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    The First Voyage of Sinbad The Sailor: 11th Grade Reading Comprehension

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    1) The narrator is Sinbad the Sailor, who wasted his inheritance through reckless living until realizing he needed to change his ways. 2) He joined some merchants on a voyage to India, but got separated from the ship when the "island" they stopped on turned out to be a sea monster. 3) He clung to debris and washed ashore another island, where he barely survived alone for a day and night before finding food, water, and recovering his strength.

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    1) The narrator is Sinbad the Sailor, who wasted his inheritance through reckless living until realizing he needed to change his ways. 2) He joined some merchants on a voyage to India, but got separated from the ship when the "island" they stopped on turned out to be a sea monster. 3) He clung to debris and washed ashore another island, where he barely survived alone for a day and night before finding food, water, and recovering his strength.

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    1) The narrator is Sinbad the Sailor, who wasted his inheritance through reckless living until realizing he needed to change his ways. 2) He joined some merchants on a voyage to India, but got separated from the ship when the "island" they stopped on turned out to be a sea monster. 3) He clung to debris and washed ashore another island, where he barely survived alone for a day and night before finding food, water, and recovering his strength.

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    Name 11th Grade Reading Comprehension

    THE FIRST VOYAGE OF SINBAD THE SAILOR


    From The Junior Classics edited by William Patten

    My father was a rich merchant. He bequeathed me a large estate, which I


    wasted in riotous living. I quickly perceived that I was misspending my time,
    which is of all things the most valuable. I remembered the saying of the great
    Solomon, which I had frequently heard from my father, "A good name is better
    than precious ointment;" and again, "Wisdom is good with an inheritance." I
    resolved to walk in my father's ways, and I entered into a contract with some
    merchants, and embarked with them on board a ship we had fitted out in
    partnership.
    We set sail, and steered our course toward the Indies, through the Persian
    Gulf. At first I was troubled with sea-sickness, but speedily recovered my health.
    In our voyage we touched at several islands, where we sold or exchanged our
    goods. One day we were becalmed near a small island, but little elevated
    above the level of the water, and resembling a green meadow. The captain
    ordered his sails to be furled, and permitted such persons as were so inclined to
    land. While we were enjoying ourselves eating and drinking, and recovering
    from the fatigue of the sea, the island of a sudden trembled and shook us
    terribly.
    The trembling of the island was noticed on board ship, and we were called
    upon to re-embark speedily, lest we should all be lost; for what we took for an
    island proved to be the back of a sea monster.
    The nimblest got into the sloop, others betook themselves to swimming; but as
    for myself, I was still upon the island when it disappeared into the sea, and I had
    only time to catch hold of a piece of wood that we had brought out of the ship
    to make a fire. Meanwhile, the captain, having received on board those who
    were in the sloop, and taken up some of those that swam, resolved to take
    advantage of the favorable gale that had just risen, and, hoisting his sails,
    pursued his voyage.
    Thus was I exposed to the mercy of the waves the rest of that day and the
    following night. By this time I found my strength gone, and despaired of saving
    my life, when happily a wave threw me on an island. The bank was high and
    rugged, so that I could scarcely have got up had it not been for some roots of
    trees which I found within reach. When the sun arose I was very feeble. I found
    some herbs fit to eat, and had the good luck to discover a spring of excellent
    water. After this I advanced further into the island, and at last reached a fine

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