stared upon me some time, one of the largest of them put his trunk round the foot of the tree, plucked it up, and threw it on the ground. I fell with the tree, and the elephant, taking me up with his trunk, threw me on his back, where I lay more like one dead than alive, with my quiver on my shoulder. He put himself at the head of the rest, who followed him in line, one after the other, for a considerable way, then laid me down on the ground, and went off with all his companions. After having lain some time, and seeing the elephants gone, I got up, and found I was upon a long and broad hill, almost covered with the bones and tusks of elephants. I doubted not but that this was the burial-place of the elephants, and that they had carried me there on purpose to tell me that I should forbear to kill them, as now I knew where to get their ivory without inflicting injury on them. I did not stay on the hill, but turned toward the city; and after having traveled a day and a night, I came to my patron.
As soon as my patron saw me, “Ah, poor Sindbad,” exclaimed he, “I was in great trouble to know what had become of you. I have been to the forest, where I found a tree newly pulled up, and your bow and arrows on the ground, and I despaired of ever seeing you more. Tell me what befell you.” I satisfied his curiosity, and we both of us set out next morning to the hill. We loaded the elephant which had brought us with as many tusks as he could carry; and when we had returned, my master said: “Hear now what I shall
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