Note 246 — Chapter XXI · STRANGE ARAB DEVICES FOR CATCHING THE PASSAGE SAKER

ʿArsh-i Sulaymān. The winds were subject to Solomon. His throne was placed on an immense carpet of green silk, and his forces, men on the right, jinn on the left, took their stand upon it, and the wind bore it aloft under Solomon’s orders, while the army of birds formed a canopy above.