The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor 6

When the sun rose I crept down from the tree with hardly a hope of escaping the dreadful fate which had over-taken my comrades; but life is sweet, and I determined ¹ to do all I could to save myself. All day long I toiled ² with frantic³（狂乱的） haste and collected quantities of dry brushwood, reeds and thorns, which I bound with faggots（柴把）, and making a circle of them under my tree I piled them firmly one upon another until I had a kind of tent in which I crouched ⁴ like a mouse in a hole when she sees the cat coming. You may imagine what a fearful night I passed, for the snake returned eager to devour⁵（吞食 ，毁灭） me, and glided ⁶ round and round my frail ⁷ shelter seeking an entrance. Every moment I feared that it would succeed in pushing aside some of the faggots, but happily for me they held together, and when it grew light my enemy retired ⁸, baffled and hungry, to his den ⁹. As for me I was more dead than alive! Shaking with fright and half suffocated ¹⁰ by the poisonous breath of the monster, I came out of my tent and crawled down to the sea, feeling that it would be better to plunge ¹¹ from the cliffs and end my life at once than pass such another night of horror. But to my joy and relief I saw a ship sailing by, and by shouting wildly and waving my turban I managed to attract the attention of her crew. , ,A boat was sent to rescue me, and very soon I found myself on board surrounded by a wondering crowd of sailors and merchants eager to know by what chance I found myself in that desolate ¹² island. After I had told my story they regaled me with the choicest food the ship afforded, and the captain, seeing that I was in rags, generously bestowed ¹³ upon me one of his own coats. After sailing about for some time and touching ¹⁴ at many ports we came at last to the island of Salahat, where sandal wood grows in great abundance. Here we anchored, and as I stood watching the merchants disembarking their goods and preparing to sell or exchange them, the captain came up to me and said, , ,"I have here, brother, some merchandise belonging to a passenger of mine who is dead. Will you do me the favour to trade with it, and when I meet with his heirs I shall be able to give them the money, though it will be only just that you shall have a portion for your trouble." , , ,"In the name of Sindbad the Sailor," replied the captain. , ,At this I was greatly surprised, but looking carefully at him I recognised him to be the captain of the ship upon which I had made my second voyage, though he had altered much since that time. As for him, believing me to be dead it was no wonder that he had not recognised me. , ,He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间 。,They toiled up the hill in the blazing sun. 他们冒着炎炎烈日艰难地一步一步爬上山冈
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