Reading Notes: The Voyages of Sindbad, Part B
Sindbad: The Seventh and Last Voyage
Story Source: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H.J. Ford (1898).
After Sindbad's sixth voyage he was almost positive he would not go out to sea anymore but that was not the case. One day, Sindbad was told that an officer needed to speak to him. The officer said that he needed Sindbad's services to bear a letter and a gift to the King of Serdib in return for his message of friendship. This was a surprise for Sindbad because he did not want to leave Bagdad again because of the sufferings he had encountered at sea. The officer would not budge and demanded that Sindbad take the voyage, so Sindbad accepted. Sindbad gathered all of the gift and layed them out and soon became anxious to depart. In no time, they had already seen sailing for four days and all was well. On the fifth day, they encountered pirates who seized their vessel killing people and making people prisoners. From there Sindbad and his crew were sold as slaves. Sinbad was sold to a rich merchant who took him home, clothed and fed him. Sindbad's owner continually asked him about his trades and what all he could do. Being a merchant, he did not have many trades but he did shoot arrows as a child. Sindbad was told to of into the forest and hide in a tree and shoot an elephant and once he had done that he could go get tell his owner. He did shoot an elephant and he was praised and regaled with good things.
Sindbad: The Seventh and Last Voyage (cont.)
For two months Sindbad hunted and hunted and every single day he killed an elephant. One morning, the elephants surrounded the tree in which Sindbad was sitting in and uprooted the trunks and he fell to the ground. One elephant placed Sindbad on his back and the herd began running for what seemed like an hour. Sindbad was then set on his feet by the elephant and when he came to it he was standing at the top of a great hill and as far as he could see there were bones and tusks of elephants. He thought that the elephants may have brought him there so that he could not kill any more elephants for their tusks, instead he would just take the tusks and bones from the elephants who have passed naturally. He ran back to his owner and told him about his journey and took him to the place on the hill. Sindbad was no longer a slave and honored for what he had found and shared with his owner. His owner paid the way for Sindbad to return home to Bagdad and also sent him with gifts of tusks. At the first port the ship stopped at Sindbad got off the ship and traveled the rest of the way home by pack animals and a caravan of merchants. When Sindbad finally returned home, he was satisfied with his honors and went home to spend his final years with his family and friends.
I chose again to take notes over the same story and the continued story because I think it will benefit me in writing my stories to further understand the stories and have notes to look back on.
I also really like elephants. They are very fascinating to me!
Story Source: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H.J. Ford (1898).
After Sindbad's sixth voyage he was almost positive he would not go out to sea anymore but that was not the case. One day, Sindbad was told that an officer needed to speak to him. The officer said that he needed Sindbad's services to bear a letter and a gift to the King of Serdib in return for his message of friendship. This was a surprise for Sindbad because he did not want to leave Bagdad again because of the sufferings he had encountered at sea. The officer would not budge and demanded that Sindbad take the voyage, so Sindbad accepted. Sindbad gathered all of the gift and layed them out and soon became anxious to depart. In no time, they had already seen sailing for four days and all was well. On the fifth day, they encountered pirates who seized their vessel killing people and making people prisoners. From there Sindbad and his crew were sold as slaves. Sinbad was sold to a rich merchant who took him home, clothed and fed him. Sindbad's owner continually asked him about his trades and what all he could do. Being a merchant, he did not have many trades but he did shoot arrows as a child. Sindbad was told to of into the forest and hide in a tree and shoot an elephant and once he had done that he could go get tell his owner. He did shoot an elephant and he was praised and regaled with good things.
Sindbad: The Seventh and Last Voyage (cont.)
For two months Sindbad hunted and hunted and every single day he killed an elephant. One morning, the elephants surrounded the tree in which Sindbad was sitting in and uprooted the trunks and he fell to the ground. One elephant placed Sindbad on his back and the herd began running for what seemed like an hour. Sindbad was then set on his feet by the elephant and when he came to it he was standing at the top of a great hill and as far as he could see there were bones and tusks of elephants. He thought that the elephants may have brought him there so that he could not kill any more elephants for their tusks, instead he would just take the tusks and bones from the elephants who have passed naturally. He ran back to his owner and told him about his journey and took him to the place on the hill. Sindbad was no longer a slave and honored for what he had found and shared with his owner. His owner paid the way for Sindbad to return home to Bagdad and also sent him with gifts of tusks. At the first port the ship stopped at Sindbad got off the ship and traveled the rest of the way home by pack animals and a caravan of merchants. When Sindbad finally returned home, he was satisfied with his honors and went home to spend his final years with his family and friends.
I chose again to take notes over the same story and the continued story because I think it will benefit me in writing my stories to further understand the stories and have notes to look back on.
I also really like elephants. They are very fascinating to me!
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