<p>The tale depicts the eighth and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story. While the King is uncertain ? except in the case of the elephants carrying the world on the back of the turtle ? that these mysteries are real, they are actual modern events that occurred in various places during, or before, Poe's lifetime. The story ends ...