When they had filled up the grave with the earth they flew away,
and returned in a few minutes, bringing with them the bird that had
committed the murder, the one holding one of its wings in its beak,
and the other one of its legs; the criminal all the while crying
out in a doleful manner, and struggling to escape. They carried it
to the grave of the bird which it had lately sacrificed to its
rage, and there sacrificed it in just revenge for the murder it had
committed. They killed the murderer with their beaks. They then
opened it, tore out the entrails, left the body on the spot
unburied, and flew away.
Camaralzaman remained in great astonishment all the time that he
stood beholding this sight. He drew near the tree, and casting his
eyes on the scattered entrails of the bird that was last killed, he
spied something red hanging out of its body. He took it up, and
found it was his beloved Princess Badoura's talisman, which had
cost him so much pain and sorrow and so many sighs since the bird
snatched it out of his hand. 'Ah, cruel monster!' said he to
himself, still looking at the bird, 'thou tookest delight in doing
mischief, so I have the less reason to complain of that which thou
didst to me: but the greater it was, the more do I wish well to
those that revenged my quarrel on thee, in punishing thee for the
murder of one of their own kind.
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