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01 - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift · Classic Adventure Books - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Part one, A Voyage to Lilliput. Chapter one, the author
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  Speaker 1: gives some account of himself and family, his first inducements
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  Speaker 1: to travel. He is shipwrecked and swims for his life,
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  Speaker 1: gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput, is
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  Speaker 1: made a prisoner and carried up the country. My father
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  Speaker 1: had a small estate in Nottinghamshire. I was the third
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  Speaker 1: of five sons. He sent me to Emmanuel College in
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  Speaker 1: Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years
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  Speaker 1: and applied myself close to my studies, but the charge
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  Speaker 1: of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance,
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  Speaker 1: being too great for an hour of fortune, I was
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  Speaker 1: bound apprentice to mister James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London,
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  Speaker 1: with whom I continued four years. My father now and
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  Speaker 1: then sending me small sums of money. I laid them
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  Speaker 1: out in learning navigation and other parts of the mathematics
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  Speaker 1: useful to those who intend to travel, as I always
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  Speaker 1: believed it would be some time or other my fortune
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  Speaker 1: to do. When I left mister Bates, I went down
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  Speaker 1: to my father, where, by the assistance of him and
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  Speaker 1: my uncle John and some other relations, I got forty pounds,
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  Speaker 1: and I promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain
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  Speaker 1: me at Leyden. There I studied physic two years and
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  Speaker 1: seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages.
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  Speaker 1: Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended by
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  Speaker 1: my good master mister Bates to be surgeon to the
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  Speaker 1: Swallow Captain Abraham Pannell, Commander, with whom I continued three
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  Speaker 1: years and a half, making a voyage or two into
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  Speaker 1: the Levant and some other parts. When I came back,
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  Speaker 1: I resolved to settle in London, to which mister Bates,
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  Speaker 1: my master, encouraged me, and by him I was recommended
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  Speaker 1: to several patients. I took part of a small house
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  Speaker 1: in the Old Jury, and, being advised to old my condition,
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  Speaker 1: I married missus Mary Burton, second daughter to mister Edmund Burton, Hosier,
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  Speaker 1: in Newgate Street, with whom I received four hundred pounds
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  Speaker 1: for a portion. But my good master Bates dying in
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  Speaker 1: two years after, and I having few friends, my business
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  Speaker 1: began to fail, for my conscience would not suffer me
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  Speaker 1: to imitate the bad practice of too many among my brethren.
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  Speaker 1: Having therefore consulted with my wife and some of my acquaintance,
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  Speaker 1: I determined to go again to see I was surgeon
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  Speaker 1: successively in two ships, and made several long voyages for
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  Speaker 1: six years to the East and West Indies, by which
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  Speaker 1: I got some addition to my fortune. My hours of
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  Speaker 1: leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern,
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  Speaker 1: being always provided with a good number of books, and
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  Speaker 1: when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions
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  Speaker 1: of the people, as well as learning their language, wherein
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  Speaker 1: I had a great facility by the strength of my memory.
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  Speaker 1: The last of the voyages not proving very fortunate, I
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  Speaker 1: grew weary of the sea and intended to stay at
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  Speaker 1: home with my wife and family. I removed from the
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  Speaker 1: Old Drury to Fetterlane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping
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  Speaker 1: to get business among the sailors, but it would not
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  Speaker 1: turn to account. After three years, expectation that things would mend,
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  Speaker 1: I accepted an advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master
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  Speaker 1: of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the
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  Speaker 1: South Sea. We set sail from Bristol May fourth, sixteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine, and our voyage was at first very prosperous.
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  Speaker 1: It would not be proper for some reasons to trouble
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  Speaker 1: the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas,
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  Speaker 1: let it suffice to inform him that, in our passage
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  Speaker 1: from Thence to the East Indies, we were driven by
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  Speaker 1: a violent storm to the northwest of Van de EM's Land.
