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upon his head a large golden basin
of great weight, full of pearls, diamonds,

rubies, and emeralds, quite as fine as the
others* Each basin was covered with a

cloth of silver, embroidered with flowers
of gold. All these slaves with their
golden basins, together with the white

ones, entirely filled the house, which
was but small, as well as the court in

front and a garden behind it.
Aladdin’s mother now came back
and had almost fainted when she saw

this great crowd and all its magnificence,
but Aladdin desired her at once to

follow the procession of slaves to the
palace, and present to the Sultan the

dowry of the Princess.
No sooner had the first slave turned

into the street than all the passers-by ran
to look, and by the time the whole
procession was on its way, the crowds

were so great that every one must needs
stop in the place where he happened to be.

When the first of the eighty slaves
arrived at the gate of the first court of
the palace, the porters were in the

greatest haste, as soon as they perceived
this astonishing procession approaching,

to open it, as they took the' first for