PRINCE CAMARALZAMAN AND THE PRINCESS OF CHINA.
About twenty days' sail from the coast of Persia, in the Islands of
the Children of Khaledan, there lived a king who had an only son,
Prince Camaralzaman. He was brought up with all imaginable care;
and when he came to a proper age, his father appointed him an
experienced governor and able tutors. As he grew up he learned all
the knowledge which a prince ought to possess, and acquitted
himself so well that he charmed all that saw him, and particularly
the sultan his father.
When the prince had attained the age of fifteen years, the sultan,
who loved him tenderly, and gave him every day new marks of his
affection, had thoughts of giving him a still greater one, by
resigning to him his throne, and he acquainted his grand vizier
with his intentions. 'I fear,' said he, 'lest my son should lose in
the inactivity of youth those advantages which nature and education
have given him; therefore, since I am advanced in age, and ought to
think of retirement, I have thoughts of resigning the government to
him, and passing the remainder of my days in the satisfaction of
seeing him reign. I have undergone the fatigue of a crown a long
while, and think it is now proper for me to retire.
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