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For the second reading of the week I covered the latter half of Sindbad’s adventures. In these adventures Sindbad is less murderous and creepy. Bad luck still befalls our great adventurer Sindbad but as usual Sindbad makes the most of the situation he is in and by pulling himself up from his bootstraps is able to go from being a slave to a very rich man. On Sindbad’s last adventure he is tasked by the Caliph to return to the King of Serendib with gifts in tow in order to show the Caliph’s friendship to the King of Serendib. Sindbad at first protests as he has had a history of bad luck with his travels on the sea. However, the Caliph makes Sindbad an offer he cannot refuse and Sindbad ends up packing his bags ready to embark on his final adventure. He reaches the King of Serendib safe and sound but on his journey back home he is captured by pirates. From there he is sold into slavery and forced to kill elephants and bury them so his master can collect their ivory trunks later with ease. After some time passes and a lot more elephants die Sindbad is captured by the very elephants he was tasked to kill and brought to their elephant graveyard. Instead of killing Sindbad they show him their graveyard so he can harvest these trunks instead of killing them. Sindbad takes this information to his master who becomes an even wealthier man because of this information. Now that Sindbad’s master no longer needs him to kill elephants he sets him free and pays for his safe passage back home to Baghdad. After Sindbad makes it to another port he gets off his ship and elects to travel by foot all the way home.
Bibliography: This reading note is about the Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor as told in the Arabian Nights book by Andrew Lang
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