THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF
ES-SINDIBAD OF THE SEA

As related in the Cairo Edition of the “ Thousand and One Nights”?

NOW, O company, said Es-Sindibdd of
the Sea, that when I returned from the
sixth voyage, and resumed my former
life of enjoyment and pleasure, and sport
i] and merriment, I remained thus for a

length of time in uninterrupted joy and
happiness, night and day, and had acquired abundant
gains and great profits. Then my soul again longed for
diversion in other countries, and voyaging upon the sea,
and associating with the merchants, and hearing news.
So I resolved upon that. I packed up bales suited for
the sea, consisting of costly commodities, and conveyed
them from the city of Baghddd to the city of El-Basrah,
where I saw a ship prepared for a voyage, and in her
was a company of great merchants. I therefore em-
barked with them, and made myself familiar with them,
and we set forth in safety and health on our voyage.
The wind was fair to us until we arrived at a city called
the City of China, and we were in the utmost joy and

happiness, conversing together on travel and commerce,
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