What made the matter worse was that our friend Danhash’s physiognomy and physical peculiarities of development were in the highest degree disquieting. What if a fellow who measured some seven hundred and fifty feet in his stockings should, to use a Southern expression, get after us ? Small chance of life he could swallow a convention of philanthropists he might trample us to jelly without knowing it. Judging by the eye alone, I should say that the pillar was at least seven hundred feet high, and that the Afreet’s head rose two hundred feet or more above the pillar. Even if the aspect of this applicant for our sympathy had been benevolence itself, he seemed to me too large to be treated with childlike confidence. Thoroughly as I confided in the wisdom and the excellent intentions of my revered friend, often as I had seconded his motions at anniversaries and conventions, I was alarmed at his present proposition. We must hasten to extricate this victim of centuries of oppression.” “ There,” said the great and good man with whom I made that memorable journey, - “ there is the first claimant on our philanthropy. The Horseman of Brass we had found, reared full high as of old on his lofty hill, the broad head of his spear still blazing with light, and his metallic face set in the direction of the invisible city.Īt last we stood beneath the immeasurable pillar of black stone in which Danhash the Afreet, sunk to the pits of his four arms and his two wings, was confined and made fast with the seal of Solomon. We had passed the palace of Kosh, the son of Sheddad had ascended its unequalled stairways of many-colored marbles had wondered at its lofty walls and arches, decorated with gold and silver and minerals and, like the Emir Mousa, had wept until we were insensible, over its pathetic inscriptions.

THERE was no doubt that our wildest dreams were in process of realization.įollowing in the track of the Emir Mousa and the Sheikh Abdelsamad, we were on our way to the City of Brass and to the shores of that unknown sea which contains the imprisoned Genii.

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