Reading Notes: Third Voyage, Part 1

-Sinbad sets sail on his third voyage
-The winds drive his ship to the harbor of a strange island
-the island was populated by short, hairy, and barbarous savages
   -they stood 2 feet tall and were covered in reddish fur. they spoke a strange language unknown to Sinbad
-the savages commandeered the ship and dropped the sailors off on another island close by
   -the sailors cant stop the savages because they don't speak they're language and they know that if they harm any of the savages, they will swarm the sailors and kill them all
-after wandering a ways and eating fruits along the way, they reach a large, well-built castle
-they go inside to find a pile of human bones and spits for roasting
-being terribly scared, a giant cyclops makes his way to them
-he picks out the fattest of the sailors, roasts him, then eats him
-the cyclops then takes a nap, wakes, and leaves

An Ewok from Star Wars. Source: Wikimedia Commons

"Third Voyage" from The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898).