CHAPTER V.

Bakáwalí returns to her own country, and there writes a love-letter to the Prince, who sets out to visit her—The Mother of Bakáwalí discovers that her daughter is in love with a human being, tosses the Prince high up into the air, and imprisons Bakáwalí—The Prince falls into a river, emerges from it in safety, obtains several magical articles, is changed into a young woman, then into a foul-visaged Abyssinian, and finally regains his own form 288