out his neck, kissed him; whereupon the spell was
broken, the serpent became a lovely princess, and Sir Lybius made her
his wife.--_Libeaux_ (a romance).

=Sindbad=, a merchant of Bagdad, who acquired great wealth by merchandise.
He went seven voyages, which he related to a poor, discontented porter
named Hindbad, to show him that wealth must be obtained by enterprise
and personal exertion.

_First Voyage._ Being becalmed in the Indian Ocean, he and some others
of the crew visited what they supposed to be an island, but which was in
reality a huge whale asleep. They lighted a fire on the whale, and the
heat woke the creature, which instantly dived under water. Sindbad was
picked up by some merchants, and in due time returned home.

_Second Voyage._ Sindbad was left, during sleep, on a desert island, and
discovered a roc's egg, "fifty paces in circumference." He fastened
himself to the claw of the bird, and was deposited in the valley of
diamonds. Next day some merchants came to the top of the crags, and
threw into the valley huge joints of raw meat, to which the diamonds
stuck, and when the eagles picked up the meat, the merchants scared them
from their nests, and carried off the diamonds. Sindbad fastened himself
to a piece of meat, was carried by an eagle to its nest, and, being
rescued by the merchants, returned home laden with diamonds.

_Third Voyage_ is the encounter with the Cyclops. (See ULYSSES AND
POLYPHEMOS, where the account is given in detail.)

_Fourth Voyage._ Sindbad married a lady of rank in a strange island on
which he was cast; and when his wife died he was buried alive with the
dead body, according to the custom of the land. He made his way out of
the catacomb, and returned to Bagdad greatly enriched by valuables
rifled from the dead bodies.

_Fifth Voyage._ The ship in which he sailed was dashed to pieces by huge
stones let down from the talons of two angry rocs. Sindbad swam to a
desert inland,[TN-179] where he threw stones at the monkeys, and the
monkeys threw back cocoa-nuts. On this island Sindbad encountered and
killed the Old Man of the Sea.

_Sixth Voyage._ Sindbad visited the island of Serendib (or Ceylon), and
climbed to the top of the mountain "where Adam was placed on his
expulsion from paradise."

_Seventh Voyage._ He was attacked by corsairs, sold to slavery, and
employed in shooting elephants from a tree. He discovered a tract of
hill country completely covered with elephant