"Your slaves have quitted you only that they might worship another God, in whom they place all their trust."
This discourse so heightened the anger of Dakianos that he conjured the genie to let him know the place of their retreat.
"I alone can bring you to it," returned the genie. "All mankind would search for it in vain, but I will conduct you to it at the head of your army."
They immediately departed, and were not long before they arrived at the mouth of the cavern. The genie then said to Dakianos,
"It is here they are retired."
Dakianos, who was wholly possessed with the spirit of revenge, immediately would have entered it; but that moment there burst out from the cave a dreadful vapour, which was followed by a furious wind, and a darkness that spread over all that part of the worl
