every breathing creature. Men who are fed with carnivorous aliments, and drenched with spirituous
liquors, have a sharp adust blood, which turns their
brains a hundred different ways. Their chief rage
is a fury to spill their brother's blood, and, laying
waste fertile plains, to reign over churchyards. Six
full months were taken up in curing the king of
India of his disorder. When the physicians judged
that his pulse had become natural, they certified this
to the council of the Gangarids. The council then
followed the advice of the unicorns and humanely
sent back the king of India, his silly court, and impotent warriors to their own country. This lesson
made them wise, and from that time the Indians respected the Gangarids, as ignorant men, willing to
be instructed, revere the philosophers they cannot
equal.
"Apropos, my dear bird," said the princess to him, "do the Gangarids profess any religion? have they one?"
"Yes, we meet to return thanks to God on the days of the full moon; the men in a great temple made of cedar, and the women in another, to prevent their devotion being diverted. All the birds assemble in a grove, and the quadrupeds on a fine down. We thank God for all the benefits he has bestowed upon us. We have in particular some parrots that preach wonderfully well.
"Such is the country of my dear Amazan; there I reside. My friendship for him is as great as the love
