CHAPTER XXII

HOW HE CHERISHED THE INTERESTS OF THE SEVERAL NATIONS OF HIS EMPIRE

BUT his munificence bestowed still further and more numerous favours on the heathen tribes and other nations of his empire. So that the inhabitants of our Eastern regions (who had heard of the privileges experienced in the opposite portion of the empire, and had blessed the fortunate recipients of them, and longed for the enjoyment of a similar lot for themselves), now with one consent proclaimed their own happiness, when they saw themselves in possession of all these blessings; and confessed that the appearance of such a monarch to the human race was indeed a marvellous event, and such as the world’s history had never yet recorded. Such were the sentiments which animated their breasts.