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whom they begged bread ana ne asked
them where they came from and
where they were going to. They
told him their story and how they
were flying from Dakianus and
wished to hide, and the shepherd
agreed to accompany them in their
flight. The shepherds dog also
followed his master and the men told
him to drive the dog back, lest he
should betray their whereabouts.
The shepherd objected, saying the
dog had been his faithful compan-
ion for years, but the others insisted,
and the shepherd at last struck the
dog with his stick, breaking one of
its legs. The dog still followed and
the shepherd struck it again, break
ing another leg. But the dog still
continued to crawl after them, and
the men, struck with pity, event
ually took it in turns to carry it on
with them. The shepherd guided
them all to this very cave that he
knew of, and once there they all
went to sleep and never woke for
309 years.
In the Koran it is distinctly stated
that the sleepers were seven in num-
Der, and the eighth was their dog,
but either the Arabic or the Koran
is beyond the Sayeds, or they prefer
a story of their own. Whichever it
is, there is no doubt of the realism
of the latter portion of their tale, as
any one who knows the affection
the shepherds here have for their
great savage, shaggy-coated dogs
and the huge sticks that the shep-
herds always carry will testify.
Further on the story, however, the
worthy Sayeds get more confused
still, and they have it that the
sleepers awoke twice--once in the
time of Hazrat Esa, of Christ, and
again in the time of the Prophet.
The story is, they say, that these
three men and the shepherd awoke,
they felt hungry and sent one of
their number to go to the city near,
called Shahri-Afsoz, to buy bread.
On arrival he found the place much
) altered, and the first baker he went
to refused to accept his money.
Another to whom he applied asked
him where he got his money from.
The man said it was his own and
from his own house. He was then
told to point out his house, but he
could not at first, and eventually
recognized it by mulberry tree,
and going in he told them to dig in
certain place, and there they
found, sure enough, his store-a jal
full OF Dakianus' coins. The ther
owners of the house protested, an(
claimed the house and the coins as
his, and eventually both the MAJ
and the coins were taken before th'
King. When the King, who was
Christian, heard the mans story ant
/. found that he had been asleep TO-
800 years, he looked on the man al
supernatural and offered to resigI
the throne in his favor. The MAJ
declined, and stated tnat all ht
r wished was to be allowed t.
3 return to his companions in th'
4 cave. The King thereupon ac
t companied him. With the King
(, were a hawk and dog, and ;
I deer being started on the road, was
caught by these two and brought in
e thus making third animal in thu
e party. On arrival at the cave, no
: only the original six friends, TIN
S Altai-Azizan and the shepherd, bu
n the King and the dog and the hawl
n and deer all went off to sleep ant
+ never awoke again for some sever
), hundred years, when they wer'
y awakened by the arrival of th'
!, Chahar Var, or the four friends o
G the Prophet-that is, Omar, Osman
IL Abubalr and Ali-who repeating th
:, Mohammedan creed, at once awok
y the sleepers. The latter got up
d repeated the creed and then fel
II asleep again, and there they still
u remain.
Il Il All this was told me by the Sayed
. in the cave, and they pointed
;, triumphantly to the relics in proc
= of their story. Holding our lighte'
! candles between the palings OF tn
- wooden screen, which debars neare
- approach to the sleepers, we wer
= shown some cloths ON the floor, ap
= parently a rough, common sheet wit
- dark colored fringed cloth above
> which was said TO cover the sleepers
. We asked if we were allowed TO loo
. under the cloth, but that, they said
:, was impossible. Even they them
- selves, they said, knew not what wa
~ there. One man had once tried t
- - look and was Immediately struc
20 - blind; but that if we doubted ether
u (pointing in the direction) was TIL
~ ~ dog and the deer and hawk" Hold
81 ~ ing the candles to the right we couI
~ then see indistintly something look
W ing like dried bodies of some an
~ mails propped up against the wal
- They were very small. The first
F. said to be the dog, was about a foC
W ~ in height, ahd the deer few inche
y n higher; but it was impossible to sa
u, ~ in such light what animals the
IN IN were. The bones of the legs wei
~ ~ yisbe-in fact, the dogs legs ha
" fallen off, which rather told again