Now the entire crew was left swimming in the treacherous waters. Sinbad held onto a piece of wood from the wreckage in a desperate attempt to stay alive.

Eventually he washed ashore on another island, one that seemed to resemble a paradise. It was entirely green, full of singing birds and low-hanging fruit.

Sinbad was then approached by a man wearing nothing but a cloth that was wrapped around his waist. This man gestured to Sinbad to carry him on his shoulders. The old man wanted to cross the stream nearby but did not want to get wet. Sinbad obliged.

The thing is; no matter what Sinbad did for this man, the man would still stay on his shoulders. If Sinbad did not do his very bidding, he would begin to kick his sides as punishment.

At some point; Sinbad gave up completely at getting rid of the man, which led to him sleeping with the man still on his shoulders.

“My Lord, all I tried to do was help a man that seemed to be in need,” Sinbad moaned, “but all that he has rewarded me with is abuse!”

Throughout his journey on the island with the man on his back, Sinbad found a massive field of grapes alongside a field of gourds.

He gutted any gourds he could find and placed crushed grapes within them that he then left out in the sun for many days. They soon become a strong wine that he offered to the old man.

The old man became so intoxicated from the strong wine, that he finally let go of Sinbad! While the old man lay asleep on the ground, Sinbad quickly made a run for it and ran towards the closest shore he could get to.