SINDBAD, THE SAILOR. 491

beheld a bird of enormous size, moving like a prodigious cloud

towards me.
I recollected that I had heard of a bird called the Roe, so

large that it could carry away young elephants; and I there-
fore conjectured that the large object I had been looking at was
the egg of this bird.

‘As the bird approached, I crept close to the egg: so that I
had one of the legs of this winged animal before me: this limb
being as large as the trunk of a tree, I tied myself firmly to it
with the cloth of my turban,

 

The next morning the bird flew away, and carried me from
this desert island. 1 was borne so high that I could not see the
carth ; and then carried downwards so swiftly that I lost my
senses, When I recovered, finding myself on the ground, I
quickly untied the cloth that bound me: and seareely was I