Sinbad was sent to climb on top of a tree in a place known to be frequented by elephant stampedes, with the task of capturing one. Sinbad did just that, and he was so good at it that the rich merchant sent him to go up the tree every day since then to hunt these elephants.

However; one day the elephants that would always run past didn’t do so, instead they stopped in their tracks. They began to stomp in rage, pushing their tusks into the surrounding trees.

One of the angry elephants had his tusks in the trunk of the tree that Sinbad was in and pulled it out of its roots. Sinbad fell from the tree.

The same elephant; which was also the largest out of the herd, pulled Sinbad up off the ground and onto its back. Sinbad held on for his life as the elephant along with the rest of the herd ran off into the forest.

The elephants took him to a faraway location, which Sinbad soon realized was the elephants’ grave site as it was strewn with elephant skeletons and tusks.

They must have realized Sinbad was hunting them for their tusks, so they took him somewhere where he could have as many as he wanted without hunting them anymore.