“When you get to the first hall, bind your robe around you. Then go to the second without stopping, and thence in the same manner to the third. Above all, be very particular not to go near the walls or even to touch them with your robe; for if any part of your dress should touch them, you will die instantly. At the far end of the third hall there is a door which leads into a garden planted with beautiful trees, all of which are full of fruit. Go straight forward, and follow a path which you will see. This will bring you to the bottom of a flight of fifty steps, at the top of which there is a terrace.

When the magician had given these directions to Aladdin, he took off a ring which he had on one of his fingers and put it on his pretended nephew, telling him at the same time that it was to save him from every evil that might otherwise happen to him. “Go, my child,” he said; “descend boldly. Now both of us shall become immensely rich for the rest of our lives.”