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Gulliver's Travels - part 1 · Gulliver's Travels

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  Speaker 1: Introduction the publisher to the reader, as given in the
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  Speaker 1: original edition. The author of these travels, mister Lemuel Gulliver,
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  Speaker 1: is my ancient and intimate friend. There is likewise some
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  Speaker 1: relation between us on the mother's side. About three years
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  Speaker 1: ago mister Gulliver, growing weary of the concourse of curious
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  Speaker 1: people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made
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  Speaker 1: a small purchase of land with the convenient house near
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  Speaker 1: Newark in Nottinghamshire, his native country, where he now lives, retired,
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  Speaker 1: yet in good esteem among his neighbors. Although mister Gulliver
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  Speaker 1: was born in Nottinghamshire, where his father dwelt. Yet I
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  Speaker 1: have heard him say his family come from Oxfordshire, to
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  Speaker 1: confirm which I have observed in the churchyard at Banbury
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  Speaker 1: in that county, several tombs and monuments of the Gullivers.
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  Speaker 1: Before he quitted Redriff, he left the custody of the
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  Speaker 1: following papers in my hand, with the liberty to dispose
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  Speaker 1: of them as I should think fit. I have carefully
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  Speaker 1: perused them three times. The style is very plain and simple,
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  Speaker 1: and the only fault I find is that the author,
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  Speaker 1: after the manner of travelers, is a little too circumstantial.
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  Speaker 1: There is an air of truth apparent through the whole,
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  Speaker 1: And indeed the author was so distinguished for his veracity
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  Speaker 1: that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbors
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  Speaker 1: at Redriffe. When anyone affirmed a thing to say, it
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  Speaker 1: was as true as if mister Gulliver had spoken it.
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  Speaker 1: By the advice of several worthy persons, to whom, with
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  Speaker 1: the author's permission, I communicated these papers, I now ventured
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  Speaker 1: to send them into the world, hoping they may be,
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  Speaker 1: at least for some time, a better entertainment to a
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  Speaker 1: young nobleman than the common scribbles of politics and party.
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  Speaker 1: This volume would have been at least twice as large
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  Speaker 1: if I had not made bold to strike out innumerable
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  Speaker 1: passages relating to the winds and tides, as well as
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  Speaker 1: to the variations and bearings in the several voyages, together
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  Speaker 1: with the minute descriptions of the management of the ship
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  Speaker 1: in storms in the style of sailors. Likewise, the account
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  Speaker 1: of longitudes and latitudes, wherein I have reason to apprehend
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  Speaker 1: that mister Gulliver may be a little dissatisfied. But I
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  Speaker 1: was resolved to fit the work as much as possible
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  Speaker 1: to the general capacity of readers. However, if my own
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  Speaker 1: ignorance and sea affairs shall have led me to commit
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  Speaker 1: some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them. And if
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  Speaker 1: any traveler hath her curiosity to see the whole work
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  Speaker 1: at large, as it comes from the hands of the author,
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  Speaker 1: I will be ready to gratify him. As for any
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  Speaker 1: further particulars relating to the author, the reader will receive
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  Speaker 1: satisfaction from the first page of the book Richard Simpson.
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  Speaker 1: A letter from Captain Gulliver to his cousin Simpson, written
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  Speaker 1: in the year seventeen twenty seven. I hope you will
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  Speaker 1: be ready to own publicly whenever you shall be called
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  Speaker 1: to it, that, by your great and frequent urgency, you
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  Speaker 1: prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect
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  Speaker 1: account of my travels, with directions to hire some young
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  Speaker 1: gentlemen of either university to put them in order and
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  Speaker 1: correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did by my
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  Speaker 1: advice in his book called A Voyage around the World.
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  Speaker 1: But I do not remember I gave you power to
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  Speaker 1: consent that anything should be omitted, and much less that
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  Speaker 1: anything should be inserted. Therefore, as to the latter, I
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  Speaker 1: do here renounce everything of that kind, particularly a paragraph
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  Speaker 1: about her majesty Queen Anne, of the most pious and
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  Speaker 1: glorious memory, although I did reverence and esteem her more
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  Speaker 1: than any of human species. But you or your interpulator
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  Speaker 1: ought to have considered that it was not my inclination.
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  Speaker 1: So it was not decent to praise any animal of
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  Speaker 1: our composition before my master Huinhem. And besides, the fact
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  Speaker 1: was altogether false, for to my knowledge, being in England
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  Speaker 1: during some part of her Majesty's reign, she did govern
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  Speaker 1: by a chief minister, nay even by two successively, the
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  Speaker 1: first whereof was the Lord Goldofen, and the second the
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  Speaker 1: Lord of Oxford. So that you have made me say
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  Speaker 1: the thing that was not likewise in the account of
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  Speaker 1: the Academy of Projectors, and several passages of my discourse
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  Speaker 1: to my master, when on m you have either omitted
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  Speaker 1: some material circumstances, or minced or changed them in such
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  Speaker 1: a manner that I do hardly know my own work.
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  Speaker 1: When I formerly hinted to you something of this in
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  Speaker 1: a letter, you were pleased to answer that you were
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  Speaker 1: afraid of giving offense. That people in power were very
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  Speaker 1: watchful over the press, an act not only to interrupt,
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  Speaker 1: but to punish everything which looked like an innuendo, as
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  Speaker 1: I think you call it. But pray, how could that
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  Speaker 1: which I spoke so many years ago, and at about
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  Speaker 1: five thousand leagues distance in another reign be applied to
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  Speaker 1: any of the Yahoos who were now said to govern
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  Speaker 1: the herd, especially at a time when I little thought
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  Speaker 1: or feared the unhappiness of living under them? Have I
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  Speaker 1: not the most reason to complain when I see these
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  Speaker 1: very Yahoos carried by huinnanems in a vehicle, as if
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  Speaker 1: they were brutes, and those the rational creatures. And indeed,
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  Speaker 1: to avoid so monstrous and detestable a sight was one
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  Speaker 1: principal motive of my retirement. Hither Thus, much I thought
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  Speaker 1: proper to tell you, in relation to yourself and to
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  Speaker 1: the trust I reposed in you, I do, in the
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  Speaker 1: next place, complain of my own great want of judgment,
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  Speaker 1: in being prevailed upon by the entreaties and false reasoning
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  Speaker 1: of you and some others, very much against my own
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  Speaker 1: opinion to suffer my travels to be published. Pray, bring
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  Speaker 1: to your mind how often I desired you to consider
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  Speaker 1: when you insisted on the motive of public good, that
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  Speaker 1: the yahoos whre a species of animal utterly incapable of
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  Speaker 1: amendment by prescipit or example. And so it has proved
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  Speaker 1: for instead of seeing a full stop put to all
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  Speaker 1: abuses and corruptions, at least in this little island, as
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  Speaker 1: I had reason to expect, behold, after above six months warning,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect.
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  Speaker 1: According to my intentions, I desired you would let me
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  Speaker 1: know by a letter when party and faction were extinguished,
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  Speaker 1: judges learned and upright, pleaders, honest and modest, with some
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  Speaker 1: tincature of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of
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  Speaker 1: law books, the young nobilities education entirely changed, the physicians banished,
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  Speaker 1: the female yahoos of bounding and virtue, honor, truth angered, sense,
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  Speaker 1: courts and levies of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept wit, merit,
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  Speaker 1: and learning rewarded all disgraces of the press in prose
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  Speaker 1: and verse, condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton,
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  Speaker 1: and quench their thirst with their own ink. These and
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  Speaker 1: a thousand other reformations I firmly counted upon by your
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  Speaker 1: encouragement as indeed, they were plainly deducible from the precipice
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  Speaker 1: delivered in my book, and it must be owned the
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  Speaker 1: seven months were a sufficient time to correct every vice
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  Speaker 1: and folly to which yahoo's are subject, if their natures
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  Speaker 1: had been capable of the least disposition to virtue or wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: Yet so far have you been from answering my expectation
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  Speaker 1: in any of your letters, that, on the contrary, you
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  Speaker 1: are loading our carrier every week with libels and keys,
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  Speaker 1: and reflections and memoirs and second parts, wherein I see
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  Speaker 1: myself accused of reflecting upon great state folk, of degrading
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  Speaker 1: human nature, for so they still had the confidence to
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  Speaker 1: style it, and of abusing the female sex. I find
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  Speaker 1: likewise that the writers of those bundles are not agreed
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  Speaker 1: among themselves, for some of them will not allow me
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  Speaker 1: to be the author of my own travels, and others
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  Speaker 1: make me author of books to which I am wholly
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  Speaker 1: a stranger. I find likewise that your printer has been
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  Speaker 1: so careless as to confound the times and mistake the
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  Speaker 1: dates of my several voyages and returns, neither assigning the
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  Speaker 1: true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month.
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  Speaker 1: And I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since
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  Speaker 1: the publication of my book, neither have I any copy left. However,
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  Speaker 1: I have sent you some corrections which you may insert,
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  Speaker 1: if ever there should be a second edition. And yet
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  Speaker 1: I cannot stand to them, but shall leave that matter
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  Speaker 1: to my judicious and candid readers to adjust it as
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  Speaker 1: they please. I hear some of our Sea Yahoos find
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  Speaker 1: fault with my c language, as not proper in many parts,
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  Speaker 1: nor in now in use. I cannot help it. In
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  Speaker 1: my first voyages, while I was young, I was instructed
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  Speaker 1: by the oldest mariners and learned to speak as they did.
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  Speaker 1: But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt,
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  Speaker 1: like the land ones, to become new fangled in their words,
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  Speaker 1: which the latter change every year, insomuch as I remember,
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  Speaker 1: upon each return to my own country, their old dialect
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  Speaker 1: was so altered that I could hardly understand the new.
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  Speaker 1: And I observe when any Yahoo comes from London out
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  Speaker 1: of curiosity to visit me at my house, we neither
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  Speaker 1: of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a
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  Speaker 1: manner intelligible to the other. If the censure of the
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  Speaker 1: Yahoos could any way affect me, I should have great
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  Speaker 1: reason to complain that some of them are so bold
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  Speaker 1: as to think my book of travels are mere fiction
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  Speaker 1: out of my own brain, and have gone so far
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  Speaker 1: as to drop hints that the huinn on Heems and
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  Speaker 1: Yahoos have no more existence than the inhabitants of Utopia. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: I must confess that as to the people of Lilliput bodingragg,
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  Speaker 1: for so the word should have been spelt and not
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  Speaker 1: erroneously brobed in Nag and Laputa. I have never yet
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  Speaker 1: heard any Yahoo so presumptuous as to dispute their being
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  Speaker 1: all the facts I have related concerning them, because the
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  Speaker 1: truth immediately strikes every reader with conviction, and is there
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  Speaker 1: less probability in my account of the Huinnanhems or Yahoos
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  Speaker 1: when it is manifest as to the latter, there are
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  Speaker 1: so many thousands, even in this country, who only differ
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  Speaker 1: from their brother brutes in huenanheim Land because they use
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  Speaker 1: a sort of jabber and do not go naked. I
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  Speaker 1: wrote for their amendment, and not their approbation. The united
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  Speaker 1: praise of the whole race would be of less consequence
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  Speaker 1: to me than the neighing of those two degenerate winnanems
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  Speaker 1: I keep in my stable because from these degenerate as
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  Speaker 1: they are, I still improve in some virtues without any
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  Speaker 1: mixture of vice. Do these miserable animals posus to think
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  Speaker 1: that I am so degenerated as to defend my veracity?
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  Speaker 1: Ya who as I am? It is well known through
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  Speaker 1: all quinnhumham Land, that by the instructions and example of
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  Speaker 1: my illustrious master, I was able in the compass of
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  Speaker 1: two years. Although I confess with the utmost difficulty to
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  Speaker 1: remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving and equivocating,
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  Speaker 1: so deeply rooted in the very soul of all my species,
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  Speaker 1: especially the Europeans. I have other complaints to make upon
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  Speaker 1: this vexatious occasion, but I forbear troubling myself or you
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  Speaker 1: any further. I must freely confess that, since my last return,
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  Speaker 1: some corruptions of my yahoo nature have revived in me
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  Speaker 1: by conversing with a few of your species, and particularly
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  Speaker 1: those of my own family, by an unavoidable necessity, else
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  Speaker 1: I should never have attempted so absurd a project as
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  Speaker 1: that of reforming the aa who race in this kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: So I have now done with all such visionary schemes
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  Speaker 1: forever April second, seventeen twenty seven. End of Introduction, Part
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  Speaker 1: one A Voyage to Lilliput. Chapter one. The author gives
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  Speaker 1: some account of himself and family, his first inducements to travel.
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  Speaker 1: Hears shipwrecked and swims for his life, gets safe on
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  Speaker 1: shore in the country of Lilliput, is made a prisoner
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  Speaker 1: and carried up the country. My father had a small
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  Speaker 1: estate in Nottinghamshire. I was the third of five sons.
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  Speaker 1: He sent me to Emmanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen
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  Speaker 1: years old, where I resided three years and applied myself
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  Speaker 1: close to my studies, but the charge of maintaining me,
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  Speaker 1: although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great
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  Speaker 1: for an hour of fortune, I was bound apprentice to
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  Speaker 1: mister James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom
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  Speaker 1: I continued four years. My father now and then sending
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  Speaker 1: me small sums of money. I laid them out in
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  Speaker 1: learning navigation and other parts of the mathematics useful to
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  Speaker 1: those who intend to travel, as I always believed it
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  Speaker 1: would be some time or other my fortune to do.
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  Speaker 1: When I left mister Bates, I went down to my father,
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  Speaker 1: where by the assistance of him and my uncle John
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  Speaker 1: and some other relations, I got forty pounds and I
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  Speaker 1: promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden.
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  Speaker 1: There I studied physic two years and seven months, knowing
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  Speaker 1: it would be useful in long voyages. Soon after my
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  Speaker 1: return from Leyden, I was recommended by my good master,
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  Speaker 1: mister Bates to be surgeon to the Swallow Captain Abraham Pannell, Commander,
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  Speaker 1: with whom I continued three years and a half, making
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  Speaker 1: a voyage or two into the Levant and some other parts.
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  Speaker 1: When I came back, I resolved to settle in London,
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  Speaker 1: to which mister Bates, my master, encouraged me, and by
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  Speaker 1: him I was recommended to several patients. I took part
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  Speaker 1: of a small house in the Old Jury, and, being
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  Speaker 1: advised to old my condition, I married missus Mary Burton,
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  Speaker 1: second daughter to mister Edmund Burton, Hosier in Newgate Street,
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  Speaker 1: with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion.
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  Speaker 1: But my good master Bates dying in two years after,
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  Speaker 1: and I having few friends, my business began to fail.
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  Speaker 1: For my conscience would not suffer me to imitate the
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  Speaker 1: bad practice of too many among my brethren. Having therefore
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  Speaker 1: consulted with my wife and some of my acquaintance, I
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  Speaker 1: determined to go again to sea. I was surgeon successively
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  Speaker 1: in two ships, and made several long voyages for six
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  Speaker 1: years to the East and West Indies, by which I
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  Speaker 1: got some addition to my fortune. My hours of leisure
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  Speaker 1: 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 these 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 Fetterlaine, 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 andform 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 Diem's Land.
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  Speaker 1: By an observation, we found ourselves in the latitude of
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  Speaker 1: thirty degrees two minutes south. Twelve of our crew were
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  Speaker 1: dead by a moderate labor and ill food. The rest
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  Speaker 1: 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 labour. 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.
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  Speaker 2: I was extremely.
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  Speaker 1: Tired, and with that and the heat of the weather,
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  Speaker 1: and about half a pint of brandy that I drank
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  Speaker 1: as I left the ship, I found myself much inclined
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  Speaker 1: to sleep. I lay down on the grass, which was
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  Speaker 1: very short and soft, where I slipped sounder than ever
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  Speaker 1: I remembered to have done in my life. And as
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  Speaker 1: I reckoned about nine hours for when I awaked it
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  Speaker 1: was just daylight. I attempted to rise, but was not
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  Speaker 1: able to stir. For as I happened to lie on
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  Speaker 1: my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly
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  Speaker 1: fastened on each side to the ground, and my hair,
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  Speaker 1: which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner.
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  Speaker 1: I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from
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  Speaker 1: my armpits to my thighs. I could only look upwards,
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  Speaker 1: the sun beginning to grow hot, and the light offended
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  Speaker 1: my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me, but
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  Speaker 1: in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.
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  Speaker 1: In a little time, I felt something alive moving on
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  Speaker 1: my left leg, which, advancing gently forward over my breast,
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  Speaker 1: came almost up to my chin. When bending my eyes
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  Speaker 1: downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to
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  Speaker 1: be a human creature not six inches high, with a
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  Speaker 1: bow and arrow in his hands and a quiver at
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  Speaker 1: his back. In the meantime, I felt at least forty
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  Speaker 1: more of the same kind, as I conjectured following the first,
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  Speaker 1: I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud
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  Speaker 1: that they all ran back in affright, and some of them,
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  Speaker 1: as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the fools
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  Speaker 1: they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground. However,
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  Speaker 1: they soon returned, and one of them, who ventured so
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  Speaker 1: far as to get a full sight of my face,
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  Speaker 1: lifting up his hands and eyes by way of admiration,
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  Speaker 1: cried out, in a shrill but distinct voice, he can hell,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: they girl. The others repeated the same words several times,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: but then I knew not what they meant. I lay
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: all this well, as the reader made believe, in great uneasiness.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: At length, struggling to get loose, I had the fortune
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: to break the strings and wrench out the pegs that
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: fastened my left arm to the ground, For by lifting
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: it up to my face, I discovered the methods they
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: had taken to bind me. And at the same time,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: with a violent pull which gave me excessive pain, I
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: a little loosened the strings that tied down my hair
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: on the left side, so that I was just able
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: to turn my head about two inches, but the creatures
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: ran off a second time before I could seize them.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Whereupon there was a great shout in a very shrill accent,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: and after it ceased, I heard one of them cry
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: aloud talk ov nak. When in an instant I felt
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: above a hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, which
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: pricked me like so many needles. And besides they shut
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: another flight into the air, as we do bombs in Europe,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: whereof many I suppose fell on my body, though I
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: felt them not, and some on my face, which I immediately
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: covered with my left hand. When this shower of arrows
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: was over, I fell a groaning with grief and pain,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and then again, striving to get loose, they discharged another
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: volley larger than the first, and some of them attempted
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: with spears to stick me in the side, but by
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: good luck I had on a buff jerkin which they
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: could not pierce. I thought it the most prudent method
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to lie still, and my design was to continue so
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: till night, when my left hand, being already loose, I
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: could easily free myself. And as for the inhabitants, I
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: had reason to believe I might be a match for
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: the greatest army they could bring against me, if they
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: were all of the same size with him that I saw.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: But fortune disposed otherwise of me. When the people observed
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I was quiet, they just charged no more errors. But
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: and about four yards from me, over against my right ear,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I heard a knocking for above an hour, like that
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: of people at work. When turning my head that way,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: as well as the pegs and strings would permit me,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I saw a stage erected about a foot and a
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: half from the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: with two or three ladders to mount it from. Whence
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: one of them, who seemed to be a person of quality,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: made me a long speech, whereof I understood not one syllable,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: but I should have mentioned that before the principal person
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: began his irritation, he cried out three times, let go
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: de hous on. These words and the former were afterwards
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: repeated and explained to me, whereupon immediately about fifty of
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: the inhabitants came and cut the strings that fastened the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: left side of my head, which gave me the liberty
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: of turning it to the right, and of observing the
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: person and gesture of him, that was to speak. He
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: appeared to be of a middle age and taller than
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: any of the other three who attended him, whereof one
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: was a page that held up his train and seemed
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to be somewhat longer than a middle finger. The other
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: two stood one on each side to support him. He
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: acted every part of an orator, and I could observe
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: many periods of threatenings and others of promises, pity and kindness.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I answered in a few words, but in the most
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: submissive manner, lifting up my left hand and both my
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: eyes to the sun, as calling him for a witness,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and being almost famished with hunger, having not eaten a
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: morsel for some hours before I left the ship, I
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: found the demands of nature so strong upon me that
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I could not forbear showing my impatience, perhaps against the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: strict rules of decency, by putting my finger frequently to
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: my mouth to signify that I wanted food. The Hurrigo
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: for so they called a great lord, as I, after
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: was learnt, understood me very well. He descended from the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: stage and commanded that several ladders should be applied to
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: my sides, on which above a hundred of the inhabitants
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: mounted and walked towards my mouth, laden with baskets full
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: of meat, which had been provided and sent thither by
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the King's orders. Upon the first intelligence who received of me,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I observed there was the flesh of several animals, but
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: could not distinguish them by their taste. They were shoulders, legs,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: but smaller than the wings of a lark. I ate
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: them by two or three at a mouthful, and took
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket balls.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: They supplied me as fast as they could, showing a
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: thousand marks of wonder and astonishment at my bulk appetite.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I then made another sign that I wanted drink. They
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: found by my eating that a small quantity would not
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: suffice me, and being a most ingenious people, they slung
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: up with great dexterity one of their largest hogsheads, then
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: rolled it towards my hand and beat at the top.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I drank it off at a draft, which I might
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: well do, for it did not hold half a pint
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: and tasted like a small wine of Burgundy, but much
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: more delicious. They brought me a second hogshead, which I
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: drank in the same manner, and made signs for more,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: but they had none to give me. When I had
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: reformed these wonders, they shouted for joy and danced upon
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: my breast, repeating several times as they did at first
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: he can all to go. They made me a sign
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: that I should throw down the two hogsheads, but first
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: warning the people below to stand out the way, crying aloud,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: pour ash mevalla, And when they saw the vessels in
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the air, there was a universal shout of how canal
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: de go? I confess I was often tempted, while they
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: were passing backwards and forwards of my body to seize
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: forty or fifty of the first that came in my
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: reach and dash them against the ground. But the remembrance
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: of what I had felt, which probably might not be
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the worst they could do, and the promise of honor
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I made them for so I interpreted, my submissive behavior
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: soon drove out these imaginations. Besides, I now consider myself
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: as bound by the laws of hospitality to a people
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence. However,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: in my thoughts I could not sufficiently wonder at the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who durst venture to mount
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and walk upon my body while one of my hands
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: was at liberty, without trembling at the very sight of
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: so prodigious a creature, as I must appear to them.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: After some time, when they observed that I made no
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: more demands for meat, there appeared before me a person
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: of high rank from his Imperial Majesty. His Excellency, having
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: mounted on the small of my right leg, advanced forwards
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: up to my face with about a dozen of his retinue,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and producing his credentials under the signet royal, which he
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: applied close to my eyes, spoke about ten minutes, without
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: any signs of anger, but with a kind of determinate resolution,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: often pointing forwards, which, as I afterwards found, was towards
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the capital city, about half a mile distance, whither it
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: was agreed by His Majesty and council that I must
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: be conveyed. I answered, in few words, but to no purpose.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I made a sign of my hand that was loose,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: putting it to the other, but over his Excellency's head
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: for fear of hurting him or his train, and then
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to my own head and body to signify that I
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: desired my liberty. It appeared that he understood me well enough,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: for he shook his head by way of disapprobation, and
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: held his hand in a posture to show the times
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: to be carried as a prisoner. However, he made other
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: signs to let me understand that I should have meat
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and drink enough and very good treatment. Whereupon I once
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: more thought of attempting to break my bonds. But again
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: when I felt the smart of their arrows upon my
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: face and hands, which were all in blisters, and many
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: of the darts still sticking in them, and observing likewise
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: that the number of my enemies increased, I gave tokens
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: to let them know that they might do with me
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: as they pleased. Upon this, the hurgo and his train
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: withdrew with much civility and cheerful countenances. Soon after I
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: heard a general shout with frequent repetitions of the words
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: pepolon Ceylon, and I felt great numbers of people on
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: my left side, relaxing the cords to such a degree
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: that I was able to turn upon my right, and
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to ease myself of making water, which I very plentifully did,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to the great astonishment of the people, who, conjecturing by
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: my motion what I was going to do, immediately opened
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: to the right and left on that side to avoid
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the torrent, which fell with such noise and violence from me.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: But before this they had darted my face in both
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: my hands with a sort of ointment very pleasant to
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the smell, which in a few minutes removed all the
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: smarter of their arrows. These circumstances, added to the refreshment
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I erate received by their victuals and drink, which were
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: very nourishing, disposed me to sleep. I slept about eight hours,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: as I was afterwards assured, and it was no wonder
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: for the physicians, by the Emperor's orders, had being goed
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: asleep potion into the hogsheads of wine. It seems that
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: upon the first moment I was discovered sleeping on the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: ground after my landing, the Emperor had early notice of
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: it by an express and determined in council that I
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: should be tied in the manner I have related, which
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: was done in the night while I slept, that plenty
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: of meat and drink should be sent to me and
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: a machine prepared to carry me to the capital city.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: This resolution may appear very bold and dangerous, and I
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: am confident would not be imitated by any prince in
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Europe on the like occasion. However, in my opinion, it
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: was extremely prudent as well as generous. For supposing these
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: people had endeavored to kill me with their spears and
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: arrows while I was asleep, I should certainly have awaked
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: with the first sense of smart which might so far
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: have roused my rage and strength as to enable me
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: to break the strings wherewith I was tied, after which,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: as they were not able to make resistance, so they
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: could expect no mercy. These people are most excellent mathematicians,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: and arrived to a great perfection in mechanics by the
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: countenance and encouragement of the Emperor, who is a renowned
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: patron of learning. This prince has several machines fixed on
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: wheels for the carriage of trees and other great weights.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: He often builds his largest men of war whereof summer,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: nine feet long, in the woods where the timber grows,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: and has them carried on these engines three or four
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: hundred yards to the sea. Five hundred carpenters and engineers
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: were immediately set at work to prepare the greatest engine
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: they had. It was a frame of wood raised three
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: inches from the ground, about seven feet long and four wide,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: moving upon twenty two wheels. The shout I heard was
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: upon the arrival of this engine, which it's set out
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: in four hours after my landing. It was brought parallel
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: to me as I lay, But the principal difficulty was
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: to raise and place me in this vehicle. Eighty poles,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: each of one foot high, were erected for this purpose,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: and very strong cords of the bigness of pack thread
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: were fastened by hooks to many bandages which the workmen
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: had girt around my neck, my hands, my body, and
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: my legs. Nine hundred of the strongest men were employed
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to draw up these cords by many pulleys fastened on
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the poles, and thus in less than three hours I
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: was raised and slung into the engine, and there tied fast.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: All this I was told, for while the operation was performing,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I lay in a profound sleep. By the force of
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: that soperiferous medicine infused into my liquor, fifteen hundred of
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and a
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: half pie, were employed to draw me towards the metropolis,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: which as I said, was half a mile distant. About
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: four hours after we began our journey, I awaked by
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: a very ridiculous accident, for the carriage being stopped awhile
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: to adjust something that was out of order. Two or
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: three of the young natives had the curiosity to see
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: how I looked when I was asleep. They climbed up
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: into the engine, and, advancing very softly to my face,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: one of them, an officer in the guards, put the
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: sharp end of his half pike a good way up
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: into my left nostril, which tiggled my nose like a
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: straw and made me sneeze violently. Whereupon they stole off unperceived,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: and it was three weeks before I knew the cause
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: of my waking. So suddenly we made along march the
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: remaining part of the day, and rested at night, with
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the five hundred guards on each side of me, half
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: with torches and half of bow and arrows, ready to
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: shoot me if I should offer to stir. The next morning,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: at sunrise we continued our march and arrived within two
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: hundred yards of the city gates. About noon, the Emperor
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: and all his court came out to meet us, But
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: his great officers would by no means suffer his majesty
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: to endanger his position by mounting onto my body. At
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: the place where the carriage stopped, there stood an ancient temple,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: esteemed to be the largest in the whole kingdom, which,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: having been polluted some years before by an unnatural murder, was,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: according to the zeal of those people, looked upon as profane,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: and therefore had been applied to common use, and all
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: the ornaments at furniture carried away in this edifice, it
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: was determined I should lodge. The great gate fronting to
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: the north, was about four feet high and almost two
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: feet wide, through which I could easily creep. On each
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: side of the the gate was a small window not
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: above six inches from the ground. Into that on the
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: left side the king smith conveyed four score and eleven chains,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: like those that hanged to a lady's watch in Europe,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: and almost as large, which were locked to my left
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: leg with six and thirty padlocks. Over against this temple,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: on the other side of the great highway, at twenty
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: feet distance, there was a turret at least five feet high.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Here the Emperor ascended with many principal lords of his
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: court to have an opportunity of viewing me as I
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: was told, for I could not see them. It was
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: reckoned that above a hundred thousand inhabitants came out of
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: the town upon the same errand, and in spite of
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: my guards, I believed there could not be fewer than
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: ten thousand at several times who mounted my body by
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: the help of ladders. But a proclamation was soon issued
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: to forbid it pompane of death. When the workmen found
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: it was impossible for me to break loose, they cut
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: all the strings that found me, whereupon I rose up
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: with as melancholy a disposition as ever I had in
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: my life. But the noise and astonishment of the people
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: at seeing me rise and walk are not to be expressed.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: The chains that held my left leg were about two
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: yards long, and gave me not only the liberty of
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: walking backwards and forwards in a semicircle, but being fixed
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: within four inch to the gate, allowed me to creep
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: in and light my full length in the temple. End
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: of Chapter one, Part one, Chapter two, the Emperor of Liliput,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: attended by several of the nobility, comes to see the
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: author in his confinement. The Emperor's person and habit described
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: learned men appointed to teach the author of their language.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: He gains favour by his mild disposition. His pockets are searched,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: and his sod and pistols taken from him. When I
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: found myself on my feet, I looked about me, and
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: must confess I never beheld a more entertaining prospect. The
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: country around appeared like a continued garden, and the enclosed fields,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: which were generally forty feet square, resembled so many beds
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: of flowers. These fields were intermingled with woods of half
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: a stang, and the tallest trees, as I could judge,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: appeared to be seven feet high. I viewed the town
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: on my left hand, which looked like the painted scene
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: of a city in a theater. I had been for
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: some hours extremely pressed by the necessities of nature, which
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: was no wonder it, being almost two days since I
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: had last disburdened myself. I was under great difficulties between
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: urgency and shame. The best expedient I could think of
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: was to creep into my house, which I accordingly did
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: and shut in the gate after me. I went as
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: far as the length of my chain would suffer, and
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: discharge my body of that uneasy load. But this was
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the only time I was ever guilty of so uncleanly,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: an action for which I cannot but hope the candid
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: reader will give some allowance after who is maturely and
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: impartially considered my case and the distress I was in.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: From this time, my constant practice was as soon as
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I rose to perform that business in open air at
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: the full extent of my chain, and due care was
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: taken every morning before company came, that the offensive matter
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: should be carried off in wheelbarrows by two servants appointed
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: for that purpose. I would not have dwelt so long
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: upon a circumstance that, perhaps at first sight, may appear
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: not very momentous if I had not thought it necessary
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: to justify my character in point of cleanliness to the world,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: which I am told some of my maligners have been
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: pleased upon this and other occasions to call in question.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: When this adventure was at an end, I came back
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: out of my house, having an occasion for fresh air.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: The Emperor was already descended from the tower and advancing
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: on horseback towards me, which had liked to have cost
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: him dear. For the beast, though very well trained, yet
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: wholly unused to such a sight, which appeared as if
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: a mountain moved before him, reared up on his hind feet.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: But that Prince, who is an excellent horseman, kept his
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: seat till his attendants ran in and held the bridle,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: while his Majesty had time to dismount. When he alighted,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: he surveyed me round with great admiration, but kept beyond
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the length of my chain. He ordered his cooks and butlers,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: who were already prepared to give me victuals and drink,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: which they pushed forward in a sort of vehicle upon
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: wheels till I could reach them. I took these vehicles
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: and soon emptied them. All twenty of them were filled
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: with meat, and ten with liqueur. Each of the former
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: afforded me two or three good mouthfuls. And I entered
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: the liqueur of ten vessels, which was contained in earthen vials,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: into one vehicle, drinking it up at a draft. And
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: so I did with the rest. The Empress and young
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: princes of the blood of both sexes, attended by many ladies,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: sat at some distance in their chairs, but upon the
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: accident that happened to the Emperor's horse, they alighted and
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: came near his person, which I am now going to describe.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: He is taller, by almost the breadth of my nail
