Fifth Voyage
This time, Sindbad travels on his adventure on a ship that was his own, although he did bring fellow merchants with him. They stopped on an island, where they found a Roc egg similar to the one that Sindbad saw earlier, although this one was in the process of hatching. The other sailors with him hacked through the shell and killed the baby bird, eating the bird in the process. This angered the parent birds, who caught up to the sailors and their ship, sinking it with large rocks. Sindbad washed ashore on an island yet again, and met an old man who appeared frail, so he helped the man out. However, the man enslaved him, forcing him to carry him on his back. Sindbad managed to hollow out a gourd and fill it with grapes, turning it into wine, and the old man drank it, at which time Sindbad threw him off his shoulders. He then escaped with merchants, who were amazed that he had escaped from the Old Man of the Sea, took him to their land, where he gathered coconuts in order to obtain the money to pay to travel back home.
Sindbad carrying the Old Man of the Sea
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Sixth Voyage
Instead of leaving from Bagdad for his sixth voyage, we see Sindbad travel to India, where he leaves on a new expedition. Their boat becomes caught in a storm, and they crash into an island where it is said that no one ever returns home. All of the other sailors perish on this island, but Sindbad noticed a fresh water river, which instead of emptying into the sea, turned and went into a cavern. He built a raft and gathered up many gems that he found on the island and in the cavern, and rode the raft through the cavern and into a new, strange land called Serendib. After some time, Sindbad requests to return home, and is allowed to return, taking with him gifts for his own king, which he does graciously. The Caliph in his home of Bagdad is initially skeptical of the gifts, which came from the Sultan of the Indies, but after Sindbad tells of this man's kingdom, the Caliph believes him, and gives Sindbad many gifts before he returns home.
Seventh Voyage
Sindbad sets off on one last voyage, after the Caliph requests he transport gifts to the king of Serendib, which he agrees to do after the Caliph says it must be him who does it. He was successful in delivering these gifts, and after being asked to stay for a time by the King of Serendib, leaves with many gifts for the Caliph. Unfortunately, during their journey, his ship is attacked by pirates, who sell them into slavery. He is bought by a rich merchant, who has him hunt elephants for their ivory tusks. After a time, the elephants uprooted the tree that Sindbad hunted them from. However, instead of killing him, they took him to their graveyard, which contained many of the ivory tusks that his master was after. He escaped to his master's home, and told him of this sight with much more ivory than he could ever imagine. As thanks for showing him all this ivory, the master allows Sindbad to leave, as he was the only slave not to be killed by the elephants. He gives him many treasures to take home with him, and he returns home, paying respects to the Caliph before having his story written for all to read, and thus ending his seventh and final voyage.
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