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  Speaker 1: By an observation, we found ourselves in the latitude of
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  Speaker 1: the thirty degrees two minutes south. Twelve of our crew
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  Speaker 1: were dead by a moderate labor and ill food. The
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  Speaker 1: rest were in very weak condition. On the fifth of November,
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  Speaker 1: which was the beginning of summer in those parts, the
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  Speaker 1: weather being very hazy, the seaman spied a rock within
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  Speaker 1: half a cable's length of the ship, but the wind
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  Speaker 1: was so strong that we were driven directly upon it
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  Speaker 1: and immediately split. Six of the crew, of whom I
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  Speaker 1: was one. Having let down the boat into the sea,
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  Speaker 1: made a shift to get clear of the ship and
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  Speaker 1: the rock. We rowed, by my computation, about three leagues
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  Speaker 1: till we were able to work no longer, being already
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  Speaker 1: spent with labor while we were in the ship. We
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  Speaker 1: therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves, and
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  Speaker 1: in about half an hour the boat was overset by
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  Speaker 1: a sudden flurry from the north. What became of my
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  Speaker 1: companions in the boat, as well as those who escaped
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  Speaker 1: on the rock or were left in the vessel, I
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  Speaker 1: cannot tell, but conclude they were all lost. For my
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  Speaker 1: own part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was
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  Speaker 1: pushed forward by wind and tide. I often let my
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  Speaker 1: legs drop and could feel no bottom. But when I
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  Speaker 1: was almost gone and able to struggle no longer, I
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  Speaker 1: found myself within my depth. And by this time the
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  Speaker 1: storm was much abated. The declivity was so small that
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  Speaker 1: I walked near a mile before I got to the shore,
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  Speaker 1: which I conjectured was about eight o'clock in the evening.
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  Speaker 1: I then advanced forward near half a mile, but could
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  Speaker 1: not discover any sign of houses or inhabitants. At least
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  Speaker 1: I was in so weak a condition that I did
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  Speaker 1: not observe them. I was extremely tired, and with that
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  Speaker 1: and the heat of the weather, and about half a
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  Speaker 1: pint of brandy that I drank as I left the ship,
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  Speaker 1: I found myself much inclined to sleep. I lay down
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  Speaker 1: on the grass, which was very short and soft, where
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  Speaker 1: I slipped sounder than ever. I remembered to have done
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  Speaker 1: in my life, and as I reckoned about nine hours
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  Speaker 1: for when I awaked it was just daylight. I attempted
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  Speaker 1: to rise, but was not able to stir, for as
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  Speaker 1: I happened to lie on my back, I found my
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  Speaker 1: arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to
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  Speaker 1: the ground, and my hair, which was long and thick,
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  Speaker 1: tied down in the same manner. I likewise felt several
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  Speaker 1: slender ligatures across my body, from my armpits to my thighs.
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  Speaker 1: I could only look upwards, the sun beginning to grow hot,
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  Speaker 1: and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused
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  Speaker 1: noise about me, but in the posture I lay, could
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  Speaker 1: see nothing except the sky. In a little time, I
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  Speaker 1: felt something alive moving on my left leg, which, advancing
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  Speaker 1: gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin.
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  Speaker 1: When bending my eyes downwards as much as I could,
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  Speaker 1: I perceived it to be a human creature not six
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  Speaker 1: inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands
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  Speaker 1: and a quiver at his back. In the meantime, I
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  Speaker 1: felt at least forty more of the same kind. As
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  Speaker 1: I conjectured. Following the first, I was in the utmost astonishment,
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  Speaker 1: and roared so loud that they all ran back in affright,
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  Speaker 1: and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were
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  Speaker 1: hurt with the fools they got by leaping from my
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  Speaker 1: sides upon the ground. However, they soon returned, and one
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  Speaker 1: of them, who ventured so far as to get a
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  Speaker 1: full sight of my face, lifting up his hands and
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  Speaker 1: eyes by way of admiration, cried out in a shrill
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  Speaker 1: but distinct voice, he can hell, they girl. The others
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  Speaker 1: repeated the same words several times, but then I knew
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  Speaker 1: not what they meant. I lay all this well, as
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  Speaker 1: the reader may believe, in great uneasiness. At length, struggling
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  Speaker 1: to get loose, I had the fortune to break the
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  Speaker 1: strings and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left
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  Speaker 1: arm to the ground for lifting it up to my face.
