Seventh Voyage
On his journey of delivering a gift to a king, Sinbad was captured and sold into slavery. His master asked Sinbad if he was skilled with the bow and arrow. He told his master that he was talented with the bow and arrow, so his master assigned him to a task. His master led Sinbad into a forest where he was commanded to shoot any elephants that he saw (why are the elephants always killed)? Sinbad waited and waited for an elephant until finally a heard of elephants came rushing by. He shot an elephant to the ground and buried it for his master to see. Months passed and Sinbad killed countless of elephants. One day, a heard of elephants surrounded Sinbad and shook him out of his tree. The heard took Sinbad to an elephant's graveyard that was filled with elephant skeletons and tusks. I think this was supposed to show Sinbad the horror that he has been causing, instead Sinbad traveled to his master and showed him Ivory Hill (as the place was called). The master was so excited about his riches that he freed Sinbad and gave him a fraction of his fortune. This depressed me. I'm a huge animal lover, and I wish Sinbad realized what he did to the elephants instead of being rewards for it.
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| Elephant's Graveyard. Source. |
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