THE FOURTH VOYAGE OF
ES-SINDIBAD OF THE SEA.

NOW, O my brothers, that when I
returned to the city of Baghdad,
and met my companions and my
family and my friends, and was
enjoying the utmost pleasure and
happiness and ease, and had forgotten all that
I had experienced, by reason of the abundance
of my gains, and had become immersed in sport
and mirth, and the society of friends and com-
panions, leading the most delightful life, my
wicked soul suggested to me to travel again to
the countries of other people, and I felt a
longing for associating with the different races
of men, and for selling and gains. So I re-
solved upon this, and purchased precious goods,
suitable to a sea-voyage, and, having packed up
many bales, more than usual, I went from the
city of Baghdad to the city of El-Basrah, where
I embarked my bales ia a ship, and joined
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