The Voyages of Sindbad (32)

The Voyages of Sindbad (32)

  He was as tall as a palm tree, and perfectly black, and had one eye, which flamed like a burning coal in the middle of his forehead.
  His teeth were long and sharp and grinned horribly, while his lower lip hung down upon his chest, and he had ears like elephant's ears, which covered his shoulders, and nails like the claws of some fierce bird.

  At this terrible sight our senses left us and we lay like dead men.

  When at last we came to ourselves, the Giant sat examing us attentively with his fearful eye.

  Presently, when he had looked at us enough, he came towards us and, stretching out his hand, took me by the back of the neck, turning me this way and that.

  Feeling that I was mere skin and bone, however, he set me down again and went on to the next, whom he treated in the same fashion.

 At last he came to the Captain and, finding him the fattest of all, he took him up in one hand and stuck him upon a spit and proceeded to kindle a huge fire at which he presently roasted him.

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