And broad fields of wheat, barley, tobacco, and sugar-cane showed that the people of the city had no fear of any lack.
Birds were here--pelicans, cranes, and water-fowl along the brooks and gleaming pools; swift little yellow birds with crownlike crests; doves, falcons, and hawks of unknown species.

Here was life abundant, after the death of the Empty Abodes.

Here was rich color; here arose a softly perfumed air, balmy, incensed as with strange aromatics.

Here was peace--eternal _kayf_--blessed rest--here indeed lay a scene that gave full explanation of the ancient name "Arabia Felix." And at the left, dominating all this beauty, shone and glimmered in the ardent sun the wondrous Golden City of Jannati Shahr.
_Nissr_ had already begun to slant to lower levels.

Now at no more than twenty-five hundred feet, with greatly reduced speed, she was drifting down the valley toward the city, the details of which were every moment becoming more apparent.