I had scarcely placed myself in this posture when the eagles came.  Each of them seized a piece of meat, and one of the strongest having taken me up, with the piece of meat to which I was fastened, carried me to his nest on the top of the mountain.  The merchants immediately began their shouting to frighten the eagles; and when they had obliged them to quit their prey, one of them came to the nest where I was.  He was much alarmed when he saw me; but recovering himself, instead of enquiring how I came thither began to quarrel with me, and asked, why I stole his goods?  “You will treat me,” replied I, “with more civility, when you know me better.  Do not be uneasy, I have diamonds enough for you and myself, more than all the other merchants together.  Whatever they have they owe to chance, but I selected for myself in the bottom of the valley those which you see in this bag.”  I had scarcely done speaking, when the other merchants came crowding about us, much astonished to see me; but they were much more surprised when I told them my story.  Yet they did not so much admire my stratagem to effect my deliverance, as my courage in putting it into execution.

They conducted me to their encampment, and there having opened my bag, they were surprised at the largeness of my diamonds, and confessed that in all the courts which they had visited they had never seen any of such size and perfection.  I prayed the merchant, who owned the nest to which I had been carried (for every merchant had his own), to take as many for his share as he pleased.  He contented himself with one, and that too the least of them; and when I pressed him to take more, without fear of doing me any injury, “No,” said he, “I am very well satisfied with this, which is valuable enough to save me the trouble of making any more voyages, and will raise as great a fortune as I desire.”

I spent the night with the merchants, to whom I related my story a second time, for the satisfaction of those who had not heard it.  I could not moderate my joy when I found myself delivered from the danger I have mentioned.  I thought myself in a dream, and could scarcely believe myself out of danger.

The merchants had thrown their pieces of meat into the valley for several days.  And each of them being satisfied with the diamonds that had fallen to his lot, we left the place the next morning, and travelled near high mountains, where there were serpents of a prodigious length, which we had the good fortune to escape.  We took shipping at the first port we reached, and touched at the isle of Roha, where the trees grow that yield camphire.  This tree is so large, and its branches so thick, that one hundred men may easily sit under its shade.  The juice, of which the camphire is made, exudes from a hole bored in the upper part of the tree, is received in a vessel, where it thickens to a consistency, and becomes what we call camphire; after the juice is thus drawn out, the tree withers and dies.