KING SOLOMON AND QUEEN BALKÎS.
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she and her people. Then King Solomon married her. And he loved her exceedingly, and made her Queen again over the land of el-Yémen. And he commanded the genii to build for her three fortresses to protect the kingdom. And every month until the day of his death he visited her, and remained with her three days.
And when King Solomon was dead, there came a jinn into the midst of the land of el-Yémen, and cried with a loud voice, "O nation of genii, verily King Solomon is dead; fear nothing any longer." So the genii all departed from el-Yémen, and since that time have become invisible.