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: than any of his court, which alone is enough to
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: strike an oar into the beholders. His features are strong
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic. He was
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: then past his prime, being twenty eight years and three
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: quarters old, of which he had reigned about seven, in
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: great felicity and generally victorious. For the better convenience of
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: beholding him, I lay on my side so that my
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: face was parallel to his, and he stood but three
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: yards off. However, I have had him since many times
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: in my hand, and therefore cannot be deceived in the description.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: His dress was very plain and simple, and the fashion
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: of it between the Asia Static and the European. But
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: he had on his head a light helmet, of gold,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: adorned with jewels and a plume on the crest. He
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: held a sword drawn in his hand to defend himself
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: if I should happen to break loose. It was almost
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: three inches long. The hilt and scabbard were gold and
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: riched with diamonds. His voice was shrill, but very clear
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: and articulate, and I could distinctly hear it when I
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: stood up. The ladies and courtiers were all magnificently clad,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: so that the spot they stood upon seemed to resemble
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: a petticoat spread upon the ground, embroidered with figures of
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: gold and silver. His Imperial Majesty spoke often to me,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: and I returned answers, but neither of us can understand
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: its syllable. There were several of his priests and lawyers present,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: as I conjectured by their habits, who were commanded to
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: address themselves to me, and I spoke to them in
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: many languages as I had the least mattering of which
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: were high and low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: lingou Franca, but all to no purpose. After about two hours,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: the court retired, and I was left with the strong
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: guard to prevent the impertinence, and probably the malice of
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: the rabble, who were very impatient to crowd about me
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: as near as they durst, and some of them had
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the impudence to shoot their arrows at me as I
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: sat on the ground by the door of my house,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: where one very narrowly missed my left eye. But the
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: colonel ordered six of the ring leaders to be seized,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: and thought no punishment so proper as to deliver them
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: bound into my hands, which some of his soldiers accordingly did,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: pushing them forward with the buttons of their pikes into
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: my reach. I took them in my right hand, put
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: five of them into my coat pocket, and as to
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: the sixth, I made a countenance as if I would
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: eat him alive. The poor man scrawled terribly, and the
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: colonel and his officers were in much pain, especially when
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: they saw me take out my pen knife. But I
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: soon put them out of fear for looking mildly, and
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: immediately cutting the strings he was bound with. I set
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: him gently on the ground, and away he ran. I
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: treated the rest in the same manner, taking them one
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: by one out of my pocket, and I observed both
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: the soldiers and people were highly delighted at this mark
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: of my clemency, which was represented very much to my
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: advantage at court. Towards night, I got with some difficulty
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: into my house, where I lay on the ground, and
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: continued to do so about a fortnight, during which time
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: the Emperor gave orders to have a bed prepared for me.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Six hundred beds of the common measure were brought in
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: carriages and worked up in my house. One hundred and
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: fifty of their beds, sewn together, made up the breadth
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: and length, and these were four double, which however, kept
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: me but very indifferently from the hardness of the floor
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: that was a smooth stone. By the same computation, they
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: provided me with sheets, blankets, and coverlets, tolerable enough for
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: one who had been so long inured to hardships. As
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: the news of my arrival spread through the kingdom, it
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: brought prodigious numbers of rich, idle, and curious people to
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: see me, so that the villages were almost emptied, and
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: a great neglect of tillage and household affairs must have
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: ensued if his Imperial Majesty had not provided by several
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: proclamations and orders of state against his inconveniency. He directed
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: that those who had a already beheld me should return
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: home and not presumed to come within fifty yards of
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: my house without license from the Court, whereby the secretaries
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: of State got considerable fees. In the meantime, the Emperor
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: held frequent councils to debate what course should be taken
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: with me, and I was afterwards assured by a particular friend,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: a person of great quality, who was as much in
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: the secret as any, that the Court was under many
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: difficulties concerning me. They apprehended my breaking loose, that my
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: diet would be very expensive and might cause a famine.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Sometimes they determined to starve me, or at least to
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: shed me in the face and hands with poisoned arrows,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: which would soon dispatch me. But again they considered that
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: the stent of so large a carcass might produce a
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: plague in the metropolis, and probably spread through the whole kingdom.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: In the midst of these consultations, several officers of the
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: army went to the door of the Great Council Chamber,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: and two of them, being admitted, gave an account of
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: my behavior to the six criminals above mentioned, which made
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: so favorable an impression in the breast of His Majesty
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: and the whole board in my behalf, that an imperial
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: commission was issued out, obliging all the villages nine hundred
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: yards round the city to deliver in every morning six beaves,
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: forty sheep and other victuals for my sustenance, together with
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: a proportional quantity of bread and wine, and other liqueurs,
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: for the due payment of which His Majesty gave assignments
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: upon his treasury. For this Prince lives chiefly upon his
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: own demensies, seldom except upon great occasions, raising any subsidies
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: upon his subjects, who are bound to attend him in
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: his wars, at their own expense. An establishment was also
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: made of six hundred persons through my domestics, who had
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: board wages allowed for their maintenance, and tents built for
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: them very conveniently on each side of my door. It
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: was likewise ordered that three hundred tailor should make me
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: a suit of clothes after the fashion of the country.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: That six of His Majesty's greatest scholars should be employed
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: to instruct me in their language. And lastly that the
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Emperor's horses and those of the nobility, and troops of
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: the guards should be frequently exercised, in my sight to
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: accustom themselves to me. All these orders were duly put
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: in execution, and in about three weeks I made a
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: great progress in learning their language, during which time the
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Emperor frequently honored me with his visits and was pleased
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: to assist my masters in teaching me. We began already
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: to converse together in some sort, and the first words
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: I learnt were to express my desire that he would
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: please give me my liberty, which I every day repeated
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: on my knees. His answer, as I could comprehend, it,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: was that this must be the work of time, not
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: to be thoughtful without the advice of his counsel. And
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: at first I musked lumas kelmn pessot decmaon eposso that is,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: swear a peace with him and his kingdom. However, that
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: I should be used with all kindness, and he advised
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: me to acquire, by my patience and discreet behavior the
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: good opinion of himself and his subjects. He desired. I
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: would not take it ill if he gave orders to
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: certain proper officers to search me, for probably I might
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: carry about me several weapons which must needs be dangerous things.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: If they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: I said, his majesty should be satisfied, for I was
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: ready to strip myself and turn my pockets before him.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: This I delivered, part in words and part in signs.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: He replied that by the laws of the kingdom, I
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: must be searched by two of his officers. That he
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: knew this could not be done without my consent and assistance,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: and he had so good an opinion of my generosity
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: and justice as to trust their persons in my hands,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: that whatever they took from me should be returned when
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: I left the country, or paid were at the rate
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: which I would set upon them. I took up the
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: two officers in my hands, put them first in my
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: coat pockets, and then into every other pocket about me,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: except my two fobs and another secret pocket, which I
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: had no mind should be searched, wherein I had some
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: little necessities that were of no consequence to any but myself.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: In one of my fobs there was a silver watch,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: and in the other a small quantity of gold in
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: a purse. These gentlemen, having pen, ink and paper about them,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: made an exact inventory of everything they saw, and when
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: they had done desired, I would set them down that
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: they might deliver it to the Emperor. This inventory I
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: afterwards translated into English, and is word a word as
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: follows impromise. In the right coat pocket of the great
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: man Mountain, for so I interpret the words quimbus flesterin
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: After the strictest search, we found only one great piece
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: of coarse cloth, large enough to be a footcloth for
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: your Majesty's chief room of state. In the left pocket
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: we saw a huge silver chest with the cover of
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: the same metal, which we to search us were not
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: able to lift. We desired it should be opened, and
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: one of us, stepping into it, found himself up to
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: the mid leg in a sort of dust, some part
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: whereof flying up to our faces set us both as
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: sneezing for several times together. In his right waist coat
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: pocket we found a prodigious bundle of white, thin substances,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: folded one over another, about the bigness of three men,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: tied with a strong cable, and marked with black figures,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: which we humbly conceived to be writings, every letter, almost
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: half as large as the palm of our In the
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: left there was a sort of engine, from the back
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: of which were extended twenty long poles, resembling the palisadoes
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: before your Majesty's court, wherewith we conjectured the man mounting
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: combs his head, for we did not always trouble him
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: with questions, because we found it a great difficulty to
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: make him understand us. In the large pocket, on the
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: right side of his middle cover, so I translated the
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: word ran fullo, by which they meant my breeches, we
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: saw a hollow pillow of iron about the length of
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: a man, fastened to a strong piece of timber larger
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: than the pillar. And upon one side of the pillar
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: were huge pieces of iron sticking out, cut into strange figures,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: which we know not what to make of. In the
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: left pocket another engine of the same kind. In the
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: smaller pocket on the right side were several round, flat
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: pieces of white and red metal of different bulk. Some
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: of the y, which seemed to be silver, were so
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: large and heavy that my comrade and I could hardly
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: lift them. In the left pocket were two black pillars,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: irregularly shaped. We could not with difficulty reach the top
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: of them as we stood at the bottom of his pocket.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: One of them was covered and seemed all of a piece,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: but at the upper end of the other there appeared
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: a white, round substance about twice the bigness of our heads.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Within each of these were enclosed a prodigious plate of steel, which,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: by our orders we obliged him to show us, because
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: we apprehended they might be dangerous engines. He took them
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: out of their cases and told us that in his
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: own country his practice was to shave his beard with
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: one of these and cut his meat with the other.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: There were two pockets which we could not enter. These
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: he caught his fobs. They were two large lids cut
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed clothes
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: by the pressure of his belly. Out of the right
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: fob hung a great silver chain with a wonderful kind
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: of engine at the bottom. We directed him to draw
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: out whatever was at the end of that chain, which
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: appeared to be a globe half silver and half of
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: some transparent metal. For on the transparent side we saw
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: certain strange figures circularly drawn, and thought we could touch them,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: till we found our figures stopped by the lucid substance.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: He put this engine into our ears, which made an
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: incessant noise like that of a water mill, and when
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: in conjecture, it is either some unknown animal or the
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: god that he worships. But we are more inclined to
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: the latter opinion, because he assured us, if we understood
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: him right free, expressed himself very imperfectly, that he seldom
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: did anything without consulting it. He called it his oracle,
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: and said it pointed out the time for every action
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: of his life. From the left fob he took out
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: a net almost large enough fishermen, but contrived to open
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: as shut like a purse, and served him for the
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: same use. We found therein several massy pieces of yellow metal, which,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: if they be real gold, must be of immense value.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Having thus, in obedience to your Majesty's commands, diligently searched
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: all his pockets, we observed a girdle about his waist
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: made of the hide of some prodigious animal, from which
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: on the left side hung a sword of the length
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: of five men, and on the right a bag or
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: pouch divided into two cells, each cell capable of holding
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: three of Your Majesty's subjects. In each of these cells
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: were several globes or walls of a most ponderous metal,
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: about the bigness of our heads, and requiring a strong
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: hand to lift them. The other cell contained a heap
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: of black grains, but of no great bulk or weight,
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: for we could hold above fifty of them in the
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: palm of our hands. This is an exact inventory of
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: what we found about the body of the man Mountain
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: who used us with great civility and due respect to
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: your Majesty's commission, signed and sealed on the fourth day
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: of the eighty ninth moon of your Majesty's auspicious rain.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: Clefren Freelock Marcy Freelock. When this inventory was read over
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: to the Emperor, he directed me, although in very gentle terms,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: to deliver up several particulars. He first called for my cimeta,
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: which I took out, scabbard and all. In the meantime,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: he ordered three thousand of his choicest troops, who then
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: attended him to surround me at a distance with their
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: bows and arrows just ready to discharge. But I did
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: not observe it, for mine eyes were wholly fixed upon
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: his majesty. He then desired me to draw my cimitar, which,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: although he had got some rust by the sea water,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: was in most parts exceedingly right. I did so, and
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: immediately all the troops gave a shout between terror and surprise,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: for the sun shone clear, and the reflection dazzled their eyes.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: As I waved the scimitar to and fro in my hand,
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: His Majesty, who is the most magnanimous prince, was less
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: daunted that I could expect. He ordered me to return
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: it into the scabbard and cast it on the ground
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: as gently as I could, about six feet from the
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: end of my chain. The next thing he demanded was
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: of the hollow iron pillars, by which he meant my
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: pocket pistols. I drew it out, and at his desire,
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: as well as I could, expressed to him the use
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: of it, and charging it only with powder, which, by
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: the closeness of my pouch happened to escape wetting in
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: the sea, an inconvenience against which all prudent mariners take
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: special care to provide. I first cautioned the Emperor not
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: to be afraid, and then I let it off in
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: the air. The astonishment here as much greater than at
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: the sight of my cimeter. Hundreds fell down as if
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: they had been struck dead, and even the Emperor, although
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: he stood his ground, could not recover himself for some time.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: I delivered up both my pistols in the same manner
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: as I had done my cimeter, and then my pouch
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: of powder and bullets, begging him that the former might
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: be kept from fire, for it would kindle with the
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: smallest spark and blow up his imperial palace into the air.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: I likewise delivered up my watch, which the Emperor was
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: very curious to see, and commanded two of his tallest
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: yeoman guards to bear it on a pole upon their shoulders,
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: as Draymond in England do a barrel of ale. He
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: was amazed at the continual noise it made and the
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: motion of the minute hand, which he could easily discern,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: for their sight is much more acute than ours. He
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: asked the opinions of his learned men about it, which
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: were various and remote, as the reader may well imagine,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: without my repeating, although indeed I could not very perfectly
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: understand them. I then gave up my silver and copper money,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: my purse with nine large pieces of gold and some
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: smaller ones, my knife and razor, my comb and silver
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: snuff box, my handkerchief and journal book, my cimitar, pistols
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: and pouch were conveyed in carriages to His Majesty's stores,
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: but the rest of my goods were returned to me.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: I had, as I before, observed, one private pocket which
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: escaped their search. Wherein there was a pair of spectacles,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: which I sometimes use for the weakness of mine eyes,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: a pocket perspective, and some other little conveniences, which, being
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: of no consequence to the Emperor, I did not think
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: myself bound in honor to discover, and I apprehended they
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: might be lost or spoiled if I ventured them out
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: of my possession. End of Chapter two, Part one, Chapter three,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: the author diverts the Emperor and his nobility of both
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: sexes in a very uncommon manner. The diversions of the
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: Court of Lilliput described. The author has his liberty granted
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: him upon certain conditions. My gentleness and good behavior had
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: gained so far on the Emperor and his court, and
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: indeed upon the army and people in general, that I
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: began to conceive hopes of getting my liberty. In a
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: short time. I took all possible methods to cultivate this
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: favorable disposition. The natives came, by degrees to be less
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: apprehensive for any danger from me. I would sometimes lie
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: down and let five or six of them dance on
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: my hand, and at last the boys and girls would
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: venture to come and play hide and seek in my hair.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: I had now made a good progress in understanding and
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: speak in the language. The Emperor had a mind one
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: day to entertain me with several of the country shows,
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: wherein the exceed all nations I have known, both for
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: dexterity and magnificence, I was diverted with none so much
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: as that of the rope dancers performed upon a slender
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: white thread extended about two feet and twelve inches from
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: the ground, upon which I shall desire liberty with the
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: reader's patients to enlarge a little. This diversion is only
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: practiced by those persons who are candidates for great employments
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: and high favour at court. They are trained in this
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  Speaker 1: art from their youth, and are not always of noble
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  Speaker 1: birth or liberal education. When a great office is vacant,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: either by death or disgrace, which often happens, five or
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  Speaker 1: six of those candidates petition the Emperor to entertain his
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: Majesty and the court with the dance on the rope,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: and whoever jumpts the highest without falling, succeed in the office.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: Very often the chief ministers themselves are commanded to show
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: their skill and to convince the Emperor that they have
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  Speaker 1: not lost their fact film nap. The Treasurer is allowed
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  Speaker 1: to cut a caper on the straight rope at least
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  Speaker 1: an inch higher than any other lord in the whole Empire.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: I have seen him do the somersault several times together
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  Speaker 1: upon a trencher fixed on a rope which is no
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: thicker than a common pack thread. In England, my friend Realdressel,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: Principal Secretary for Private Affairs, is, in my opinion, if
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: I am not partial, the second after the Treasurer. The
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: rest of the great officers are much upon a par
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: These diversions are often attended with fatal accidents, whereof great
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: numbers are on record. I myself have seen two or
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: three candidates break a limb. But the danger is much
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: greater when the ministers themselves are commanded to show their dexterity,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: for by contending to excel themselves from their fellows. They
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: strain so far that there is hardly one of them
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: who is not received a fall, and some of them
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: two or three. I was assured that a year or
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: two before my arrival, Filmnap would infallibly have broke his
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: neck if one of the King's cushions that accidentally lay
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: on the ground had not weakened the force of his fall.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: There is likewise another diversion, which is only shown before
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: the Emperor and Empress and First Minister upon particular occasions.
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  Speaker 1: The Emperor lays on the table three fine silken threads
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  Speaker 1: of six inches long. One is blue, the other red,
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  Speaker 1: and the third green. These threads are proposed as prizes
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: for those persons whom the Emperor has in mind to
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: distinguish by a peculiar mark of his favour. The ceremony
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: is performed in His Majesty's Great Chamber of State, where
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: the candidates are to undergo a trial of dexterity very
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: different from the former, and such as I have not
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: observed the least resemblance of in any other country of
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: the New or old world. The Emperor holds a stick
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: in his hands, both ends parallel to the horizon, while
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: the candidates, advancing one by one, sometimes leap over the stick,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: sometimes creep under it, backward and forward several times, according
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: as the stick is advanced or depressed. Sometimes the Emperor
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: holds one end of the stick and his first minister
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: the other. Sometimes the minister has it entirely to himself.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: Whoever performs his part with most agility and holds out
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: the longest and leaping and creeping, is rewarded with the
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  Speaker 1: blue colored silk. The red is given to the next,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: and the green to the third, which they all wear
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: girt twice around the middle. And you see few great
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: persons about this court who are not adorned with one
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: of these girdles. The horses of the army and those
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: of the royal stables, having been daily led before me,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: were no longer shy, but would come up to my
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: very feet without starting. The riders would leap them over
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: my hand as they held it on the ground, And
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: one of the Emperor's huntsmen, upon a larger corsair, took
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: my foot, shoe and all, which was indeed a prodigious leap.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: I had the good fortune to divert the Emperor one
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: day after a very extraordinary manner I desired he would
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  Speaker 1: order several sticks of two feet high and the thickness
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: of an ordinary cane, to be brought to me. Whereupon
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: His Majesty commanded the master of his woods to give
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: directions accordingly, and the next morning six woodmen arrived with
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: as many carriages, drawn by eight horses to each. I
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: took nine of these sticks, and fixing them firmly in
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: the ground in a quadrangular figure two feet and a
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: half square. I took four other sticks and tied them
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: parallel at each corner, about two feet from the ground.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: Then I fastened my handkerchief to the nine sticks that
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: stood erect, and extended it on all sides till it
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: was tight as the top of a drum, and the
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: four parallel sticks, rising about five inches higher than the handkerchief,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: served as ledges on each side. When I had finished
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: my work, I desired the Emperor to let a troop
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: of his best horses, twenty four in number, come and
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: exercise upon this plane. His Majesty approved of the proposal,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: and I took them up one by one in my hands,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: ready mounted and armed with the proper officers, to exercise them.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: As soon as they got into order, they had divided
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: into two parties, performed mock skirmishes, discharged blunt arrows, drew
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: their swords, fled and pursued, attacked and retired, and in
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: short discovered the best military discipline I ever beheld. The
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: parallel sticks secured them and their horses from falling over
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: the stage, and the Emperor was so much delighted that
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: he ordered this entertainment to be repeated several days, And
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: once was pleased to be lifted up and give the
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: word of command, And with great difficulty persuaded even the
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: Empress herself to let me hold her in her clothes
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: chair within two yards of the stage, when she was
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: able to take a full view of the whole performance.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: It was my good fortune that no ill accident happened
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: in these entertainments. Only once, a fiery horse that belonged
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: to one of the captains, pouring with his hoof, struck
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: a hole in my handkerchief, and his foot slipping, he
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: overthrew his rider and himself, but I immediately relieved them both,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: and covering the hole with one hand, I set down
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: the troupe with the other. In the same manner as
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: I took them up the horse that fell was strained
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: in the left shoulder, but the rider got no hurt,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: and I repaired my handkerchief as well as I could. However,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: I would not trush to the strength of it anymore
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: in such dangerous enterprises. About two or three days before
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: I was set at liberty, as I was entertaining the
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: court with this kind of feet, there arrived in express
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: to inform His Majesty the sum of his subjects. Riding
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: near the place where I was first taken up, had
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: seen a great black substance lying on the ground, very
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: oddly shaped, extending its edges round as wide as His
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: Majesty's bed chamber, and rising up in the middle as
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: high as a man. That it was no living creature
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: as they at first apprehended, for it lay on the
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: grass without motion, and some of them had walked round
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: it several times, that by mounting upon each other's shoulders,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: they had got to the top, which was flat and even,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: and stamping upon it, they found that it was hollow
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: within that they hardly conceived it might be something belonging
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: to the man mountain. And if His Majesty pleased, they
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: would undertake to bring it with only five horses. I
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: presently knew what they meant, and was glad at heart
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: to receive his intelligence. It seems, upon my first reaching
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: the shore after our shipwreck, I was in such confusion
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: that before I came to the place where I went
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: to sleep, my hat, which I had fastened with the
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: string to my head while I was rowing and had
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: stuck on all the time I was swimming, fell off
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: after I came to land. The string, as I conjecture,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: breake him by some accident which I never observed. But
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: thought my hat to be lost at sea, I entreated
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: his Imperial Majesty to give orders it might be brought
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: to me as soon as possible, describe into him the
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: use and nature of it. And the next day his
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: wagoners arrived with it, but not in very good condition.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: They had bought two holes in the brim within an
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: inch and a half of the edge, and fastened two
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: hooks in the holes. These hooks were tied by a
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: long cord to the harness, and thus my hat was
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: dragged along for above half an English mile, But the
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: ground in that country being extremely smooth and level, it
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: received less damage than I expected. Two days after this adventure,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: the Emperor, having ordered that part of his army which
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: caught us in and about his midropolis, to be in readiness,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: took a fancy of diverting himself. In a very singular manner.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: He desired, I would stand like a colossus with my
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: legs as far asunder as I conveniently could. He then
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: commanded his general, who was an old, experienced leader and
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: a great patron of mine, to draw up the troops
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: in close order, and march them under me, the foot
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: by twenty four abreast, and the horse by sixteen, with
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: drums beating, colours flying, and pikes advanced. This body consisted
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: of three thousand foot and a thousand horse. His Majesty
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: gave orders, upon pain of death, that every soldier in
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: his march should observe the strictest decency with regard to
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: my person, which, however, could not prevent some of the
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: younger officers from turning up their eyes as they passed
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: under me, and to confess the truth. My breaches were
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: at the time in so ill a condition that they
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: awarded some opportunities for laughter and admiration. I had sent
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: so many memorials and petitions for my liberty that his
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: Majesty at length mentioned the matter, first in the Cabinet
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: and then in a full council, where it was opposed
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: by none except Skyrish Bogelum, who was pleased, without any
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: provocation to be my mortal enemy. But it was carried
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: against him by the whole board and confirmed by the
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: Emperor that Minister was Galbert or Admiral of the Realm,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: very much in his Majesty's confidence, and a person well
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: versed in affairs, but of a more rose and sour complexion. However,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: he was at length persuaded to comply, but prevailed that
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: the articles of conditions upon which I should be set
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: free and to which I must swear, should be drawn
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: up by himself. These articles were brought to me by
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Skyrish Bogolam in person, attended by two under secretaries and
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: several persons of distinction. After they were read, I was
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: demanded to swear to the performance of them, first in
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: the manner of my own country, and afterwards in the
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: method prescribed by their laws, which was to hold my
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: right foot in my left hand, and to place the
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: middle finger of my right hand on the crown of
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: my head and my thumb on the tip of my
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: right ear. But because the reader may be curious to
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: have some idea of the style and manner of expression
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: peculiar to that people, as well as to know the
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: article upon which I received my liberty, I have made
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: a translation of the whole instrument, word for word, near
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: as I was able, which I here offer to the public.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: Golbasto mommarim evlam Godilo Chefin mali ali gu, most Mighty
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: Emperor of Lilliput, Delight and Terror of the universe, whose
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: dominions extend five thousand blists about twelve miles in circumference
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: to the exterremities of the globe, Monarch of all monarchs,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: taller than the sons of men, whose feet pressed down
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: to the center, and whose head strikes against the sun,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: at whose nod the princes of the Earth shake their knees.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: Pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: dreadful as winter, His most Sublime Majesty proposes to the
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: Man Mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: which by a solemn oath he shall be obliged to perform. First,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: the man Mountain shall not depart from our dominions without
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: our license under our great seal. Second, he shall not
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: presume to come into our metropolis without our express order,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: at which time the inhabitants shall have two hours warning
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: to keep within doors. Third, the man mountain shall confine
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: his walks to our principal higher and not offer to
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: walk or lie down in a meadow or field of corn. Fourth,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: as he walks the said roads, he shall take the
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: utmost care not to trample upon the bodies of any
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: of our loving subjects, their horses or carriages, nor to
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: take any of our subjects into his hands without their
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: own consent. Fifth, if an express requires extraordinary dispatch, the
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: man Mountain shall be obliged to carry in his pocket
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: the messenger and horse a six days journey, once in
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: every moon, and return the said messenger back, if so required,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: safe to our imperial presence. Sixth, he shall be our
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: ally against our enemies in the island of Blefuska, and
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: do his utmost to destroy their fleet, which is now
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: preparing to invade us. Seventh that the said man Mountain shall,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: at his times of leisure, be aiding and assisting to
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: our workmen in helping to raise certain great stones towards
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: covering the wall of the Principal Park and other of
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: our royal buildings. Eighth, that the said man Mountain shall,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: in two moons time, deliver an exact survey of the
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: circumference of our dominions by a computation of his own
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: paces round the coast. Lastly, that, upon his solemn oath
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: to observe all the above articles, the said man Mountain
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: shall have a daily allowance of meat and drink sufficient
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: for the support of one thousand, seven hundred and twenty
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: four of our subjects, with free access to our royal
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: person and other marks of our favour, given at our
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: palace at Belfaborac the twelfth day of the ninety first
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: moon of our reign. I swore and subscribed to these
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: articles with great cheerfulness and content, although some of them
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: were not so honorable as I could have wished, which
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: proceeded wholly from the malice of Skyrish Bogolam, the High Admiral,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: whereupon my chains were immediately unlocked, and I was at
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: full liberty. The Emperor himself in person did me the
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: honor to be by at the whole ceremony. I made
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: my acknowledgments by prostrating myself at his Majesty's feet, but
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: he commanded me to rise, and, after many gracious expressions,
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: which to avoid the censor of vanity, I should not repeat,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: he added that he hoped I should prove a useful
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: servant and well deserve all the favors he had already
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: conferred upon me, or might do for the future. The
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: reader may please observe that in the last article of
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: the Recovery of my Liberty, the Emperor stipulates to allow
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: me a quantity of meat and drink sufficient for the
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: support of one thousand, seven hundred and twenty four Liliputians.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: Some time after asking your friend at court how they
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: came to fix on that determined number, he told me
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: that his Majesty's mathematicians, having taken the height of my
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: mind my body by the help of a quadrant, and
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: that mine must contain at least one thousand, seven hundred
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: and twenty four of theirs, and consequently would require as
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: much food as was necessary to support that number of eleputions,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: by which the reader may conceive an idea of the
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: ingeniity of that people, as well as the prudent and
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: exact economy of so great a prince. End of Chapter three,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: Part one, Chapter four, Mildendo the Metropolis of Lilliput described,
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: together with the Emperor's palace, a conversation between the author
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: and a principal secretary concerning the affairs of that empire,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: the author's offers to serve the Emperor in his wars.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: The first request I made after I had obtained my
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: liberty was that I might have license to see Mildendo
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: the metropolis, which the Emperor easily granted me, but with
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: a special charge to do no hurt either to the
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: inhabitants or their houses. The people had notice by proclamation
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: of my design to visit the town. The wall which
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: encompassed it is two feet and a half high and
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: at least eleven inches broad, so that a coach and
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: horses may be driven very safely round it, and it
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: is flanked with strong towers at ten feet distance. I
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: stepped over the great western gate and passed very gently
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: and sidling through the two principal streets only in my
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: short waistcoat, for fear of damaging the roofs and ease
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: of the houses with the skirts of my coat. I
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: walked with the utmost circumspection to avoid treading on any
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: stragglers who might remain in the streets. Although the orders
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: were very strict that all people should keep in their
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: houses at their own peril, the garret windows and tops
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: of houses were so crowded with spectators that I thought,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: in all my travels, I had not seen a more
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: populous place. The city is an exact square, each side
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: of the wall being five hundred feet long. The two
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: great streets, which run across and divide it into four quarters,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: are five feet wide. The lanes and alleys, which I
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: could not enter, but only view them as I passed,
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: are from twelve to eighteen inches. The town is capable
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: of holding five hundred thousand souls. The houses are from
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: three to five stories. The shops and markets well provided.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: The Emperor's palace is in the center of the city,
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: where the two great streets meet. It is enclosed by
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: a wall of two feet high and twenty feet distance
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: from the buildings. I had His Majesty's permission to step
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  Speaker 1: over this wall, and the space being so wide between
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  Speaker 1: that and the palace, I could easily view it on
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  Speaker 1: every side. The outward court is a square of forty
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  Speaker 1: feet and includes two other courts. In the innermost are
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  Speaker 1: the royal apartments, which I was very desirous to see,
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  Speaker 1: but found it extremely difficult, for the great gates from
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  Speaker 1: one square into another were but eighteen inches high and
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  Speaker 1: seven inches wide. Now, the buildings of the outer court
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  Speaker 1: were at least five feet high, and it was impossible
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  Speaker 1: for me to stride over them without infinite damage to
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  Speaker 1: the pile, though the walls were strongly built of hewn
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  Speaker 1: stone and four inches thick. At the same time, the
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  Speaker 1: Emperor had a great desire that I should see the
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  Speaker 1: magnificence of his palace, but this I was not able
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  Speaker 1: to do till three days, after which I spent in
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  Speaker 1: cutting down with my knife some of the largest trees
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  Speaker 1: in the royal park, about one hundred yards distant from
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: the city. Of these trees, they made two stools, each
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  Speaker 1: about three feet high and strong enough to bear my weight.