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  Speaker 1: I discovered the methods they had taken to bind me,
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  Speaker 1: and at the same time, with a violent pull which
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  Speaker 1: gave me excessive pain, I a little loosened the strings
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  Speaker 1: that tied down my hair on the left side, so
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  Speaker 1: that I was just able to turn my head about
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  Speaker 1: two inches. But the creatures ran off a second time
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  Speaker 1: before I could seize them. Whereupon there was a great
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  Speaker 1: shout in a very shrill accent, and after it ceased,
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  Speaker 1: I heard one of them cry aloud, Tagovarnak, when in
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  Speaker 1: an instant I felt above a hundred arrows discharged on
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  Speaker 1: my left hand, which pricked me like so many needles.
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  Speaker 1: And besides they shut another flight into the air, as
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  Speaker 1: we do bombs in Europe, whereof many I suppose fell
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  Speaker 1: on my body, though I felt them not, and some
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  Speaker 1: on my face, which I immediately covered with my left hand.
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  Speaker 1: When this shower of arrows was over, I fell a
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  Speaker 1: groaning with grief and pain, and then again, striving to
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  Speaker 1: get loose, they discharged another volley larger than the first,
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  Speaker 1: and some of them attempted with spears to stick me
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  Speaker 1: in the side, but by good luck I had on
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  Speaker 1: a buff jerkin which they could not pierce. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it the most prudent method to lie still, and my
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  Speaker 1: design was to continue so till night, when my left hand,
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  Speaker 1: being already loose, I could easily free myself. And as
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  Speaker 1: for the inhabitants, I had reason to believe I might
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  Speaker 1: be a match for the greatest army they could bring
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  Speaker 1: against me, if they were all of the same size
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  Speaker 1: with him. That I saw, but fortune disposed otherwise of me.
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  Speaker 1: When the people observed I was quiet, they discharged no
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  Speaker 1: more arrows. But by the noise I heard, I knew
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  Speaker 1: their numbers increased, and about four yards from me, over
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  Speaker 1: against my right ear, I heard a knocking for above
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  Speaker 1: an hour, like that of people at work. When turning
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  Speaker 1: my head that way, as well as the pegs and
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  Speaker 1: strings would permit me, I saw a stage erected about
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  Speaker 1: a foot and a half from the ground, capable of
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  Speaker 1: holding four of the inhabitants, with two or three ladders
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  Speaker 1: to mount it from. Whence one of them, who seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be a person of quality, made me a long speech,
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  Speaker 1: whereof I understood not one syllable, but I should have
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  Speaker 1: mentioned that before the principal person began his irritation, he
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  Speaker 1: cried out three times, leg good de hous on. These
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  Speaker 1: words and the former were afterwards repeated and explained to me,
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  Speaker 1: whereupon immediately about fifty of the inhabitants came and cut
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  Speaker 1: the strings that fastened the left side of my head,
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  Speaker 1: which gave me the liberty of turning it to the right,
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  Speaker 1: and of observing the person and gesture of him, that
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  Speaker 1: was to speak. He appeared to be of a middle
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  Speaker 1: age and taller than any of the other three who
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  Speaker 1: attended him, whereof one was a page that held up
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  Speaker 1: his train and seemed to be somewhat longer than a
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  Speaker 1: middle finger. The other two stood one on each side
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  Speaker 1: to support him. He acted every part of an orator,
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  Speaker 1: and I could observe many periods of threatenings and others
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  Speaker 1: of promises, pity and kindness. I answered in a few words,
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  Speaker 1: but in the most submissive manner, lifting up my left
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  Speaker 1: hand and both my eyes to the sun, as calling
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  Speaker 1: him for a witness, and being almost famished with hunger,
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  Speaker 1: having not eaten a morsel for some hours before I
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  Speaker 1: left the ship, I found the demands of nature so
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  Speaker 1: strong upon me that I could not forbear showing my impatience,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps against the strict rules of decency, by putting my
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  Speaker 1: finger frequently to my mouth to signify that I wanted food.
