dangerous adventures history

 Men were traveling. On the way, they stopped at anthropophages. When they saw them at night, they began to rejoice, seized them all, and imprisoned them in iron cages, two by two in each cage. day, at every moment, they fed them. When they were well fat, they ate three. One night while the anthropophages were sleeping, one of the prisoners, who was wise, looked for a way out with his companions. When he had made a hole through which two men could come out, all The sound of the iron woke up the people who were chasing them with their lions and snakes. They took them all, except two, among whom was the wise man. They managed to escape because, hearing the anthropophages in their footsteps, he had built a hut of grass where they had hidden, from so that no one saw them. When their enemies were gone, they removed the grass and fell asleep. When he awoke, the wise man noticed that a lion had devoured his companion. He remained stunned and frightened until he came out of the lion's den and fled. He saw a tent in the distance, to which he was heading; there lived a woman who said to him, "Welcome and welcome." Then she invited him to sit on a mat, under which a hole was hidden. When the wise man sat down, the woman pulled the mat from below, and the man fell into a well.

He remained there until the arrival of the master of the tent, carrying two men whom he had slain. His wife told him what had happened with the wise man then added: "Go kill him too, he's fatter than them." But the prisoner grabbed the master of the house by his long braids and killed him. Contrary to his voice, he asked the woman to bring him up. She obeyed, believing it to be her husband, and at the sight of the wise man she was terrified. He made her hand over all they had in ornaments, silver, ornaments, slaves, camels, sheep and sheep, and she gave them all and he could return. towards his own.