of jewels, and the Sultan tells her he may come and see him at the palace.  Having received this message, Cajusse rubs the lantern, gets a dress of gold and silver, a richly caparisoned horse, four pages with rich dresses to ride behind them, and one to go before, distributing money to the people.  Cajusse is next married to the Princess, and they live together in a most magnificent palace with great happiness.  By-and-bye the old wizard hears of this, and resolves to obtain the lantern by hook or by crook.  Disguising himself as a pedlar he comes to the palace calling out the familiar “New lamps for old.”  By this means he obtains the precious lamp, and immediately transports the palace and the princess to an island in the high seas.  Cajusse, by the aid of the magic ring, quickly follows, to find his princess a prisoner in the power of the wizard.  He then gives her this advice:  “Make a feast to-night; say you’ll marry the old wizard if he’ll tell you what thing would be fatal to him, and you will guard him against it.”  The princess gets from the magician the fatal secret.  “One must go into a far distant forest,” he says “Where there is a beast called the hydra, and cut off his seven heads.  If the middle head is split open a leveret will jump out and run off.  If the leveret is split open, a bird will fly out.  If the bird is caught and opened, in its body is a precious stone, and should that be placed under my pillow I shall die.”  Cajusse accomplishes all these things, and gives the life-stone to the princess, together with a bottle of opium.  The princess drugs the wizard’s wine, and when he had laid his head on his pillow (under which was the stone) he gave three terrible yells, turned himself round three times, and was dead.  After thus ridding themselves of their enemy, Cajusse and his bride lived happy ever afterwards.

Aladdin’s adventure with the magician in the enchanted cave has also its counterpart in Germany (see Grimms’ German Collection).

Another “Aladdin” version is the tale of Maruf, the last in the Bulak and Calcutta printed Arabic texts of the “Book of Maruf” in “The Thousand and One Nights.”  The story is to the effect that Maruf had given out that he was a rich man, under which false pretence he marries the Sultan’s daughter.  The tale he spread about was that he was expecting the arrival of a rich caravan, which contained all his princely wealth.  After they were married, Maruf confesses to his wife the imposture he has practised on them.  She urges him to fly, or his head would be forfeited, and procures him a disguise to flee the country.  He does so, and, whilst journeying through a village, he sees a man ploughing in a field, whom he asks for food.  Whilst the latter is away, Maruf continues the ploughing, where the man had left off, and the ploughshare strikes against something hard in the ground, which turns out to be an iron ring in a marble slab.  He pulls at the ring, and Maruf discovers a small room covered