But his love for the sea compels him to make the same mistakes again. You might think that Sindbad would give up sailing after a near-death experience during his fourth journey. The Fifth Voyage – Angry Rocs and Old Man Parasite Malnourished and thin, he slowly and painfully crawls through the tunnel, which leads him to the shore.Ī merchant ship rescues him and takes him home from there. He survives for a few days, and one lucky night, he finds a burrow dug by a fox or another scavenger animal. So when Sindbad’s wife dies of illness, he is forcefully buried in the pit with her, with a jug of water and seven pieces of bread. The kingdom has an unusual custom of burying the living spouse along with the dead one. The king requests Sindbad to live in their city and also gets him married to a nobleman’s daughter. Being the merchant he is, Sindbad soon finds a way to make money on the island and impresses the king with his creativity. He reaches another part of the island inhabited by ordinary people. With the help of one of the guards, Sindbad manages to escape the cannibals. Sindbad didn’t like this animal behavior of his fellow sailors, and soon, he realizes that the hosts are fattening them up to eat them. The sailors would eat whatever the hosts fed them and then sleep the rest of the day. The sailors eat as much as they want until evening when the hosts move them into a barn-like place. The residents of the house welcome the crew and give them food. They move into the wooded island from the shore and reach a fire house. The sailors, barely make it to an island, by holding on to whatever was floating. The wind also becomes powerful and turns the ship upside down, throwing all men and goods into the sea. But one day, a storm makes the sea wild and fearsome. They travel from port to port, peacefully, for a while. Sindbad joins another group of merchants to go on another journey. The Fourth Voyage – Cannibals and Customs
The captain, an honest man, gives Sindbad the money they made from selling his merchandise, making Sindbad wealthier yet again. Lucky for Sindbad, this is the same ship that had accidentally abandoned him during his second voyage.
The merchants on the ship rescue him and are awed by his adventure stories.
He spends the night in fear and by morning, moves towards the shore, where he finds another merchant ship sailing by. They get scattered and Sindbad, alone now, builds himself a shelter with wooden sticks to keep the serpents from coming close to him. The crew escapes assaults by the other giants and somehow ends up on another dangerous island, filled with fruit and fresh water, which has huge serpents that attack them.įearing death, the crew runs into the woods, only to find that there are more of the large snakes in there. They successfully blind the monster and escape on a raft made from wood on the island. They manage to get the red-hot iron spits on which the giant roasts the person he wants to eat. Worried about their fate, Sindbad and his mates decide to trick the giant.