Just like always, he eventually caught attention of a passerby ship that helped him make his way back home.

After telling the captain of the ship of his experience on the island, the captain was met with surprise.

“That old man isn’t just any old man, he is the Old Man of the Sea, and all those that he straddles himself upon never survive to tell the tale of his deviousness!” The captain exclaimed.

The captain then took Sinbad to an interesting island, full of apes that descend from their trees only at night. The merchants of the ship would make a pathway into the island that was high enough so that they could see all the apes.

These merchants would throw little pebbles at the apes; and in response, the apes would throw back coconuts, which the merchants would collect and sell for money.

Soon enough, Sinbad made a bit of money this way too. He then traded this money for pearls on his journey back to Basra, which led him to amass another fortune.