Arabian Nights - Letchford - 68, Albert Letchford, 1897

The merchant’s daughter and the prince of al-irak — then lo and behold! a wall a-middlemost the chamber clave asunder, and there issued forth the cleft a basilisk resembling a log of palm-tree, and he was blowing like the storm-blast and his eyes were as cressets and he came on wriggling and waving. Date: 1897.