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  Speaker 1: The hurrgo for so they called a great lord, as I,
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  Speaker 1: after was learnt, understood me very well. He descended from
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  Speaker 1: the stage and commanded that several ladders should be applied
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  Speaker 1: to my sides, on which above a hundred of the
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  Speaker 1: inhabitants mounted and walked towards my mouth, laden with baskets
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  Speaker 1: full of meat, which had been provided and sent thither
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  Speaker 1: by the King's orders. Upon the first intelligence who received
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  Speaker 1: of me, I observed there was the flesh of several animals,
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  Speaker 1: but could not distinguish them by their taste. There were shoulders, legs,
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  Speaker 1: and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed,
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  Speaker 1: but smaller than the wings of a lark. I ate
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  Speaker 1: them by two or three at a mouthful, and took
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  Speaker 1: three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket balls.
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  Speaker 1: They supplied me as fast as they could, showing a
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  Speaker 1: thousand marks of wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite.
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  Speaker 1: I then made another sign that I wanted drink. They
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  Speaker 1: found by my eating that a small quantity would not
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  Speaker 1: suffice me, And being a most ingenious people, they slung
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  Speaker 1: up with great dexterity one of their largest hogsheads, then
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  Speaker 1: rolled it towards my hand and beat at the top.
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  Speaker 1: I drank it off at a draft, which I might
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  Speaker 1: well do, for it did not hold half a pint
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  Speaker 1: and tasted like a small wine of Burgundy, but much
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  Speaker 1: more delicious. They brought me a second hogshead, which I
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  Speaker 1: drank in the same manner, and made signs for more,
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  Speaker 1: but they had none to give me. When I had
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  Speaker 1: reformed these wonders, they shouted for joy and danced upon
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  Speaker 1: my breast, repeating several times as they did at first,
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  Speaker 1: he can aw to go. They made me a sign
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  Speaker 1: that I should throw down the two hogsheads, but first
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  Speaker 1: warning the people below to stand out the way, crying aloud,
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  Speaker 1: poor hush me velar. And when they saw the vessels
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  Speaker 1: in the air, there was a universal shout of he
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  Speaker 1: can aw to go. I confess I was often tempted,
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  Speaker 1: while they were passing backwards and forwards of my body,
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  Speaker 1: to seize forty or fifty of the first that came
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  Speaker 1: in my reach and dash them against the ground. But
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  Speaker 1: the remembrance of what I had felt, which probably might
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  Speaker 1: not be the worst they could do, and the promise
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  Speaker 1: of honor I made them for so I interpreted my
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  Speaker 1: submissive behavior soon drove out these imaginations. Besides, I now
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  Speaker 1: consider myself as bound by the laws of hospitality to
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  Speaker 1: a people who had treated me with so much expense
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  Speaker 1: and magnificence. However, in my thoughts I could not sufficiently
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  Speaker 1: wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who durst
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  Speaker 1: venture to mount and walk upon my body while one
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  Speaker 1: of my hands was at liberty, without trembling at the
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  Speaker 1: very sight of so prodigious a creature, as I must
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  Speaker 1: appear to them. After some time, when they observed that
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  Speaker 1: I made no more demands from meat, there appeared before
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  Speaker 1: me a person of high rank from his Imperial Majesty.
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  Speaker 1: His Excellency, having mounted on the small of my right leg,
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  Speaker 1: advanced forwards up to my face with about a dozen
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  Speaker 1: of his retinue, and producing his credentials under the signet royal,
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  Speaker 1: which he applied close to my eyes, spoke about ten minutes,
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  Speaker 1: without any signs of anger, but with a kind of
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  Speaker 1: determinate resolution, often pointing forwards, which, as I afterwards found,
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  Speaker 1: was towards the capital city, about half a mile distance,
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  Speaker 1: whither it was agreed by His Majesty and Council that
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  Speaker 1: I must be conveyed. I answered, in few words, but
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  Speaker 1: to no purpose. I made a sign of my hand
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  Speaker 1: that was loose, putting it to the other but over
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  Speaker 1: His Excellency's head, for fear of hurting him or his train,
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  Speaker 1: and then to my own head and body to signify
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  Speaker 1: that I desired my liberty. It appeared that he understood
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  Speaker 1: me well enough, for he shook his head by way
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  Speaker 1: of disst probation, and held his hand in a posture
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  Speaker 1: to show the times to be carried as a prisoner. However,
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  Speaker 1: he made other signs to let me understand that I
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  Speaker 1: should have meat and drink enough and very good treatment.
