text: " "Allah Akbar! Haroun al Raschid when afflicted like your highness was wont to disguise himself in various ways as a merchant a soldier or a sailor"---- "All that is well known to us " interposed the Caliph; "but although we are disposed to follow the example of our glorious ancestor so far as we can without too great exertion of mind or body yet we doubt whether just now we---- Thou knowest " he continued interrupting himself and in a lower tone "that although Haroun al Raschid was certainly our forefather yet our blood improving by descent is even purer and more illustrious than his