Sinbad

Título

Sinbad

Autor

Janet Hardy-Gould

Resumen

Many, in the city of Baghdad there lived a young man named Sinbad. He was very poor and was forced to carry heavy loads. Their complaints were heard by the owner of a beautiful house, which ordered a servant to do to enter the young. Through wonderful courtyards filled with flowers, she was taken to a room. In the room was a table full of food and wine. It had sat several people, including an elderly man stood and said, do not think that my life has been easy. For you to understand, I'll tell you my adventures ... "Even though my father left me to die a considerable fortune. Spend it all and I was poor and miserable Then I sold what was left me and I sailed with some merchants. We sailed for weeks, reaching an island shore the ground shook suddenly, and we filed projected.. in fact, the island was a huge whale As I could not climb up to the boat, I let myself be carried away by the currents grabbed a table to reach a beach littered with palm trees. once on land, took the first ship sailed back to Baghdad ... "At this point, Sinbad the Sailor stop telling his story. He gave the boy a hundred gold coins and told him to return the next day. So did Sinbad and the old man continued his story ... "I went to set sail. One day we had landed I fell asleep and when I woke up, the boat had left without me. I came to a deep valley strewn with diamonds. I filled a sack with all I could take, I tied a piece of meat back and waited until an eagle as food chose me to carry the nest, so me out of that place. " Stop the story again, the old man returned to give the young hundred gold coins, telling him to return the next day ... "I could have stayed in Baghdad enjoying achieved fortune, but I was bored and returned to embark. Everything went well until we surprised a great storm and the boat capsized. we were thrown into an island inhabited by terrible dwarves, who took us prisoner. the dwarves led us to a giant who had only one eye and ate human flesh. at night , under cover of darkness, he nailed a burning stake into his eye and escape from that awful place. back in Baghdad, boredom returned to prey on me. But this'll tell you tomorrow ... "and with these words old man returned to give the young 100 gold. "You start a new journey, but as fate my boat again wreck. This time went for an island full of cannibals. I was offered to the king's daughter, whom I married, but soon she died. There a custom in the kingdom. that the husband should be buried with wife Luckily, at the last moment, managed to escape and returned to Baghdad laden with jewels ... "and so, day after day, the old man was narrating the fantastic adventures of his travels, after which always offered a hundred gold Sinbad. Thus the boy knew how the old man's thirst for adventure had led him to become rich, only to lose his fortune again. The old man told him that, in the last of his travels, had been sold as a slave to an ivory dealer. Their mission was to hunt elephants. One day, fleeing from an angry elephant, the old man climbed a tree. The elephant grabbed the trunk with his powerful trunk and shook the tree so that the old man was to fall on the animal's back. This will then drove to a cemetery of elephants; there was enough ivory to not have to kill more elephants. The old man understood and appearing before his master, told him where he could find many fangs. In gratitude, the merchant gave him freedom and made him many valuable gifts. "I returned to Baghdad and I have not been back to embark. When he finished speaking, the old man asked Sinbad accept to stay and live with him. The young Sinbad gladly accepted, and never again had to bear the brunt of any burden ...