions he treated him in the handsomest manner.
