Notes from the Fifth Voyage
Collection of Sinbad's travels By Andrew Lang
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Plot Points
- After washing ashore on an island after a shipwreck, Sinbad begins exploring the paradise
- He wander around the island for several days, living off the fruits of the trees, until he comes to a stream and sees an old man knelt beside it
- Pitying the old man he stoops down to offer to help him cross the stream
- The old man, surprisingly nimble and wiry, leaps onto Sinbad's shoulders and locks his ankles around Sinbad's throat
- Unable to dislodge the old man and struggling perpetually for breath, he is forced to carry the old man on his back around the island for many days
- The man would eat fruit from trees and even sleep with his ankles around Sinbad, never allowing respite
- One day, in misery Sinbad plucks some grapes and stuffs them in a gourd to ferment
- After many more days of distress, Sinbad returns to where he stashed the gourd and begins to drink deeply
- Seeing Sinbad become drunk on such little wine, the old man swipes the gourd from him and quaffs down the rest
- The old man becomes very drunk very quickly and Sinbad is able to make his escape to the shore again
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