The Fifth Voyage of

 

THE FIFTH VOYAGE OF
SINBAD THE SAILOR.

HE PLEASURES J enjoyed again had
charm enough to make me forget ail
the troubles and calamities I had under-
gone, without curing me of my inclina-
tion to make new voyages. Therefore
I bought goods, ordered them to be
packed up and loaded, and set out with
them for the best seaport; and there,

' that I might not be obliged to depend

upon a captain, but have a ship at my.

own command, [ waited till one was built on purpose at my own
expense, When the ship was ready, I went on board with my goods;
but not having enough to load her, I took on board with me several

_ merchants of different nations, with their merchandise.

We sailed with the first fair wind, and after a long voyage, the
first place we touched at was a desert: island, where we found an
egg of a roc, equal in size to that I formerly mentioned. ‘There
was a young roc in it just ready to be hatched, and the bill of it
began to appear.

The merchants whom I had taken on board my ship, and who
landed with me, broke the egg with hatchets, and made a hole in it,
from whence they pulled out the young roc piece by piece, and