At once they hewed his body into fragments, each of which was soon exalted on a spear.

The princess, wounded in the face, and pinioned, witnessed that.

Her damsel lay inanimate, and at the time I thought her dead.

She was my promised bride.

Then the Emir approached with a great spear--as I suppose, to kill his daughter, but just then there were loud shouts, and then another battle, in which I heard the war-cry of our tribe.