while he should observe what he had prescribed to him. After this
instruction he said: "Go down boldly, child, and we shall both be rich
all our lives."

Aladdin jumped into the cave, descended the steps, and found the three
halls just as the African magician had described. He went through them
with all the precaution the fear of death could inspire; crossed the
garden without stopping, took down the lamp from the niche, threw out
the wick and the liquor, and, as the magician had desired, put it in his
vestband. But as he came down from the terrace, he stopped in the garden
to observe the fruit, which he only had a glimpse of in crossing it. All
the trees were loaded with extraordinary fruit, of different colours on
each tree. Some bore fruit entirely white, and some clear and
transparent as crystal; some pale red, and others deeper; some green,
blue, and purple, and others yellow: in short, there was fruit of all
colours. The white were pearls; the clear and transparent, diamonds; the
deep red, rubies; the green, emeralds; the blue, turquoises; the purple,
amethysts; and those that were of yellow cast, sapphires. Aladdin was
altogether ignorant of their worth, and would have preferred figs and
grapes, or any other fruits. But though he took them only for coloured
glass of little value, yet he was so pleased with the variety of the
colours, and the beauty and extraordinary size of the seeming fruit,
that he resolved to gather some of every sort; and accordingly filled
the two new purses his uncle had bought for him with his clothes. Some
he wrapped up in the skirts of his vest, which was of silk, large and
full, and he crammed his bosom as full as it could hold.

Aladdin, having thus loaded himself with riches, returned through the
three halls with the same precaution, made all the haste he could, that
he might not make his uncle wait, and soon arrived at the mouth of the
cave, where the African magician expected him with the utmost
impatience. As soon as Aladdin saw him, he cried out: "Pray, uncle, lend
me your hand, to help me out." "Give me the lamp first," replied the
magician; "it will be troublesome to you." "Indeed, uncle," answered
Aladdin, "I cannot now; it is not troublesome to me: but I will as soon
as I am up." The African magician was so obstinate, that he would have
the lamp before he would help him up; and Aladdin, who had encumbered
himself so much with his fruit that he could not well get at it, refused