Pasha, and in whose veracity every confidence
was to be placed.

The tailor was a Mahomedan, rather ugly
than otherwise, and yet he had fascinated a
Peri, with whom he lived maritally for three
consecutive years, during which he ate none of
the food ordinarily consumed by mortals, but
was supplied with the most delicious aliments
by his superhuman visitor. He warmly returned
the affection of which he was the object, and
only complained of the nocturnal wanderings in
which he was compelled to accompany the Peri
through mountains and valleys, which frightened
him at first; but afterwards he became habituated
to these strange travels. Napoli is a
strongly fortified city on the borders of the sea,
and its citadel, called Palamond, is on a very
high and rugged rock. It was built by the
Venetians, and is fortified according to all the
rules of art, the military service being most
vigilant and exacting. The gates are always
closed at sunset, yet it is undoubtedly true that
the tailor has been seen a hundred times, in the
citadel, at different hours of the night; that he
has visited the apartments of the commandant,
and of many other persons who dwell within the
walls. The Peri transported him thither. Sometimes
she placed him on the very top of a crag,
left him there for half an hour, and afterwards
conducted him safely home. He had no other
annoyance while the loving union lasted. He
abandoned his trade, all his wants being provided
for, and was perfectly happy, except for the
night excursions.

Three years had thus passed, when the Peri
came to him accompanied by a Djin (one of the
male genii). She told him that her race was
about to commence hostilities with another race
of genii—that females as well as males were
called to the battle-field, and that she was about
to join the army. If she returned safely their
career of felicity was to be resumed, but if
adverse fortune attended her, her faithful servant,
the Djin would bring to him her bloody
chemise, and he would be released from the
vows that had linked them together, after
which he might return to his ordinary habits
and accustomed labour, but if he did so without
the evidence of her death, the severest
punishment would be his portion. He endeavoured
to dissuade her from exposing herself
to danger, using every argument that an
impassioned lover could put forward, but the Peri
insisted she was not to be judged by mortal
notions, but that self-sacrifice was a higher duty
among superior intelligences than with mundane
man. He then asked for the privilege of accompanying
  the Peri, saying that his body
should be her shield and buckler, and at last
declared that whether she consented or not he
would not be separated from her, upon which
the Djin turned on him so terrible a frown that
he was obliged to seek the protection of the
Peri, who asked him how he could be so
presumptuous as to think of encountering, an
innumerable army, of which every individual was
a thousand times more powerful than the Djin,
from whom a single glance of displeasure had
filled him with such alarm. If, then, he could
not bear a look from a servant of the Peri,
how could he dream of entering upon a contest
with a race infinitely superior to mortals by the
subtlety of their essence, their agility, their
knowledge, and their strength? The most
murderous weapons of men would be harmless
when directed against the Djins. A single
one of them, she said, could overpower any
multitude of human beings by their superhuman
powers. The tailor was convinced. The Peri
took flight with the Djin, after embracing her
beloved. He was compelled to enter again into
the common habits of his life, no provision
being made for his sustenance. A few days
only elapsed, when suddenly the Djin appeared,
shook before him the bloody garment, announced
the death of the Peri, and fled. The tailor fell
ill, but slowly recovered; he re-entered upon
his former profession, but bears about him the
marks of an habitual melancholy. He has become
a rich man for one of his class— says he
will never marry— for any marriage would be a
sad contrast to his former happiness. All this,
the narrator says, I heard from his own lips.

Another part of the MS. says:

During the time that I was on board a
Ragusan merchant vessel belonging to Captain
Biagio Lupi, making the voyage from Constantinople
to Odessa, in the month of September,
1814, we conversed on various subjects; amongst
others, Captain Lupi related to me the following
fact, which was confirmed by his lieutenant and
all the sailors on board, who had been eye-
witnesses.

Captain Lupi had with his vessel frequently
visited Alexandria in Egypt, where he became
acquainted with a Jewish tailor who spoke
Italian fluently, and was accustomed to act as
interpreter to the captain and his crew, so that
by degrees an intimacy was established between
them. Arriving at Alexandria, on one occasion,
the captain did not find his friend, and was told
he had gone to settle at Canea, in Candia. Some
time after receiving this information, commercial
relations obliged Captain Lupi to proceed with
his vessel to Canea. He found out the address
of his friend, and learnt from the Jews of the
town that this man, as well as his family, had
fallen into the deepest misery, and were all
victims of paralysis, which had greatly
aggravated their misfortunes. The good captain
immediately repaired to the house of the unhappy
man, whom he found crippled in all his
limbs, and his face wholly distorted and disfigured ;
but his intellect remained unimpaired,
and his eyesight, hearing, and speech, bad been
preserved. His two sons, aged respectively
fourteen and fifteen, were in the same condition,
and only one little girl, seven or eight years of
age, was altogether exempt from the paralytic
malady. A Jewish woman, paid by the
Israelitish community of Canea, attended upon
this unfortunate family. Lupi inquired into the
cause of their sorrowful situation, when a Jew
informed him he had learnt from his Hebrew