Week 4 Reading Cont.: The Voyages of Sindbad

This week I am reading The Voyages of Sindbad, by Andrew Lang. This post will cover Part B.

Sindbad's fifth voyage, from Wikipedia

• Before I even begin reading, if this guys voluntarily leaves home again, he deserves to die. He's been in too many shipwrecks to count, his 9 lives must almost be out. 
• Also, how is it than when he inevitably meets the next group of merchants (who I'm sure will restore his fortune), and he tells them about the danger, they just go "Oh Yeah? You didn't know about that"? Sindbad should be a pretty experienced sailor at this point, despite never making it more than a day from his home port before sinking. He should know what islands to avoid. 
• He even admits leaving for the sixth voyage is foolish. 
• Sindbad must get by on his charm and storytelling abilities alone. Every king he meets seems to be infatuated with him, and can only give him gifts. If someone told me this story, I would laugh at them. 
• Pirates and being sold into slavery are the most believable of all the threats Sindbad has faced so far at the very least. 
• Sindbad is the luckiest man alive. I'm not really sure what the moral of this story is supposed to be. Sindbad is often mentioned as giving to the mosques and the poor, perhaps the message is that alms giving will protect you from evils in life. 

Thanks for reading.