The Voyages of Sindbad (23)

The Voyages of Sindbad (23)

  At last, overcome with weariness, I sat down on a rock, but I had hardly closed my eyes when I was startled by something which fell to the ground with a thud close beside me.

  It was a huge piece of fresh meat, and as I stared at it several more pieces rolled over the cliffs in different places.

  I had always thought that the stories the sailor told of the famous valley of siamonds, and of the cunning way which some merchants had deviced for getting at the precious stones, were mere traveller's tales, but now I saw that they were surely true.

　 These merchants came to the valley at the time when the eagles, which keep their eyries in the rocks, had hatched their young.

  The merchants then threw great lumps of meat into the valley.

  Thesem falling with so much force upon the diamonds, were sure to take up some of the precious stones with them when the eagles pounced upon the meat and carried it off to their nests to feed their broods.

  Then the merchants, scaring away the parent birds, would secure their treasures.

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