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behold a bird of enormous size, moving like a prodigious cloud
towards me.
I rccollectcd that I had heard of a bird called the Roc, so
large that it could carry away young elephants; and 1 there­
fore conjectured that the large ohjcct I had been looking at was
the egg of this bird.
As the bird approached, I crept close to the egg; so that I
had one of the legs of this winged animal before m e: this limb
being as large as the trunk of a tree, 1 tied myself firmly to it
with the cloth of my turban.

The next morning the bird flew away, and carried me from
this desert island. 1 was borne so high that I could not see the
earth i and then carricd downwards so swiftly that I lost rny
senses. When I recovered, finding myself on the ground, I
quickly untied the cloth that bound m e: and scarcely was 1