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23 - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift · Adventure Books Collection

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  Chapter seven. The author lies Laggedo, arrives at Maldonada, no ship ready.
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  He takes a short voyage to glub Dub Drib his reception by the governor.
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  The continent of which this kingdom is apart extends itself, as I have
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  reason to believe, eastward to that unknown tract of America, westward of California,
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  and north to the Pacific Ocean, which is not above a hundred and
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  fifty miles from Laggedo, where there is a good port and much commerce,
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  with the great island of Lugnag, situated to the northwest, about twenty nine
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  degrees north latitude and a hundred forty longitude. This island of Lugnak stands southeastward
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  of Japan, about a hundred leagues distant. There is a strict alliance between
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  the Japanese Emperor and the King of Lugnag, which affords frequent opportunities of sailing
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  from one island to the other. I determined, therefore to direct my course
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  this way in order to my return to Europe. I hired two mules with
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  a guide to show me the way and carry my small baggage. I took
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  leave of my noble protector, who had shown me so much favor and made
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  me a generous present at my departure. My journey was without any accident or
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  adventure worth relating. When I arrived at the port of Maldonada, for so
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  it is called, there was no ship in the harbor bound for Lugnag,
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  nor likely to be in some time. The town is about as large as
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  Portsmouth. I soon fell into some acquaintance and was very hospitably received. A
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  gentleman of distinction said to me that since the ships bound for Lugnag could not
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  be ready in less than a month, it might not be disagreeable amusement for
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  me to take a trip to the little island of glove dub Drib, about
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  five leagues off to the southwest. He offered himself and a friend to accompany
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  me, and that I should be provided with a small, convenient bark for
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  the voyage. Glub dub Drib, as nearly as I can interpret, the
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  word signifies the island of sorcerers or magicians. It is about one third as
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  large as the Isle of Wight, and extremely fruitful. It is governed by
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  the head of a certain tribe, who are all magicians. This tribe marries
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  only among each other, and the eldest in succession is prince or governor.
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  He has a noble palace and a park of about three thousand acres, surrounded
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  by a wall of hewn stone twenty feet high. In this park are several
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  small enclosures for cattle, corn, and gardening. The Governor and his family
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  are served and attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual. By his skill
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  and necromancy. He has a power of calling whom he pleases from the day
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  and commanding their service for twenty four hours, but no longer, nor can
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  he call the same persons up again in less than three months, except upon
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  very extraordinary occasions. When we arrived at the island, which was about eleven
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  in the morning, one of the gentlemen who accompanied me went to the Governor
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  and desired admittance for a stranger who came on purpose to have the honor of
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  attending on his highness. This was immediately granted, and we all three entered
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  the gate of the palace between two rows of guards, armed and dressed in
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  a very antique manner, and with something in their countenances that made my flesh
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  creep with a horror I cannot express. We passed through several apartments between servants
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  of the same sort, ranked on each side as before, till we came
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  to the chamber of Presents, where after three profound obscences and a few general
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  questions, we were permitted to sit on the three stools near the lowest step
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  of His Highness's throne. He understood the language of Boune Barbie, although it
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  was different from that of this island. He desired me to give him some
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  account of my travels, and to let me see that I should be treated
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  without ceremony. He dismissed all his attendants with a turn of his finger,
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  at which, to my great astonishment, they vanished in an instant, like
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  visions in a dream. When we awake on a sudden I could not recover
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  myself in some time till the Governor assured me that I should receive no hurt,
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  and, observing my two companions to be under no concern, who had
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  been often entertained in the same manner, I began to take courage and related
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  to his Highness a short history of my several adventures, Yet not without some
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  hesitation and frequently looking behind him me to the place where I had seen those
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  domestic specters. I had the honor to dine with the Governor, where a
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  new set of ghosts served up the meat and waited at table. I now
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  observed myself to be less terrified than I had been in the morning. I
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  stayed till sunset, but humbly desired his Highness to excuse me for not accepting
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  his invitation of lodging in the palace. My two friends and I lay at
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  a private house in the town adjoining, which is the capital of this little
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  island, and the next morning we returned to pay our duty to the Governor,
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  as he was pleased to command us. After this manner, we continued
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  in the island for ten days, most part of every day with the Governor,
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  and at night in our lodging. I soon grew so familiarized to the
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  sight of spirits that after the third or fourth time, they gave me no
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  emotion at all, or if I had any apprehensions left, my curiosity prevailed
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  over them. For his Highness, the Governor ordered me to call up whatever
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  persons I would choose to name, and in whatever numbers, among all the
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  dead from the beginning of the world to the present time, and command them
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  to answer any questions I should think fit to ask, with this condition that
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  my questions must be confined within the compass of the times they lived in,
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  and one thing I might depend upon that they would certainly tell me the truth,
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  for lying was a talent of no use in the lower world. I
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  made my humble acknowledgments to His Highness for so great a favor. We were
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  in a chamber, from whence there was a fair prospect into the park,
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  and because my first inclination was to be entertained with scenes of pomp and magnificence,
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  I desired to see Alexander the Great at the head of his army,
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  just after the Battle of Arbelah, which, upon a motion of the Governor's
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  finger, immediately appeared in a large feld under the window where we stood.
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  Alexander was called up into the room. It was with great difficulty that I
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  understood his Greek, and had but little of my own. He assured me
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  upon his honor that he was not poisoned, but died of a bad fever
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  by excessive drinking. Next, I saw Hannibal passing the Alps, who told
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  me he had not a drop of vinegar in his camp. I saw Caesar
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  and Pompey at the head of their troops, just ready to emerge. I
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  saw the former in his last great triumph. I desired that the Senate of
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  Rome might appear before me in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat
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  a later age in counterview in another. The first seemed to be an assembly
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  of heroes and demigods, the other a not of peddlers, pickpockets, high
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  women, and bullies. The Governor, at my request, gave the sign
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  for and Brutus to advance towards us. I was struck with a profound veneration
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  at the sight of Brutus, and could easily discover the most consummate virtue,
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  the greatest intrepidy and firmness of mind, the truest love of his country,
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  and general benevolence from mankind in every lineament of his countenance. I observed with
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  much pleasure that these two persons were in good intelligence with each other, and
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  Caesar freely confessed to me that the greatest actions of his own life were not
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  equal by many degrees to the glory of taking it away. I had to
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  the honor to have much conversation with Brutus, that his ancestor Junius Socrates,
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  Iphamer Nundas Cato, the younger Sir Thomas Moore, and himself were perpetually together
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  a six tumber eight, to which all the ages of the world cannot add
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  a seventh. It would be tedious to trouble the reader with relating what vast
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  numbers of illustrious persons were called up to gratify that insatiable desire I had to
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  see the world in every period of antiquity placed before me. I chiefly fed
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  mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of
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  liberty to oppressed and injured nations. But it is impossible to express the satisfaction
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  I received in my own mind after such a manner as to make it a
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  suitable entertainment to the reader. And a part three, Chapter seven