After having testified their joy at my escaping so many dangers, they brought me the best of what they had to eat; and the captain, seeing that I was in rags, was so generous as to give me one of his own suits.  We were at sea for some time, touched at several islands, and at last landed at that of Salabat, where grows sanders, a wood of great use in physic.  We entered the port, and came to anchor.  The merchants began to unload their goods, in order to sell or exchange them.  In the meantime the captain came to me, and said, Brother, I have here a parcel of goods that belonged to a merchant, who sailed some time on board this ship; and he being dead, I design to dispose of them for the benefit of his heirs, when I know them.  The bales he spoke of lay on the deck; and showing them to me, he says, There are the goods; I hope you will take care to sell them, and you shall have factorage.  I thanked him for giving me an opportunity to employ myself, because I hated to be idle.  The clerk of the ship took an account of all the bales, with the names of the merchants to whom they belonged; and when he asked the captain in whose name he should enter those he gave me the charge of, Enter them, says the captain, in the name of Sindbad the sailor.  I could not hear myself named without some emotion; and looking steadfastly on the captain, I knew him to be the person who, in my second voyage, had left me in the island, where I fell asleep by a brook, and set sail without me, or sending to see for me.  But I could not remember him at first, he being so much altered since I saw him.  As for him, who believed me to be dead, I could not wonder at his not knowing me.  But captain, says I, was the merchant’s name, to whom those bales belonged, Sindbad?  Yes, replies he, that was his name; he came from Bagdad, and embarked on board my ship at Balsora.  One day when we landed at an island to take in water and other refreshments, I know not by what mistake, I set sail without observing that he did not re- embark with us; neither I nor the merchants perceived it till four hours after.  We had the wind in our stern, and so fresh a gale, that it was not then possible for us to tack about for him.  You believe him then to be dead, said I?  Certainly answered he.  No, captain, said I; look upon me, and you may know that I am Sindbad, whom you left in the desert island:  I fell asleep by a brook, and, when I awaked, I found all the company gone.  At these words the captain looked steadfastly upon me; and, having considered me attentively, knew me at last, embraced me, and said, God be praised that fortune has supplied my defect.  There are your goods, which I always took care to preserve, and to make the best of them at every port where I touched.  I restore them to you, with the profit I have made on them.  I took them from him, and at the same time acknowledged how much I owed to him.