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  Speaker 1: The people having received no tis. The second time, I
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  Speaker 1: went again through the city to the palace with my
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  Speaker 1: two stools in my hands. When I came to the
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  Speaker 1: side of the outer court, I stood upon one stool
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  Speaker 1: and took the other in my hand. This I lifted
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  Speaker 1: over the roof and gently set it down on the
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  Speaker 1: space between the first and second court, which was eight
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  Speaker 1: feet wide. I then stepped over the building very conveniently,
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  Speaker 1: from one stool to the other, and drew up the
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  Speaker 1: first after me with a hooked stick. By this contrivance
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: I got to the innermost court, and, lying down upon
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  Speaker 1: my side, I applied my face to the window of
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  Speaker 1: the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and
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  Speaker 1: discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There
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  Speaker 1: I saw the Empress and the young princes in their
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them. Her Imperial
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: Majesty was pleased to smile very graciously upon me, and
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: gave me, out of the window her hand to kiss.
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  Speaker 1: But I shall not anticipate the reader with further descriptions
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: of this kind, because I reserved them for a greater work,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: which is now almost ready for the press, containing a
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  Speaker 1: general description of this empire from its first erection through
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: a long series of princes, with a particular account of
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  Speaker 1: their wars and politics, laws, learning and religion, their plants
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: and animals, their peculiar manners and customs, with other matters
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  Speaker 1: very curious and useful, my chief design at present being
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: only to relate such events and transactions as happened to
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: the public or to myself. During a residence for about
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: nine months in that empire, one morning, about a fortnight
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: after I had obtained my liberty, held Wrestle Principal Secretary,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: as they style him for private affairs, came to my house,
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  Speaker 1: attended only by one servant. He ordered his coach to
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: wait at a distance, and desired I would give him
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  Speaker 1: an hour's audience, which I readily consented to, on account
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  Speaker 1: of his quality and personal merits, as well as of
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  Speaker 1: the many good offices he had done me during my
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: solicitations at court. I offered to lie down that he
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: might the more conveniently reach my ear, but he chose
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  Speaker 1: rather to let me hold him in my hand. During
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: our conversation, he began with compliments on my liberty, said
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  Speaker 1: he might pretend to some merit in it, but however,
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  Speaker 1: added that if it had not been for the present
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: situation of things at court, perhaps I might not have
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  Speaker 1: obtained it so soon for said he as flourishing a condition,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: as we may appear to be into foreigners, we labor
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: under two mighty evils, a violent faction at home and
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: the danger of an invasion by a most portent enemy
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  Speaker 1: from abroad. As to the first, you ought to understand that,
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: for about seventy minutes past, there have been two struggling
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: parties in this empire under the names of Tramackissen and Slamachisen.
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  Speaker 1: From the high high and low heels of their shoes
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  Speaker 1: by which they distinguish themselves, it is alleged, indeed, that
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  Speaker 1: the high Hills are most agreeable to our ancient constitution.
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  Speaker 1: But however this be, his Majesty has determined to make
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  Speaker 1: use of only low heels in the administration of the
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  Speaker 1: government and all offices in the gift of the Crown.
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  Speaker 1: As you cannot but observe, and particularly that his Majesty's
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  Speaker 1: imperial heels are lower, at least by a dreer than
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  Speaker 1: any of his court drew is a measure about the
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  Speaker 1: fourteenth part of an inch. The anmusities between these two
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: parties run so high that they will neither eat, nor drink,
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  Speaker 1: nor talk with each other. We compute the tremechism or
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: high heels, to exceed us in number, but the power
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  Speaker 1: is wholly on our side. We apprehend His Imperial Highness,
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  Speaker 1: the heir to the Crown, to have some tendency towards
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: the high heels. At least we can plainly discover that
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  Speaker 1: one of his heels is higher than the other, which
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  Speaker 1: gives him a hobble in his gait. Now, in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of these intense disquiets, we are threatened with an
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  Speaker 1: invasion from the island of Blefuskie, which is the other
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  Speaker 1: great empire of the universe, almost as large and powerful
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  Speaker 1: as that of His Majesty. For as to what we
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  Speaker 1: have heard, you affirm that there are other kingdoms and
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  Speaker 1: states in the world inhabited by human creatures as large
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  Speaker 1: as yourself. Our philosophers are in much doubt, and would
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  Speaker 1: rather conjecture that you dropped from the moon or one
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  Speaker 1: of the stars, because it is certain that a hundred
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  Speaker 1: mortals of your bulk would in a short time destroy
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  Speaker 1: all the fruits and cattles of His Majesty's dominions. Besides,
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: our histories of six thousand moons make no mention of
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  Speaker 1: any other regions than the two great empires of Lilliput
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  Speaker 1: and Blefuska, which two mighty powers have. As I was
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: war for six and thirty moons past, it began upon
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: the following occasion. It is allowed on all hands that
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  Speaker 1: the primitive way of breaking eggs before we eat them
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: was upon the larger end. But his present Majesty's grandfather,
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: while he was a boy, going to eat an egg
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  Speaker 1: and break it, according to the ancient practice, having to
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: cut one of his fingers. Whereupon the emperor his father
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: published an edict commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties,
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: to break the smaller end of their eggs. The people
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: so highly resented this law that our histories tell us
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  Speaker 1: there had been six rebellions raised on that account, wherein
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: one emperor lost his life and another his crown. These
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: civil commotions were constantly fermented by the monarchs of Blefuscue,
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  Speaker 1: and when they were quilled, the exiles always fled for
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: refuge to that empire. It is computed that eleven thousand
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: to break their eggs. At the smaller end. Many hundred
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: large volumes have been published upon this controversy, but the
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: books of the Big Indians have been long forbidden, and
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  Speaker 1: the whole party he rendered incapable by law of holding employments.
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  Speaker 1: During the course of these troubles, the emperors of Blefuscue
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: did frequently expostulate by their ambassadors accusing us of making
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: a schism in religion by offending against a fundamental doctrine
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  Speaker 1: of our great profit lustrog in the fifty fourth chapter
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: of the Blundercraal, which is there al Koran. This, however,
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  Speaker 1: is thought to be a mere strain upon the text,
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  Speaker 1: for the words are these that all true believers break
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  Speaker 1: their eggs as the convenient end. And which is the
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: convenient end seems, in my humble opinion, to be left
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  Speaker 1: to every man's conscience, or at least in the power
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: of the chief magistrate to determine. Now, the being Indian
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: exiles have found so much credit in the Emperor of
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: Blefuscue's court, and so much private assistance and encouragement from
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: their party here at home, that a bloody war has
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: been carried on between the two empires for six and
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: thirty moons with various success, during which time we have
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: I've lost forty capital ships and a much greater number
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: of smaller vessels, together with thirty thousand of our best
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: seamen and soldiers, and the damage received by the enemy
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: is reckoned to be somewhat greater than ours. However, they
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: have now equipped a numerous fleet and are just preparing
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: to make a descent upon us, and his Imperial Majesty,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: placing great confidence in your valor and strength, has commanded
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: me to lay this account of his affairs before you.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: I desired the Secretary to present my humble duty to
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: the Emperor and to let him know that I thought
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: it would not become me, who was a foreigner, to
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: interfere with parties. But I was ready, with the hazard
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: of my life, to defend his person and state against
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: all invaders. End of Chapter four, Part one, Chapter five,
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  Speaker 1: the Author, by an extraordinary stratagem, prevents an invade. Our
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: high title of honor is conferred upon him. Ambassadors arrived
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: from the Emperor of blefuscue and sued for peace. The
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: Empress's apartment on fire by an accident. The Author, instrumental
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  Speaker 1: and safe in the rest of the Palace. The Empire
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  Speaker 1: of Blefuscue is an island situated to the northeast of Lilliput,
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  Speaker 1: from which it is parted only by a channel of
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: eight hundred yards wide. I had not yet seen it,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: and upon this notice of an intended invasion, I avoided
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: appearing on that side of the coast, for fear of
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: being discovered by some of the enemy's ships, who had
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: received no intelligence of me. All intercourse between the two
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: empires having been strictly forbidden during the war, upon pain
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: of death, and an embargo laid by our Emperor upon
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: all vessels whatsoever, I communicated to his Majesty a project
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: I had formed of seizing the enemy's whole fleet, which,
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: as our scouts assured us, lay at anchor in the harbor,
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: ready to sail with the first wind. I consulted the
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: most experienced seamen upon the depth of the channel, which
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: they had often plumbed, who told me that in the middle,
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: at high water, it was seventy glumgluffs deep, which is
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: about six feet of European measure, and the rest of
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: it fifty glumgluffs at most. I walked towards the northeast
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: coast over against Blefuscue, where lying down behind a hillock,
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: I took out my small perspective glass and viewed the
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: enemy's fleet at anchor, consisting of about fifty men of
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: war and a great number of transports. I then came
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: back to my house and gave orders for which I
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: had a warrant, for a great quantity of the strongest
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: cable and bars of iron. The cable was about as
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: thick as pack thread, and the bars of the length
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: and size of a knitting needle. I trebled the cable
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: to make it stronger, and for the same reason I
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: toisted three of the iron bars together, bending the extremities
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: into a hook. Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: many caves, I went back to the northeast coast, and,
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: putting off my coat, shoes and stockings, walked into the
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: sea in my leather jerkin about half an hour before
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: high water. I waded with what haste I could, and
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: swam in the middle about thirty yards till I felt ground.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: I arrived at the fleet in less than half an hour.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: The enemy was so frightened when they saw me that
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: they leaped out of their ships and swam to shore,
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: where there could not be fewer than thirty thousand sols.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: I then took my tackling, and fastening a hook to
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: the hole at the prow of each I tied all
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: the cords together at the end. While I was thus employed,
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: the enemy discharged several thousand arrows, many of which stuck
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: in my hands and face, and beside the excessive smart
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: gave me much disturbance in my work. My greatest apprehension
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: was for mine eyes, which I should have infallibly lost
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: if I had not suddenly thought of an expedient. I kept,
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: among my other little necessities a pair of spectacles in
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: a private pocket, which, as I observed before, had escaped
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: the Emperor's searches. These I took out and fastened as
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: strongly as I could upon my nose, and thus armed
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: went on boldly with my work in spite of the
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: enemy's arrows, many of which struck against the glasses of
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: my spectacles, but without any other effect further than a
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: little to decompose them. I had now fastened all the
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: hooks and taken the knot in my hand, began to pull,
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: But not a ship would stir, for they were all
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: too fast held by their anchors, so that the boldest
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: part of my enterprise remained. I therefore let go of
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: the cord, and, leaving the hooks fixed to the ships,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: I resolutely cut with my knife the cables that fastened
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: the anchors, receiving about two hundred shots in my face
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: and hands. Then I took up the knotted end of
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: the cables to which my hooks were tied, and with
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: great ease drew fifty of the enemy's largest men of
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: war after me. The bluffy Scudians, who had not the
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: least imagination of what I intended, were at first confounded
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: with astonishment. They had seen me cut the cables and
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: thought my design was only to let the ships run
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: adrift or fall foul of each other. But when they
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: perceived the whole fleet moving in order and saw me
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: pulling out the end, they set up such a scream
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: of grief and despair as it is almost impossible to
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: describe or conceive. When I had got out of danger,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: I stopped awhile to pick out the arrows that had
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: stuck in my hands and face, and rubbed on some
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: of the same ointment that was given me at my
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: first arrival. As I have formerly mentioned. I then took
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: off my spectacles, and, waiting about an hour till the
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: tide was a little fallen, I waded through the middle
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: with my cargo and arrived safe at the royal port
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: of Lilliput. The Emperor and his whole court stood on
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: the shore, expecting the issue of this great adventure. They
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: saw the ships move forward in a large half moon,
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: but could not discern me, who was up to my
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: ba in water. When I advanced to the middle of
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: the channel, they were yet in more pain because I
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: was under water to my neck. The Emperor concluded me
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: to be drowned, and that the enemy's fleet was approaching
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: in a hostile manner. But he was soon eased of
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: his fears, for the channel growing shallow at every step
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: I made. I came in a short time within hearing
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: and holding up the end of the cable by which
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: the fleet was fastened. I cried out in a loud
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: voice long in the most poissant King of Lilliput. This
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: great Prince received me at my landing with all possible encomians,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: and created me a nardoc upon the spot, which is
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: the highest title of honor among them. His Majesty desired
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: I would take some other opportunity of bringing all the
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: rest of his enemy ships into his ports, and so
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: unmeasurable as the ambition of princes, that he seemed to
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: think of nothing less than reducing the whole empire of
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: Blefiscue into a province and governing it by a viceroy,
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: of destroying the big Indian exiles and compelling them to
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: people to break the smaller end of their eggs, by
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: which he would remain the sole monarch of the whole world.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: But I endeavored to divert him from the design by
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: many arguments drawn from the topics of policy as well
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: as justice, and I plainly protested that I would never
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: be an instrument of bringing a free and brave people
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: into slavery. And when the matter was debated in council,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: the wisest part of the ministry were of my opinion.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: This open, bold declaration of mine was so opposite to
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: the schemes and politics of his imperial majesty that he
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: could never forgive me. He mentioned it in a very
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: artful manner at council, where I was told that some
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: of the wisest appeared, at least by their silence to
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: be of my opinion, but others, who were my secret enemies,
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: could not forbear some expressions which by a side wind
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: reflected on me, and from this time began in an
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: intrigue between His Majesty and a juntau of ministers maliciously
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: bent against me, which broke out in less than too
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: many months, and had liked to have ended in my
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: utter destruction of so little way to the greatest services
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: to gratify their passions. About three weeks after this exploit,
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: there arrived a solemn embassy from Blefuscuie with humble offers
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: of peace, which was soon concluded upon conditions very advantageous
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: to our Emperor, wherewith I shall not trouble the reader.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: There were six ambassadors with a train of about five
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: hundred persons, and their entry was very magnificent, suitable to
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: the grandeur of their master and the importance of their business.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: When their treaty was finished, wherein I did them several
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: good offices. By the credit I now had, or at
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: least appeared to have, at court. Their excellencies, who were
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: privately told how much I had been their friend, made
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: me a visit in form. They began with many compliments
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: upon my valor and generosity, invited me to that kingdom
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: in the Emperor their Master's name, and desired me to
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: show them some proofs of my prodigious strength, of which
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: they had heard so many wonders, wherein I readily obliged them,
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: but shall not trouble the reader with the particulars. When
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: I had for some time entertained their excellencies to their
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: infinite satisfaction and surprise, I desired they would do me
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: the honor to present my most humble respects to the
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: Emperor their Master, the renown of whose virtues had so
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: justly filled the whole world with admiration, and whose royal
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  Speaker 1: person I resolved to attend before I returned to my
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: own country. Accordingly, the next time I had the honor
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: to see our Emperor, I desired his general license to
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: wait on the Bliffiscudian Monarch, which he was pleased to
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: grant me, as I could perceive in a very cold manner,
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: but could not guess the reason till I had a
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: whisper from a certain person that fil Napp and Bogoram
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: had represented my intercourse with those ambassadors as a mark
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: of disaffection, from which I am sure my heart was
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: wholly free. And this was the first time I began
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: to conceive some imperfect idea of courts and ministers. It
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: is to be observed that these ambassadors spoke to me
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: by an interpreter, the languages of both empires differing as
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: much from each other as any two in Europe, and
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: each nation priding itself upon the antiquity, beauty, and energy
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: of their own tongue, with an avowed contempt for that
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: of their neighbour. Yet our Emperor, standing upon the advantage
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: she had gotten by the seizure of their fleet, obliged
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: them to deliver their credentials and make their speech in
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: their Lilepusian tongue. And it must be confessed that from
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  Speaker 1: the great intercourse of trade and commerce between both realms,
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  Speaker 1: from the continual reception of exiles, which is mutual among them,
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  Speaker 1: and from the custom in each empire to send their
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: young nobility and richer gentry to the other in order
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: to polish themselves by seeing the world and understanding men
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: and manners. There are few persons of distinction, or merchants
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: or seamen who dwell in the maritime parts, But what
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: can hold conversation in both tongues, as I found some
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: weeks after when I went to pay my respects to
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: the Emperor of Blefuscuie, which, in the midst of great misfortunes,
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: through the malice of my enemies, proved a very happy
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: adventure to me. As I shall relate in its proper place,
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: the reader may remember that when I signed these articles
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: upon which I recovered my liberty, there was some which
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: I had disliked upon account of their being too servile.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: Neither could anything but an extreme necessity have forced me
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: to submit. But being now a nardock of the highest
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: rank in that empire, such offices were looked upon as
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: below my dignity, and the Emperor, to do him justice,
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: never once mentioned them to me. However, it was not
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: long before I had opportunity of doing his majesty, at least,
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: as I then thought a most signal service. I was
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: alarmed at midnight with the cries of many hundred people
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: at my door, by which, being suddenly awaked, I was
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: in some kind of terror. I heard the word burglm
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: repeated incessantly several of the Emperor's court, making their way
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: through the crowd, entreated me to come immediately to the palace,
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: where Her Imperial Majesty's apartment was on fire by the
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: carelessness of a maid of honor who fell asleep while
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: she was reading a romance. I got up in an instant,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: and orders being given to clear the way before me,
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: and it being likewise a moonshine night, I made a
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: shift to get to the palace without trampling on any
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: of the people I found. They had already applied ladders
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: to the walls of the apartment, and were well provided
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: with buckets, but the water was at some distance. These
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: buckets were about the size of large thimbols, and the
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: poor people supplied me with them as fast as they could,
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: But the flames was so violent that they did little good.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: I might easily have stifled it with my coat, which
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: I had unfortunately left behind me for haste, and came
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: away only in my leather jerkin. The case seemed wholly
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: desperate and deplorable, and this magnificent and palace would have
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: been infallibly burnt down to the ground, if, by a
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: presence of mind unusual to me, I had not suddenly
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: thought of an expedient. I had the evening before drunk
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: plentifully of a most delicious wine called glimigrim. The blessed
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: Fustians call it flunneck, but ours is esteemed the better sort,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: which is very diuretic. By the luckiest chance in the world,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: I had not discharged myself of any part of it,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: which I avoided in such a quantity, and applied so
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: well to the proper places, that in three minutes the
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: fire was wholly extinguished, and the rest of that noble pile,
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: which had cost so many ages in erecting, preserved from destruction.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: It was now daylight, and I returned to my house
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: without waiting to congratulate with the Emperor, because although I
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: had done a very eminent piece of service, yet I
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: could not tell how His Majesty might resent the manner
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: by which I had performed it, For by the fundamental
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: laws of the realm, in any person of what quality
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: soever to make water within the precincts of the palace.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: But I was a little comforted by a message from
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: his Majesty that he would give orders to the Grand
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: Justicary for passing my pardon in form which, however, I
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: could not obtain, and I was privately assured that the Empress,
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: conceiving the greatest abhorrence of what I had done, removed
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: to the most distant side of the court, firmly resolved
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: that those buildings should never be repaired for her use,
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: and in the presence of her chief confidence could not
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: forbear vowing revenge. End of Chapter five, Part one, Chapter
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: six of the Inhabitants of Lilliput, Their learning, Laws and Customs,
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: the manner of educating their children, the author's way of
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: living in that country, His vindiction of a great Lady.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: Although I intend to leave the description of this empire
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: to a particular treatise, yet in the meantime I am
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: content to gratify the curious reader with some general ideas.
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: As the common size of the natives is somewhat under
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: six inches high, so there is an exact proportion in
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: all other animals, as well as plants and trees. For instance,
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: the tallest horse and oxen are between four and five
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: inches in height, the sheep an inch and a half.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: More or less, they geeze about the bigness of a sparrow,
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: And so the several gradations downwards till you come to
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: the smallest, which to my sight were almost invisible. But
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: nature has adapted the eyes of the Dilliliputians to all
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: objects proper for their view. They see with great exactness,
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: but at no great distance, and to show the sharpness
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: of their sight towards objects that are near. I have
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: been much pleased with observing a cook pulling a lark
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: which was not so large as a common fly, and
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: a young girl threading an a visible needle with invisible silk.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: Their tallest trees are about seven feet high, I mean
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: some of those in the Great Royal Park, the tops
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: whereof I could but just reach with my fist clenched.
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: The other vegetables are in the same proportion, But this
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: I leave to the reader's imagination. I shall say but
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: little at present of their learning, which form many ages,
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: has flourished in all its branches among them. But their
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: left to the right like the Europeans, nor from the
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: right to the left like the Arabians, nor from up
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: to down like the Chinese, but a slant from one
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: corner of the paper to the other like ladies in England.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: they hold an opinion that in eleven thousand moons they
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: are all to rise again, in which period the earth,
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: which they conceived to be flat, will turn upside down,
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: and by this means they shall, at their resurrection be
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: found ready standing on their feet. The learned among them
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: confess the absurdity of this doctrine, but the practice still
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: can in compliance to the vulgar. There are some laws
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: and customs in this empire very peculiar, and if they
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: were not so directly contrary to those of my own
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: dear country, I should be tempted to say a little
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: in their justification. It is only to be wished they
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: were as well executed. The first I shall mention relates
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: to informers. All crimes against the state are punished here
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: with the utmost severity. But if the person accused makes
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: his innocent plainly to appear upon his trial, the accuser
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: is immediately put to an ignominious death, and out of
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: his goods or lands. The innocent person is quadruply recompensed
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: for the loss of his time, for the danger he underwent,
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: for the hardship of his imprisonment, and for all the
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: charges he had been at in making his defense, or
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: if that fund be deficient, it is largely supplied by
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: the crown. The Emperor also confers on him some public
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: mark of his favor, and proclamation is made of his
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: innocence through the whole city. They look upon fraud as
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: punish it with death. For they allege that care and
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: vigilance with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: goods from thieves, but honesty has no defense against superior cunning.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: And since it is necessary that there should be a
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: perpetual intercourse of buying and selling and dealing upon credit,
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone,
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: and the knave gets the advantage. I remember when I
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: was once interceding with the Emperor for a criminal who
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: had wronged as master of a great sum of money
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: which he had received by order and ran away with,
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: and happening to tell his majesty by way of extenuation,
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: that it was only a breach of trust. The Emperor
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: thought it monstrous in me to offer as a defense
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: the greatest aggravation of the crime. And truly I had
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: little to say in return, father, than the common answer
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: that different nations had different customs. For I confess I
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: was heartily ashamed. Although we usually call reward and punishment
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: the two hinges upon which all government turns, yet I
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: could never observe this maxim to be put in practice
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: by any nation except that of Lilliput. Whoever can there
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: bring sufficient proof that he has strictly observed the laws
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: of his country for seventy three moons, has a claim
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: to certain privileges according to his quality or condition of life,
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: with the proportional sum of money out of a fund
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: appropriated for that use. He likewise acquires the title of
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: snilpal or legal, which is added to his name, but
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: does not descend to his posterity. And these people thought
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: it a prodigious defect of policy among us when I
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: told him that our laws were enforced only by penalties,
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: without any mention of reward. It is upon this account
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: that the image of justice in their courts of judicature
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: is formed with six eyes, two before as many behind,
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: and on each side, one to signify circumspection. With a
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: bag of gold open in her right hand and a
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: sword sheathed in her left, to show she is more
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: disposed to reward them to punish. In choosing persons for
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: all employments, they have more regard to good morals and
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: to great abilities, for since government is necessary to mankind.
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: They believe that the common size of human understanding is
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: fitted to some station or other, and that Providence never
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: intended to make the management of public affairs and mystery
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius,
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: of which there are seldom a three born in an age.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: But they suppose truth, justice, temperance, and the like to
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: be in every man's power, the practice of which virtues,
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: assisted by experience in a good intention, would qualify any
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: man for the service of his country, except where a
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: cause of study is required. But they thought the want
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: of moral virtues was so far from being supplied by
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: superior endowments of the mind, that employments could never be
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: put into such dangerous hands as those of persons so qualified,
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: and at least that the mistakes committed by ignorance in
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: a virtuous disposition would never be of such fatal consequence
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: to the public weal as the practices of a man
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, and who had
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: great abilities to manage to multiply and defend his corruptions.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: In like manner, the disbelief of a divine providence renders
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: a man incapable of holding any public station. For since
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: kings avow themselves to be the deputies of providence, the
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: Liliputians that nothing can be more absurd than for a
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: prince to employ such men as disown their authority under
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: which he acts. In relating these in the following laws,
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: I would only be understood to mean the original institutions,
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: and not the most scandalous corruptions into which which these
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: people are fallen by the degenerate nature of man. For
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: as to that infamous practice of acquiring great employments by
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: dancing on the ropes or badges of favor and distinction,
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: by leaping over sticks and creeping under them, the reader
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: is to observe that they were first introduced by the
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: grandfather of the emperor now reigning, and grew to the
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: present height by the gradual increase of party and faction.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: Ingratitude is among them a capital crime. As we read
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: it to have been in some other countries. For they
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: reason thus that whoever makes ill returns to his benefactor
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: must needs be a common enemy to the rest of mankind,
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: from whom he has received no obligation, and therefore such
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: a man is not fit to live. Their notions relating
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: to the duties of parents and children differ extremely from ours,
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: For since the conjunction of male and female is founded
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: upon the great law of nature, in order to propagate
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: and continue the species, the Liliputians will needs have it
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: that men and women are joined together like other animals
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: by the motives of concupiscence, and that their tenderness towards
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: their young proceeds from the like nature principle, for which
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: reason they will never allow that a child is under
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: his mother for bringing him into the world, which, considering
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: that the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: in himself, nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: in their love encounters were otherwise employed. Upon these and
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: the like reasonings, their opinion is that parents are the
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: last of all others to be trusted with the education
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: of their own children, and therefore they have in every
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: town public nurseries, where all parents except cottagers and laborers,
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: are obliged to send their infants of both sexes, to
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: be reared and educated when they come to the age
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: of twenty moons, at which time they are supposed to
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: have some rudiments of docility. These schools are of several kinds,
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: suited to different qualities and both sexes. They have certain
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: professors well skilled in preparing children for such a condition
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: of life as befits the rank of their parents and
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: their own capacities, as well as inclinations. I shall first
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: say something of the male nurseries, and then of the female.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: The nurseries for males of noble or eminent birth are
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: provided with grave and learned professors and their several deputies.
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: The clothes and food of the children are plain and simple.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: They are bred up in the principles of honor, justice, courage, modesty, clemency, religion,
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: and love of their country. They are always employed in
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: some business, except in the times of eating and sleeping,
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: which are very short, and two hours for diversions consisting
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: of bodily exercises. They are dressed by men till four
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: years of age, and then are obliged to dress themselves,
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: although their quality be ever so great, and the woman attendant,
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: who are age proportionally to hours at fifty, perform only
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: the most menial offices. They They never suffer to converse
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: with servants, but go together in smaller or greater numbers
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: to take their diversions, and always in the presence of
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: a professor or one of his deputies, whereby they avoid
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: these early bad impressions of folly and vice to which
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: our children are subject. Their parents are suffered to see
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: them only twice a year. The visit is to last
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: but an hour. They are allowed to kiss the child
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: at meeting and parting, but a professor, who always stands
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: by on those occasions will not suffer them to whisper,
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: or use any fondling expressions, or bring any presence of toys,
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: sweetmeats and alike. The pension from each family for the
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: education and entertainment of a child, upon failure of due payment,
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: is levied by the Emperor's officers. The nurseries for children
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: of ordinary gentlemen, merchants, traders, and handicrafts are managed proportionally
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: after the same manner. Only those designed for trades are
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: put out apprentices at eleven years old, whereas those of
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: persons of quality continue in their exercises till fifteen, which
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: answers to twenty one with us, but the confinement is
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: gradually lessened for the last three years. In the female nurseries,
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: the young girls of quality are educated much like the males,
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: only they are dressed by orderly servants of their own sex,
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: but always in the presence of a professor or deputy,
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: till they come to dress themselves, which is at five
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: years old. And if it be found that the nurses
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: ever presume to entertain the girls with frightful or foolish stories,
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: or the common follies practiced by chambermaids among us, they
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: are publicly whipped thrice about the city, imprisoned for a year,
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: and banished for life to the most desolate part of
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: the country. Thus the young ladies are as much ashamed
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: of being cowards and fools as the men and aspires
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: all personal ornaments beyond decency and cleanliness. Neither did I
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: perceive any difference in their education made by their difference
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: of sex, only that the exercise of the females were
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: not altogether so robust, and that some rules were given
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: them relating to domestic life, and a smaller compass of
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: learning was enjoined them for their maximies that among peoples
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: of quality, a wife should always be a reasonable and
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  Speaker 1: agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young. When the
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  Speaker 1: girls are twelve years old, which among them is the
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: marriageable age, their parents or guardians take them home with
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: great expressions of gratitude to the professors, and seldom without
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: tears of the young lady and her companions. In the
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  Speaker 1: nurseries of females of the meaner sort, the children are
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  Speaker 1: instructed in all kinds of works proper for their sex
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: and their several degrees. Those intended for apprentices are dismissed
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  Speaker 1: at seven years old. The rest are kept till eleven.
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  Speaker 1: The meaner families who have children at these nurseries are obliged,
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  Speaker 1: besides their annual pension, which is as low as possible,
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  Speaker 1: to return to the steward of the nursery, a small
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: monthly share of their getting to be apportioned for the child.
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: And therefore all parents are limited in their expenses by
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: the law. For the Liliputians think nothing could be more
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: unjust than for people in subservance to their own appetites
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  Speaker 1: to bring children into the world and leave the burden
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: of supporting them on the public. As to persons of quality,
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: they give security to appropriate a certain sum for each child,
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: suitable to their condition, and these funds are always managed
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: with good husbandry and the most exact justice. The cottages
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: and laborers keep their children at home, their business being
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: only to till and cultivate the earth, and therefore their
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: education is of little consequence to the public. But the
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: old and diseased among them are supported by hospitals. For
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: begging is a trade unknown in this empire, and here
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: it may perhaps divert the curious reader to give some
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: account of my domestics and my manner of living in
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: this country. During a residence of nine months and thirteen days,
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: having a head mechanically turned, and being likewise forced by necessity,
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: I had made for myself a table and chair convenient
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: enough out of the largest trees in the royal park.
