the jar of sand from her legs[481] and done off her shackles, and returned. Now there remained one woman after her: so we took her and drowned her and the eunuchs went away, whilst we dropped down the river with the craft till we came to the mouth of Khalij, where I saw my mistress awaiting me. We haled her up into the canoe and returned to our pavilion on Al-Rauzah. Then I rewarded the sailor and he took his boat and went away; whereupon quoth she to me, “Thou art indeed the friend ever faithful found for the shifts of Fortune.”[482] And I sojourned with her some days; but the shock wrought upon her so that she sickened and fell to wasting away and redoubled in languor and weakness till she died. I mourned for her with exceeding mourning and buried her; after which I removed all that was in the pavilion to my own house and abandoned the building. Now she had brought to that pavilion a little coffer of copper and laid it in a place whereof I knew not; so, when the Inspector of Inheritances[483] came, he rummaged the house and found the coffer, with the key in the lock. Presently he opened it and seeing it full of jewels and jacinths and earrings and seal-rings and precious stones (and ’twas a matter such as is not found save with kings and sultans), took it, and me with it, and he and his men ceased not to put me to the question with beating and torment till I confessed to them the whole affair, from beginning to end. Thereupon they carried me to the Caliph and I told him all that had passed between me and her; and he said to me, “O man, depart this city, for I release thee on account of thy courage and because of thy constancy in keeping thy secret and thy daring in exposing thyself to death.” So I arose forthwith and fared from his city; and this is what befel me. [Illustration] _NOTE._ _Here end my labours with the Supplemental Tales of the Breslau text; and now I take the opportunity of introducing_ MR. CLOUSTON _to my readers_. R. F. BURTON. Appendix. _VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES OF SOME OF THE TALES IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS._ VOLS. I. AND II. BY W. A. CLOUSTON. AUTHOR OF “POPULAR TALES AND FICTIONS: THEIR MIGRATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS,” ETC. _THE SLEEPER AND THE WAKER.—Vol. I. p. 1._