We had the wind in our stern and so fresh a gale that it was not
then possible for us to tack about for him.'
'You believe him then to be dead?' said I.
'Certainly,' answered he.
'No, captain,' said I; 'look upon me, and you may know that I am
Sinbad, whom you left in that desert island. I fell asleep by a
brook, and when I awoke I found all the company gone.'
The captain, having considered me attentively, knew me at last
embraced me, and said, 'God be praised that fortune has supplied my
defect. There are your goods, which I always took care to preserve
and to make the best of at every port where I touched. I restore
them to you, with the profit I have made on them.' I took them from
him, and at the same time acknowledged how much I owed to him.
From the Isle of Salabat we went to another, where I furnished
myself with cloves, cinnamon, and other spices. As we sailed from
that island we saw a tortoise that was twenty cubits in length and
breadth. We observed also a fish which looked like a cow, and gave
milk, and its skin is so hard that they usually make bucklers of
it. I saw another which had the shape and colour of a camel. In
short, after a long voyage, I arrived at Balsora, and from thence
returned to this city of Bagdad, with so much riches that I knew
not what I had.
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