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: Two hundred seamstresses were employed to make me shirts and
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: linen for my bed and table, all of the strongest
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: and coarsest kind they could get, which, however, they were
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: forced to quilt together in several folds, for the thickest
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: was some degrees finer than lawn. Their linen is usually
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: three inches wide and three feet make apiece. The seamstresses
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: took my measure as I lay on the ground, one
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: standing at my neck and another at my mid leg,
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  Speaker 1: with a strong cord extended that each held by the end,
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: while a third measured the length of the cord with
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: a rule of an inch long. Then they measured my
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: right thumb, and desired no more, for by a mathematical
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: computation that twice round the thumb is once round the wrist,
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: and so on to the neck and the waist. And
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: by the help of my old shirt, which I displayed
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: on the ground before bore them for a pattern, they
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: fitted me exactly. Three hundred tailors were employed in the
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: same manner to make me clothes. But they had another
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: contrivance for taking my measure. I kneeled down, and they
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: raised a ladder from the ground to my neck. Upon
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: this ladder, one of them mounted and let fall a
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: plum line from my collar to the floor, which just
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: answered the length of my coat, but my waist and arms.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: I measured myself when my clothes were finished, which was
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: done in my house, for the largest of theirs would
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: not have been able to hold them. They looked like
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: the patchwork made by the ladies in England, only that
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: mine were all of a color. I had three hundred
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: cooks to dress my victuals in little convenient huts built
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: about my house, where they and their families lived, and
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: prepared me two dishes apiece. I took up twenty waiters
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: in my hand and placed them on the table, a
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: hundred more attendant below on the ground, some with dishes
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: of meat, and some with barrels of wine and other
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: liqueurs lung on their shoulders, all which the weights above
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: drew up as I wanted, in a very ingenious manner,
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: by certain cords, as we draw the bucket upper well.
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: In Europe, a dish of their meat was a good mouthful,
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: and a barrel of their liqueur a reasonable draft. Their
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: mutter yielded to ours, but their beef is excellent. I
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: have had a surloin so large that I have been
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: forced to make three bites of it, but this is rare.
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: My servants were astonished to see me eat it, bones
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: and all. As in our country, we do the leg
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: of a lark. Their geese and turkeys are usually ate
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: at a mouthful, and I confess they far exceeded hours
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: of their smaller fowl. I could take up twenty or
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: thirty at the end of my knife. One day, his
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: Imperial Majesty, being informed of my way of living, desired
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: that himself and his Royal Consort, with the young princes
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: of the blood of both sexes, might have the happiness,
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: as he was pleased to call it, of dining with me.
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: They came accordingly, and I placed them in chairs of
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: state upon my table just over against me, with their
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: guards about them. Film Nap, the Lord High Treasurer, attended
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: there likewise with his white staff, and I observed he
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: often looked on me with a sour countenance, which I
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: would not seem to regard, but ate more than usual
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: in honor to my dear country, as well as to
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: fill the court with admiration. I have some private reasons
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: to believe that this visit from His Majesty gave Filmnap
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: an opportunity of doing me ill offices to his master.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: That minister had always been my secret enemy, though he
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: outwardly caressed me more than was usual to the moroseness
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: of his nature. He represented to the Emperor the low
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: condition of his treasury, that he was forced to make
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: up money at a great discount, that exchequer bills would
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: not circulate under nine percent below par. That I had
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: cost his Majesty above a million and a half of
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: sprgues their grate is gold coin, about the bigness of
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: a spangle, and upon the whole that it would be
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: advisable and the Emperor to take the first fair occasion
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: of dismissing me. I am here obliged to vindicate the
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: reputation of an excellent lady who was an innocent sufferer.
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: Upon my account. The Treasurer took a fancy to be
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: jealous of his wife from the malice of some evil tongues,
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: who informed him that her Grace had taken a violent
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: affection for my person, and the court scandal ran for
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: some time that she was once come privately to my lodging.
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: This I solemnly declared to be a most infamous falsehood,
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: without any grounds. Further than that her Grace was pleased
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: to treat me with all innocent marks of freedom and
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: friendship I own. She came often to my house, but
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: always publicly, not ever without three more in the coach,
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: who were usually her sister and young daughter, and some
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: particular acquaintance. But this was common to many other ladies
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: of the court, and I still appealed to my servants
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: round whether they at any time saw a coach at
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: my door without knowing what persons were in it. On
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: those occasions when a servant had given me my notice,
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: my custom was to go immediately to the door, and,
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: after paying my respects, to take up the coach and
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 1: two horses very carefully in my hands. For if there
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 1: were six horses the postilion always unharnessed for and placed
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: them on a table where I had fixed a movable
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: rim quite round of five inches high to prevent accidents.
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: And I often have four coaches and horses at once
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: on my table, full of company, while I sat in
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: my chair, leaning my face towards them. When I was
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: engaged with one set, the coach will gently drive the
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: others round my table. I have passed many an afternoon
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: very agreeably in these conversations. But I to fire the
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: treasurer or his two informers, I will name them and
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: let them make the best of it, clusterrel and drunlow
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: to prove that any person ever came to me incognito
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: except the Secretary Valdressel, who was sent by express command
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 1: of his Majesty. As I had before related, I should
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: not have dwelt so long upon this particular if it
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: had not been a point wherein the reputation of a
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: great lady is so nearly concerned to say nothing of
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: my own, though I then had the honor to be
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: an ardec, which the Treasure himself is not. For all
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: the world knows that he is only a glum glum,
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: a title inferior by one degree, as that of a
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: marquis is to a duke in England. Yet I allow
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: he preceded me in right of his post. These false informations,
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: which I afterwards came to the knowledge of by an
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: accident not proper to mention, made the Treasure show his
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: lady for some time an ill countenance, and me are worse.
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: And although he was at last undeceived and reconciled to her,
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: yet I lost all credit with him, and found my
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: interest to clind very fast with the Emperor himself, who
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: was indeed too much governed by that favorite end of
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: Chapter six, Part one, Chapter seven, the author, being informed
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: of a design to accuse him of high treason, makes
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 1: us escape to Blefuscue his reception there. Before I proceed
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: to give an account of my leaving this kingdom, it
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: may be proper to inform the reader of a private
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: intrigue which had been for two months forming against me.
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: I had been hitherto all my life a stranger to
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: courts for which I was unqualified by the meanness of
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: my condition. I had indeed heard and read enough of
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: the dispositions of great princes and ministers, but never expected
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: to have found such terrible effects of them in seramoter country, governed,
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: as I thought, by very different maxims from those in Europe.
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: When I was just preparing to pay my attendance on
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: the Emperor of Blefuscue, a considerable person at court, to
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: whom I had been very serviceable at a time when
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: he lay under the highest displeasure of his Imperial majesty,
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: came to my house very privately at night, in a
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: close chair, and without sending his name desired admittance. The
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: chairman was dismissed. I put the chair with his lordship
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: in it, into my coat pocket, and giving orders to
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: a trusty servant to say I was indisposed and gone
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: to sleep. I fastened the door of my house, placed
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: the chair on the table according to my usual custom,
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: and sat down by it after the common salutations were over,
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: observing his Lordship's countenance full of concern, and inquiring into
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: the reason he desired, I would hear him with all patience,
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: in a manner that highly concerned my honor and my life.
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: His speech was to the following effect, for I took
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: notes of it as soon as he left me. You
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: ought to know, said he, that several committees of Council
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: had been lately called in the most private manner on
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: your account. And it is but two days since his
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: Majesty came to a full resolution. You are very sensible
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: that Skyrish Bogolon Galbert or High Admiral, has been your
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: mortal enemy almost ever since your arrival. His original reasons
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: I know not, but his hatred has increased since your
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: great success against Blefiscue, by which his glorious Admiral is
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: much obscured. This lord, in conjunction with filling up the
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: High Treasurer, whose enmity against you is notorious an account
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: of his Lady Limb took the General luck on the
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: Chamberlain and boum Off, the Grand Justicary, have prepared articles
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: of impeachment against you for treason and other capital crimes.
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: This preface made me so impatient, being conscious of my
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: own merits and innocent, that I was going to interrupt
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 1: him when he entreated me to be silent, and thus proceeded.
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 1: Out of the gratitude for the favors you have done me,
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: I procured information of the whole proceedings and a copy
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: of the articles, wherein I venture my head for your service.
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: Articles of impeachment against Quinnbilis flesterin the Man Mountain, Article one,
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: wherein as by a statute made in the reign of
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 1: His Imperial Majesty Calin de far Plun, it is enacted
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: that whoever shall make water within the precincts of the
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: Royal Palace shall be liable to the pains and penalties
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: of high treason, notwithstanding the said quinbus flesterin in open
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: breach of the said law, under color of extinguishing the
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: fire kindled in the apartment of His Majesty's most dear
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: Imperial Consort, did maliciously, treacherously and devilishly, by discharge of
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: his urine, put out the said fire kindled in the
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: said apartment, lying and being within the precincts of the
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: said Royal Palace, against the statute in that case provided,
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: et cetera, against the duty et cetera. Article two, that
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 1: the said Quinbus Flestrin, having brought the Imperial fleet of
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: Blefuscue into the Royal Port, and being afterwards commanded by
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: his Imperial Majesty, to seize all the other ships of
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: the said Empire of Blefuscue, and reduce that empire to
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 1: a province to be governed by a iceroy from hence,
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: and to destroy and put to death not only all
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: the big Indian exiles, but likewise all the people of
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: that Empire, who would not immediately forsake the big Endian heresy. He,
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: the said Flestrian, like a false traitor, against his most auspicious,
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: serene Imperial Majesty, did petition to be excused from the
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: said service, upon pretense of the unwillingness to force the
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: consciences or destroy the liberties and lives of an innocent people.
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: Article three, that whereas certain ambassadors arrived from the court
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: of Blefuscu to sue for peace in his Majesty's court, he,
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: the said flesterin, did, like a false traitor, aid abet
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: comfort and divert the said ambassadors, although he knew them
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: to be servants to a prince who was lately an
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: open enemy to his Imperial Majesty and in an open
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: war against his said Imperial Majesty. Article four, that the
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: said quinbus flesterin, contrary to the duty of faithful subject,
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: is now preparing to make a voyage to the court
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: and Empire of Blefuscue, for which he has received only
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: verbal license from his Imperial Majesty, and under color of
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: the said license, does falsely and treacherously intend to take
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: the said voyage, and thereby to aid comfort and abet
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: the Emperor of Blefuscue, so lately an enemy and an
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: open war with his Imperial Majesty. As foresaid, there are
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: some other articles, but these are the most important, of
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: which I have read you an abstract. In the several
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: debates upon this impeachment, it must be confessed that his
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 1: Majesty gave many marks of his great lenienty, often urge
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: in the services you had done him, and endeavoring to
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: extenuate your crimes, the Treasurer and Admiral insisted that you
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: should be put to the most painful and ignominious death
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: by setting fire to your house at night, and the
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: General was to attend with twenty thousand men armed with
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: poisoned arrows to shoot you on the face and hands.
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: Some of yourself were to have private orders to strew
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: a poisonous juice on your shirts and sheets, which would
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: soon make you tear your own flesh and die in
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: the utmost torture. The General came into the same opinion,
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: so that for a long time there was a majority
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: against you, But his Majesty, resolving if possible, to spare
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: your life, at last brought off the Chamberlain. Upon this incident, Reldressel,
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: Principal Secretary for Private Affairs, who always approved himself your
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: true friend, was commanded by the Emperor to deliver his opinion,
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: which he accordingly did, and therein justified the good thoughts
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: you have of him. He allowed your crimes to be great,
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: but that still there was room for mercy, the most
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: commendable virtue in a prince, and for which his Majesty
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: was so justly celebrated. He said, the friendship between you
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: and him was so well known to the world that
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 1: perhaps the most honorable board might think him partial. However,
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: in obedience to the command he would received, he would
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: freely offer his sentiments that if his Majesty, in consideration
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: of your services and pursuant to his own merciful disposition,
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 1: would please to spare your life and only give orders
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: to put out both your eyes, he humbly conceived that
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: this expedient, just as might in some measure, be satisfied,
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: and all the world would applaud the lenienty of the Emperor,
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: as well as the fair and generous proceedings of those
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: who have the honor to be his counselors. That the
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: loss of your eyes would be no impediment to your
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: bodily strength, by which you might still be useful to
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: his Majesty, that blindness, in addition to courage, by concealing
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 1: dangers from us, That the fear you had for your
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 1: eyes was the greatest difficulty in bringing over the enemy's fleet,
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: and it would be sufficient for you to see by
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: the eyes of the ministers. Since the great princes do
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: no more. This proposal was received with the utmost disprobation
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: by the whole board. Bogolon, the Admiral could not preserve
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: his temper, but, rising up in fury, said he wondered,
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: how the Secretary does presume to give his opinion for
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 1: preserving the life of a traitor. That the services you
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: had performed were by all true reasons of state the
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: great aggravation of your crimes, That you, who were able
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: to extinguish the fire by discharge of urine in Her
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: Majesty's department, which he mentioned with horror, might at another
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: time raisen anundation by the same means to drown the
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: whole palace. And the same strength which enabled you to
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: bring over the enemy's fleet might serve, upon the first discontent,
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: to carry it back. That he had good reasons to
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: think you were a big Indian in your heart, and
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: as treason begins in the heart before it appears an overt,
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: as so he accused you as a traitor on that account,
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: and therefore insisted you should be put to death. The
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 1: Treasurer was of the same opinion. He showed to what
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: straits his Majesty's revenue was reduced by the charge maintaining you,
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: which would soon grow insupportable. That the Secretary's expedient of
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: putting out your eyes was so far from being a
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 1: remedy against this evil that it would probably increase it,
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 1: as is manifest from the common practice of blinding some
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: kind of fowls, after which they feed the faster and
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: grow sooner fat That his Sacred Majesty and the Council,
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: who are your judges, were, in their own consciences fully
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: conceived of your guilt, which was a sufficient argument to
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: condemn you to death without the formal proofs required by
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: the strict letter of the law. But his Imperial Majesty,
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: fully determined against capital punishment, was greatestly pleased to say that,
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 1: since the Council thought the loss of your eyes too easy,
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: a censure some other way might be inflicted hereafter. And
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: your friend the Secretary, humbly, desiring to be heard again,
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 1: in answer to what the Treasurer had objected concerning the
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: great charge his Majesty was in maintaining you, said that
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: his Excellency, who had the sole disposal of the Emperor's revenue,
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: might easily provide against the evil by gradually lessening your establishment,
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 1: weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently decay
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: and consume in a few months. Neither would the stentery
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 1: carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: than half diminished, And immediately upon your death, five or
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: six thousand of His Majesty's subjects might in two or
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: three days cut your flesh from your bones, and take
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: it away by cart loads, and bury it in distant
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 1: parts to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: of admiration to prosperity. Thus, by the great friendship of
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: the Secretary, the whole affair was compromised. It was strictly
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: enjoyed that the project of starving you by degrees should
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 1: be kept a secret, but the sentence of putting out
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: your eyes was entered on the books. None dissenting except Bogolon,
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: the Admiral, who, being a creature of the Empress, was
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 1: perpetually instigated by Her Majesty to insist upon your death.
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  Speaker 1: She having borne perpetual malice against you. On account of
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 1: that infamous and a legal method, you took to extinguish
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 1: the fire in her apartment. In three days, your friend,
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: the Secretary will be directed to come to your house
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 1: and read before you the articles of impeachment, and then
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: to signify the great lenienty in favor of His Majesty
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: and council. Whereby you are only condemned to the loss
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 1: of your eyes, which his Majesty does not question, you
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: will gratefully and humbly submit to, And twenty of his
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 1: Majesty's surgeons will attend in order to see the operation
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 1: well performed. By discharging very sharp pointed arrows into the
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: balls of your eyes as you lie on the ground,
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 1: I leave you to your prudence what measures you would take,
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 1: and to avoid suspicion, I must immediately return in as
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: private a manner as I came. His lordship did so,
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 1: and I remained alone under many doubts and perplexities of mind.
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 1: It was a custom introduced by this Prince and its
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 1: ministry very different, as I have been assured from the
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 1: practice of former times, that after the court has decreed
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: any cruel execution, either to gratify the monarch's resentment or
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 1: the malice of a favorite, the emperor always makes a
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 1: speech to his whole council, express in his great lenienty
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 1: and tenderness as qualities known and confessed by all the world.
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: This speech was immediately published throughout the kingdom. Nor did
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: anything terrify the people so much as these encomiums on
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 1: His Majesty's mercy, because it was observed that the more
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 1: these praises were enlarged and insisted on, the more inhuman
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: was the punishment, and the sufferer more innocent. Yet as
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: to myself, I must confess, having never been designed for
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 1: a courtier, either by my birth or education, I was
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 1: so ill a judge of things that I could not
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 1: discover the lenientity and favor of this sentence, but conceived it,
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 1: perhaps erroneously, rather to be rigorous than gentle. I sometimes
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: thought of standing my trial, for although I could not
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: deny the facts alleged in several articles, yet I hoped
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: they would admit of some extenuation. But having in my
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 1: life pursued many state trials which I ever observed to
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 1: terminate as the judges thought fit to direct, I durst
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: not rely on so dangerous a decision, in so critical
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 1: a juncture, and against such powerful enemies. Once I was
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 1: strongly bent upon resistance, for while I had liberty, the
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: whole strength of that empire could hardly subdue me, and
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 1: might easily, with stones pelt the metropolis to pieces. But
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: I soon rejected that project with horror, by remembering the
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: oath I had made to the Emperor, the favors I
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 1: had received from him, and the high title of Nardac
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: he had conferred upon me. Neither had I so soon
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 1: learned the gratitude of courtiers to persuade myself that His
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 1: Majesty's present seventies acquitted me of all past obligations. At last,
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 1: I fixed upon a resolution for which it is probable
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 1: I may incur some censure, and not unjustly, for I
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 1: confess I owe the preserving of mine eyes, and consequently
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: my liberty, to my own great rashness and want of experience.
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: Because if I had then known the nature of princes
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 1: and ministers, which I have since observed in many other courts,
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 1: and their methods of treating criminals less obnoxious than myself,
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: I should, with great alacrity and readiness, have submitted to
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: so easy a punishment. But hurried on by the precipitancy
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: of youth and having his Imperial Majesty's license to pay
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: my attendance upon the Emperor of Blefuscue. I took this
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: opportunity before the three days were elapsed, to send a
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: letter to my friend the secretaryifying my resolution of setting
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 1: out that morning for Blefuscue, pursuant to the leave I
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 1: had got, and without waiting for an answer, I went
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 1: to that side of the island where our fleet lay.
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: I seized a large man of war, tied a cable
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: to the prow, and lifting up the anchors, I stripped myself,
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 1: put my clothes together with my coverlet, which I carried
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 1: under my arm into the vessel, and drawing it after me.
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: Between wading and swimming, arrived at the royal port of Lethuscue,
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 1: where the people had long expected me. They lent me
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: two guides to direct me to the capital city, which
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 1: is of the same name. I held them in my
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: hands till I came within two hundred yards of the gate,
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: and desired them to signify my arrival to one of
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: the secretaries and let him know. I there waited His
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: Majesty's command. I had an answer in about an hour
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 1: that His Majesty attended by the royal family and great
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: officers of the court was coming out to receive me.
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: I advanced a hundred yards. The Emperor and his train
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 1: alighted from their horses, the Empress and ladies from their coaches,
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 1: and I did not perceive there in any fright or concern.
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: I lay on the ground to kiss His Majesty's and
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 1: the Empress's hands. I told his Majesty that I was
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: come according to my promise and with the license of
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 1: the Emperor, my master, to have the honor of seeing
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 1: so mighty a monarch, and to offer him any service
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 1: in my power, consistent with my duty to my own prince,
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: not mentioning a word of my disgrace. Because I had
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 1: hithero no regular information about it, I might suppose myself
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: wholly ignorant of any such design. Neither could I reasonably
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: conceive that the Emperor would discover the secret while I
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: was out of his power, wherein, however, it soon appeared
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 1: I was deceived. I shall not trouble the reader with
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: the particular account of my reception at this court, which
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 1: was suitable to the generosity of so great a prince,
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 1: nor of the difficulties I was in. For one of
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: a house and bed, being forced to lie on the
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 1: ground wrapped in my coverlet end of Chapter seven, Part one,
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 1: Chapter eight, the author, by a lucky accident, finds means
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 1: to leave Lefiscue, and after some difficulties, returned safe to
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 1: his native country. Three days after my arrival, walking out
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 1: of curiosity to the northeast coast of the island, I
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: observed about half a league off in the sea, somewhat
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: that they looked like a boat overturned. I pulled off
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: my shoes and stockings, and wailing two or three hundred yards,
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 1: I found the object to approach nearer by force of
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 1: the tide, and then plainly saw it to be a
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 1: real boat, which I supposed might, by some tempest, have
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 1: been driven from a ship. Whereupon I returned immediately towards
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 1: the city, and desired his Imperial Majesty to lend me
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 1: twenty of his tallest vessels he had left after the
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 1: loss of his fleet and three thousand seamen. Under the
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: command of his Vice admiral. This fleet sailed round while
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 1: I went back the shortest way to the coast where
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 1: I first discovered the boat. I found the tide had
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: driven it still nearer. The seamen were all provided with cordage,
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 1: which I had beforehand twisted to a sufficient strength. When
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 1: the ships came up, I stripped myself and waited till
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 1: I came within a hundred yards off the boat, after
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: which I was forced to swim till I got up
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 1: to it. The seamen threw me the end of the cord,
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 1: which I fastened to a hole in the fore part
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 1: of the boat, and to the other end to a
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 1: man of war. But I found all my labor to
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: little purpose. For being out of my depth, I was
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: not able to work. In this necessity. I was forced
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: to swim behind and push the boat forward as often
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 1: as I could with one of my hands, and the
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: tide favoring me, I advanced so far that I could
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: just hold up my chin and feel the ground. Yested
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 1: two or three minutes, and then gave the boat another shove,
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: and so on till the sea was no higher than
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 1: my armpits. And now the most laborous part being over,
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: I took out my other cables, which were stowed in
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 1: one of the ships, and fastened them first to the
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 1: boat and then to the nine vessels which attended me.
• 2:22:19
  Speaker 1: The wind being favorable. The seaman towed and I shoved
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 1: until we arrived within forty yards of the shore, and
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 1: waiting till the tide was out, I got dry to
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 1: the boat, and by assistance of two thousand men with
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 1: ropes and engines, I made a shift to turn it
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 1: on its bottom, and found it was but little damaged.
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 1: I shall not trouble the reader with the difficulties I
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 1: was under, by the help of certain paddles, which cost
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: me ten days making to get my boat to the
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 1: royal port of Lefuscue, where a mighty concourse of people
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 1: appeared upon my arrival. Full of wonder at the sight
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 1: of so prodigious a vessel, I told the Emperor that
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 1: my good fortune had thrown this boat in my way
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: to carry me to some place whence I might return
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: into my native country, and begged his Majesty's orders forgetting
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 1: materials to fit it up, together with his license to depart, which,
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: after some kind expostulations, he was pleased to grant. I
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 1: did very much wonder in all this time not to
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 1: have heard of any express relating to me from our
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 1: Emperor to the court of Blefuscue, But I was afterward
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: given privately to understand that his Imperial Majesty, never imagining
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 1: I had the least notice of his designs, believed I
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: was only gone to Blefuscue in performance of my promise
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 1: according to the license he had given me, which was
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 1: well known at our court, and would return in a
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: few days when this ceremony was ended. But he was
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: at last in pain at my long absence, and after
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 1: consulting with the Treasurer and the rest of that cable,
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 1: a person of quality was dispatched with the copy of
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 1: the articles against me. This envoy had instructions to represent
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 1: to the Monarch of Blefuscue the great leniity of his master,
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 1: who was content to punish me no farther than with
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 1: the loss of mine eyes, that I had fled from justice,
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 1: and if I did not return when two hours, I
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 1: should be deprived of my title of Nardek and declared
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 1: a traitor. The envoy further added that, in order to
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 1: maintain the peace and amity between both empires, his master
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 1: expected that his brother of Bleffiskue would give orders to
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 1: have me sent back to Lilliput bound hand and foot,
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 1: to be punished as a traitor. The Emperor of Bleffiskue,
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: having taken three days to consult, returned an answer consisting
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 1: of many civilities and excuses. He said that as for
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 1: sending me bound, his brother knew it was impossible that
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 1: although I had deprived him of his fleet, yet he
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 1: owed great obligations to me for many good offices I
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: had done him in making the peace. That, however, both
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 1: their majesties would soon be made easy, for I had
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 1: found a bridige's vessel on the shore able to carry
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 1: me on the sea, which he had given orders to
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: fit up with my own assistance and direction. And he
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 1: hoped in a few weeks both empires would be freed
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 1: from so insupportable an encumbrance. With this answer, the envoy
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: returned to Lilliput, and the Monarch of Lefiskie related to
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 1: me all that had passed, offering me at the same time,
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 1: but under the strictest confidence his gracious protection, if I
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: would continue in his service, wherein, although I believed him sincere,
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 1: yet I resolved never more to put any confidence in
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 1: princes or ministers where I could possibly avoid it. And therefore,
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 1: with all due acknowledgments for his favorable inventions, I humbly
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 1: begged to be excused. I told him that since fortune,
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 1: whether good or evil, had thrown a vessel in my way,
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: I was resolved to venture myself on the ocean, rather
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 1: than be an occasion of difference between two such mighty monarchs.
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 1: Neither did I find the Emperor at all displeased, and
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 1: I discovered by a certain accident that you was very
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 1: glad of my resolution, and so were most of his ministers.
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: These considerations moved me to hasten my departure somewhat sooner
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 1: than I intended, to which the court, impatient to have
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 1: me gone, very readily contributed. Five hundred workmen were employed
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 1: to make two sails to my boat according to my directions,
• 2:26:21
  Speaker 1: by quilting thirteen folds of their strongest linen together. I
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 1: was at the panes of making ropes and cables by
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: twisting ten twenty or thirty of the thickest and strongest
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: of theirs. A great stone that I happened to find
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: after a long search by the sea shore, served me
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 1: for an anchor. I had the tallow of three hundred
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 1: cows for greasing my boat and other uses. I was
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 1: at incredible pains in cutting down some of the largest
• 2:26:48
  Speaker 1: timber trees for oars and masts wherein I was, however,
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 1: much assisted by His Majesty's ship carpenters, who helped me
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 1: in smoothing them. After I had done the rough work
• 2:26:59
  Speaker 1: in about a month, when all was prepared, I sent
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 1: to receive His Majesty's commands and to take my leave.
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 1: The Emperor and royal family came out of the palace.
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 1: I lay down on my face to kiss his hand,
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 1: which he very graciously gave me, so did the Empress
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 1: and young princes of the Blood. His Majesty presented me
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: with fifty purses of two hundred sprugs apiece, together with
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 1: his picture at full length, which I immediately put into
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: one of my gloves to keep it from being hurt.
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 1: The ceremonies at my departure were too many to trouble
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 1: the reader with. At this time I stored the boat
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: with the carcasses of a hundred oxen and three hundred sheep,
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: with bread and drink proportionable, and as much meat ready
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 1: dressed as four hundred cooks could provide. It took with
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 1: me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 1: country and propagate the breed, and to feed them on board.
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 1: I had a good bundle of hay and a bag
• 2:27:55
  Speaker 1: of corn. I would gladly have taken a dozen of
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: the natives, but this was the thing the Emperor would,
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 1: by no means permit, And besides a diligent search into
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: my pockets, his Majesty engaged my honor not to carry
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 1: away any of his subjects, although with their own consent
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 1: and desire. Having thus repaired all things, as well as
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 1: I was able, I set sail on the twenty fourth
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 1: day of September seventeen o one at six in the morning,
• 2:28:24
  Speaker 1: and when I had gone about four leagues to the northward,
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 1: the wind being at southeast, at six in the evening,
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 1: I descried a small island about half a league to
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 1: the northwest. I advanced forward and cast anchor on the
• 2:28:38
  Speaker 1: lee side of the island, which seemed to be uninhabited.
• 2:28:42
  Speaker 1: I then took some refreshment and went to my rest.
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 1: I slept well, and as I conjectured, at least six hours,
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 1: for I found the day broken two hours after I waked.
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 1: It was a clear night. I ate my breakfast before
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: the sun was up and heaving anchor. The wind being favorable,
• 2:29:01
  Speaker 1: I steered the same course that I had done the
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 1: day before, wherein I was directed by my pocket compass.
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 1: My intention was to reach, if possible, one of those
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 1: islands which I had reason to believe lay to the
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 1: northeast of and dey Amsland. I discovered nothing all that day,
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 1: but upon the next, about three in the afternoon, when
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 1: I had, by my computation, made twenty four leagues from Lefiscue,
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 1: I descried a sail steering to the southeast. My course
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 1: was due east. I hailed her, but could get no answer.
• 2:29:35
  Speaker 1: Yet I found I gained upon her, for the wind slackened.
• 2:29:38
  Speaker 1: I made all the sail I could, and in half
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  Speaker 1: an hour she spied me, then hung out her ancient
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 1: and discharged a gun. It is not easy to express
• 2:29:48
  Speaker 1: the joy I was in upon the unexpected hope of
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: once more seeing my beloved country and the dear pledges
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 1: I left in it. The ship slackened her sails, and
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 1: I came up with her between five and six in
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 1: the evening September twenty sixth, But my heart leaped within
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 1: me to see her English colors. I put my cows
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 1: and sheep into my coat pockets, and got on board
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  Speaker 1: with all my little cargo of provisions. The vessel was
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: an English merchantman returning from Japan by the North and
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 1: South seas. The captain mister John Biddle of Deptford, a
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 1: very civil man and an excellent sailor. We were now
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 1: in the latitude of thirty degrees south. There were about
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 1: fifty men in the ship, and here I met an
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: old comrade of mine, one Peter Williams, who gave me
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 1: a good character to the captain. This gentleman treated me
• 2:30:39
  Speaker 1: with kindness and desired I would let him know what
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 1: place I had come from last and whither I was bound,
• 2:30:46
  Speaker 1: which I did in a few words. But he thought
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 1: I was raving, and that the dangers I underwent had
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: disturbed my head. Whereupon I took my black Cathlen sheep
• 2:30:55
  Speaker 1: out of my pocket, which, after great astonishment, clearly convinced
• 2:30:59
  Speaker 1: him of my veracity. I then showed him the gold
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 1: given me by the Emperor of Blefiscue, together with his
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 1: Majesty's picture at full length, and some other rarities of
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 1: that country. I gave him two purses of two hundred
• 2:31:13
  Speaker 1: sprugs each, and promised when we arrived in England, to
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 1: make him a present of a cow and sheep big
• 2:31:19
  Speaker 1: with young. I shall not trouble the reader with a
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 1: particular account of this voyage, which was very prosperous for
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: the most part. We arrived in the Downs on the
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 1: thirteenth of April seventeen o two. I had only one
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 1: misfortune that the rats on board carried away one of
• 2:31:34
  Speaker 1: my sheep. I found her bones in a hole, picked
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 1: clean from the flesh. The rest of my cattle are
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 1: got safe ashore and set them a gazing in a
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 1: bowling green at Greenwich, where the fineness of the grass
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 1: made them feed very heartily. Though I had always feared
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 1: the contrary, neither could I possibly preserve them in so
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 1: long a voyage if the captain had not allowed me.
