that he threw their bodies into the foss or great ditch that surrounded the palace.
Having thus satisfied his revenge, he left the city as privately as he had entered it, and returned to his pavilion. On his arrival, he did not mention to any one what had happened, but ordered the tents to be struck, and began his journey. It was scarcely daylight when they commenced their march to the sound of drums and other instruments. The whole train was filled with joy, except the king, who could think of nothing but his queen’s treachery, and became a prey to the deepest grief and melancholy.
When he approached the capital of Persia, he perceived the Sultan Schah-riar and all his court coming out to greet him. As soon as they met the two brothers alighted and embraced each other; after a thousand expressions of regard, they remounted and entered the city amid the acclamations of the multitude. The sultan conducted the king, his brother, to a palace which had been prepared for him. It communicated by a garden with his own and was even more magnificent.
Schah-riar left the King of Tartary, in order that he might have time to bathe and change his dress after the fatigues of the journey; on his return from the bath he went to him again. They seated themselves and conversed with each other at their ease, after so long an absence; and seemed even more united by affection than blood. They dined together and
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