THE FIFTH VOYAGE OF

ES-SINDIBAD OF THE SEA.-

RM NOW, O my brothers, that when I
4] returned from the fourth voyage,
4] and became immersed in sport and
merriment and joy, and had for-
~ gotten all that I had experienced,
and what had befallen me, and what I had
suffered, by reason of my excessive joy at the gain
and profit and benefits that I had obtained, my
mind again suggested to me to travel, and to
divert myself with the sight of the countries of
other people, and the islands. So I arose and

  

meditated upon that subject, and bought pre-
cious goods, suited for a sea-voyage. I packed
up the bales, and departed from the city of
Baghddd to the city of El-Basrah ; and, walk-
ing along the bank of the river, I saw a great,
handsome, lofty vessel, and it pleased me;
wherefore I purchased it. Its apparatus was
new, and I hired for it a master and sailors,

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