’Fadlallah immediately lost all Manner of Relish for the Conversation of other Men; and as he was every Day more and more satisfied of the Abilities of this Stranger, offered him the first Posts in his Kingdom.  The young Dervis, after having thanked him with a very singular Modesty, desired to be excused, as having made a Vow never to accept of any Employment, and preferring a free and independent State of Life to all other Conditions.

’The King was infinitely charmed with so great an Example of Moderation; and tho’ he could not get him to engage in a Life of Business, made him however his chief Companion and first Favourite.

’As they were one Day hunting together, and happened to be separated from the rest of the Company, the Dervis entertained Fadlallah with an Account of his Travels and Adventures.  After having related to him several Curiosities which he had seen in the Indies, It was in this Place, says he, that I contracted an Acquaintance with an old Brachman, who was skilled in the most hidden Powers of Nature:  He died within my Arms, and with his parting Breath communicated to me one of the most valuable of his Secrets, on Condition I should never reveal it to any Man.  The King immediately reflecting on his young Favourite’s having refused the late Offers of Greatness he had made him, told him he presumed it was the Power of making Gold. No Sir, says the Dervis, it is somewhat more wonderful than that; it is the Power of re-animating a dead Body, by flinging my own Soul into it.

’While he was yet speaking a Doe came bounding by them; and the King, who had his Bow ready, shot her through the Heart; telling the Dervis, that a fair Opportunity now offered for him to show his Art.  The young Man immediately left his own Body breathless on the Ground, while at the same Instant that of the Doe was re-animated, she came to the King, fawned upon him, and after having play’d several wanton Tricks, fell again upon the Grass; at the same Instant the Body of the Dervis recovered its Life.  The King was infinitely pleased at so uncommon an Operation, and conjured his Friend by every thing that was sacred to communicate it to him.  The Dervis at first made some Scruple of violating his Promise to the dying Brachman; but told him at last that he found he could conceal nothing from so excellent a Prince; after having obliged him therefore by an Oath to Secrecy, he taught him to repeat two Cabalistick Words, in pronouncing of which the whole Secret consisted.  The King, impatient to try the Experiment, immediately repeated them as he had been taught, and in an Instant found himself in the Body of the Doe.  He had but little Time to contemplate himself in this new Being; for the treacherous Dervis shooting his own Soul into the Royal Corps, and bending the Prince’s own Bow against him, had laid him dead on the Spot, had not the King, who perceiv’d his Intent, fled swiftly to the Woods.