the prince alighted from
his horse and went to the dervish, who had taken a bowl out of his bag,
in which he had a great many, and gave it him, with the same directions
he had given Prince Bahman; and after warning him not to be discouraged
by the voices he should hear, however threatening they might be, but to
continue his way up the hill till he saw the cage and bird, he let him
depart.

Prince Perviz thanked the dervish, and when he had remounted and taken
leave, threw the bowl before his horse, and spurring him at the same
time, followed it. When the bowl came to the bottom of the hill it
stopped, the prince alighted, and stood some time to recollect the
dervish's directions. He encouraged himself, and began to walk up with a
resolution to reach the summit; but before he had gone above six steps,
he heard a voice, which seemed to be near, as of a man behind him, say
in an insulting tone: "Stay, rash youth, that I may punish you for your
presumption."

Upon this affront the prince, forgetting the dervish's advice, clapped
his hand upon his sword, drew it, and turned about to revenge himself;
but had scarcely time to see that nobody followed him before he and his
horse were changed into black stones.

In the meantime the Princess Periezade, several times a day after her
brother's departure, counted her chaplet. She did not omit it at night,
but when she went to bed put it about her neck, and in the morning when
she awoke counted over the pearls again to see if they would slide.

The day that Prince Perviz was transformed into a stone she was counting
over the pearls as she used to do, when all at once they became
immovably fixed, a certain token that the prince, her brother, was dead.
As she had determined what to do in case it should so happen, she lost
no time in outward demonstrations of grief, which she concealed as much
as possible, but having disguised herself in man's apparel, she mounted
her horse the next morning, armed and equipped, having told her servants
she should return in two or three days, and took the same road that her
brothers had done.

The princess, who had been used to ride on horseback in hunting,
supported the fatigue of so long a journey better than most ladies could
have done; and as she made the same stages as her brothers, she also met
with the dervish on the twentieth day. When she came near him, she
alighted from her horse, leading him by the bridle, went and sat down by
the dervis