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: Some of his best biscuit, which rubbed a powder and
• 2:31:58
  Speaker 1: mingled with water, was their constant food. The short time
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: I continued in England, I made a considerable profit by
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 1: showing my cattle to many persons of quality and others,
• 2:32:10
  Speaker 1: and before I began my second voyage, I sold them
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 1: for six hundred pounds. Since my last return, I find
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 1: the breed is considerably increased, especially the sheep, which I
• 2:32:21
  Speaker 1: hope would prove much to the advantage of the woolen
• 2:32:23
  Speaker 1: manufacturer by the fineness of the fleeces. I stayed but
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 1: two months with my wife and family, for my insatiable
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 1: desire of seeing foreign countries would suffer me to continue
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 1: no longer. I left fifteen hundred pounds of my wife
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 1: and fixed her a good house in Redriff. My remaining
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: stock are carried with me, part in money and part
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 1: in goods, in hopes to improve my fortunes. My eldest
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 1: uncle John had left me in a state in land
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: near Epping of about thirty pounds a year, and I
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 1: had a long lease of the black Bull in Fetter Lane,
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 1: which yielded me as much more so that I was
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 1: not in any danger of leaving my family upon the parish.
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: My son, Johnny, named so after his uncle, was at
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: the grammar school and a towardly child. My daughter Betty,
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 1: who is now well married and has children, was then
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 1: at her needlework. I took leave of my wife and
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 1: boy and girl, with tears on both sides, and went
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 1: on board the Adventurer, a merchantship of three hundred tons
• 2:33:25
  Speaker 1: bound for Surrat, Captain John Nicholas of Liverpool, Commander. But
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 1: my account of this voyage must be referred to the
• 2:33:33
  Speaker 1: second part of my travels. End of Part one, Chapter eight,
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 1: Part two A voyage to brobed in Neck. Chapter one,
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 1: A great storm described. The longboat sent to fetch water.
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 1: The author goes with it to discover the country. He
• 2:33:56
  Speaker 1: is left on shore, is seized by one of the
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 1: natives and carried to a farmer. His reception with several
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 1: accidents that happened there a description of the inhabitants having
• 2:34:09
  Speaker 1: been condemned by nature and fortune to active and restless life.
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 1: In two months after my return, I again left my
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 1: native country and took shipping in the Downs. On the
• 2:34:19
  Speaker 1: twentieth day of June seventeen o two, in the adventure
• 2:34:24
  Speaker 1: Captain John Nicholas, a cornish Man commander bound for Surat,
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 1: we had a very prosperous gale till we arrived at
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 1: the Cape of Good Hope, where we landed for fresh water.
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 1: But discovering a leak, we unshipped our goods and wintered
• 2:34:39
  Speaker 1: there for the captain, falling sick of an agu we
• 2:34:43
  Speaker 1: could not leave the Cape till the end of March.
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 1: We then set sail and had a good voyage till
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 1: we passed the Straits to Madagascar, But having got northward
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 1: of that island and to about five degrees south latitude,
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 1: the winds which in those seas are observed to blow
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: a concer an equal gale between the north and west
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 1: from the beginning of December to the beginning of May.
• 2:35:05
  Speaker 1: On the nineteenth of April began to blow with much
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 1: greater islands and more westerly than usual, continuing so for
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: twenty days together, during which time we were driven a
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 1: little to the east of the Morocco Islands, and about
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: three degrees northwards of that line, as our captain found
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 1: by an observation. He took the second of May, at
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 1: which time the wind ceased, and it was a perfect
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 1: calm whereat I was not a little rejoiced, But he,
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 1: being a man well experienced in the navigation of those seas,
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 1: bid us all prepare against a storm, which accordingly happened
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 1: the day following, for the southern wind, called the Southern Monsoon,
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 1: began to set in. Finding it was likely to overblow,
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 1: we took in our sprit sail and stood by two
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 1: hands the foresail, but making foul weather. We looked the
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: guns were all fast and handed the Mizzen. The ship
• 2:35:59
  Speaker 1: lay very broad off, so we thought it better spooning
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 1: before the sea than trying or hulling. We reefed the
• 2:36:06
  Speaker 1: foresail and set him and hauled aft the foresheet. The
• 2:36:10
  Speaker 1: helm was harder weather. The ship wore bravely. We belayed
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 1: the fore down haul, but the sail was split, and
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 1: we hauled down the yard and got the sail into
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 1: the ship and unbound all the things clear of it.
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 1: It was a very fierce storm. The sea broke strange
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 1: and dangerous. We hauled off upon the lanyard of the
• 2:36:29
  Speaker 1: whipstaff and helped the man at the helm. We would
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 1: not get down our topmast, but let it stand, because
• 2:36:36
  Speaker 1: she sculled before the sea very well, and we knew
• 2:36:39
  Speaker 1: that the top mast being aloft the ship was the
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 1: wholesomer and made better way through the sea, seeing as
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 1: we had seerum. When the storm was over, we set
• 2:36:49
  Speaker 1: foresail and mainsail, and brought the ship too. Then we
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 1: set the mizzen main topsail and the foretopsail. Our course
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 1: was east northeast. The wind was at southwest. We got
• 2:37:03
  Speaker 1: to the starboard tax aboard, we cast off our weather
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 1: braces and lifts. We set in the lee braces and
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: hauled forward by the weather bowings and hauled them tight
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 1: and belaid them, and hauled over the mizzen track to windward,
• 2:37:17
  Speaker 1: and kept her full and by as near as she
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 1: would lie. During this storm, which was followed by a
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 1: strong wind west southwest, we were carried, by my computation,
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 1: about five hundred leagues to the east, so that the
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 1: oldest sailor on board could not tell him what part
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 1: of the world we were. Our provisions held out well,
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 1: our ship was staunch, and our crew all in good health.
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 1: But we lay in the utmost distress for water. We
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 1: thought it best to hold on the same course, rather
• 2:37:45
  Speaker 1: than turn more northerly, which might have brought us to
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 1: the northwest part of Great Tartary and into the frozen sea.
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 1: On the sixteenth day of June seventeen o three, a
• 2:37:58
  Speaker 1: boy in the top mast discovered life. And on the
• 2:38:01
  Speaker 1: seventeenth we came in full view of a great island
• 2:38:04
  Speaker 1: or continent, For we knew not whether on the south
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 1: side whereof was a small neck of land jutting out
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 1: into the sea, and a creek too shallow to hold
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 1: a ship of above one hundred tons. We cast anchor
• 2:38:19
  Speaker 1: within a league of this creek, and our captain sent
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 1: a dozen of his men, well armed in the long boat,
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 1: with vessels for water if any could be found. I
• 2:38:29
  Speaker 1: desired his leave to go with them, that I might
• 2:38:31
  Speaker 1: see the country and make what discoveries I could. When
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 1: we came to land, we saw no river or spring,
• 2:38:38
  Speaker 1: nor any sign of inhabitants. Our men thereof wandered on
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 1: the shore to find out some fresh water near the sea,
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 1: and I walked alone about a mile on the other side,
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: where I observed the country all barren and rocky. I
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 1: now began to be weary, and seeing nothing to entertain
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 1: my curiosity, I returned gently down towards the creek, and
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 1: the sea, being full in my view, I saw our
• 2:39:02
  Speaker 1: men already got out into the boat and rowing for
• 2:39:05
  Speaker 1: life to the ship. I was going to holler after them,
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 1: although it had been to little purpose when I observed
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: a huge creature walking after them in the sea as
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 1: fast as he could. He weighed not much deed within
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 1: his knees, and he took prodigious strides, but our men
• 2:39:22
  Speaker 1: had the start of him half a league, and the
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 1: sea thereabouts being full of sharp pointed rocks, the monster
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 1: was not able to overtake the boat. This, I was
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 1: afterwards told for I durst not stay to see the
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 1: issue of the adventure, but ran as fast as I
• 2:39:37
  Speaker 1: could the way I first went, and then climbed up
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 1: a steep hill, which gave me some prospect of the country.
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 1: I found it fully cultivated, But that which first surprised
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 1: me was the length of the grass, which, in those
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 1: grounds that seemed to be kept for hay, was about
• 2:39:54
  Speaker 1: twenty feet high. I fell into a high road, for
• 2:39:58
  Speaker 1: so I took it to be, though it served the
• 2:40:00
  Speaker 1: inhabitants only as a footpath through a field of barley.
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 1: Here I walked on for some time, but could see
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 1: little on either side, it now being near harvest and
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 1: the corn rising at least forty feet I was an
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 1: hour walking to the end of this field, which was
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 1: fenced in with a hedge of at least one hundred
• 2:40:18
  Speaker 1: twenty feet high, and the trees so lofty that I
• 2:40:21
  Speaker 1: could make no computation of their altitude. There was a
• 2:40:26
  Speaker 1: style to pass from this field into the next it
• 2:40:29
  Speaker 1: had four steps and a stone to cross over when
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 1: you came to the uppermost. It was impossible for me
• 2:40:34
  Speaker 1: to climb this style, because every step was six feet
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 1: high and the upper stone about twenty I was endeavoring
• 2:40:42
  Speaker 1: to find some gap in the hedge when I discovered
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 1: one of the inhabitants in the next field advancing towards
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 1: the stile of the same size with him whom I
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 1: saw in the sea pursuing our boat. He appeared as
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 1: tall as an ordinary spy deeeple, and took about ten
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 1: yards at every stride, as near as I could guess.
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 1: I was struck with the utmost fear and astonishment, and
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 1: ran to hide myself in the corn. Whence I saw
• 2:41:08
  Speaker 1: him at the top of the star, looking back into
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 1: the next field on the right hand, and heard him
• 2:41:13
  Speaker 1: call in a voice of many degrees louder than a
• 2:41:15
  Speaker 1: speaking trumpet. But the noise was so high in the
• 2:41:19
  Speaker 1: air that at first I certainly thought it was thunder,
• 2:41:23
  Speaker 1: whereupon several monsters like himself came towards him with reaping
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 1: hooks in their hands, each hook about the largeness of
• 2:41:31
  Speaker 1: six scythes. These people were not so well clad as
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 1: the first whose servants, or labor as they seemed to be,
• 2:41:39
  Speaker 1: For upon some words he spoke, they went to reap
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 1: the corner in the field where I lay. I kept
• 2:41:45
  Speaker 1: from them at a great distance as I could, but
• 2:41:48
  Speaker 1: was forced to move with extreme difficulty, for the stalks
• 2:41:51
  Speaker 1: of the corner were sometimes not above a foot distant,
• 2:41:54
  Speaker 1: so that I could hardly squeeze my body betwixt them. However,
• 2:41:58
  Speaker 1: I made a shift to go forward till I came
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 1: to a part of the field where the corn had
• 2:42:02
  Speaker 1: been laid by the rain and wind. Here it was
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 1: impossible for me to advance a step, for the stalks
• 2:42:08
  Speaker 1: were so interwoven that I could not creep through, and
• 2:42:12
  Speaker 1: the beards of the fallen ear so strong and pointed
• 2:42:15
  Speaker 1: that they pierced through my clothes into my flesh. At
• 2:42:19
  Speaker 1: the same time, I heard the reapers not a hundred
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 1: yards behind me. Being quite dispirited with toil and wholly
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 1: overcome by grief and despair, I lay down between two
• 2:42:29
  Speaker 1: ridges and heartily wished I might there end my days.
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 1: I bemnd my desolate widow and fatherless children. I lamented
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 1: my own folly and wilfulness in attempting a second voyage,
• 2:42:41
  Speaker 1: against the advice of all my friends and relations. In
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 1: this terrible agitation of mind, I could not forbear thinking
• 2:42:48
  Speaker 1: of Villiput, whose inhabitants looked upon me as the great
• 2:42:51
  Speaker 1: prodigy that ever appeared in the world, where I was
• 2:42:55
  Speaker 1: able to draw an imperial fleet in my hand and
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 1: perform these other actions, which will be recorded forever in
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 1: the chronicles of that empire, while posterity shall hardly believe them,
• 2:43:05
  Speaker 1: although attested by millions. I reflected, what a mortification it
• 2:43:10
  Speaker 1: must prove to me to appear as inconsiderable in this nation,
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 1: as one single the Lupusian would be among us. But this,
• 2:43:16
  Speaker 1: I conceived was to be the least of my misfortunes.
• 2:43:20
  Speaker 1: For as human creatures are observed to be more savage
• 2:43:23
  Speaker 1: and cruel in proportion to their bulk, what could I
• 2:43:26
  Speaker 1: expect but to be a morsel in the mouth of
• 2:43:28
  Speaker 1: the first among these enormous barbarians that should happen to
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: seize me. Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they
• 2:43:37
  Speaker 1: tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than
• 2:43:40
  Speaker 1: by comparison. It might have pleased fortune to have let
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 1: the Luputians find some nation where the people were as
• 2:43:48
  Speaker 1: diminutive with respect to them as they were to me.
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 1: And who knows but that even this britigious race of
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 1: mortals might be equally overmatched in some distant part of
• 2:43:58
  Speaker 1: the world where we have yet no discovery. Scared and
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 1: confounded as I was, I could not forbear going on
• 2:44:06
  Speaker 1: with these reflections. When one of the reapers, approaching within
• 2:44:09
  Speaker 1: ten yards of the ridge where I lay, made me
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 1: apprehend that with the next step I should be squashed
• 2:44:15
  Speaker 1: to death under his foot or cut in two with
• 2:44:17
  Speaker 1: his reaping hook. And therefore, when he was again about
• 2:44:21
  Speaker 1: to move, I screamed as loud as fear could make me,
• 2:44:25
  Speaker 1: whereupon the huge creature trod short, and looking round about
• 2:44:29
  Speaker 1: under him for some time, at last despied me. As
• 2:44:32
  Speaker 1: I lay on the ground, he considered a while with
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 1: the caution of one who endeavors to lay hold on
• 2:44:39
  Speaker 1: a small dangerous animal in such a manner that it
• 2:44:42
  Speaker 1: shall not be able either to scratch or bite him,
• 2:44:46
  Speaker 1: as I myself have sometimes done with the weasel in England.
• 2:44:50
  Speaker 1: At length he ventured to take me behind by the
• 2:44:53
  Speaker 1: middle between his forefinger and thumb, and brought me within
• 2:44:57
  Speaker 1: three yards of his eyes, that he might behold my
• 2:45:00
  Speaker 1: I shape more perfectly, I guessed his meaning, and my
• 2:45:04
  Speaker 1: good fortune gave me so much presence of mind that
• 2:45:07
  Speaker 1: I resolved not to struggle in the least as he
• 2:45:09
  Speaker 1: held me in the air above sixty feet from the ground.
• 2:45:13
  Speaker 1: Although he grievously pinched my sides for fear I should
• 2:45:16
  Speaker 1: slip through his fingers, all I ventured was to raise
• 2:45:20
  Speaker 1: mine eyes towards the sun and place my hands together
• 2:45:23
  Speaker 1: in a supplicating posture, and to speak some words in
• 2:45:26
  Speaker 1: a humble, melancholy tone suitable to the condition I was
• 2:45:30
  Speaker 1: then in. For I apprehended every moment that he would
• 2:45:34
  Speaker 1: dash me against the ground, as we usually do a
• 2:45:36
  Speaker 1: little hateful animal which we have a mind to destroy.
• 2:45:41
  Speaker 1: But my good star would have it that he appeared
• 2:45:43
  Speaker 1: pleased with my voice and gestures, and began to look
• 2:45:46
  Speaker 1: upon me as a curiosity much wandering to him. He
• 2:45:50
  Speaker 1: pronounced articulate words, although he could not understand them. In
• 2:45:54
  Speaker 1: the meantime, I was not able to forbear, groaning and
• 2:45:57
  Speaker 1: shedding tears, and turning my head towards me my sides,
• 2:46:01
  Speaker 1: letting him know as well as I could, how cruelly
• 2:46:03
  Speaker 1: I was hurt by the pressure of his thumb and finger.
• 2:46:07
  Speaker 1: He seemed to apprehend my meaning for lifting up the
• 2:46:10
  Speaker 1: lappet of his coat. He put me gently into it,
• 2:46:13
  Speaker 1: and immediately ran along with me to his master, who
• 2:46:16
  Speaker 1: was a substantial farmer, and the same person I had
• 2:46:19
  Speaker 1: first seen in the field. The farmer, having, as I
• 2:46:23
  Speaker 1: supposed by their talk, received such an account of me
• 2:46:26
  Speaker 1: as his servant could give him, took a piece of
• 2:46:29
  Speaker 1: small straw, about the size of a walking staff, and
• 2:46:33
  Speaker 1: therewith lifted up the lapets on my coat, which it
• 2:46:36
  Speaker 1: seems he thought to be some kind of covering that
• 2:46:38
  Speaker 1: nature had given me. He blew my hairs aside to
• 2:46:41
  Speaker 1: take a better view of my face. He called his
• 2:46:44
  Speaker 1: hands about him and asked them, as I afterwards learned,
• 2:46:48
  Speaker 1: whether they had ever seen in the fields any little
• 2:46:50
  Speaker 1: creature that resembled me. He then placed me softly on
• 2:46:54
  Speaker 1: the ground upon all fours. But I immediately got up and
• 2:46:57
  Speaker 1: walked slowly backwards and forward. Let the people see I
• 2:47:00
  Speaker 1: had no intent to run away. They all sat down
• 2:47:04
  Speaker 1: in a circle about me, the better to observe my motions.
• 2:47:09
  Speaker 1: I pulled off my hat and made a low bow
• 2:47:11
  Speaker 1: towards the farmer. I fell on my knees and lifted
• 2:47:14
  Speaker 1: up my hands and eyes, and spoke several words as
• 2:47:18
  Speaker 1: loud as I could. I took a purse of gold
• 2:47:20
  Speaker 1: out of my pocket and humbly presented it to him.
• 2:47:24
  Speaker 1: He receded on the palm of his hand, then applied
• 2:47:27
  Speaker 1: it close to his eyes to see what it was,
• 2:47:30
  Speaker 1: and afterwards turned it several times with the point of
• 2:47:33
  Speaker 1: a pin, which he took out of his sleeve, but
• 2:47:36
  Speaker 1: could make nothing of it. Whereupon I made a sign
• 2:47:40
  Speaker 1: that he should place his hand on the ground. I
• 2:47:43
  Speaker 1: then took the purse, and, opening it, poured all the
• 2:47:47
  Speaker 1: gold into his palm. There were six Spanish pieces of
• 2:47:52
  Speaker 1: four pistoles each, besides twenty or thirty smaller coins. I
• 2:47:57
  Speaker 1: saw him wet the tip of his little finger upon
• 2:48:00
  Speaker 1: his tongue and take up one of my largest pieces,
• 2:48:03
  Speaker 1: and then another, but he seemed to be wholly ignorant
• 2:48:06
  Speaker 1: of what they were. He made me a sign to
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 1: put them again into my purse, and the purse again
• 2:48:12
  Speaker 1: into my pocket, which, after offering it to him several times,
• 2:48:16
  Speaker 1: I thought it best to do. The farmer, by this
• 2:48:20
  Speaker 1: time was convinced I must be a rational creature. He
• 2:48:24
  Speaker 1: spoke often to me, but the sound of his voice
• 2:48:27
  Speaker 1: pierced my ears like that of a water mill. Yet
• 2:48:30
  Speaker 1: his words were articulate enough. I answered as loud as
• 2:48:35
  Speaker 1: I could, in several languages, and he often laid his
• 2:48:38
  Speaker 1: ear within two yards of me, but all in vain,
• 2:48:41
  Speaker 1: for you were wholly unintelligible to each other. He then
• 2:48:46
  Speaker 1: sent his servants to their work, and, taking his handkerchief
• 2:48:49
  Speaker 1: out of his pocket, he doubled and spread it on
• 2:48:52
  Speaker 1: his left hand, which he placed flat on the ground,
• 2:48:54
  Speaker 1: with the palm upwards, making me a sign to step
• 2:48:57
  Speaker 1: into it, as I could easily do, for it was
• 2:49:00
  Speaker 1: not above a foot in thickness. I thought it my
• 2:49:04
  Speaker 1: part to obey, and, for fear of falling, laid myself
• 2:49:09
  Speaker 1: at full length upon the handkerchief, with the remainder of
• 2:49:12
  Speaker 1: which he lapped me up to the head for further security,
• 2:49:15
  Speaker 1: and in this manner carried me home to his house.
• 2:49:19
  Speaker 1: There he called his wife and showed me to her,
• 2:49:22
  Speaker 1: but she screamed and ran back, as women in England
• 2:49:24
  Speaker 1: do at the sight of a toad or a spider. However,
• 2:49:28
  Speaker 1: when she had a while seen my behavior, and how
• 2:49:31
  Speaker 1: well I observed the signs a husband made. She was
• 2:49:34
  Speaker 1: soon reconciled, and by degrees grew extremely tender of me.
• 2:49:40
  Speaker 1: It was about twelve at noon, and a servant brought
• 2:49:43
  Speaker 1: in dinner. It was only one substantial dish of meat,
• 2:49:48
  Speaker 1: fit for the plain condition of a husbandman, in a
• 2:49:50
  Speaker 1: dish of about four and twenty feet diameter. The company
• 2:49:55
  Speaker 1: were the farmer and his wife, three children, and an
• 2:49:59
  Speaker 1: old grandmother. When they were sat down, the farmer placed
• 2:50:03
  Speaker 1: me at some distance from him on the table, which
• 2:50:05
  Speaker 1: was thirty feet high from the floor. I was in
• 2:50:09
  Speaker 1: a terrible fright and kept as far as I could
• 2:50:11
  Speaker 1: from the edge for fear of falling. The wife minced
• 2:50:15
  Speaker 1: a bit of meat, then crumbled some bread on a
• 2:50:17
  Speaker 1: trencher and placed it before me. I made her a
• 2:50:21
  Speaker 1: low bow, took out my knife and fork, and fell
• 2:50:24
  Speaker 1: to eat, which gave them exceeding delight. The mistress sent
• 2:50:28
  Speaker 1: her maid for a small dram cup, which held about
• 2:50:31
  Speaker 1: two gallons, and filled it with a drink. I took
• 2:50:35
  Speaker 1: up the vessel with much difficulty in both hands, and
• 2:50:38
  Speaker 1: in a most respectful manner, drank to her ladyship's health,
• 2:50:42
  Speaker 1: expressing the words as loud as I could in English,
• 2:50:45
  Speaker 1: which made the company laugh so heartily that I was
• 2:50:48
  Speaker 1: almost deafened with the noise. This liqueur tasted like a
• 2:50:52
  Speaker 1: small cider and was not unpleasant. Then the master made
• 2:50:56
  Speaker 1: me a sign to come to his trencher's side. But
• 2:51:00
  Speaker 1: as I walked on the table, being in great surprise
• 2:51:02
  Speaker 1: all the time, as the indulgent reader will easily conceive
• 2:51:06
  Speaker 1: an excuse, I happened to stumble against a crust and
• 2:51:09
  Speaker 1: fell flat on my face, but received no hurt. I
• 2:51:14
  Speaker 1: got up immediately, and, observing the good people to be
• 2:51:17
  Speaker 1: in much concern, I took my hat, which I held
• 2:51:20
  Speaker 1: under my arm out of good manners, and waving it
• 2:51:23
  Speaker 1: over my head, made through his ars to show I
• 2:51:26
  Speaker 1: had got no mischief by the fall. But advancing forwards
• 2:51:30
  Speaker 1: towards my master, as I shall henceforth call him, his
• 2:51:34
  Speaker 1: youngest son, who sat next to him, an arch boy
• 2:51:38
  Speaker 1: of about ten years old, took me up by the
• 2:51:40
  Speaker 1: legs and held me so high in the air that
• 2:51:43
  Speaker 1: I trembled every limb. But his father snatched me from him,
• 2:51:47
  Speaker 1: and at the same time gave him such a box
• 2:51:49
  Speaker 1: to the left ear as would have felt an European
• 2:51:52
  Speaker 1: troop of horse to the earth, ordering him to be
• 2:51:55
  Speaker 1: taken from the table, but being afraid the boy might
• 2:51:58
  Speaker 1: owe me a spite, and well, remembering how mischievous all
• 2:52:02
  Speaker 1: children among us naturally are to sparrows, rabbits, young kittens,
• 2:52:06
  Speaker 1: and puppy dogs, I fell on my knees, and, pointing
• 2:52:09
  Speaker 1: to the boy, made my master to understand as well
• 2:52:12
  Speaker 1: as I could, that I desired his son might be pardoned.
• 2:52:16
  Speaker 1: The father complied, and the lad took his seat again,
• 2:52:20
  Speaker 1: whereupon I went to him and kissed his hand, which
• 2:52:23
  Speaker 1: my master took and made him stroke me gently with it.
• 2:52:27
  Speaker 1: In the midst of dinner, my mistress's favorite cap leaped
• 2:52:30
  Speaker 1: into her lap. I heard a noise behind me, like
• 2:52:33
  Speaker 1: that of a dozen stocking weavers at work, and turning
• 2:52:36
  Speaker 1: my head, I found it proceeded from the pairing of
• 2:52:39
  Speaker 1: that animal, who seemed to me three times larger than
• 2:52:42
  Speaker 1: an ox as I computed by the view of her
• 2:52:44
  Speaker 1: head and one of her paws, while her mistress was
• 2:52:48
  Speaker 1: feeding and stroking her. The fierceness of this creature's countenance
• 2:52:53
  Speaker 1: altogether discomposed me. Though I stood at the farther end
• 2:52:57
  Speaker 1: of the table above fifty feet off, and although my
• 2:53:01
  Speaker 1: mistress held her fast for fear she might give a
• 2:53:03
  Speaker 1: spring and seize me in her talons. But it happened
• 2:53:07
  Speaker 1: there was no danger, for the cat took not the
• 2:53:10
  Speaker 1: least notice of me when my master placed me within
• 2:53:12
  Speaker 1: three yards of her. And as I have always been
• 2:53:16
  Speaker 1: told and found true by experience in my travels, that
• 2:53:20
  Speaker 1: flying or discovering fear before a fierce animal is a
• 2:53:24
  Speaker 1: certain way to make it pursue or attack you. So
• 2:53:27
  Speaker 1: I resolved, in this dangerous juncture to show no manner
• 2:53:31
  Speaker 1: of concern. I walked with intrepidy five or six times
• 2:53:35
  Speaker 1: before the very head of the cat, and came within
• 2:53:38
  Speaker 1: half a yard of her, whereupon she drew herself back,
• 2:53:42
  Speaker 1: as if she were more afraid of me. I had
• 2:53:45
  Speaker 1: less apprehension concerning the dogs, whereof three or four came
• 2:53:49
  Speaker 1: into the room, as it is usual in a farmer's house,
• 2:53:53
  Speaker 1: one of which was a mastiff equal in bulk to
• 2:53:56
  Speaker 1: four elephants, and another a greyhound somewhat taller than the mastiff,
• 2:54:01
  Speaker 1: but not so large. When dinner was almost done, the
• 2:54:06
  Speaker 1: nurse came in with a child of a year old
• 2:54:07
  Speaker 1: in her arms, who immediately spied me and began a
• 2:54:11
  Speaker 1: squall that you might have heard from London Bridge to Chelsea.
• 2:54:15
  Speaker 1: After the usual oratory of infants to get me for
• 2:54:17
  Speaker 1: a plaything, the mother, out of pure indulgence, took me
• 2:54:22
  Speaker 1: up and put me towards the child, who presently seized
• 2:54:26
  Speaker 1: me by the middle, and got my head into his mouth,
• 2:54:29
  Speaker 1: where I roared so loud that the urchin was frightened
• 2:54:32
  Speaker 1: and let me drop. And I should infallibly have broke
• 2:54:35
  Speaker 1: my neck if the mother had not held her apron
• 2:54:38
  Speaker 1: under me. The nurse to quiet her babe made use
• 2:54:43
  Speaker 1: of a rattle, which was a kind of hollow vessel,
• 2:54:46
  Speaker 1: filled with great stones, and fastened by a cable to
• 2:54:49
  Speaker 1: the child's waist, but all in vain, so that she
• 2:54:52
  Speaker 1: was forced to apply the last remedy by giving it suck.
• 2:54:57
  Speaker 1: I must confess no object ever disgusted me so much
• 2:55:00
  Speaker 1: the sight of her monstrous breast, which I cannot tell
• 2:55:03
  Speaker 1: what to compare with, so as to give the curious
• 2:55:05
  Speaker 1: reader an idea of its bulk, shape and color. It
• 2:55:09
  Speaker 1: stood prominent six feet and could not be less than
• 2:55:12
  Speaker 1: sixteen in circumference. The nipple was about half the bigness
• 2:55:16
  Speaker 1: of my head, and the hue both of that and
• 2:55:19
  Speaker 1: the dog so varied with spots, pimples, and freckles, that
• 2:55:23
  Speaker 1: nothing could appear more nauseous, For I had a near
• 2:55:27
  Speaker 1: sight of her, she sitting down, the more conveniently to
• 2:55:30
  Speaker 1: give suck, and eyes standing on the table. This made
• 2:55:35
  Speaker 1: me reflect upon the fair skins of our English ladies,
• 2:55:38
  Speaker 1: who appear so beautiful to us only because they are
• 2:55:41
  Speaker 1: of our own size, and their defects not to be
• 2:55:45
  Speaker 1: seen but through a magnifying glass, where we find by
• 2:55:48
  Speaker 1: experiment that the smoothest and whitest skins look rough and
• 2:55:52
  Speaker 1: coarse and ill colored. I remember, when I was at
• 2:55:56
  Speaker 1: a Liliput, the complexion of those diminutive people appeared to
• 2:56:00
  Speaker 1: me the fairest in the world. And talking upon this
• 2:56:05
  Speaker 1: subject with the person of learning there, who was an
• 2:56:07
  Speaker 1: intimate friend of mine, he said that my face appeared
• 2:56:11
  Speaker 1: much fairer and smoother when he looked on me from
• 2:56:14
  Speaker 1: the ground than it did upon a nearer view. When
• 2:56:16
  Speaker 1: I took him up in my hand and brought him close,
• 2:56:20
  Speaker 1: which he confessed was at first a very shocking sight.
