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“ When Sindbad the Sailor had made an end of his story, he bade his servant give the porter an hundred mithcals of gold and said to him, “How now, my brother! Hast ever in the world heard of one whom such calamities have betided as have betided me and hath any suffered that which I have suffered of afflictions or undergone that which I have undergone of hardships? ”

“ SINDBAD THE SAILOR AND HINDBAD THE PORTER.
On the morrow they [1] returned to their place, as of their wont, and betook themselves to eating and drinking and merry-making and sporting till the last of the day, when Sindbad bade them hearken to his relation concerning his sixth voyage, the which (quoth he) is of the most extraordinary of pleasant stories and the most startling [for that which it compriseth] of tribulations and disasters. Then said he,
↑ i.e. the porter and the other guests. The Sixth Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor. ”

“ Edition [2] (which is, in this case, practically identical with those of Boulac and Breslau) , adopted by me as my standard text in the translation of “The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night,” the story of the seventh voyage in particular turning upon an altogether different set of incidents, related nearly as in the old version of M. Galland, I now give a translation of the text of the two voyages in question afforded by the Calcutta (1814–18) Edition, corrected and completed by collation with that of M. Langlès, from which it differs only in being slightly less full. ”