After spending the night swimming in the water with the piece of wood, Sinbad eventually found another island by morning. Upon landing, he decided to do some exploring.

In a mostly empty plain, he found a single horse munching on some grass. Suddenly, he began to hear voices around him. A man emerged from the surrounding forest and approached Sinbad.

“Hello, how did you get here?” asked the man. Sinbad explained that he was just an adventuring sailor, and he had been accidentally abandoned by his crew.

“And, who are you?” asked Sinbad.

“I am one of the servants of the king of this island; King Mirage, and right now I’ve been tasked with feeding his horses in the plains,” the mysterious man answered.

The man took Sinbad to the capital of the island to see the King Mirage.

Sinbad told Mirage of his adventures as a merchant by sea, apparently with enough charisma that Mirage told his servants to provide Sinbad with anything that he could have possibly needed on his future voyages.

Sinbad asked for foreign merchants, in hopes of finding someone else from Baghdad that could help him get home.

After finally making his way back to Baghdad, Sinbad saw a ship land on Baghdad’s shores to drop off some cargo.

He noticed that one of the boxes in the cargo had Sinbad on it, his name. This must have been what he had brought onto the ship that took him out to the sea in the first place! Sinbad found the captain of this ship, who was also the captain that he first set sail with as a merchant out of Baghdad. Sinbad declared his identity to him.