they found in it a large basket made of palm-leaves, shut up, and the covering of it sewed with red thread. To satisfy the caliph’s impatience, they would not take time to undo it, but cut the thread with a knife, and took out of the basket a package wrapt up in a sorry piece of hanging, and bound about with a rope; which being untied, they found, to their great amazement, the corpse of a young lady, whiter than snow, all cut in pieces.
they found in it a large basket made of palm-leaves, shut up, and the covering of it sewed with red thread. To satisfy the caliph’s impatience, they would not take time to undo it, but cut the thread with a knife, and took out of the basket a package wrapt up in a sorry piece of hanging, and bound about with a rope; which being untied, they found, to their great amazement, the corpse of a young lady, whiter than snow, all cut in pieces.