• 2:56:25
  Speaker 1: He said he could discover great holes in my skin,
• 2:56:29
  Speaker 1: that the stumps of my beard were ten times stronger
• 2:56:31
  Speaker 1: than the bristles of a boar, and my complexion made
• 2:56:35
  Speaker 1: up several colors altogether disagreeable, although I must beg leave
• 2:56:39
  Speaker 1: to save for myself that I am as fair as
• 2:56:42
  Speaker 1: most of my sex and country, and very little sunburned
• 2:56:45
  Speaker 1: by all my travels. On the other side, discoursing of
• 2:56:49
  Speaker 1: the ladies of that emperor's court, he used to tell
• 2:56:52
  Speaker 1: me one had freckles, another too wide a mouth, a
• 2:56:56
  Speaker 1: third too large a nose, nothing of which I was
• 2:57:00
  Speaker 1: able to distinguish. I confess this reflection was obvious enough, which, however,
• 2:57:07
  Speaker 1: I could not forbear lest the reader might think those
• 2:57:10
  Speaker 1: vast creatures were actually deformed. For I must do them
• 2:57:14
  Speaker 1: the justice to say they are a comely race of people,
• 2:57:18
  Speaker 1: and particularly the features of my master's countenance, although he
• 2:57:21
  Speaker 1: was but a farmer when I beheld him from the
• 2:57:24
  Speaker 1: height of sixty feet, appeared very well proportioned. When dinner
• 2:57:29
  Speaker 1: was done, my master went out to his laborers, and,
• 2:57:33
  Speaker 1: as I could discover by his voice and gesture, gave
• 2:57:36
  Speaker 1: his wife strict charge to take care of me. I
• 2:57:40
  Speaker 1: was very much tired and disposed to sleep, which my mistress, perceiving,
• 2:57:44
  Speaker 1: she put me on her own bed and covered me
• 2:57:47
  Speaker 1: with a clean white handkerchief, but larger and coarser than
• 2:57:50
  Speaker 1: the mainsail of a man of war. I slept about
• 2:57:55
  Speaker 1: two hours and dreamt I was at home with my
• 2:57:57
  Speaker 1: wife and children, which aggravated my sorrow when I waked
• 2:58:00
  Speaker 1: and found myself alone in a vast room between two
• 2:58:03
  Speaker 1: and three hundred feet wide and above two hundred high,
• 2:58:08
  Speaker 1: lying in a bed twenty yards wide. My mistress was
• 2:58:11
  Speaker 1: gone about her household affairs and had locked me in.
• 2:58:14
  Speaker 1: The bed was eight yards from the floor. Some natural
• 2:58:18
  Speaker 1: necessities required me to get down. I durst not presume
• 2:58:22
  Speaker 1: to call, and if I had, it would have been
• 2:58:25
  Speaker 1: in vain with such a voice as mine, at so
• 2:58:28
  Speaker 1: great a distance from the room where I lay to
• 2:58:29
  Speaker 1: the kitchen where the family kept. While I was under
• 2:58:33
  Speaker 1: these circumstances, two rats crept up the curtain and ran,
• 2:58:38
  Speaker 1: smelling backwards and forwards on the bed. One of them
• 2:58:41
  Speaker 1: came up almost to my face, whereupon I rose in
• 2:58:44
  Speaker 1: affright and drew out my hanger to defend myself. These
• 2:58:48
  Speaker 1: horrible animals had the boldness to attack me on both sides,
• 2:58:52
  Speaker 1: and one of them held his four feet at my collar.
• 2:58:55
  Speaker 1: But I had the good fortune to rip up his belly.
• 2:58:57
  Speaker 1: Before he could do me any mischief. He fell down
• 2:59:00
  Speaker 1: at my feet, and the other, seeing the fate of
• 2:59:03
  Speaker 1: his comrade, made his escape, but not without one good
• 2:59:06
  Speaker 1: wound on the back, which I gave him as if
• 2:59:09
  Speaker 1: fled and made the blood run trickling from him. After
• 2:59:14
  Speaker 1: this exploit, I walked gently to and fro on the
• 2:59:17
  Speaker 1: bed to recover my breath and loss of spirits. These
• 2:59:21
  Speaker 1: creatures were the sides of a large mastiff, but infinitely
• 2:59:25
  Speaker 1: more nimble and fierce, so that if I had taken
• 2:59:28
  Speaker 1: off my belt before I went to sleep, I must
• 2:59:31
  Speaker 1: have infallibly been torn to pieces and devoured. I measured
• 2:59:35
  Speaker 1: the tail of the dead rat, and found it to
• 2:59:37
  Speaker 1: be two yards long, wanting an inch, but it went
• 2:59:41
  Speaker 1: against my stomach to drag the carcass of the bed,
• 2:59:44
  Speaker 1: where it lay still bleeding. I observed it yet had
• 2:59:47
  Speaker 1: some life, but with a strong slash across the neck,
• 2:59:49
  Speaker 1: I thoroughly dispatched it. Soon after, my mistress came into
• 2:59:54
  Speaker 1: the room, who, seeing me all bloody, ran and took
• 2:59:57
  Speaker 1: me up in her hand. I pointed to the dead rat,
• 3:00:01
  Speaker 1: smiling and making other signs to show I was not hurt. Whereat.
• 3:00:05
  Speaker 1: She was extremely rejoiced, calling to the maid to take
• 3:00:08
  Speaker 1: up the dead rat with a pair of tongs and
• 3:00:11
  Speaker 1: throw it out of the window. Then she set me
• 3:00:14
  Speaker 1: on a table, where I showed her my hanger, all bloody,
• 3:00:17
  Speaker 1: and wiping it on the lappet of my coat, returned
• 3:00:20
  Speaker 1: it to the scabbard. I was pressed to do more
• 3:00:23
  Speaker 1: than one thing which another could not do for me,
• 3:00:26
  Speaker 1: and therefore endeavored to make my mistress understand that I
• 3:00:29
  Speaker 1: desired to be set down on the floor, which, after
• 3:00:32
  Speaker 1: she had done my bashfulness, would not suffer me to
• 3:00:34
  Speaker 1: express myself farther. Then my pointing to the door and
• 3:00:38
  Speaker 1: bowing several times, the good woman, with much difficulty, at
• 3:00:42
  Speaker 1: last perceived what I would be at, and, taking me
• 3:00:45
  Speaker 1: up again in her hand, walked into the garden, where
• 3:00:48
  Speaker 1: she set me down. I went on one side about
• 3:00:51
  Speaker 1: two hundred yards, and, beckoning to her not to look
• 3:00:54
  Speaker 1: or to follow me, I hid myself between two leaves
• 3:00:57
  Speaker 1: of sorrel, and there discharged the necessities of nature. I
• 3:01:05
  Speaker 1: hope the gentle reader will excuse me for dwelling on
• 3:01:07
  Speaker 1: these and the like particulars, which, however insignificant, they may
• 3:01:11
  Speaker 1: appear to groveling vulgar minds, yet will certainly help a
• 3:01:15
  Speaker 1: philosopher to enlarge his thoughts and imagination and apply them
• 3:01:19
  Speaker 1: to the benefit of public as well as private life,
• 3:01:22
  Speaker 1: which was my sole design in presenting this and other
• 3:01:25
  Speaker 1: accounts of my travels to the world, wherein I have
• 3:01:29
  Speaker 1: been chiefly studious of truth, without affecting any ornaments of
• 3:01:32
  Speaker 1: learning or of style. But the whole scene of this
• 3:01:35
  Speaker 1: voyage made so strong an impression on my mind, and
• 3:01:38
  Speaker 1: is so deeply fixed in my memory, that in committing
• 3:01:42
  Speaker 1: it to paper, I did not omit one material circumstance. However,
• 3:01:47
  Speaker 1: upon a strict review, I blotted out several passages of
• 3:01:51
  Speaker 1: less moment which were in my first copy, for fear
• 3:01:54
  Speaker 1: of being censored as tedious and trifling, whereof travelers are often,
• 3:01:59
  Speaker 1: perhaps not without justice accused. End of Chapter one, Part two.
• 3:02:08
  Speaker 1: Chapter two a description of the farmer's daughter the author
• 3:02:13
  Speaker 1: carried to a market town and then to the metropolis.
• 3:02:17
  Speaker 1: The particulars of his journey. My mistress has a daughter
• 3:02:22
  Speaker 1: of nine years old, a child of towardly parts for
• 3:02:25
  Speaker 1: her age, very dexterous at her needle, and skillful addressing
• 3:02:29
  Speaker 1: her baby. Her mother and she contrived to fit up
• 3:02:33
  Speaker 1: the baby's cradle for me against night. The cradle was
• 3:02:37
  Speaker 1: put into a small drawer of a cabinet, and the
• 3:02:40
  Speaker 1: drawer placed upon a hanging shelf for fear of the rats.
• 3:02:45
  Speaker 1: This was my bed all the time I stayed with
• 3:02:46
  Speaker 1: those people, though made more convenient by degrees as I
• 3:02:50
  Speaker 1: began to learn their language and make my wants known.
• 3:02:55
  Speaker 1: This young girl was so handy that after I had
• 3:02:58
  Speaker 1: once or twice pulled off my clothes before her, she
• 3:03:01
  Speaker 1: was able to dress and undress me, though I never
• 3:03:03
  Speaker 1: gave her that trouble when she would let me do
• 3:03:05
  Speaker 1: either myself. She made me seven shirts and some other
• 3:03:10
  Speaker 1: linen of as fine cloth as could be got, which
• 3:03:13
  Speaker 1: indeed was coarser than sackcloth, and these she constantly washed
• 3:03:17
  Speaker 1: for me with her own hands. She was likewise my
• 3:03:20
  Speaker 1: schoolmistress to teach me the language. When I pointed to anything,
• 3:03:25
  Speaker 1: she told me the name of it in her own tongue,
• 3:03:28
  Speaker 1: so that in a few days I was able to
• 3:03:30
  Speaker 1: call for whatever I had a mind to. She was
• 3:03:33
  Speaker 1: very good natured, and not above forty feet high. Being
• 3:03:37
  Speaker 1: little for her age, She gave me the name of
• 3:03:40
  Speaker 1: Grildrigg which the family took up and afterwards the whole kingdom.
• 3:03:45
  Speaker 1: The word imports what the Latins call nanunculus, the Italians
• 3:03:49
  Speaker 1: homokel tino, and the English mannikin to her. I chiefly
• 3:03:54
  Speaker 1: owe my preservation in that country. We never parted. While
• 3:03:58
  Speaker 1: I was there. I called her my glumdale glitch or
• 3:04:02
  Speaker 1: little nurse, and should be guilty of great ingratitude if
• 3:04:06
  Speaker 1: I admitted this honorable mention of her care and affection
• 3:04:09
  Speaker 1: towards me, which I heartily wish it lay in my
• 3:04:12
  Speaker 1: power to requite as she deserves, instead of being the
• 3:04:15
  Speaker 1: innocent but an happy instrument of a disgrace, as I
• 3:04:18
  Speaker 1: have too much reason to fear. It now began to
• 3:04:22
  Speaker 1: be known and talked of in the neighborhood that my
• 3:04:25
  Speaker 1: master had found a strange animal in the field, about
• 3:04:28
  Speaker 1: the bigness of a splack nook, but exactly shaped in
• 3:04:31
  Speaker 1: every part like a human creature, which it likewise imitated
• 3:04:35
  Speaker 1: in all its actions, seemed to speak in a little
• 3:04:38
  Speaker 1: language of its own, had already learned several words of theirs,
• 3:04:42
  Speaker 1: when erect upon two legs, was tame and gentle, would
• 3:04:46
  Speaker 1: come when it was called do whatever it was bid,
• 3:04:49
  Speaker 1: had the finest limbs in the world, and a complexion
• 3:04:52
  Speaker 1: fairer than a nobleman's daughter of three years old. Another farmer,
• 3:04:57
  Speaker 1: who lived hard by and was a particular friend of
• 3:05:00
  Speaker 1: my master, came on a visit on purpose to inquire
• 3:05:03
  Speaker 1: into the truth of this story. I was immediately produced
• 3:05:08
  Speaker 1: and placed upon a table, where I walked as I
• 3:05:11
  Speaker 1: was commanded, drew my hanger, put it up again, made
• 3:05:15
  Speaker 1: my reverence to my master's guest, asked him in his
• 3:05:18
  Speaker 1: own language how he did, and told him he was welcome,
• 3:05:21
  Speaker 1: Just as my little nurse had instructed me. This man,
• 3:05:26
  Speaker 1: who was old and incited, put on his spectacles to
• 3:05:29
  Speaker 1: behold me better, at which I could not forbear laughing
• 3:05:32
  Speaker 1: very heartily, for his eyes appeared like the full moon
• 3:05:35
  Speaker 1: shining into a chamber at two windows. Our people, who
• 3:05:39
  Speaker 1: discovered the cause of my mirth, bore my company in laughing,
• 3:05:43
  Speaker 1: at which the old fellow was full enough to be
• 3:05:45
  Speaker 1: angry and out of countenance. He had the character of
• 3:05:49
  Speaker 1: a great miser, and to my misfortune, he well deserved
• 3:05:53
  Speaker 1: it by the cursed advice he gave my master to
• 3:05:56
  Speaker 1: show me as a sight upon a market day in
• 3:05:58
  Speaker 1: the next town, which was half an hour's riding and
• 3:06:01
  Speaker 1: two and twenty miles from our house. I guessed there
• 3:06:06
  Speaker 1: was some mischief when I observed my master and his
• 3:06:08
  Speaker 1: friend whispering together, sometimes pointing at me, and my fears
• 3:06:14
  Speaker 1: made me fancy that I overheard and understood some of
• 3:06:17
  Speaker 1: their words. But the next morning, Glumdalklitch, my little nurse,
• 3:06:22
  Speaker 1: told me the whole matter, which she had cunningly picked
• 3:06:25
  Speaker 1: out from her mother. The poor girl laid me on
• 3:06:28
  Speaker 1: her bosom and fell a weeping with shame and grief.
• 3:06:31
  Speaker 1: She apprehended some mischief would happen to me from rude,
• 3:06:35
  Speaker 1: vulgar folks, who might squeeze me to death or break
• 3:06:38
  Speaker 1: one of my limbs by taking me in their hands.
• 3:06:42
  Speaker 1: She had also observed how modest I was in my nature,
• 3:06:46
  Speaker 1: how nicely I regarded my honor, and what an indignity
• 3:06:49
  Speaker 1: I should conceive it to be exposed for money, as
• 3:06:52
  Speaker 1: a public spectacle to the meanest of the people. She
• 3:06:56
  Speaker 1: said to her, Papa and Mamma had promised that Grildrig
• 3:06:59
  Speaker 1: should be heard, but now she found they meant to
• 3:07:03
  Speaker 1: serve her as they did last year when they pretended
• 3:07:05
  Speaker 1: to give her a lamb and yet as soon as
• 3:07:08
  Speaker 1: it was fact sold it to a butcher. For my
• 3:07:11
  Speaker 1: own part, I may truly affirm that I was less
• 3:07:14
  Speaker 1: concerned than my nurse. I had a strong hope which
• 3:07:18
  Speaker 1: never left me, that I should one day recover my liberty,
• 3:07:23
  Speaker 1: And as to the ignominy of being carried about for
• 3:07:25
  Speaker 1: a monster, I considered myself to be a perfect stranger
• 3:07:28
  Speaker 1: in the country, and that such a misfortune could never
• 3:07:32
  Speaker 1: be charged upon me as a reproach if ever I
• 3:07:35
  Speaker 1: should return to England, since the King of Great Britain himself,
• 3:07:39
  Speaker 1: in my condition, must have undergone the same distress. My master,
• 3:07:44
  Speaker 1: pursuant to the advice of his friend, carried me in
• 3:07:47
  Speaker 1: a box the next market day to the neighboring town,
• 3:07:50
  Speaker 1: and took along with him his little daughter, my nurse,
• 3:07:53
  Speaker 1: upon a pillion behind him. The box was close on
• 3:07:57
  Speaker 1: every side, with a little door for me to go
• 3:07:59
  Speaker 1: in and out, and a few gimnet holes to let
• 3:08:02
  Speaker 1: in air. The girl had been so careful as to
• 3:08:06
  Speaker 1: put the quilt of her baby's bed into it for
• 3:08:08
  Speaker 1: me to lie down on it. However, I was terribly
• 3:08:11
  Speaker 1: shaken and discomposed in this journey, though it was but
• 3:08:15
  Speaker 1: of half an hour, for the horse went about forty
• 3:08:17
  Speaker 1: feet at every step, and trotted so high that the
• 3:08:20
  Speaker 1: agitation was equal to the rising and falling of a
• 3:08:23
  Speaker 1: ship in a great storm, but much more frequent. Our
• 3:08:28
  Speaker 1: journey was somewhat farther than from London to Saint Alban's.
• 3:08:31
  Speaker 1: My master alighted at an inn which he used to frequent,
• 3:08:35
  Speaker 1: and after consulting a while with the innkeeper and making
• 3:08:39
  Speaker 1: some necessary preparations, he hired the goltrud or crier to
• 3:08:44
  Speaker 1: give notice through the town of a strange creature to
• 3:08:46
  Speaker 1: be seen at the sign of the Green Eagle, not
• 3:08:50
  Speaker 1: so big as a spluck neck, an annual in that country,
• 3:08:53
  Speaker 1: very finely shaped, about six feet long, and in every
• 3:08:56
  Speaker 1: part of the body resembling a human creature. I could
• 3:09:00
  Speaker 1: speak several words, and before a hundred diverting tricks. I
• 3:09:05
  Speaker 1: was placed upon a table in the largest room of
• 3:09:07
  Speaker 1: the inn, which might be near three hundred feet square.
• 3:09:12
  Speaker 1: My little nurse stood on a low stool close to
• 3:09:14
  Speaker 1: the table to take care of me and direct what
• 3:09:16
  Speaker 1: I should do. My master, to avoid a crowd, would
• 3:09:21
  Speaker 1: suffer only thirty people at a time to see me.
• 3:09:24
  Speaker 1: I walked about on the table as the girl commanded.
• 3:09:27
  Speaker 1: She asked me questions as far as she knew. My
• 3:09:29
  Speaker 1: understanding of the language reached, and I answered them as
• 3:09:32
  Speaker 1: loud as I could. I turned about several times to
• 3:09:36
  Speaker 1: the company, paid my humble respects, said they were welcome,
• 3:09:41
  Speaker 1: and used some other speeches I had been taught. I
• 3:09:44
  Speaker 1: took up a thimble filled with liqueur which Glumdalklitch had
• 3:09:48
  Speaker 1: given me for a cup, and drank their health. I
• 3:09:51
  Speaker 1: dropped my hanger and flourished with it after the manner
• 3:09:54
  Speaker 1: of fences in England. My nurse gave me a part
• 3:09:57
  Speaker 1: of a straw, which I exercised as a pike, having
• 3:10:00
  Speaker 1: learnt the art in my youth. I was that day
• 3:10:03
  Speaker 1: shown to twelve sets of company, and as often forced
• 3:10:06
  Speaker 1: to act over again the same fopperies till I was
• 3:10:09
  Speaker 1: half dead with weariness and vexation. For those who had
• 3:10:13
  Speaker 1: seen me made such wonderful reports that the people were
• 3:10:16
  Speaker 1: ready to break down the doors to come in. My master,
• 3:10:20
  Speaker 1: for his own interest, would not suffer any one to
• 3:10:23
  Speaker 1: touch me except my nurse, and to prevent danger, bengeres
• 3:10:27
  Speaker 1: were set round the table at a distance as to
• 3:10:29
  Speaker 1: put me out of everybody's reach. However, an unlucky schoolboy
• 3:10:35
  Speaker 1: aimed a hazel nut directly at my head, which very
• 3:10:38
  Speaker 1: narrowly missed me otherwise it came with so much violence
• 3:10:42
  Speaker 1: that it would have infallibly knocked out my brains, for
• 3:10:45
  Speaker 1: it was almost as large as the small pumpkin. But
• 3:10:49
  Speaker 1: I had the satisfaction to see the young rogue well
• 3:10:51
  Speaker 1: beaten and turned out of the room. My master gave
• 3:10:55
  Speaker 1: public notice that he would show me again the next
• 3:10:57
  Speaker 1: market day, and in the meantime he prepared had a
• 3:11:00
  Speaker 1: covenant vehicle for me, which he had reason enough to do,
• 3:11:04
  Speaker 1: for I was so tired with my first journey, and
• 3:11:07
  Speaker 1: with entertaining company for eight hours together, that I could
• 3:11:10
  Speaker 1: hardly stand upon my legs or speak a word. It
• 3:11:13
  Speaker 1: was at least three days before I recovered my strength,
• 3:11:16
  Speaker 1: and that I might have no rest at home. All
• 3:11:19
  Speaker 1: the neighboring gentlemen from one hundred miles round, hearing of
• 3:11:22
  Speaker 1: my fame, came to see me. At my master's own house.
• 3:11:26
  Speaker 1: There could not be fewer than thirty persons with their
• 3:11:29
  Speaker 1: wives and children, for the country is very populous, and
• 3:11:33
  Speaker 1: my master demanded the rate of a full room whenever
• 3:11:36
  Speaker 1: he showed me At home, although it were only to
• 3:11:38
  Speaker 1: a single family, so that for some time I had
• 3:11:41
  Speaker 1: but little ease every day of the week except Wednesday,
• 3:11:45
  Speaker 1: which is there sabbath. Although I were not carried to
• 3:11:47
  Speaker 1: the town, my master, finding how profitable I was likely
• 3:11:52
  Speaker 1: to be, resolved to carry me to the most considerable
• 3:11:55
  Speaker 1: cities of the kingdom. Having therefore provided himself with all
• 3:12:00
  Speaker 1: the things necessary for a long journey, and settled his
• 3:12:03
  Speaker 1: affairs at home, he took leave of his wife, and
• 3:12:06
  Speaker 1: upon the seventeenth of August seventeen o three, about two
• 3:12:10
  Speaker 1: months after my arrival, we set out for the Metropolis,
• 3:12:15
  Speaker 1: situated near the middle of that empire, and about three
• 3:12:18
  Speaker 1: thousand miles distance from our house. My master made his daughter, Glumdalklitch,
• 3:12:23
  Speaker 1: ride behind him. She carried me on her lap in
• 3:12:26
  Speaker 1: a box tied about her waist. The girl had lined
• 3:12:30
  Speaker 1: it on all sides with the softest cloth she could get,
• 3:12:33
  Speaker 1: well quilted underneath, furnished it with her baby's bed, provided
• 3:12:38
  Speaker 1: me with linen and other necessaries, and made everything as
• 3:12:41
  Speaker 1: convenient as she could. We had no other company but
• 3:12:44
  Speaker 1: a boy of the house, who rode after us with
• 3:12:47
  Speaker 1: the luggage. My master's design was to show me in
• 3:12:50
  Speaker 1: all the towns by the way, and to step out
• 3:12:53
  Speaker 1: of the road for fifty or a hundred miles to
• 3:12:55
  Speaker 1: any village or person of qualities house where he might
• 3:12:58
  Speaker 1: expect custom. We made easy journeys of not above seven
• 3:13:03
  Speaker 1: or eight score miles a day for Glumdalklitch on purpose
• 3:13:07
  Speaker 1: to spare me complained she was tired with the trotting
• 3:13:10
  Speaker 1: of the horse. She often took me out of my
• 3:13:13
  Speaker 1: box at my own desire, to give me air and
• 3:13:16
  Speaker 1: show me the country, but always held me fast by
• 3:13:19
  Speaker 1: a leading string. We passed over five or six rivers,
• 3:13:23
  Speaker 1: many degrees broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges,
• 3:13:28
  Speaker 1: and there was hardly river let so small as the Thames.
• 3:13:30
  Speaker 1: At London Bridge, we were ten weeks in our journey,
• 3:13:35
  Speaker 1: and I was shown in eighteen large towns, beside many
• 3:13:37
  Speaker 1: villages and private families. On the twenty sixth day of
• 3:13:41
  Speaker 1: October we arrived at the metropolis, called in their language
• 3:13:45
  Speaker 1: law Bralgrod, or Pride of the Universe. My master took
• 3:13:49
  Speaker 1: a lodging in the principal street of the city, not
• 3:13:52
  Speaker 1: far from the royal Palace, and put out bills in
• 3:13:55
  Speaker 1: the usual form containing an exact description of my person
• 3:13:58
  Speaker 1: and parts. He hired a large room between three and
• 3:14:02
  Speaker 1: four hundred feet wide. He provided a table sixty feet
• 3:14:06
  Speaker 1: in diameter upon which I was to act my part,
• 3:14:09
  Speaker 1: and pallisdoed it round three feet from the edge and
• 3:14:12
  Speaker 1: as many high to prevent my falling over. I was
• 3:14:16
  Speaker 1: shown ten times a day, to the wonder and satisfaction
• 3:14:19
  Speaker 1: of all people. I could now speak the language tolerably well,
• 3:14:23
  Speaker 1: and perfectly understood every word that was spoken to me. Besides,
• 3:14:27
  Speaker 1: I had learnt their alphabet and could make a shift
• 3:14:30
  Speaker 1: to explain a sentence here and there. For Glumdalklitch had
• 3:14:34
  Speaker 1: been my instructor while we were at home and at
• 3:14:36
  Speaker 1: leisure hours during our journey. She carried a little book
• 3:14:40
  Speaker 1: in her pocket, not much larger than a Samson's atlas.
• 3:14:44
  Speaker 1: It was a common treatise for the use of young girls,
• 3:14:47
  Speaker 1: giving a short account of their religion. Out of this
• 3:14:50
  Speaker 1: she taught me my letters and interpreted the words. End
• 3:14:54
  Speaker 1: of Chapter two, Part two. Chapter three, the author sent
• 3:15:01
  Speaker 1: for to court. The queen buys him of his master,
• 3:15:04
  Speaker 1: the farmer, and presents him to the king. He disputes
• 3:15:07
  Speaker 1: with his Majesty's great scholars. An apartment at court provided
• 3:15:12
  Speaker 1: for the author. He is in high favor with the Queen.
• 3:15:15
  Speaker 1: He stands up for the honor of his own country.
• 3:15:18
  Speaker 1: He quarrels with the Queen's dwarf. The frequent labors I
• 3:15:23
  Speaker 1: underwent every day made in a few weeks a very
• 3:15:26
  Speaker 1: considerable change in my health. The more my master got
• 3:15:30
  Speaker 1: by me, the more insatiable he grew. I had quite
• 3:15:33
  Speaker 1: lost my stomach and was almost reduced to a skeleton.
• 3:15:38
  Speaker 1: The farmer observed it, and, concluding I must soon die,
• 3:15:42
  Speaker 1: resolved to make as good a hand of me as
• 3:15:43
  Speaker 1: he could. While he was thus reasoning and resolving with himself,
• 3:15:48
  Speaker 1: a sadrall, or gentleman usher came from court, commanding my
• 3:15:53
  Speaker 1: master to carry me immediately thither for the diversion of
• 3:15:56
  Speaker 1: the Queen and her ladies. Some of the latter had
• 3:15:59
  Speaker 1: already been to see me, and reported strange things of
• 3:16:03
  Speaker 1: my beauty, behavior, and good sense. Her Majesty and those
• 3:16:07
  Speaker 1: who attended her were beyond measure delighted with my demeanor.
• 3:16:12
  Speaker 1: I fell on my knees and begged the honor of
• 3:16:14
  Speaker 1: kissing her imperial foot. But this gracious Princess held out
• 3:16:18
  Speaker 1: a little finger towards me. After I was set on
• 3:16:21
  Speaker 1: the table, which I embraced in both my arms, and
• 3:16:24
  Speaker 1: put the tim of it with the utmost respect to
• 3:16:26
  Speaker 1: my lip. She made me some general questions about my
• 3:16:30
  Speaker 1: country and my travels. What she answered as distinctly in
• 3:16:33
  Speaker 1: as few words as I could, she asked whether I
• 3:16:37
  Speaker 1: could be content to live at court. I bowed down
• 3:16:41
  Speaker 1: to the board of the table and humbly answered that
• 3:16:44
  Speaker 1: I was my master's slave, but if I were at
• 3:16:47
  Speaker 1: my own disposal, I should be proud to devote my
• 3:16:49
  Speaker 1: life to her Majesty's service. So then she asked my
• 3:16:53
  Speaker 1: master whether he was willing to sell me at a
• 3:16:56
  Speaker 1: good price. He, who apprehended I could not live a month,
• 3:17:00
  Speaker 1: was ready enough to part with me, and demanded a
• 3:17:03
  Speaker 1: thousand pieces of gold, which were ordered him on the spot,
• 3:17:07
  Speaker 1: each peace being about the bigness of eight hundred moidors,
• 3:17:11
  Speaker 1: but allowing for the proportion of all things between that
• 3:17:13
  Speaker 1: country and Europe, and the high prize of gold among them,
• 3:17:17
  Speaker 1: was hardly so great a sum as a thousand guineas
• 3:17:19
  Speaker 1: would be in England. I then said to the Queen,
• 3:17:23
  Speaker 1: since I was now her Majesty's most humble creature and vassal,
• 3:17:26
  Speaker 1: I must beg the favor that glumdal Klitch, who had
• 3:17:29
  Speaker 1: always tendered me with so much care and kindness, and
• 3:17:32
  Speaker 1: understood to do it so well, might be admitted into
• 3:17:35
  Speaker 1: her service and continued to be my nurse and instructor.
