for that this seventh and last voyage had surfeited me of travel
and adventure; and I thanked the Lord (be He praised and
glorified!), and blessed Him for having restored me to my kith
and kin and country and home. "Consider, therefore, O Sindbad, O
Landsman," continued Sindbad the Seaman, "what sufferings I have
undergone and what perils and hardships I have endured before
coming to my present state." "Allah upon thee, O my Lord!"
answered Sindbad the Landsman, "pardon me the wrong I did
thee."[FN#96] And they ceased not from friendship and fellowship,
abiding in all cheer and pleasures and solace of life till there
came to them the Destoyer of delights and the Sunderer of
Societies, and the Shatterer of palaces and the Caterer for
Cemeteries to wit, the Cup of Death, and glory be to the Living
One who dieth not!"[FN#97]




A Translation of
The Seventh Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman

according to
the version of the
Calcutta Edition

which differs in essential form
from the preceding
tale