A penknife once fell into the hands of this people, so they held a council in order to consider what it was. Some thought it was the young one of a sword, the others that it was the baby of an axe, but that its teeth had not yet come out. So the argument waxing hot, they fell to fight one another, and many were wounded and killed.
A number of these people, considering that it was not proper that birds alone should fly, and that they were able to do so, clad themselves in posteens (some of which are made from the light down of the Hindukush eagle), and threw themselves down from a great height, with the result that they reached the ground killed and mangled.
III. Songs.
A Song (of evidently recent date, as the influence on it of Persian poetry is obvious).
The Confession of the Soul.
1. (He.) If thy body be as lithe as (the letter) Alif (ا), thy eye is as full as (the letter) Nûn (ن).
If thou art Laila, this child (or lover) is Majnûn (referring to the well-known story of these true lovers).
2. (She.) If thou art the Prince of the Sultan of Rûm (Turkey)
Come and sit by me, free from constraint;