Sinbad the Sailor ‘ 27,

covered his shoulders; and his nails were as long and crooked as
the talons of the greatest birds. At the sight of so jcehetal a ea
we lost all our senses, and lay like men dead.

At last we came to ourselves, and saw him sitting in the porch,
looking at us. When he had considered us well, he advanced
towards us, and laying his hand upon me, he took me up by the
nape of my neck, and turned me round as a butcher would do a
sheep’s head. After having viewed me well, and perceiving me to
be.so lean that I had nothing but ‘skin and bone,*he let me go.
He took up all the rest, one by one, and viewed them in the same
manner; and the captain ‘being the fattest, he held. him .with one
hand, as I might a sparrow, and thrusting a spit through him, kindled
a great fire, roasted, and ate him in his apartment for his supper.
This. being done, he returned to his porch, where he lay and fell
asleep, snoring. louder. than thunder... He slept: thus till morning.
‘For our parts, it was not possible for us to enjoy, any ‘rest; so that
-we passed the night in the most cruel fear that can. be anes
Day being come, the giant awoke, got up, went out, and left us
‘in the palace. "

’When we thought him at a distance, we broke the melancholy
‘silence we had kept all night, and every one grieving more than
‘another, we made the palace resound with our complaints and
groans, ‘Though there were a great many of us, and we /had but

one enemy, we had not at first the presence of mind to think of
delivering ourselves from him by his death.

We thought of several other things, but determined nothing ;
so that, submitting to what it should please God to order con-
cerning us, we spent the day in running: about: the island for fruit
and herbs to.sustain our lives. When evening came, we sought
-for a place to lie down in, but found none; so that we were forced,

‘whether we would or not, to return to the palace. .
‘The giant failed not to come back, and supped once more