and the genie having resumed his form, the first thing he did was to kick the vessel into the sea. This action alarmed the fisherman. “Genie,” said he, “will not you keep the oath you just now made? And must I say to you, as the physician Douban said to the Grecian king, suffer me to live, and God will prolong your days.”
The genie laughed at the fisherman’s fear, and answered, “No, fisherman, be not afraid, I only did it to divert myself,
and the genie having resumed his form, the first thing he did was to kick the vessel into the sea. This action alarmed the fisherman. “Genie,” said he, “will not you keep the oath you just now made? And must I say to you, as the physician Douban said to the Grecian king, suffer me to live, and God will prolong your days.”
The genie laughed at the fisherman’s fear, and answered, “No, fisherman, be not afraid, I only did it to divert myself,
