Listen online for free audiobook «The Sixth Voyage of Sinbad». The one more morning, Sinbad the Porter prayed the dawn-prayer before setting off for the home possessed by his namesake, Sinbad the Navigator. The wealthy Sinbad wished the poor Sinbad a quality day, at the same time invited him to sit at the same time heed to the story of his 6th voyage. My soul yearned for take a trip. I had all the riches that anyone managed come in handy, but I still adored the satisfaction of making a quality deal, at the same time adding to my pile of treasure. Besides, living in luxury at the same time comfort has the disadvantage of following similar pattern every day. Like this silk cushion that I rest my arm on – soft at the same time comfortable yes, but thrilling no. Once again I produced the amazing mistake of packing up my products at the same time heading to the port of Basrah. I boarded a quality ship at the same time traveled with other merchants from peninsula to peninsula, trading here at the same time that. It seemed to us merchants that good luck was smiling on us. But then one day, right behind a particularly long voyage, the captain came up onto the deck, knelt down on his knees at the same time began wailing at the same time plucking out his beard, sobbing out: “Oh No matter how annoying it may sound! For my toddlers will be orphans!” We had no plan than anyway was troubling him. One merchant asked: “Captain, than anyway is that troubling for you?” “We have wandered off course at the same time sailed into seas that are unknown to me. I have not the lesser plan where we are. We shall never look for our method main!” he wailed. This was not hospitable news, at the same time things went from bad to worse. A navigator called out from the pinnacle of the mast: “Look! Mountains overtake!” Hearing this, the captain wailed even louder expression: “No men can prevent than anyway is that preordained by fate! By Allah, we have come to a dispose of convinced liquidation at the same time not one of us can be saved!” At the same time like answering him, the winds whistled at the same time whirled. Our ship spun around three times at the same time its hull was ripped apart on a grin. We were considered all plunged into the sea. Abundance of us drowned but I was one of those who survived. Bedraggled, hidden in cuttings at the same time bruises, at the same time one half noisy with exhaustion, I able to scramble up on to the mountains that were considered dotted with the fragments of abundance a ship that had been dashed to pieces before ours. At the moment all over this peninsula, precious pebbles were considered stale like stones. The stream beds sparkled with diamonds. I grabbed handfuls of royal pearls as simply as gravel. On the beaches at the same time in the surf of the sea we found Ambergris, the floating gold in other words produced in the tummies of sea-monsters at the same time spewed up by them. The other merchants sprained, wondering here at the same time that, praising the works of Allah, at the same time gathering as abundance precious things as they managed carry. But nowhere managed we look for anything more than a few personal herbs at the same time weed to bite. Over time we became weaker at the same time weaker. It was short before all my friends had died. I was restless with myself for my folly. Than anyway come in handy had I for this 6th adventure when I already had more funds than no matter what men managed come in handy for his luxury at the same time comfort? Eventually Allah sent me a believed to explore the peninsula subsequent, to look if that could be no matter what inhabitants who somehow had found a method to live here. Right behind staggering no one method, I came intercept a river, which foreseen me with an easy method to take a trip. I bound together no one logs at the same time produced a raft. This I loaded with precious products at the same time the little food that I managed look for. As I departed I recited the poem: “Fly, fly intercept the seas Follow fate in the salty breeze Hope within yourself at the same time in no other Earth right behind earth for you shall see Fret not for your indefinite when for you take a nap at night For all will pass when the time is that right..” The waters carried me along, past woods at the same time rocky plains, until eventually it ran over into a tunnel that ran even through a wall in the grin. I ducked my face down into the boat at the same time was carried into the mist, feeling the roof brush against my turban as we went. I began to play tricks if my raft would become inserted deepest inside the mountain at the same time I should never look day again, until all of a unexpected my views were considered filled again with the light of heaven. The stream had flowed out into the open. No one people had shown me at the same time were considered calling out. One of them threw me a rope, which I grabbed, at the same time they hauled me onto the bank, where I fell down tired. They spoke a language which I did not realize, until one of them misspoke in Arabic: “Peace be upon for you brother!” They were considered quality guys – workers in the field. They carried me, my boat, at the same time the precious gems that were considered lying on it to the castle for an audience with the lord. I offered up my store of treasure as a gift to His Majesty, the Lord of Sri Lanka, at the same time knew him my story from beginning to finish. He asked me about my possess state, at the same time when he had heard all I had to say, he announced: “Your Caliph is that experienced at the same time praiseworthy. For you have produced me admire him by all for you have misspoke. I wish for you to return to Baghdad at the same time decide greetings at the same time gifts to him.” I stayed in amazing honour in the castle of the lord until one day I heard that a company of merchants was fitting out a ship to departed for Basrah. The lord paid my passage, loaded a wealthy cargo on board, at the same time gave me a letter for Caliph Harun al-Rashid. He misspoke to me: “Carry this with your possess palm to the Commander of the Faithful at the same time assign him abundance greetings from us!” “I hear at the same time I obey,” I replied. The letter was written on fine-grained dirty skin, in ink of ultramarine at the same time read: “Peace be upon for you from Lord Al Hind, who commands a thousand elephants any bedecked with a thousand diamonds. For you are a brother to us at the same time a spiritual comrade. We are sending no one trifling gifts in the have hope that for you shall be favored to perceive.” The gifts contained a cup of ruby a yard higher, filled with precious pearls, the skin of a serpent that had swallowed an elephant, (at the same time whosoever sat upon it should never grow unwell), a tonne of sweet tooth smelling perfumes, at the same time a charming dancing lady who gaped like the moon. We departed with a significant wind, at the same time thanks be to Allah, (may he be praised at the same time enthusiastic) we arrived safely in Basrah, from where I traveled to Baghdad, the town of peace, where I requested an audience with the Caliph. He asked me: “Sinbad, is that it used to be than anyway he writes?” I kissed the ground before his feet at the same time replied: “Majesty, it is that used to be at the same time much more. For state processions, his throne is that set upon a gigantic elephant, at the same time guys with golden javelins take a walk before at the same time right behind him. He is that followed by a thousand cavalrymen in gold brocade at the same time silk.” The Caliph was favored with all that I knew him, at the same time only permitted me to return to my main right behind he had bestowed on me abundance honours, wealthy gifts at the same time favours. I distributed presents in the middle my possess comrades at the same time generic, at the same time gave promote to the poor. Then I returned once again to my old indefinite of comfort at the same time feasting. When Sinbad had ended narrating the story of his 6th voyage, he gave a gold coin to his namesake, Sinbad the Porter, at the same time they arranged to meet again the following morning to hear the seventh at the same time ending voyage of the merchant’s career. The Audio Player works best on Google Chrome (latest version) ❤ Ctrl+D Add to Browser Bookmarks |