ES-SINDIBAD OF THE SEA | Ig1

case.” Then the master arose and ascended
the mast, and desired to loose the sails; but
the wind became violent upon the ship,
and drove her back, and her rudder broke
near a lofty mountain; whereupon the master
descended from the mast and said, “ There
is no strength nor power but in God, the
High, the Great ! No one is able to prevent
what is predestined! By Allah, we have
fallen into a great peril, and there remaineth
to us no way of safety or escape from it.”
So all the passengers wept for themselves :
they bade one another farewell, because of
the expiration of their lives, and their hope
was cut off. The vessel drove upon that
mountain, and went to pieces; its planks
were scattered, and all that was in it was
submerged; the merchants fell into the sea,
and some of them were drowned, and some
caught hold upon that mountain, and landed
upon it.

I was of the number of those who, landed
upon the mountain; and, lo, within it was
a large island. By it were many vessels
broken in pieces, and upon it were numerous
goods, on the shore of the sea, of the things
thrown up by the sea from the ships that had