They asked him where the passenger
was that was to go with him. The prince answered, 'I am he; the
gardener who arranged with you for my passage is ill, and cannot be
spoken with: come in, and let your men carry those pots of olives
and my baggage aboard. I will only take leave of the gardener, and
follow you.'
The seamen took up the pots and the baggage, and the captain bade
the prince make haste, for the wind being fair they were waiting
for nothing but him.
When the captain and his men were gone, Camaralzaman went to the
gardener, to take leave of him, and thank him for all his good
offices: but he found him in the agonies of death, and had scarcely
time to bid him rehearse the articles of his faith, which all good
Mussulmans do before they die, when the gardener expired in his
presence.
The prince being under the necessity of embarking immediately
hastened to pay the last duty to the deceased. He washed his body,
buried him in his own garden (for the Mahometans had no cemetery in
the city of the idolaters, where they were only tolerated), and as
he had nobody to assist him it was almost evening before he had put
him in the ground. As soon as he had done it he ran to the water-
side, carrying with him the key of the garden, intending, if he had
time, to give it to the landlord; otherwise to deposit it in some
trusty person's hand before a witness, that he might leave it when
he was gone.
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