THE FIFTH VOYAGE

Once again; just like the beginning of every one of Sinbad’s many voyages, Sinbad is bored of his life of comfort and dreams of adventure. He went out and bought a magnificent boat at the port of Basra, then hired a captain and a crew.

Sinbad returned to trading and profiting from such trade, making a great sum of money.

Sinbad and his crew come upon an isolated island that they have never seen nor heard of. Sinbad knew that he did not want anything to do with this island, but his fellow sailors became curious about the massive rock that was on it. Half of it was lodged into the earth, while the other half was sticking out.

After convincing Sinbad to dock on the island, they approached the rock with a great curiosity. Its texture was so smooth, that they believed it was an egg. That’s when they began to throw stones at it, hoping its shell would break.

When they did make a crack, the object broke open and out poured water. They found a giant baby bird within that they soon turned into dinner.

As they feasted upon its meat, Sinbad was keen to join them until he realized who this baby bird belonged to – the bird he had met before, with talons like a tree trunk!

“What have you done!” Sinbad cried out, “this is the child of a monstrously large bird, and now she’s going to come and destroy us all!”

Sinbad and his crew rushed back out onto their ship and into the sea, but it wasn’t long until they noticed a massive black shadow descend upon them. Within her talons she held a massive rock, which she dropped onto the ship.

Water broke into Sinbad’s ship. Another massive bird; assumed to be the father of the egg, dropped another massive rock that smashed through the ship’s deck.