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21 When Sindbad had finished, he ordered Hindbad his usual present, and they returned to dinner the next day, when Sindbad gave them an account of his Sixth Voyage.

THE SIXTH VOYAGE OF SINDBAD.

At the expiration of one year, I prepared for a sixth voyage, which proved very long and most unfortunate, for the ship drove against the foot of an inaccessible mountain, and was a complete wreck. Yet we saved our lives, the most of our provisions, and our goods.



We looked around us, and saw the coast covered all over with pieces of wrecks of ships, and great heaps of men's bones, with incredible quantities of rich goods, which proved how