Note: Translated by Sybil Thesiger This record represents the Caravan frame story, whose opening segment only is commonly presented as the untitled first section, or chapter, of the Caravan cycle, or novella. Thesiger modifies the sequence of stories contained within the frame, and rearranges frame-story content between some of the later stories, and at the end of the entire work, to match that rearrangement. (In her translation, subsequent frame-story content appears at the ends of the chapters; that is, at the ends of the six contained stories, as represented at ISFDB.)