At once, Sinbad understood what was happening. These men threw lumps of meat onto the diamonds near the snakes, then the mountain eagles would swoop down, grab the meat, and carry it back to their nests. Sometimes a few of the diamonds would stick to the meat, and then the men would grab the gems from the eagle's nests.
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Sinbad waited for the biggest bird to swoop down. He grabbed the largest diamond he could find and clung onto the bird's legs with all his might. And that is how our adventure, Sinbad escaped the snakes. And that is how he came to be sitting in an eagles Nest with the biggest diamond of them all.
Sinbad returned home a rich man. After a while he got tired of doing nothing and made up his mind to set sail on another voyage. After many days at sea, his ship dropped anchor in the harbour of a large city.
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When the people saw Sinbad and his crew, they begged him for help. "Our market's are quite empty of fruit. We have nothing to sell and nothing to buy," they moaned. "We have no coconuts or dates, no pomegranates or figs, not even one banana." Sinbad looked puzzled, until the people explained, "our trees are so tall and smooth, it is impossible for anyone to climb them, except the monkeys."
