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I am Ahmedibn Fahdlan,
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IbnAlAbbas, Ibn Rasid,
Ibn Hammad.
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And things were
not always thus.
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At one time,
I was a poet...
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in the greatest city
in the world.
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Life was easy,
And I lived without care...
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until one fateful day...
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I met a beautiful woman...
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who belonged to another man.
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Her jealous husband
Complained to the Caliph...
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who made me the ambassador
to the land of the Tossuk Vlad--
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a country
far to the north.
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I was banished
from my home...
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and from all
that I knew.
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So, l journeyed by camelback many months
into the lands of barbarian peoples--
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accompanied by Melchisidek,
an old friend of my father--
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through the lands of the Ogus,
the Khazars and the Bulgars,
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into the lands of murderous bandits,
called "Tartars,"
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who attack caravans,
slaughtering everyone.
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- The Tartars are coming !
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The Tartars are coming !
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The Tartars--
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- Run ! Run for your life !