Note 2 — The Poor Man and the Jewels
H. (Henry) Parker translation
After that, he set fire to the house, and having collected and put into sacks the whole of the ashes, he gave a thousand pounds, and bringing a ship for hire loaded the sacks into it. Having gone to a country in which cold, etc., proceed from serpents,2 and heaped up the sacks, and told him to come in three months more, he sent away the shipmaster (naew-potiyā).