--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.
When it was the Seven Hundred and Ninety-third Night; She pursued,It hath reached me,O auspicious King,that Hasan with his mother then sat talking and she asked him,'How faredst thou,O my son,with the Persian?'whereto he answered,'O my mother,he was no Persian,but a Magian,who worshipped the fire;not the All-powerful Sire.' Then he told her how he dealt with him,in that he had journeyed with him to the Mountain of Clouds and sewed him up in the camel's skin,and how the vultures had taken him up and set him down on the summit and what he had seen there of dead folk,whom the Magian had deluded and left to die on the crest after they had done his desire.And he told her how he had cast himself from the mountain-top into the sea and Allah the Most High had preserved him and brought him to the palace of the seven Princesses and how the youngest of them had taken him to brother and he had sojourned with them till the Almighty brought the Magian to the place where he was and he slew him.
Moreover,he told her of his passion for the King's daughter and how he had made prize of her and of his seeing her[81] in sleep and all else that had befallen him up to the time when Allah vouchsafed them reunion.She wondered at his story and praised the Lord who had restored him to her in health and safety.Then she arose and examined the baggage and loads and questioned him of them.So he told her what was in them,whereat she joyed with exceeding joy.Then she went up to the King's daughter,to talk with her and bear her company;but,when her eyes fell on her,her wits were confounded at her brilliancy and she rejoiced and marvelled at her beauty and loveliness and symmetry and perfect grace: and she sat down beside her,cheering her and comforting her heart while she never ceased to repeat'Alhamdolillah,O my son,for thy return to me safe and sound!'