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  Speaker 1: Whereupon I once more thought of attempting to break my bonds.
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  Speaker 1: But again when I felt the smart of their arrows
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  Speaker 1: upon my face and hands, which were all in blisters,
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  Speaker 1: and many of the darts still sticking in them, and
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  Speaker 1: observing likewise that the number of my enemies increased, I
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  Speaker 1: gave tokens to let them know that they might do
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  Speaker 1: with me as they pleased. Upon this, the Hurgo and
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  Speaker 1: his train withdrew with much civility and cheerful countenances. Soon
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  Speaker 1: after I heard a general shout with frequent repetitions of
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  Speaker 1: the words pepelon, celon, and I felt great numbers of
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  Speaker 1: people on my left side relax in the cords to
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  Speaker 1: such a degree that I was able to turn upon
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  Speaker 1: my right and to ease myself of making water, which
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  Speaker 1: I very plentifully did, to the great astonishment of the people, who,
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  Speaker 1: conjecturing by my motion what I was going to do,
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  Speaker 1: immediately opened to the right and left on that side
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  Speaker 1: to avoid the torrent, which fell with such noise and
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  Speaker 1: violence from me. But before this they had darted my
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  Speaker 1: face in both my hands with a sort of ointment
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  Speaker 1: very pleasant to the smell, which in a few minutes
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  Speaker 1: removed all the smarter of their arrows. These circumstances, added
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  Speaker 1: to the refreshment I erate received by their victuals and drink,
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  Speaker 1: which were very nourishing, disposed me to sleep. I slept
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  Speaker 1: about eight hours, as I was afterwards assured, and it
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  Speaker 1: was no wonder for the physicians, by the Emperor's orders,
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  Speaker 1: had mingled a sleepy potion into the hogsheads of wine.
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  Speaker 1: It seems that upon the first moment I was discovered
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  Speaker 1: sleeping on the ground after my landing, the Emperor had
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  Speaker 1: early notice of it by express and determined in council
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  Speaker 1: that I should be tied in the manner I have related,
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  Speaker 1: which was done in the night while I slept, that
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  Speaker 1: plenty of meat and drink should be sent to me,
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  Speaker 1: and a machine prepared to carry me to the capital city.
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  Speaker 1: This resolution may appear very bold and dangerous, and I
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  Speaker 1: am confident would not be imitated by any prince in
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  Speaker 1: Europe on the like occasion. However, in my opinion, it
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  Speaker 1: was extremely prudent as well as generous. For supposing these
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  Speaker 1: people had endeavored to kill me with their spears and
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  Speaker 1: arrows while I was asleep, I should certainly have awaked
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  Speaker 1: with the first sense of smart which might so far
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  Speaker 1: have roused my rage and strength as to enable me
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  Speaker 1: to break the strings wherewith I was tied, after which,
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  Speaker 1: as they were not able to make resistance, so they
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  Speaker 1: could expect no mercy. These people are most excellent mathematicians,
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  Speaker 1: and arrived to a great mechanics by the countenance and
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  Speaker 1: encouragement of the Emperor, who is a renowned patron of learning.