• 3:17:39
  Speaker 1: Her Majesty agreed to my petition and easily got the
• 3:17:43
  Speaker 1: farmer's consent, who was glad enough to have his daughter
• 3:17:46
  Speaker 1: preferred at court, and the poor girl herself was not
• 3:17:49
  Speaker 1: able to hide her joy. My late master withdrew, bidding
• 3:17:54
  Speaker 1: me farewell and saying he had left me in a
• 3:17:57
  Speaker 1: good service, to which I replied not to word, only
• 3:18:01
  Speaker 1: making a slight bow. The Queen observed my coldness, and
• 3:18:05
  Speaker 1: when the Farmer was gone out of the apartment, asked
• 3:18:08
  Speaker 1: me the reason I made bold to tell her Majesty
• 3:18:12
  Speaker 1: that I owed no other obligation to my late master
• 3:18:15
  Speaker 1: than his not dashing out to the brains of a poor,
• 3:18:18
  Speaker 1: harmless creature found by chance in his fields, Which obligation
• 3:18:23
  Speaker 1: was amply recompensed by the gain he had made in
• 3:18:25
  Speaker 1: showing me through half the kingdom, and the price he
• 3:18:28
  Speaker 1: had now sold me for that the life I had
• 3:18:31
  Speaker 1: since led was laborious enough to kill an animal of
• 3:18:34
  Speaker 1: ten times my strength, that my health was much impaired
• 3:18:37
  Speaker 1: by the continual druggery of entertaining the rabble every hour
• 3:18:41
  Speaker 1: of the day, and that if my master had not
• 3:18:44
  Speaker 1: thought my life in danger, her majesty would not have
• 3:18:47
  Speaker 1: got so cheap a bargain. But as I was, out
• 3:18:51
  Speaker 1: of all fear of being ill treated, under the protection
• 3:18:53
  Speaker 1: of so great and good an empress, the ornament of nature,
• 3:18:56
  Speaker 1: the darling of the world, the delight of his subjects,
• 3:18:59
  Speaker 1: the phoenix of the creation, so I hoped my late
• 3:19:03
  Speaker 1: master's apprehensions would appear to be groundless, for I had
• 3:19:07
  Speaker 1: already found my spirits revive by the influence of her
• 3:19:10
  Speaker 1: most august presence. This was the sum of my speech,
• 3:19:15
  Speaker 1: delivered with great improprieties and hesitation. The latter part was
• 3:19:20
  Speaker 1: altogether framed in the style peculiar to that people, whereof
• 3:19:24
  Speaker 1: I learned some phrases from Glumdalklitch while she was carrying
• 3:19:28
  Speaker 1: me to court. The Queen, giving great allowance for my
• 3:19:32
  Speaker 1: defectiveness in speaking, was however, surprised at so much wit
• 3:19:37
  Speaker 1: and good sense in so diminutive an animal she took
• 3:19:41
  Speaker 1: me in her own hand and carried me to the King,
• 3:19:43
  Speaker 1: who was then retired to his cabinet. His Majesty, a
• 3:19:48
  Speaker 1: prince of much gravity and austere countenance, not well observing
• 3:19:52
  Speaker 1: my shape at first view, asked the Queen, after a
• 3:19:55
  Speaker 1: cold manner, how long it was since she grew fond
• 3:19:58
  Speaker 1: of blacknuk. For such it seems, he took me to
• 3:20:01
  Speaker 1: be as I lay upon my breast on her Majesty's
• 3:20:04
  Speaker 1: right hand. But this princess, who has an infinite deal
• 3:20:08
  Speaker 1: of wit and humor, set me gently on my feet
• 3:20:11
  Speaker 1: upon the scrutoire and commanded me to give his Majesty
• 3:20:15
  Speaker 1: an account of myself, which I did in a very
• 3:20:17
  Speaker 1: few words. And Glumdalklitch, who attended at the cabin at
• 3:20:21
  Speaker 1: door and could not endure I should be out of sight.
• 3:20:25
  Speaker 1: Being admitted, confirmed all that had passed from my arrival
• 3:20:28
  Speaker 1: at her father's house. The King, although he be as
• 3:20:33
  Speaker 1: learned person as any in his dominions, had been educated
• 3:20:37
  Speaker 1: in the study of philosophy and particularly mathematics. Yet when
• 3:20:41
  Speaker 1: he observed my shape exactly and saw me walk erect
• 3:20:44
  Speaker 1: before I began to speak, conceived I might be a
• 3:20:47
  Speaker 1: piece of clockwork, which is in that country, arrived to
• 3:20:52
  Speaker 1: a very great perfection, contrived by some ingenious artist. But
• 3:20:57
  Speaker 1: when he heard my voice and found what I delivered
• 3:21:00
  Speaker 1: to be regular and rational, he could not conceal his astonishment.
• 3:21:05
  Speaker 1: He was by no means satisfied with the relation I
• 3:21:07
  Speaker 1: gave him of the manner I came into his kingdom,
• 3:21:10
  Speaker 1: but thought it a story concerted between Gondalklitch and her father,
• 3:21:14
  Speaker 1: who had taught me a set of words to make
• 3:21:16
  Speaker 1: me sell at a better price. Upon this imagination, he
• 3:21:20
  Speaker 1: put several other questions to me, and still received rational answers,
• 3:21:25
  Speaker 1: no otherwise defective than by a foreign accent and an
• 3:21:29
  Speaker 1: imperfect knowledge in the language, with some rustic phrases, which
• 3:21:33
  Speaker 1: I had learned at the farmer's house, and did not
• 3:21:35
  Speaker 1: suit the polite style of a court. His Majesty sent
• 3:21:39
  Speaker 1: for three great scholars, who were then in their weekly waiting.
• 3:21:43
  Speaker 1: According to the custom in that country. These gentlemen, after
• 3:21:47
  Speaker 1: they had a while examined my shape with much nicety,
• 3:21:50
  Speaker 1: were of different opinions concerning me. They all agreed that
• 3:21:54
  Speaker 1: I could not be produced according to the regular laws
• 3:21:56
  Speaker 1: of nature, because I was not framed with the capacity
• 3:22:00
  Speaker 1: of preserving my life, either by swiftness or climbing of
• 3:22:03
  Speaker 1: trees or dig in holes in the earth. They observed
• 3:22:08
  Speaker 1: by my teeth, which they viewed with great exactness, that
• 3:22:11
  Speaker 1: I was a carnivorous animal. Yet most quadrupeds being an
• 3:22:16
  Speaker 1: overmatch for me, and field mice, with some others too nimble.
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  Speaker 1: They could not imagine how I should be able to
• 3:22:22
  Speaker 1: support myself unless I fed upon snails and other insects,
• 3:22:28
  Speaker 1: which they offered by my learned arguments to unceive that
• 3:22:31
  Speaker 1: I could not possibly do. One of these virtuosi seemed
• 3:22:36
  Speaker 1: to think that I might be an embryo or abortive birth,
• 3:22:40
  Speaker 1: but this opinion was rejected by the other two, who
• 3:22:44
  Speaker 1: observed my limbs to be perfect and finished, and that
• 3:22:47
  Speaker 1: I had lived several years, as it was manifest from
• 3:22:50
  Speaker 1: my beard the stumps were of they plainly discovered through
• 3:22:53
  Speaker 1: a magnifying glass. They would not allow me to be
• 3:22:57
  Speaker 1: a dwarf, because my littleness was beyond all all degrees
• 3:23:00
  Speaker 1: of comparison. For the Queen's favorite dwarf, the smallest ever
• 3:23:04
  Speaker 1: known in that kingdom, was near thirty feet high. After
• 3:23:09
  Speaker 1: much debate, they concluded unanimously that I was only well
• 3:23:13
  Speaker 1: plumb scalcaf, which is interpreted literally Lasser's naturee a determination
• 3:23:20
  Speaker 1: exactly agreeable to the modern philosophy of Europe, whose professors,
• 3:23:25
  Speaker 1: disdaining the old evasion of occult cases, whereby the followers
• 3:23:29
  Speaker 1: of Aristotle, endeavored in vain to disguise their ignorance, have
• 3:23:33
  Speaker 1: invented this wonderful solution of all difficulties to the unspeakable
• 3:23:37
  Speaker 1: advancement of human knowledge. After this decisive conclusion, I entreated
• 3:23:43
  Speaker 1: to be heard a word or two. I applied myself
• 3:23:47
  Speaker 1: to the King and assured his Majesty that I came
• 3:23:50
  Speaker 1: from a country which abounded with several millions of both sexes,
• 3:23:54
  Speaker 1: and of my own stature, where the animals, trees, and
• 3:23:57
  Speaker 1: houses were all in proportion, and where by consequence I
• 3:24:03
  Speaker 1: might be able to defend myself and to find sustenance
• 3:24:06
  Speaker 1: as any of His Majesty's subjects could do here, which
• 3:24:09
  Speaker 1: I took for a full answer. To those gentlemen's arguments
• 3:24:14
  Speaker 1: to this, they only replied with a smile of contempt,
• 3:24:17
  Speaker 1: saying that the farmer had instruct me very well in
• 3:24:20
  Speaker 1: my lesson. The King, who had a much better understanding,
• 3:24:25
  Speaker 1: dismissing his learned men, sent for the farmer, who, by
• 3:24:29
  Speaker 1: good fortune was not yet gone out of town. Having
• 3:24:34
  Speaker 1: therefore first examined him privately, and then confronted him with
• 3:24:37
  Speaker 1: me and the young girl, his majesty began to think
• 3:24:41
  Speaker 1: that what we told him might possibly be true. He
• 3:24:46
  Speaker 1: desired the Queen to order that a particular care should
• 3:24:49
  Speaker 1: be taken of me, and was of opinion that Glumdalklitch
• 3:24:53
  Speaker 1: should still continue in her office of tending me, because
• 3:24:57
  Speaker 1: he observed we had a great affection for each other.
• 3:25:01
  Speaker 1: A convenient apartment was provided for her at court. She
• 3:25:05
  Speaker 1: had a sort of governess appointed to take care of
• 3:25:07
  Speaker 1: her education, a maid to dress her, and two other
• 3:25:11
  Speaker 1: servants for menial offices. But the care of me was
• 3:25:15
  Speaker 1: wholly appointed to herself. The Queen commanded her own cabinet
• 3:25:19
  Speaker 1: maker to contrive a box that might serve me for
• 3:25:22
  Speaker 1: a bed chamber, after the model that glumdale Clitch and
• 3:25:26
  Speaker 1: I should agree upon. This man was a most ingenious artist, and,
• 3:25:30
  Speaker 1: according to my direction, in three weeks finished for me
• 3:25:34
  Speaker 1: a wooden chamber of sixteen feet square and twelve feet high,
• 3:25:38
  Speaker 1: with sash windows, a door, and two closets like a
• 3:25:42
  Speaker 1: London bedchamber. The board that made the ceiling was to
• 3:25:46
  Speaker 1: be lifted up and down by two hinges to put
• 3:25:49
  Speaker 1: in a bed ready furnished by her Majesty's upholsterer, which
• 3:25:53
  Speaker 1: Glumdale Clitch took out every day to air, made it
• 3:25:57
  Speaker 1: with her own hands, and letting it down at night,
• 3:26:00
  Speaker 1: locked up the roof over me. A nice workman, who
• 3:26:04
  Speaker 1: was famous for little curiosities undertook to make me two
• 3:26:08
  Speaker 1: chairs with backs and frames of a substance not unlike ivory,
• 3:26:14
  Speaker 1: and two tables with a cabinet to put my things in.
• 3:26:18
  Speaker 1: The room was quilted on all sides, as well as
• 3:26:20
  Speaker 1: the floor and the ceiling, to prevent any accident from
• 3:26:23
  Speaker 1: the carelessness of those who carried me, and to break
• 3:26:26
  Speaker 1: the force of a jolt when I went in a coach.
• 3:26:30
  Speaker 1: I desired a lock from my door to prevent rats
• 3:26:32
  Speaker 1: and mice from coming in. The smith after several attempts
• 3:26:37
  Speaker 1: made the smallest it ever was seen among them, for
• 3:26:40
  Speaker 1: I have known a larger at the gate of the
• 3:26:42
  Speaker 1: gentleman's house in England. I made a shift to keep
• 3:26:45
  Speaker 1: the key in my pocket of my own, fearing Glumdalklitch
• 3:26:48
  Speaker 1: might lose it. The Queen likewise ordered the thinnest silks
• 3:26:52
  Speaker 1: that could be gotten to make me clothes not much
• 3:26:55
  Speaker 1: thicker than an English blanket, very cumbersome till I was
• 3:26:59
  Speaker 1: accustomed to them. They were, after the fashion of the Kingdom,
• 3:27:04
  Speaker 1: partly resembling the Persian and partly the Chinese, and are
• 3:27:08
  Speaker 1: a very grave and decent habit. The Queen became so
• 3:27:13
  Speaker 1: fond of my company that she could not dine without me.
• 3:27:16
  Speaker 1: I had a table placed upon the same at which
• 3:27:18
  Speaker 1: her Majesty ate just as her left elbow, and a
• 3:27:22
  Speaker 1: chair to sit on. Klumdaluglitch stood on a stool on
• 3:27:26
  Speaker 1: the floor near my table to assist and take care
• 3:27:29
  Speaker 1: of me. I had an entire set of silver dishes
• 3:27:32
  Speaker 1: and plates and other necessaries, which, in proportion to those
• 3:27:37
  Speaker 1: of the Queen were not much bigger than what I
• 3:27:39
  Speaker 1: have seen in a London toy shop for the furniture
• 3:27:41
  Speaker 1: of a baby house. These my nurse kept in her
• 3:27:44
  Speaker 1: pocket in a silver box, and gave me at meals
• 3:27:48
  Speaker 1: as I wanted them, always cleaning them herself. No person
• 3:27:52
  Speaker 1: dined with the Queen, but the two princesses royal, the
• 3:27:56
  Speaker 1: eldest sixteen years old, and the younger at that time
• 3:27:59
  Speaker 1: thirty teen and a month. Her Majesty used to put
• 3:28:03
  Speaker 1: a bit of meat upon one of my dishes, out
• 3:28:06
  Speaker 1: of which I carved myself, and her diversion was to
• 3:28:09
  Speaker 1: see me eat in miniature for the Queen, who had,
• 3:28:13
  Speaker 1: indeed but a weak's stomach, took up at one mouthful
• 3:28:17
  Speaker 1: as much as a dozen English farmers could eat at
• 3:28:19
  Speaker 1: a meal, which to me was for some time a
• 3:28:21
  Speaker 1: very nauseous sight. She would crunch the wings of a lark,
• 3:28:25
  Speaker 1: bones and all between her teeth, although it were nine
• 3:28:28
  Speaker 1: times as large as that of a full grown turkey,
• 3:28:31
  Speaker 1: and put a bit of bread into her mouth as
• 3:28:33
  Speaker 1: big as two twelvepenny loaves. She drank out of a
• 3:28:36
  Speaker 1: golden cup above a hogshead at her draft. Her knives
• 3:28:40
  Speaker 1: were twice as long as a scythe set straight upon
• 3:28:43
  Speaker 1: the handle. The spoons, forks, and other instruments were all
• 3:28:47
  Speaker 1: in the same proportion. I remember when Glumdalklitch carried me
• 3:28:52
  Speaker 1: out of curiosity to see some of the tables at court,
• 3:28:56
  Speaker 1: where ten or a dozen of these enormous knives and
• 3:28:59
  Speaker 1: forks were lifted up together. I thought I had never
• 3:29:02
  Speaker 1: till then behold so terrible a sight. It is the
• 3:29:07
  Speaker 1: custom that every Wednesday, which as I have observed, is
• 3:29:11
  Speaker 1: their sabbath, the King and Queen, with the royal issue
• 3:29:14
  Speaker 1: of both sexes, dined together in the apartment of his Majesty,
• 3:29:19
  Speaker 1: to whom I now became a great favorite. And at
• 3:29:22
  Speaker 1: these times my little chair and table were placed at
• 3:29:26
  Speaker 1: his left hand. Before one of the salt sellers. This
• 3:29:30
  Speaker 1: Prince took a pleasure in conversing with me, inquiring into
• 3:29:33
  Speaker 1: the manners, religion, laws, government, and learning of Europe, wherein
• 3:29:39
  Speaker 1: I gave him the best account I was able. His
• 3:29:42
  Speaker 1: apprehension was so clear, and his judgment so exact, that
• 3:29:46
  Speaker 1: he made very wise reflections and observations upon all I said.
• 3:29:51
  Speaker 1: But I confess that after I had been a little
• 3:29:54
  Speaker 1: too copious in talking of my own beloved country, of
• 3:29:58
  Speaker 1: our trade and wars by sea and land, and of
• 3:30:01
  Speaker 1: our schisms in religion and parties in the state, the
• 3:30:05
  Speaker 1: prejudices of his education prevailed so far that he could
• 3:30:09
  Speaker 1: not forbear taking me up in his right hand, and
• 3:30:11
  Speaker 1: stroke me gently with the other. After a hearty fit
• 3:30:14
  Speaker 1: of laughing, asked me whether I was a Whig or Tory. Then,
• 3:30:20
  Speaker 1: turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with
• 3:30:23
  Speaker 1: the white staff, near as tall as the main master
• 3:30:26
  Speaker 1: of the royal sovereign, he observed how contemptible a thing
• 3:30:30
  Speaker 1: was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive
• 3:30:33
  Speaker 1: insects as I. And yet said he, I dare engage.
• 3:30:38
  Speaker 1: These creatures have their titles and distinctions of honor. They
• 3:30:41
  Speaker 1: contrived little nests and burrows that they call houses and cities.
• 3:30:44
  Speaker 1: They make a figure in dress and equipage. They love,
• 3:30:47
  Speaker 1: they fight, they dispute, they cheat, they betray. And thus
• 3:30:52
  Speaker 1: he continued on, while my color came and went several
• 3:30:56
  Speaker 1: times with indignation to hear our noble country, the mistress
• 3:31:01
  Speaker 1: of arts and arms, the scourge of France, the arbitress
• 3:31:04
  Speaker 1: of Europe, the seat of virtue, piety, honor, and truth,
• 3:31:08
  Speaker 1: the pride and envy of the world so contemptuously treated.
• 3:31:13
  Speaker 1: But as I was not in a condition to resent injuries,
• 3:31:16
  Speaker 1: so upon mature thoughts, I began to doubt whether I
• 3:31:19
  Speaker 1: was injured or no. For after having been accustomed several
• 3:31:23
  Speaker 1: months to the sight and converse of these people, and
• 3:31:27
  Speaker 1: observed every object upon which I cast mine eyes to
• 3:31:30
  Speaker 1: be a proportional magnitude. The horror I had at first
• 3:31:34
  Speaker 1: conceived from their bulk and aspect was so far worn
• 3:31:37
  Speaker 1: off that if I had then beheld a company of
• 3:31:40
  Speaker 1: English lawds and ladies, in their finery and birthday clothes,
• 3:31:45
  Speaker 1: acting their several parts in the most courtly manner of
• 3:31:47
  Speaker 1: strutting and bowing and pratting. To say the truth, I
• 3:31:52
  Speaker 1: should have been strongly tempted to laugh as much at
• 3:31:55
  Speaker 1: them as the King and his grandees did it me. Neither, indeed,
• 3:32:00
  Speaker 1: could I forbear smiling at myself when the Queen used
• 3:32:03
  Speaker 1: to place me upon her hand towards a looking glass
• 3:32:06
  Speaker 1: by which both our persons appeared before me in full view.
• 3:32:10
  Speaker 1: And there could be nothing more ridiculous than the comparison,
• 3:32:14
  Speaker 1: so that I really began to imagine myself dwindled many
• 3:32:17
  Speaker 1: degrees below my usual size. Nothing angered and mortified me
• 3:32:22
  Speaker 1: so much as the Queen's dwarf, who, being of the
• 3:32:25
  Speaker 1: lowest stature that was ever in that country, for I
• 3:32:29
  Speaker 1: verily think he was not full thirty feet high, became
• 3:32:33
  Speaker 1: so insolent at seeing a creature so much beneath him
• 3:32:36
  Speaker 1: that he would always effect to swagger and look big
• 3:32:39
  Speaker 1: as he passed by me in the Queen's ante chamber
• 3:32:42
  Speaker 1: while I was standing on some table talking with the
• 3:32:44
  Speaker 1: lords or ladies of the court, and he seldom failed
• 3:32:47
  Speaker 1: of a smart word or two upon my littleness, against
• 3:32:52
  Speaker 1: which I could only revenge myself by calling him brother,
• 3:32:55
  Speaker 1: challenging him to wrestle, and such repartees as are usually
• 3:32:59
  Speaker 1: in the mouths of pages. One day at dinner, this
• 3:33:04
  Speaker 1: malicious little cub was so nettled with something I had
• 3:33:07
  Speaker 1: said to him, that, raising himself upon the frame of
• 3:33:10
  Speaker 1: Her Majesty's chair, he took me up by the middle
• 3:33:13
  Speaker 1: as I was sitting down, not thinking any harm, and
• 3:33:17
  Speaker 1: let me drop into a large silver bowl of cream,
• 3:33:19
  Speaker 1: and then ran away as fast as he could. I
• 3:33:23
  Speaker 1: fell over head and ears, and if I had not
• 3:33:26
  Speaker 1: been a good swimmer, it might have gone very hard
• 3:33:29
  Speaker 1: with me, for Glandalklitch in that instant happened to be
• 3:33:33
  Speaker 1: at the other end of the room, and the Queen
• 3:33:36
  Speaker 1: was in such affright that she wanted presence of mind
• 3:33:39
  Speaker 1: to assist me. But my little nurse ran to my
• 3:33:42
  Speaker 1: relief and took me out. After I had swallowed above
• 3:33:45
  Speaker 1: a quart of cream. I was put to bed. However,
• 3:33:49
  Speaker 1: I received no other damage than the loss of a
• 3:33:51
  Speaker 1: suit of clothes, which was utterly spoiled. The dwarf was
• 3:33:56
  Speaker 1: soundly whipped, and as a further punishment, forced to drink
• 3:33:59
  Speaker 1: up the bowl of cream into which she had thrown me.
• 3:34:03
  Speaker 1: Neither was he ever restored to favor, for soon after
• 3:34:06
  Speaker 1: the Queen bestowed him on a lady of high quality,
• 3:34:09
  Speaker 1: so that I saw him no more, to my very
• 3:34:11
  Speaker 1: great satisfaction, for I could not tell to what extremities
• 3:34:15
  Speaker 1: such a malicious urchin might have carried his resentment. He
• 3:34:20
  Speaker 1: had before served me a scurvy trick which sent the
• 3:34:23
  Speaker 1: Queen a laughing although at the same time she was
• 3:34:27
  Speaker 1: heartily vexed and would have immediately cashiered him if I
• 3:34:30
  Speaker 1: had not been so generous as to indeced her majesty.
• 3:34:35
  Speaker 1: Had taken a marrow bone upon her plate, and after
• 3:34:38
  Speaker 1: knocking out the marrow, placed the bone again in the
• 3:34:40
  Speaker 1: dish erect as it stood before the dwarf watching his opportunity.
• 3:34:47
  Speaker 1: While glumdal Klitch was gone to the sideboard mounted the
• 3:34:50
  Speaker 1: stool that she stood on to take care of me
• 3:34:52
  Speaker 1: at meals, took me up in both hands, and, squeezing
• 3:34:56
  Speaker 1: my leg together, wedged them into the marrow bone above
• 3:34:58
  Speaker 1: my waist, where I stuck for some time and made
• 3:35:01
  Speaker 1: a very ridiculous figure. I believe it was near a
• 3:35:05
  Speaker 1: minute before any one knew what was become of me,
• 3:35:08
  Speaker 1: for I thought it below me to cry out. But
• 3:35:11
  Speaker 1: as princes seldom get their meat hot, my legs were
• 3:35:14
  Speaker 1: not scolded, only my stockings and breeches in a sad condition.
• 3:35:19
  Speaker 1: The dwarf at my entreaty had no other punishment than
• 3:35:22
  Speaker 1: the sound whipping. I was frequently rallied by the Queen
• 3:35:26
  Speaker 1: upon account of my fearfulness, and she used to ask
• 3:35:29
  Speaker 1: me whether the people of my country were as great
• 3:35:31
  Speaker 1: cowards as myself. The occasion was this, The kingdom is
• 3:35:37
  Speaker 1: much pestered with flies in summer, and these odious insects,
• 3:35:41
  Speaker 1: each of them as big as a dunstable lark, hardly
• 3:35:43
  Speaker 1: gave me any rest. While I sat at dinner with
• 3:35:46
  Speaker 1: their continual humming and buzzing about mine ears. They would
• 3:35:51
  Speaker 1: sometimes alight upon my victuals and leave their loathsome excrement
• 3:35:55
  Speaker 1: or spawn behind which to me was very visible, though
• 3:35:59
  Speaker 1: not to the of that country. Whose large objects were
• 3:36:02
  Speaker 1: not so acute as mine. In viewing smaller objects. Sometimes
• 3:36:07
  Speaker 1: they would fix upon my nose or forehead, where they
• 3:36:10
  Speaker 1: stung me to the quick, smelling very offensively, and I
• 3:36:14
  Speaker 1: could easily trace that vicious matter which our naturalists tell
• 3:36:18
  Speaker 1: us enable those creatures to walk with their feet upwards
• 3:36:21
  Speaker 1: upon a ceiling. I had much ado to defend myself
• 3:36:25
  Speaker 1: against these detestable animals, and could not forbear starting when
• 3:36:29
  Speaker 1: they came on my face. It was the common practice
• 3:36:33
  Speaker 1: of the dwarf to catch a number of these insects
• 3:36:35
  Speaker 1: in his hand, as schoolboys do among us, and let
• 3:36:39
  Speaker 1: them out suddenly under my nose, on purpose to frighten
• 3:36:42
  Speaker 1: me and divert the queen. My remedy was to cut
• 3:36:46
  Speaker 1: them in pieces with my knife as they flew in
• 3:36:48
  Speaker 1: the air, wherein my dexterity was much admired. I remember
• 3:36:53
  Speaker 1: one morning when glumdal Klitch had set me in a
• 3:36:56
  Speaker 1: box upon a window, as she usually did in fair days,
• 3:36:59
  Speaker 1: to give me air, for I durst not venture to
• 3:37:03
  Speaker 1: let the box be hung on a nail out of
• 3:37:04
  Speaker 1: the window, as we do with cages in England. After
• 3:37:08
  Speaker 1: I had lifted up one of my sashes, and sat
• 3:37:11
  Speaker 1: down at my table to eat a piece of sweet
• 3:37:12
  Speaker 1: cake for my breakfast. Above twenty wasps, allured by the smell,
• 3:37:18
  Speaker 1: came flying into the room, humming louder than the drones
• 3:37:21
  Speaker 1: of as many bagpipes. Some of them seized my cake
• 3:37:25
  Speaker 1: and carried it piecemeal away. Others flew about my head
• 3:37:29
  Speaker 1: and face, confounding me with the noise and putting in
• 3:37:32
  Speaker 1: the utmost terror of their stings. However, I had the
• 3:37:37
  Speaker 1: courage to rise and draw my hanger and attack them
• 3:37:39
  Speaker 1: in the air. I despatched four of them, but the
• 3:37:42
  Speaker 1: rest got away, and I presently shut my window. These
• 3:37:46
  Speaker 1: insects were as large as partridges. I took out their stings,
• 3:37:50
  Speaker 1: found them an inch and a half long and as
• 3:37:52
  Speaker 1: sharp as needles. I carefully preserved them all, and, having
• 3:37:57
  Speaker 1: since shown them with some other curiosities in several parts
• 3:38:00
  Speaker 1: of Europe, upon my return to England, I gave three
• 3:38:03
  Speaker 1: of them to Gresham College, and kept the fourth for myself.
• 3:38:08
  Speaker 1: End of Chapter three, Part two. Chapter four The Country
• 3:38:15
  Speaker 1: described a proposal for correcting modern maps, The King's Palace,
• 3:38:21
  Speaker 1: and some account of the metropolis. The author's way of
• 3:38:24
  Speaker 1: traveling the Chief Temple described I now intend to give
• 3:38:30
  Speaker 1: the reader a short description of this country, as far
• 3:38:33
  Speaker 1: as I traveled in it, which was not above two
• 3:38:37
  Speaker 1: thousand miles round lauberal Grud, the metropolis, for the Queen,
• 3:38:42
  Speaker 1: whom I always attended, never went farther when she was
• 3:38:46
  Speaker 1: accompanied the King in his progress, and there stayed till
• 3:38:51
  Speaker 1: his Majesty returned from viewing his frontiers. The whole extent
• 3:38:56
  Speaker 1: of this prince's dominions reached about six thousand miles and length,
• 3:39:01
  Speaker 1: and from three to five in breadth. Whence I cannot
• 3:39:06
  Speaker 1: but conclude that our geographers of Europe are in a
• 3:39:09
  Speaker 1: great error by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California.
• 3:39:15
  Speaker 1: For it was ever my opinion that there must be
• 3:39:17
  Speaker 1: a balance of earth to counterpose the great continent of Tartary,
• 3:39:22
  Speaker 1: And therefore they ought to correct their maps and charts
• 3:39:26
  Speaker 1: by joining this vast tract of land to the northwest
• 3:39:29
  Speaker 1: parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend
• 3:39:32
  Speaker 1: them my assistance. The kingdom is a peninsula terminated to
• 3:39:38
  Speaker 1: the northeast by a ridge of mountains thirty miles high,
• 3:39:41
  Speaker 1: which are altogether impossible by reason of the volcanoes upon
• 3:39:45
  Speaker 1: the tops neither do most the learned know what sort
• 3:39:49
  Speaker 1: of mortals inhabit beyond those mountains, or whether they be
• 3:39:53
  Speaker 1: inhabited at all. On the three other sides, it is
• 3:39:57
  Speaker 1: bounded by the ocean. There is not one sea port
• 3:40:01
  Speaker 1: in the whole kingdom, And those parts of the coasts
• 3:40:05
  Speaker 1: into which the rivers issue are so full of pointed rocks,
• 3:40:09
  Speaker 1: and the sea generally so rough, that there is no
• 3:40:12
  Speaker 1: venturing with the smallest of their boats, so that these
• 3:40:17
  Speaker 1: people are wholly excluded from any commerce with the rest
• 3:40:20
  Speaker 1: of the world. But the large rivers are full of
• 3:40:24
  Speaker 1: vessels and a bound with excellent fish, for they seldom
• 3:40:29
  Speaker 1: get any from the sea, because the sea fish are
• 3:40:32
  Speaker 1: on the same side with those in Europe, and consequently
• 3:40:35
  Speaker 1: not worth catching. Whereby it is manifest that nature, in
• 3:40:41
  Speaker 1: the production of plants and animals are so extremely a
• 3:40:44
  Speaker 1: bulk is wholly confined to this continent, of which I
• 3:40:48
  Speaker 1: leave the reasons to be determined by philosophers. However, now
• 3:40:53
  Speaker 1: and then they take a whale that happens to be
• 3:40:55
  Speaker 1: dashed against the rocks which the common people feed on heartily.
