21 numbers to the king, seeking our death, and requesting that our goods should be taken from us. At first he hesitated, but at length gave them permission: but, after we had left his house, we understood what they had in mind, and slept with someone to keep watch throughout the night. My lot fell to be on guard during the first watch of the night, and in it I saw a lion approaching from some distance off ; with my rifle I knocked him over upon the ground, where he lay writhing in a pool of blood. The King Kureim was startled from his sleep by the sound of the gunshot, thinking that his men had attacked us : many too of the inhabitants were awakened, but when they saw the lion slain they rejoiced with an exceeding great joy, inasmuch as the lion had been as a second king over them, devouring whomsoever he chanced to meet, until none would dare to leave his house by night* As for the King Kureim his joy was so great at the slaying of the lion that he betrothed one of his daughters to me, and urged me to remain upon the island. So I stopped there for a space of thirty days and thirty nights, until I had bought all that I needed in the way of food. Then we departed by stealth, leaving the island in the two boats. But verily we had not gone but a little distance from the island when we once more lost our way in that lake: nor did we cease to wander astray, until our stores had become exhausted, and there had died all who