A king was embarked on board a ship, which also carried a slave.
The boy had never been at sea, nor experienced the inconvenience of a ship.
He set up a weeping and wailing, and all his limbs were in a state of trepidation, and, however much they soothed him, he was not to be pacified.
The king’s pleasure party was disconcerted by him; but they offered no help.
On board that ship there was a physician. He said to the king; “If you will order it, I can manage to silence him.”
The king replied, “It will be an act of great favor.”
The physician directed that they throw the boy into the sea, and after he had plunged repeatedly, they seized him by hair of the head and drew him close to be ship,