Shalimar inflicts a minor wound on Haidi, whom she does not know, then swims back to the palace. While Khan is stabbing Hussein to death, Shalimar attacks Haidi with her dagger to prevent him from apprehending Goghi. Kral, advises him to kill Hussein so that they will be able to blame the people of Halwan and have an excuse to conquer them. During the fray, Goghi, a thief befriended by "Taura," knocks Hussein from his horse with a rock, and while Haidi searches for the assailant, Khan's righthand man, Capt. Khan, who is in league with the Shaman and hopes to plunder Halwan, has supposedly been summoned by Selim to guard him, although the people make clear their hatred of him by pelting his men with rocks. Haidi arrives in Shalimar's town of Halwan at the same time as Bedouin mercenary Rama Khan and his many soldiers. Hussein, to tell his father of their victory over a horde of invaders. One day, Prince Haidi, the son of the Caliph of Bagdad, is traveling with his friend, Capt. Hoping to lift the spirits of her oppressed people, Shalimar nightly swims out of the palace via a secret aqueduct and performs at the Tambourine Tavern as a scantily clad dancer named Taura. In Egypt in 1249 A.D., Princess Shalimar chafes under restrictions imposed by the Shaman, a mysterious advisor who has insinuated himself into the confidence of Shalimar's father, Prince Selim, and keeps him drugged.
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