friends; and my soul yearned for travel and traffic. So compelled
by Fate and Fortune I resolved to undertake another voyage; and,
buying me fine and costly merchandise meet for foreign trade,
made it up into bales, with which I journeyed from Baghdad to
Bassorah. Here I found a great ship ready for sea and full of
merchants and notables, who had with them goods of price; so I
embarked my bales therein. And we left Bassorah in safety and
good spirits under the safeguard of the King, the Preserver.--And
Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her
permitted say.

When it was the Five Hundred and Sixtieth Night,

She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Sindbad the
Seaman continued:--And after embarking my bales and leaving
Bassorah in safety and good spirits, we continued our voyage from
place to place and from city to city, buying and selling and
profiting and diverting ourselves with the sight of countries
where strange folk dwell. And Fortune and the voyage smiled upon
us, till one day, as we went along, behold, the captain suddenly
cried with a great cry and cast his turband on the deck. Then he
buffeted his face like a woman and plucked out his beard and fell
down in the waist of the ship will nigh fainting for stress of
grief and rage, and crying, "Oh and alas for the ruin of my house
and the orphanship of my poor children!" So all the merchant and
sailors came round about him and asked him, "O master, what is
the matter?"; for the light had become night before their sight.
And he answered, saying, "Know, O folk, that we have wandered
from our course and left the sea whose ways we wot, and come into
a sea whose ways I know not; and unless Allah vouchsafe us a