ABSTRACT
With such memories as these we tried to repopulate this imposing solitude. The Arabs around us had gone to sleep again, waiting until the evening breeze had come to cool the air before they left the marble grotto, and we contributed different ideas of our own to the facts which tradition really confirmed. Those Strange initiatory ceremonies, so often described by the Greek authors, who may, indeed, have seen them performed, were astonishingly interesting to us, for the 172Stories fitted in perfectly with the arrangement of the place.
