Their shows are worth seeing. You will have
nothing to do to-day: I leave you here. As the time approaches in
which the ship is accustomed to sail for the Isle of Ebony, I will
go and see some of my friends, and secure you a passage in it.' The
gardener put on his best clothes, and went out.
When Prince Camaralzaman was alone, instead of going out to take
part in the public joy of the city, the solitude he was in brought
to his mind, with more than usual violence, the loss of his dear
princess. He walked up and down the garden sighing and groaning,
till the noise which two birds made on a neighbouring tree tempted
him to lift up his head, and stop to see what was the matter.
Camaralzaman was surprised to behold a furious battle between these
two birds, fighting one another with their beaks. In a very little
while one of them fell down dead at the foot of a tree; the bird
that was victorious took wing again, and flew away.
In an instant, two other large birds, that had seen the fight at a
distance, came from the other side of the garden, and pitched on
the ground one at the feet and the other at the head of the dead
bird: they looked at it some time, shaking their heads in token of
grief; after which they dug a grave with their talons, and buried
it.
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