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  Speaker 1: This prince has several machines fixed on wheels for the
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  Speaker 1: carriage of trees and other great weights. He often builds
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  Speaker 1: his largest men of war whereof someone nine feet long
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  Speaker 1: in the woods where the timber grows, and has them
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  Speaker 1: carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to
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  Speaker 1: the sea. Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately set
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  Speaker 1: at work to prepare the greatest engine they had. It
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  Speaker 1: was a frame of wood raised three inches from the ground,
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  Speaker 1: about seven feet long and four wide, moving upon twenty
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  Speaker 1: two wheels. The shout I heard was upon the arrival
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  Speaker 1: of this engine, which it seems, set out in four
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  Speaker 1: hours after my landing. It was brought parallel to me
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  Speaker 1: as I lay. But the principal difficulty was to raise
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  Speaker 1: and place me in this vehicle. Poles, each of one
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  Speaker 1: foot high, were erected for this purpose, and very strong
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  Speaker 1: cords of the bigness of pack thread were fastened by
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  Speaker 1: hooks to many bandages which the workmen had girt around
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  Speaker 1: my neck, my hands, my body, and my legs. Nine
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  Speaker 1: hundred of the strongest men were employed to draw up
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  Speaker 1: these cords by many pulleys fastened on the poles, and
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  Speaker 1: thus in less than three hours I was raised and
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  Speaker 1: slung into the engine, and there tied fast. All this
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  Speaker 1: I was told, for while the operation was performing, I
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  Speaker 1: lay in a profound sleep. By the force of that
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: soperiferous medicine infused into my liquor. Fifteen hundred of the
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  Speaker 1: Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and a half high,
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  Speaker 1: were employed to draw me towards the metropolis, which as
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  Speaker 1: I said, was half a mile distant. About four hours
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: after we began our journey, I awaked by a very
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous accident, for the carriage being stopped awhile to adjust
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  Speaker 1: something that was out of order. Two or three of
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  Speaker 1: the young natives had the curiosity to see how I
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  Speaker 1: looked when I was asleep. They climbed up into the engine, and,
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  Speaker 1: advancing very softly to my face, one of them, an
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  Speaker 1: officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his
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  Speaker 1: half pike a good way up into my left nostril,
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  Speaker 1: which tickled my nose like a straw and made me
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  Speaker 1: sneeze violently. Whereupon they stole off unperceived, and it was
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  Speaker 1: three weeks before I knew the cause of my waking.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: So suddenly we made along march the remaining part of
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  Speaker 1: the day, and rested at night, with the five hundred
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  Speaker 1: guards on each side of me, half with torches and
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  Speaker 1: half with bow and arrows, ready to shoot me if
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  Speaker 1: I should offer to stir. The next morning, at sunrise,
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  Speaker 1: we continued our march and arrived within two hundred yards
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  Speaker 1: of the city gates. About noon. The Emperor and all
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  Speaker 1: his court came out to meet us, but his great
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  Speaker 1: officers would by no means suffer his majesty to endanger
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  Speaker 1: his position by mounting onto my body. At the place
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  Speaker 1: where the carriage stopped, there stood an ancient temple, esteemed
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  Speaker 1: to be the largest in the whole kingdom, which, having
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  Speaker 1: been polluted some years before by an unnatural murder, was,
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  Speaker 1: according to the zeal of those people, looked upon as profane,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore had been applied to common use, and all
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  Speaker 1: the ornaments and furniture carried away in this edifice, it
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  Speaker 1: was determined I should lodge. The great gate fronting to
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  Speaker 1: the north, was about four feet high and almost two
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  Speaker 1: feet wide, through which I could easily creep. On each
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  Speaker 1: side of the gate was a small window not above
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  Speaker 1: six inches from the ground. Into that on the left
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  Speaker 1: side the king smith conveyed four score and eleven chains,
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  Speaker 1: like those that hanged to a lady's watter in Europe,
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  Speaker 1: and almost as large, which were locked to my left
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  Speaker 1: leg with six and thirty padlocks. Over against this temple,
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  Speaker 1: on the other side of the great highway, at twenty
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  Speaker 1: feet distance, there was a turret at least five feet high.
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  Speaker 1: Here the Emperor ascended with many principal lords of his
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  Speaker 1: court to have an opportunity of viewing me as I
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  Speaker 1: was told, for I could not see them. It was
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  Speaker 1: reckoned that above a hundred thousand inhabitants came out of
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  Speaker 1: the town upon the same errand, And in spite of
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  Speaker 1: my guards, I believed there could not be fewer than
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand at several times who mounted my body by
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the help of ladders. But a proclamation was soon issued
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: to forbid it pompaine of death. When the workmen found
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: it was impossible for me to break loose, they cut
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: all the strings that bound me, whereupon I rose up
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: with as melancholy a disposition as ever I had in
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: my life. But the noise and astonishment of the people
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: at seeing me rise and walk are not to be expressed.
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  Speaker 1: The chains that held my left leg were about two
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  Speaker 1: yards long, and gave me not only the liberty of
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  Speaker 1: walking backwards and forwards in a semicircle, but being fixed
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  Speaker 1: within four inch to the gate, allowed me to creep
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  Speaker 1: in and light my full length in the temple. End
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  Speaker 1: of Chapter one, Part one