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tionally left by him some time ago on an uninhabited island;
and who, being unavoidably dead, he intended to sell the goods
for the benefit of his relatives, and that I should have the profit
of selling them. I now recollected this was the captain with
whom I had sailed on my second voyage. I soon convinced him
that I was really Sind bad, whom he supposed to have been lost,
lie was delighted at the discovery, and eagerly acknowledged
that the property was mine. I continued my voyage, sold my
goods to great advantage, and returned to Bagdad.
Sindbad then gave another hundred sequins to the porter,
and invited him to dinner the next day,

THE FOURTH VOYAGE OF SIXDBAD,

My inclination for commerce, and the desire of seeing foreign
countries, rendered my pleasures at home perfectly unsatisfac­
tory. I therefore arranged my affairs, commenced a voyage over­
land to Persia, and having bought a large stock of goods there, 1
loaded a ship and again embatked, The ship struck upon a
rock, and the cargo was lost. A few others and myself were
borne by the current to an island in which we were surrounded
by black savages, and carried to their habitations. The savages
offered us herbs; my companions eagerly took them, for they
wTere hungry. Grief would not allow me to eat; and presently
I perceived that the herbs had deprived my comrades of their
senses. Rice, mixed with oil of cocoa-nuts, was then offered to
ns, of which my companions ate greedily. My unhappy friends
were devoured one after another, having by these means become
desirable to the cannibals. But I languished so much, that they
did not think me fit to be eaten. They left me to the care of an
old man, from whom 1 contrived to escape ; and taking care to
pursue a contrary way to that which the savages had gone I