At my return, I enquired for the mother and child. “Your slave,”
said she, “is dead; and as for your son, I know not what is become of him, I have not seen him this two months.” I was afflicted at the death of the slave, but as she informed me my son had only disappeared, I was in hopes he would shortly return.
However, eight months passed, and I heard nothing of him. When the festival of the great Bairam was to be celebrated,
At my return, I enquired for the mother and child. “Your slave,”
said she, “is dead; and as for your son, I know not what is become of him, I have not seen him this two months.” I was afflicted at the death of the slave, but as she informed me my son had only disappeared, I was in hopes he would shortly return.
However, eight months passed, and I heard nothing of him. When the festival of the great Bairam was to be celebrated,
