The Seven Voyages of Sea Sinbad

Translated by Almujtaba Salah Raheem

Fourth stage English department group “A:
 Sinbad
Sinbad is a legendary character of 1001 nights and a sailor
from Baghdad. He lived during the Abbasid Caliphate, and is
said to be a merchant from Baghdad living in Amman, the story
of the sea Sinbad is one of the most famous tales of a
thousand nights. Sinbad visits many magical places and meets
many monsters during his travels. On the shoars of East Africa
and South Asia, he has made seven trips on which he has
encountered difficulties and horrors and has barely survived.
Sinbad's seven voyages,

the first flight (Moving Island and Seahorses)

was where he traveled with some merchants and rested on an

island that they liked and set a fire to eat, and they did not
realize that this island was the back of a whale until the captain
screamed at them and told them that it was going to sink
because they felt the heat of fire. Some of them survived,
including those who drowned in the sea, and Sinbad was
unable to reach the ship but managed to survive when he was
caught by a piece of wood. The captain had left the ship and
did not look at those who had died in the sea.
The second voyage (the Diamond Valley)

when the crew of the ship left Sinbad accidentally on an island

where no man began to wander until he saw a large dome, and
when he came close to it, it was the egg of the Great Rockbird,
Sinbad thought of tying himself to the bird's leg, perhaps
returning to another island, and when he carried out his idea,
he reached a big, deep valley. He was full of life, and found that
there was a valley of diamonds and jewels, and he gathered
some of the jewels and while he was in the valley, he was
surprised by an offering that fell from above, and he fast tied
himself to it, until the bird came, and took it up over the valley,
and they hurled themselves at the the bird, and came to collect
the diamonds that were attached to the sacrifice. They feared
their bounty and told them his story and gave them some of the
diamonds he had collected and then walked with them to look
on the island and traveled from city to city until he arrived in
Basra.
The third voyage (the Black Ogre)
left Baghdad for Basra. Some passengers boarded and
traveled with them by boat from sea to sea and island to island
until the captain informed them that they had arrived at Monkey
Mountain. A large number of them gathered and surrounded
them, took their ship and their belongings and left them on land.
They slept on the island until a great man came to them in the
form of a tall, black man, grabbed one of them, turned him over,
left him and took another, and so until he liked one, slaughtered
him and ate him, and Sinbad and his comrades said, "If we
drowned or killed by the monkeys, it would be better than these
killers." They escaped with an ark made after they poked his
eye, but he brought a female like him, and they threw stones at
them until they killed more of them, and two people stayed with
Sinbad. They went to sleep. After they woke up and found a
giant snake, one of them was swallowed by the snake and went
on his way, and then the snake returned to them and ate the
other person who was with Sinbad. After that Sinbad tucked
himself between wood so the snake could not eat him, so
Sinbad went to the end of the island and pointed to a boat, and
the crew took him with them. This was the ship he left on the
second voyage and returned to Baghdad.
As they sailed, they lost their way and were thrown into a small
island, men went to sculpture and carried them to their king.
The king and his companions offered Sinbad a meal, and they
began to eat, but Sinbad noticed that the food did not look
strange. Forcing him to stop and pretend to eat it, the days
passed, and Sinbad and his friends pretended to be horrifically
soaked and behaving strangely, Sinbad's body began to shift
further. Sinbad thought of escaping and hiding in the forest and
took to eating grass to survive until a passing ship approached
him and took him home

The fourth voyage (strange feast)

Sinbad accompanies a merchant, during their sails they get lost
and encounter a massive sea storm, during the storm they are
thrown into a small island, they encounter a group of men who
take them to meet their king, the king presents Sinbad and his
comrades a feast. They started to eat but Sinbad noticed that
the food was strange and the king wasn't eating with them
which made him stop eating and only pretend that he does. The
days go by while sinbad pretends and his friends still eat with
gluttony until they are full and start acting weird and foolishly.
Sinbad's body starts to be thin. Sinbad thought about running
and hiding in the forest and started eating leaves to survive
until he saw a ship come close by so he waved for them and
returned to his home.

The fifth flight, the Sheikh of the Sea,

arrived on an unknown island, where the men found a roach
egg, and then the female rock attacked the men and fled
towards the ship and threw its rock, and went down the stern
and broke it, and the ship turned over and drowned many men,
but he managed to hold on to a beautiful wooden board and
reached an island. It has a big sheik.
The elder asked Sinbad to carry him on his shoulders, claiming
to be weak. Sinbad carried him, but the sheikh refused to come
down, and used cruelty with him, until Sinbad was able to
manipulate him with booze, and killed him one day. He
gathered the coconuts and returned by ship to Basra. Every
time the ship passed through many islands, he landed in a
seaway with him and sold with him. And he passed over the
pearl sheets. And he gave the divers some of what was with
him from India and said unto them, Dive a dive of my fortunand
my share, and they dive and come out with them with a lot of
precious pearls.

The sixth voyage (elephant cemetery)

After leaving Sinbad on his way to Baghdad, attacking Sinbad

and with him pirates take the ship on which Sinbad was
boarding to a densely forested island, the pirates take Sinbad
and with him to the king of the island, gathering the king of
Sinbad and the captain of the ship. He told them that they had
become his servants and that they must hunt elephants in order
to obtain the greatest amount of elephant ivory, and if they did
not, he would punish them severely. The forest, holding a bow
and arrow in his hand, he found an elephant, and he shot an
arrow until the elephant was hit in the foot, and he went to the
elephant and tied the wound to a banana tree leaf, and the
elephant carried it on his back to a large cave. He told him that
he had found a large quantity of ivory and that he would not tell
him where it was unless the captain and his companion were
released and that all he had taken from them were returned to
him. Sinbad had taken the ship back and continued until he
arrived in Baghdad.
The seventh voyage (convoy)

of this journey arrived on a treey island, full of fruit, where water

runs streams and collapses, until he reached a large city, but
was exhausted, and a handful of people gathered around him,
including a sheikh who asked to accompany him, and walked
with him, relying on men's arms and dying. He was honored by
Sheikh Ikram. Sinbad learned from some of the relatives of the
Sheikh that he had a daughter of marriageable age, who was
beautiful, powerful, his lonely branches, and he married her, but
the Sheikh was sick and died. After the death of the King, the
Sheikh took his place. His place at the head of them, he
became the city's sheikh merchants.
Sinbad's wife then suggested that they sell what they own, buy
a trade and travel to Sinbad. At the end of the story, Sinbad
says: "We arrived in Basra with God's help and care, I didn't do
it, but I took more than immediately a boat that dropped my
parents and my ladders off, and we marched into Tigris until we
arrived in Baghdad.
I lived with my wife and the people of Hanna in comfort, and I
no longer longed to travel and travel, having grown old, and
having weakened greatness: and I found that a man can do a
work that he pleases himself, and benefit his people and his
country in many ways, and in various doors, so I devoted my
time to that work. My work was to flee from the poor, and to
mourn. A wretched woman, raising orphans, and the money
I've raised helps me to do so.