• 3:41:00
  Speaker 1: These whales I have known, so large that a man
• 3:41:03
  Speaker 1: could hardly carry one upon his shoulders, and sometimes for
• 3:41:08
  Speaker 1: curiosity they are brought in hampers to liberal grud. I
• 3:41:13
  Speaker 1: saw one of them in a dish at the King's table,
• 3:41:16
  Speaker 1: which passed for a rarity, but I did not observe
• 3:41:20
  Speaker 1: he was fond of it, for I think indeed the
• 3:41:23
  Speaker 1: bigness disgusted him, although I have seen one somewhat larger
• 3:41:28
  Speaker 1: in Greenland. The country is well inhabited, for it contains
• 3:41:33
  Speaker 1: fifty one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a
• 3:41:37
  Speaker 1: great number of villages. To satisfy my curious reader, it
• 3:41:43
  Speaker 1: may be sufficient to describe Glberal grud. This city stands
• 3:41:49
  Speaker 1: upon almost two equal parts on each side of the
• 3:41:52
  Speaker 1: river that passes through. It contains above eighty thousand houses
• 3:41:57
  Speaker 1: and about six hundred thousand inhabitants. It is in length
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  Speaker 1: three glong lungs, which make about fifty four English miles
• 3:42:08
  Speaker 1: and two and a half in breadth. As I measured
• 3:42:11
  Speaker 1: it myself in the royal map made by the King's order,
• 3:42:14
  Speaker 1: which was laid on the ground on purpose for me
• 3:42:16
  Speaker 1: and extended one hundred feet, I paced the diameter and
• 3:42:21
  Speaker 1: circumference several times bare foot, and computing by the scale
• 3:42:25
  Speaker 1: measured it pretty exactly. The King's Palace is no regular edifice,
• 3:42:31
  Speaker 1: but a heap of buildings about seven miles round. The
• 3:42:35
  Speaker 1: chief rooms are generally two hundred and forty feet high,
• 3:42:39
  Speaker 1: and broad and long in proportion. The coach was allowed
• 3:42:44
  Speaker 1: to Glomdalklitch and me wherein her Governess frequently took her
• 3:42:48
  Speaker 1: out to see the town or go among the shops,
• 3:42:52
  Speaker 1: and I was always of the party carried in my box,
• 3:42:56
  Speaker 1: although the girl, at my own desire, would often take
• 3:42:59
  Speaker 1: me out and hold me in her hand, that I
• 3:43:02
  Speaker 1: might more conveniently view the houses and the people as
• 3:43:06
  Speaker 1: we passed along the streets. I reckoned our coach to
• 3:43:10
  Speaker 1: be about a square of Westminster Hall, but not altogether
• 3:43:13
  Speaker 1: so high. However, I cannot be very exact. One day
• 3:43:20
  Speaker 1: the Governess ordered our coachman to stop at several shops,
• 3:43:24
  Speaker 1: where the beggars, watching their opportunity, crowded to the sides
• 3:43:27
  Speaker 1: of the coach, and gave me the most horrible spectacle
• 3:43:30
  Speaker 1: that ever a European eye beheld. There was a woman
• 3:43:35
  Speaker 1: with a cancer in her breast, swelled to a monstrous size,
• 3:43:39
  Speaker 1: full of holes in two or three of which I
• 3:43:42
  Speaker 1: could easily have crept and covered my whole body. There
• 3:43:47
  Speaker 1: was a fellow with a wen in his neck larger
• 3:43:49
  Speaker 1: than five wool packs, and another with a couple of
• 3:43:53
  Speaker 1: wooden legs, each about twenty feet high. But the most
• 3:43:57
  Speaker 1: hateful sight of all was the lice crawl on their clothes.
• 3:44:02
  Speaker 1: I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with
• 3:44:04
  Speaker 1: my naked eye, much better than those of a European
• 3:44:08
  Speaker 1: louse through a microscope, and their snouts, with which they
• 3:44:12
  Speaker 1: rooted like swine. They were the first I had ever beheld,
• 3:44:16
  Speaker 1: and I should have been curious enough to dissect one
• 3:44:19
  Speaker 1: of them if I had had proper instruments, which I
• 3:44:23
  Speaker 1: unluckily left behind me in the ship, although indeed the
• 3:44:27
  Speaker 1: sight was so nauseous that it perfectly turned my stomach.
• 3:44:31
  Speaker 1: Besides the large box in which I was usually carried,
• 3:44:34
  Speaker 1: the Queen ordered a smaller one to be made for me,
• 3:44:37
  Speaker 1: of about twelve feet square and ten high, for the
• 3:44:41
  Speaker 1: convenience of traveling, because the other was somewhat too large
• 3:44:46
  Speaker 1: for Glmdalklitch's lap and Cumberson in the coach. It was
• 3:44:50
  Speaker 1: made by the same artist whom I directed in the
• 3:44:53
  Speaker 1: whole contrivance. This traveling closet was an exact square, with
• 3:44:59
  Speaker 1: the window in the middle of three of the squares,
• 3:45:02
  Speaker 1: and each window was latticed with iron wire on the
• 3:45:05
  Speaker 1: outside to prevent accidents in long journeys. On the fourth side,
• 3:45:10
  Speaker 1: which had no window, two strong staples were fixed through
• 3:45:15
  Speaker 1: which the person that carried me, when I had a
• 3:45:17
  Speaker 1: mind to be on horseback, put a leaven belt and
• 3:45:21
  Speaker 1: buckled it about his waist. This was always the office
• 3:45:25
  Speaker 1: of some grave, trusty servant in whom I could confide
• 3:45:29
  Speaker 1: whether I attended the King and Queen in their progresses,
• 3:45:33
  Speaker 1: or were disposed to see the gardens, or pay a
• 3:45:36
  Speaker 1: visit to some great lady or minister of state in
• 3:45:39
  Speaker 1: the court. When Glumdalklitch happened to be out of order,
• 3:45:44
  Speaker 1: for I soon began to be known and esteemed among
• 3:45:47
  Speaker 1: the greatest officers. I suppose, more upon account of their
• 3:45:51
  Speaker 1: Majesty's favor than any merit of my own. In journeys,
• 3:45:55
  Speaker 1: when I was weary of the coach, a servant on
• 3:45:58
  Speaker 1: horseback would buckle on my box and placed it on
• 3:46:01
  Speaker 1: a cushion before him, and there I had a full
• 3:46:04
  Speaker 1: prospect of the country on three sides from my three windows.
• 3:46:10
  Speaker 1: I had in this closet a field bed and a
• 3:46:13
  Speaker 1: hammock hung from the ceiling, two chairs and a table
• 3:46:17
  Speaker 1: neatly screwed to the floor to prevent being tossed about
• 3:46:20
  Speaker 1: by the agitation of the horse or the coach, And
• 3:46:24
  Speaker 1: having been long used to see voyages, those motions, although
• 3:46:28
  Speaker 1: sometimes very violent, did not much discompose me. Whenever I
• 3:46:34
  Speaker 1: had a mind to see the town, it was always
• 3:46:37
  Speaker 1: in my traveling closet, which Glumdalklitch held in her lap,
• 3:46:41
  Speaker 1: in a kind of open sedan after the fashion of
• 3:46:44
  Speaker 1: the country, borne by four men and attended by two
• 3:46:48
  Speaker 1: others in the Queen's livery. The people who had often
• 3:46:52
  Speaker 1: heard of me were very curious to crowd about the sedan,
• 3:46:57
  Speaker 1: and the girl was complaisant enough to make the bear
• 3:47:00
  Speaker 1: stop and take me in a hand, that I might
• 3:47:03
  Speaker 1: be more conveniently seen. I was very desirous to see
• 3:47:07
  Speaker 1: the Chief Temple, and particularly the tower belonging to it,
• 3:47:11
  Speaker 1: which is reckoned the highest in the kingdom. Accordingly, one
• 3:47:16
  Speaker 1: day my nurse carried me thither, but I may truly
• 3:47:19
  Speaker 1: say I came back disappointed, for the height is not
• 3:47:22
  Speaker 1: above three thousand feet, reckoning from the ground to the
• 3:47:26
  Speaker 1: highest pinnacle top which align. For the difference between the
• 3:47:31
  Speaker 1: size of those people and us in Europe is no
• 3:47:34
  Speaker 1: great matter for redmiration, nor at all equal in proportion.
• 3:47:39
  Speaker 1: If I rightly remember to Salisbury's deeple, but not to
• 3:47:45
  Speaker 1: detract from a nation to which during my life I
• 3:47:49
  Speaker 1: shall acknowledge myself extremely obliged. It must be allowed that
• 3:47:54
  Speaker 1: whatever this famous tower wants in height, it is amply
• 3:47:57
  Speaker 1: made up in beauty and strength. For the walls near
• 3:48:01
  Speaker 1: a hundred feet thick, built of hewn stone, whereof each
• 3:48:05
  Speaker 1: is about forty feet square, and adorned on all sides
• 3:48:09
  Speaker 1: with statues of gods and emperors cut in marble larger
• 3:48:13
  Speaker 1: than life, placed in several niches. I measured a little
• 3:48:19
  Speaker 1: finger which had fallen down from one of these statues,
• 3:48:22
  Speaker 1: and lay unperceived among some rubbish, and found it exactly
• 3:48:26
  Speaker 1: four feet and an inch in length. Plumderklitch wrapped it
• 3:48:30
  Speaker 1: up in her handkerchief and carried it home in her
• 3:48:33
  Speaker 1: pocket to keep among other trinkets of which the girl
• 3:48:36
  Speaker 1: was very fond, as children at her age usually are.
• 3:48:42
  Speaker 1: The King's kitchen is indeed a noble building, vaulted at
• 3:48:45
  Speaker 1: top and about six hundred feet high. The great oven
• 3:48:50
  Speaker 1: is not so wide by ten paces as a coupola
• 3:48:54
  Speaker 1: at Saint Paul's, For I measured the latter on purpose
• 3:48:58
  Speaker 1: after my return. But if I should describe the kitchen grate,
• 3:49:03
  Speaker 1: the prodigious parts and kettles, the joints of meat turning
• 3:49:06
  Speaker 1: on the spits, with many other particulars, perhaps I should
• 3:49:11
  Speaker 1: be hardly believed. At least a severe critic would be
• 3:49:15
  Speaker 1: apt to think I enlarged a little, as travelers are
• 3:49:19
  Speaker 1: often suspected to do to avoid which censor. I fear
• 3:49:23
  Speaker 1: I have run too much into the other extreme, and
• 3:49:27
  Speaker 1: that of this treatise should happen to be translated into
• 3:49:29
  Speaker 1: the language of brobding Nag, which is the general name
• 3:49:33
  Speaker 1: of that kingdom, and transmitted thither, the king and his
• 3:49:37
  Speaker 1: people would have reason to complain that I had done
• 3:49:40
  Speaker 1: them an injury by a false and diminutive representation. His
• 3:49:46
  Speaker 1: Majesty seldom keeps above six hundred horses in his stables.
• 3:49:51
  Speaker 1: They are generally from fifty four to sixty feet high.
• 3:49:55
  Speaker 1: But when it goes abroad on solemn days, he is
• 3:49:58
  Speaker 1: attended for state by a military guard of five hundred horses,
• 3:50:04
  Speaker 1: which indeed I thought was the most splendid sight that
• 3:50:06
  Speaker 1: could ever be beheld, till I saw a part of
• 3:50:10
  Speaker 1: his army in battler, whereof I shall find another occasion
• 3:50:13
  Speaker 1: to speak. End of Chapter four, Part two.
• 3:50:19
  Speaker 2: Chapter five.
• 3:50:22
  Speaker 1: Several adventures that happened to the author. The execution of
• 3:50:26
  Speaker 1: a criminal. The author shows his skill in navigation.
• 3:50:31
  Speaker 2: I should have lived.
• 3:50:31
  Speaker 1: Happily enough in that country if my littleness had not
• 3:50:34
  Speaker 1: exposed me to several ridiculous and troublesome accidents, some of
• 3:50:39
  Speaker 1: which I shall venture to relate. Glandalklitch often carried me
• 3:50:44
  Speaker 1: into the gardens of the court in my smaller box,
• 3:50:47
  Speaker 1: and would sometimes take me out of it and hold
• 3:50:49
  Speaker 1: me in a hand, or set me down to walk.
• 3:50:53
  Speaker 1: I remember, before the dwarf left the Queen, he followed
• 3:50:57
  Speaker 1: us one day into those gardens, and my nurse having
• 3:51:00
  Speaker 1: set me down, he and I being close together near
• 3:51:04
  Speaker 1: some dwarf apple trees. I must needs show my wit
• 3:51:09
  Speaker 1: by a silly illusion between him and the trees, which
• 3:51:12
  Speaker 1: happened to hold in their language as it does in hours.
• 3:51:16
  Speaker 1: Whereupon the malicious rogue, watching his opportunity, when I was
• 3:51:20
  Speaker 1: walking under one of them shook it directly over my head,
• 3:51:24
  Speaker 1: by which a dozen apples, each of them near as
• 3:51:26
  Speaker 1: large as a bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears.
• 3:51:31
  Speaker 1: One of them hit me on the back as I
• 3:51:32
  Speaker 1: chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.
• 3:51:37
  Speaker 1: But I received no other hurt, and the dwarf was
• 3:51:40
  Speaker 1: pardoned at my desire, because I had given the provocation.
• 3:51:45
  Speaker 1: Another day, Glumdalklitch left me on a smooth grass plot
• 3:51:49
  Speaker 1: to divert myself while she walked at some distance with
• 3:51:52
  Speaker 1: her governess. In the meantime, there suddenly felt such a
• 3:51:57
  Speaker 1: violent shower of hail that I was, immediately, by the
• 3:52:00
  Speaker 1: force of it, struck to the ground, And when I
• 3:52:03
  Speaker 1: was down, the hailstones gave me such cruel bangs all
• 3:52:06
  Speaker 1: over the body as if I had been pelted with
• 3:52:08
  Speaker 1: tennis balls. However, I made a shift to creep on
• 3:52:13
  Speaker 1: all fours and shelter myself by lying flat on my
• 3:52:16
  Speaker 1: face on the lee side of a border of lemon thyme,
• 3:52:20
  Speaker 1: but so bruised from head to foot that I could
• 3:52:23
  Speaker 1: not go abroad in ten days. Neither is this it
• 3:52:27
  Speaker 1: all to be wondered at, because nature in that country
• 3:52:31
  Speaker 1: observe in the same proportion through all her operations. A
• 3:52:34
  Speaker 1: hailstone is near eighteen hundred times as large as one
• 3:52:37
  Speaker 1: in Europe, which I can assert upon experience, having been
• 3:52:42
  Speaker 1: so curious as to weigh and measure them. But a
• 3:52:46
  Speaker 1: more dangerous accident happened to me in the same garden,
• 3:52:49
  Speaker 1: when my little nurse, believing she had put me in
• 3:52:52
  Speaker 1: a secure place, which I often entreated her to do
• 3:52:55
  Speaker 1: that I might enjoy my own thoughts, and having left
• 3:52:59
  Speaker 1: my box at her to avoid the trouble of carrying it,
• 3:53:03
  Speaker 1: went to another part of the garden with her governess
• 3:53:05
  Speaker 1: and some ladies of her acquaintance. While she was absent
• 3:53:10
  Speaker 1: and out of hearing, a small white spaniel that belonged
• 3:53:13
  Speaker 1: to one of the chief gardeners, having got by accident
• 3:53:16
  Speaker 1: into the garden, happened to range near the place where
• 3:53:19
  Speaker 1: I lay. The dog, following the scent, came directly up, and,
• 3:53:25
  Speaker 1: taking me in his mouth, ran straight to his master,
• 3:53:27
  Speaker 1: wagging his tail, and set me gently on the ground.
• 3:53:31
  Speaker 1: By good fortune, he had been so well taught that
• 3:53:34
  Speaker 1: I was carried between his teeth without the least hurt
• 3:53:37
  Speaker 1: or even tearing my clothes. But the poor gardener, who
• 3:53:41
  Speaker 1: knew me well and had a great kindness for me,
• 3:53:44
  Speaker 1: was in a terrible fright. He gently took me up
• 3:53:47
  Speaker 1: in both hands and asked me how I did. But
• 3:53:50
  Speaker 1: I was so amazed and out of breath that I
• 3:53:52
  Speaker 1: could not speak a word. In a few minutes I
• 3:53:55
  Speaker 1: came to myself, and he carried me safe to my
• 3:53:57
  Speaker 1: little nurse, who by this time had returned to the
• 3:54:01
  Speaker 1: place where she left me, and was in cruel agonies
• 3:54:04
  Speaker 1: when I did not appear nor answer when she called.
• 3:54:08
  Speaker 1: She severely reprimanded the gardener on account of his dog,
• 3:54:13
  Speaker 1: But the thing was hushed up and never known at court,
• 3:54:16
  Speaker 1: for the girl was afraid of the Queen's anger, and truly,
• 3:54:19
  Speaker 1: as to myself, I thought it would not before my
• 3:54:22
  Speaker 1: reputation that such a story should go about. This accident
• 3:54:27
  Speaker 1: absolutely determined Glumdalklitch never to trust me abroad for the future.
• 3:54:31
  Speaker 1: Out of her sight. I had been long afraid of
• 3:54:34
  Speaker 1: this resolution, and therefore concealed from her some little unlucky
• 3:54:38
  Speaker 1: adventures that happened in those times, as well as left
• 3:54:41
  Speaker 1: by myself. Once a kite hovering over the garden made
• 3:54:46
  Speaker 1: a stoop at me, and if I had not resolutely
• 3:54:49
  Speaker 1: drawn my hanger and run under a thick espella, he
• 3:54:53
  Speaker 1: would have certainly carried me away in his talons. Another time,
• 3:54:58
  Speaker 1: walking to the top of a fresh mole h I
• 3:55:01
  Speaker 1: fell to my neck in the hole through which that
• 3:55:04
  Speaker 1: animal had cast up the earth and coined some lie
• 3:55:07
  Speaker 1: not worth. Remembering to excuse myself from spoiling my clothes,
• 3:55:13
  Speaker 1: I likewise brought my right shin against the shell of
• 3:55:16
  Speaker 1: a snail, which I happened to stumble over as I
• 3:55:20
  Speaker 1: was walking alone and thinking on poor England. I cannot
• 3:55:24
  Speaker 1: tell whether I was more pleased or mortified to observe
• 3:55:28
  Speaker 1: in these solitary walks that the smaller birds did not
• 3:55:32
  Speaker 1: appear to be at all afraid of me, but would
• 3:55:34
  Speaker 1: hop about within a yard's distance, looking for worms and
• 3:55:38
  Speaker 1: other food, with as much indifference and security as if
• 3:55:41
  Speaker 1: no creature at all.
• 3:55:42
  Speaker 3: Were near them.
• 3:55:45
  Speaker 1: I remember a thrush had the confidence to snatch out
• 3:55:48
  Speaker 1: of my hand with his bill a bit of cake
• 3:55:51
  Speaker 1: that Glandaluklitch had just given me for my breakfast. When
• 3:55:56
  Speaker 1: I attempted to catch any of these birds, they would
• 3:55:59
  Speaker 1: boldly turn again against me, endeavoring to peck my fingers,
• 3:56:03
  Speaker 1: which I durst not venture within their reach, and then
• 3:56:06
  Speaker 1: they were tot back, unconcerned to hunt for worms or snails.
• 3:56:11
  Speaker 2: As they did before.
• 3:56:13
  Speaker 1: But one day I took a thick cudgel and threw
• 3:56:16
  Speaker 1: it with all my strength so luckily at a linnet
• 3:56:19
  Speaker 1: that I knocked him down, and, seizing him by the
• 3:56:22
  Speaker 1: neck with both my hands, ran with him in triumph
• 3:56:26
  Speaker 1: to my nurse. However, the bird, who had only been stunned,
• 3:56:31
  Speaker 1: recovering himself, gave me so many boxes with his wings
• 3:56:35
  Speaker 1: on both sides of my head and body. Though I
• 3:56:38
  Speaker 1: held him at arm's length and was out of reach
• 3:56:40
  Speaker 1: of his claws, that I was twenty times thinking to
• 3:56:43
  Speaker 1: let him go. But I was soon relieved by one
• 3:56:47
  Speaker 1: of our servants, who wrung off the bird's neck, and
• 3:56:51
  Speaker 1: I had him the next day for dinner by the
• 3:56:53
  Speaker 1: Queen's command. This linet, as near as I can remember,
• 3:56:58
  Speaker 1: seemed to be somewhat larger than any English swan. The
• 3:57:02
  Speaker 1: maids of Honor often invited Glumdalklitch to their apartments and
• 3:57:07
  Speaker 1: desired she would bring me along with her on purpose
• 3:57:10
  Speaker 1: to have the pleasure of seeing and touching me. They
• 3:57:13
  Speaker 1: would often strip me naked from toe to toe and
• 3:57:16
  Speaker 1: laying at full length in their bosoms, wherewith I was
• 3:57:20
  Speaker 1: much disgusted, because, to say the truth, a very offensive
• 3:57:25
  Speaker 1: smell came from their skins, which I do not mention
• 3:57:29
  Speaker 1: or intend to the disadvantage of those excellent ladies, for
• 3:57:33
  Speaker 1: whom I have all manner of respect.
• 3:57:36
  Speaker 2: But I can see that my.
• 3:57:37
  Speaker 1: Sense was more acute in proportion to my littleness, and
• 3:57:41
  Speaker 1: that those illustrious persons were no more disagreeable to their
• 3:57:44
  Speaker 1: lovers or to each other than people of the same
• 3:57:48
  Speaker 1: quality are with us in England. And after all I
• 3:57:52
  Speaker 1: found the natural smell was much more supportable than when
• 3:57:56
  Speaker 1: they used perfumes, under which I immediately swam away. I
• 3:58:02
  Speaker 1: cannot forget that an intimate friend of mine in Lilliput
• 3:58:06
  Speaker 1: took the freedom, in a warm day, when I had
• 3:58:09
  Speaker 1: used a good deal of exercise, to complain of a
• 3:58:12
  Speaker 1: strong smell about me, although I am as little faulty
• 3:58:16
  Speaker 1: that way as most of my sex. But I suppose
• 3:58:20
  Speaker 1: his faculty of smelling was as nice with regard to
• 3:58:22
  Speaker 1: me as mine was to that of this people. Upon
• 3:58:27
  Speaker 1: this point I cannot forbear doing justice to the Queen,
• 3:58:29
  Speaker 1: my mistress and Glandale cliched my nurse, whose persons were
• 3:58:34
  Speaker 1: as sweet as those of any lady in England. That
• 3:58:38
  Speaker 1: which gave him most uneasiness among these maids of honor
• 3:58:41
  Speaker 1: when my nurse carried me to visit them, was to
• 3:58:44
  Speaker 1: see them use me without any manner of ceremony, like
• 3:58:48
  Speaker 1: a creature who had no sort of consequence. For they
• 3:58:51
  Speaker 1: would strip themselves to the skin and put on their
• 3:58:54
  Speaker 1: smocks in my presence, while I was placed on their
• 3:58:57
  Speaker 1: toilet directly before their naked bodies, which I am sure
• 3:59:01
  Speaker 1: to me was very far from being a tempting sight,
• 3:59:05
  Speaker 1: or from giving me any other emotions than those of
• 3:59:07
  Speaker 1: horror and disgust. Their skins appeared so coarse and uneven,
• 3:59:13
  Speaker 1: so variously colored when I saw them near, with a
• 3:59:16
  Speaker 1: mole here and there, as broad as a trencher, and
• 3:59:19
  Speaker 1: hairs hanging from it thicker than packthreads. To say nothing
• 3:59:23
  Speaker 1: farther concerning the rest of their persons. Neither did they
• 3:59:28
  Speaker 1: at all scruple when hours by to discharge what they
• 3:59:31
  Speaker 1: had drunk, to the quantity of at least two hogsheads
• 3:59:34
  Speaker 1: in a vessel that held above three tons. The handsomest
• 3:59:38
  Speaker 1: among these maids of honor a pleasant Frolicsome girl of
• 3:59:42
  Speaker 1: sixteen would sometimes set me astride one of her nipples,
• 3:59:46
  Speaker 1: with many other tricks, wherein the reader will excuse me
• 3:59:50
  Speaker 1: for not being over particular. But I was so much
• 3:59:53
  Speaker 1: displeased that I entreated Lumdalklitch to contrive some excuse for
• 3:59:58
  Speaker 1: not seeing that young lady anyoney. One day a young
• 4:00:02
  Speaker 1: gentleman who was nephew to my nurse's governess came and
• 4:00:06
  Speaker 1: pressed them both to see an execution. It was of
• 4:00:10
  Speaker 1: a man who had murdered one of that gentleman's intimate acquaintance,
• 4:00:15
  Speaker 1: Clem Duglet, was prevailed on to be one of the company.
• 4:00:18
  Speaker 1: Very much against her inclination, for she was naturally tender hearted.
• 4:00:24
  Speaker 1: And as for myself, although I bhord such kind of spectacles,
• 4:00:29
  Speaker 1: yet my curiosity tempted me to see something that I
• 4:00:31
  Speaker 1: thought must be extraordinary. The malefactor was fixed in a
• 4:00:36
  Speaker 1: chair upon a scaffield erected for that purpose, and his
• 4:00:40
  Speaker 1: head was cut off at one blow with the sword
• 4:00:43
  Speaker 1: of about forty feet long. The veins and archeries spouted
• 4:00:48
  Speaker 1: up with such a prodigious quantity of blood, and so
• 4:00:51
  Speaker 1: high in the air, that the great Jetdieu at Versailles
• 4:00:56
  Speaker 1: was not equal to it for the time it lasted,
• 4:01:00
  Speaker 1: and the head, when it fell on the scaffield floor,
• 4:01:03
  Speaker 1: gave such a bounce as made me start, although I
• 4:01:06
  Speaker 1: was at least half an English mile distant. The Queen,
• 4:01:10
  Speaker 1: who often used to hear me talk of my sea
• 4:01:12
  Speaker 1: voyages and took all occasions to divert me when I
• 4:01:15
  Speaker 1: was melancholy, asked me whether I understood how to handle
• 4:01:19
  Speaker 1: a sail or an oar, and whether a little exercise
• 4:01:22
  Speaker 1: or rowing might not be convenient for my health. I
• 4:01:27
  Speaker 1: answered that I understood both very well, for although my
• 4:01:31
  Speaker 1: proper employment had been to be a surgeon or a
• 4:01:33
  Speaker 1: doctor to the ship, yet often upon a pinch I
• 4:01:37
  Speaker 1: was forced to work like a common mariner. But I
• 4:01:41
  Speaker 1: could not see how this could be done in their country,
• 4:01:44
  Speaker 1: where the smallest werry was equal to a first rate
• 4:01:47
  Speaker 1: man of war among us, and such a boat as
• 4:01:50
  Speaker 1: I could manage would never live in any.
• 4:01:52
  Speaker 3: Of their rivers.
• 4:01:54
  Speaker 1: Her Majesty said, if I would contrive a boat, her
• 4:01:57
  Speaker 1: own joiner should make it, and she would provide a
• 4:02:00
  Speaker 1: place for me to sail in.
• 4:02:02
  Speaker 2: The fellow was.
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  Speaker 1: An ingenious workman, and by my instructions, in ten days
• 4:02:07
  Speaker 1: finished a pleasure boat, with all its tackling, able conveniently
• 4:02:11
  Speaker 1: to hold eight europeans. When it was finished, the Queen
• 4:02:16
  Speaker 1: was so delighted that she ran with it in her
• 4:02:18
  Speaker 1: lap to the King, who ordered it to be put
• 4:02:21
  Speaker 1: into a cystin full of water, with me in it
• 4:02:24
  Speaker 1: by way of a trial. Or I could not manage
• 4:02:27
  Speaker 1: my two skulls or little laws for want of room.
• 4:02:31
  Speaker 1: But the Queen had before contrived another project. She ordered
• 4:02:35
  Speaker 1: the joiner to make a wooden trough of three hundred
• 4:02:38
  Speaker 1: feet long, fifty broad and eight deep, which, being well
• 4:02:43
  Speaker 1: pitched to prevent leaking, was placed on the floor along
• 4:02:47
  Speaker 1: the wall in the outer room of the palace. It
• 4:02:50
  Speaker 1: had a cork near the bottom to let out the
• 4:02:53
  Speaker 1: water when it began to grow stale, and two servants
• 4:02:56
  Speaker 1: could easily fill it in half an hour. Here I
• 4:03:00
  Speaker 1: often used to row for my own diversion, as well
• 4:03:02
  Speaker 1: as that of the Queen and her ladies, who thought
• 4:03:05
  Speaker 1: themselves well entertained with my skill and agility. Sometimes I
• 4:03:11
  Speaker 1: would put up my sail, and then my business was
• 4:03:13
  Speaker 1: only to steer, while the ladies gave me a girl
• 4:03:16
  Speaker 1: with their fans, and when they were weary, some of
• 4:03:19
  Speaker 1: their pages would blow my cell forward with their breath,
• 4:03:22
  Speaker 1: while I showed my art by steering starboard or larboard
• 4:03:25
  Speaker 1: as I pleased. When I had done, Glumdalklitch always carried
• 4:03:30
  Speaker 1: back my boat into a closet and hung it on
• 4:03:33
  Speaker 1: a nail to dry. In this exercise I once met
• 4:03:37
  Speaker 1: an accident, or should have liked to have cost me
• 4:03:40
  Speaker 1: my life, for one of the pages, having put my
• 4:03:43
  Speaker 1: boat into the trow the governess who attended Glumdalglitch very
• 4:03:48
  Speaker 1: officiously lifted me up to place me in the boat.
• 4:03:53
  Speaker 1: But I happened to slip through her fingers, and should
• 4:03:56
  Speaker 1: have infallibly have fallen down forty feet upon the floor,
• 4:04:00
  Speaker 1: if by the luckiest chance in the world, I had
• 4:04:03
  Speaker 1: not been stopped by a corking pin that stopped in
• 4:04:06
  Speaker 1: the good woman's stomacher, the head of the pin passing
• 4:04:10
  Speaker 1: between my shirt and the waistband of my breeches, and
• 4:04:14
  Speaker 1: thus I was held by the middle in the air
• 4:04:16
  Speaker 1: till Glandalklitch ran to my relief. Another time, one of
• 4:04:21
  Speaker 1: the servants whose office it was to fill my trowel
• 4:04:23
  Speaker 1: every third day with fresh water was so careless as
• 4:04:27
  Speaker 1: to let a huge frog, not perceiving it, slip out
• 4:04:31
  Speaker 1: of his pail.
• 4:04:33
  Speaker 2: The frog lay.
• 4:04:34
  Speaker 1: Concealed till I was put into my boat, and then,
• 4:04:37
  Speaker 1: sensing a resting place, climbed up and made it lean
• 4:04:41
  Speaker 1: so much on one side that I was forced to
• 4:04:43
  Speaker 1: balance it with all my weight on the other to
• 4:04:46
  Speaker 1: prevent overturning. When the frog was got in, it hopped
• 4:04:51
  Speaker 1: at once half the length of my boat, and then
• 4:04:54
  Speaker 1: over my head backward and forward, dubbing my face and
• 4:04:58
  Speaker 1: clothed with its odious slimee. The lardness of its features
• 4:05:03
  Speaker 1: made it appear the most deformed animal that can be conceived. However,
• 4:05:09
  Speaker 1: I desired Glumdalklitch to let me deal with it alone.
• 4:05:13
  Speaker 1: I banged it a good while with one of my skulls,
• 4:05:15
  Speaker 1: and at last forced it to leap out of the boat.
• 4:05:19
  Speaker 2: But the greatest.
• 4:05:20
  Speaker 1: Danger I ever underwent in that kingdom was from a
• 4:05:23
  Speaker 1: monkey who belonged to one of the clerks of the kitchen.
• 4:05:27
  Speaker 1: Glumdalklitch had locked me up in a closet while she
• 4:05:30
  Speaker 1: went somewhere upon business or a visit. The weather being
• 4:05:34
  Speaker 1: very warm, the closet window was left open, as well
• 4:05:38
  Speaker 1: as the windows and the door of my bigger box,
• 4:05:40
  Speaker 1: in which I usually lived because of its largeness and conveniency.
• 4:05:45
  Speaker 1: As I sat quietly meditating at my table, I heard
• 4:05:48
  Speaker 1: something bounce in at the closet window and skip about
• 4:05:52
  Speaker 1: from one side to.
• 4:05:53
  Speaker 2: The other whereat.
• 4:05:56
  Speaker 1: Although I was very much alarmed, yet I ventured to
• 4:05:59
  Speaker 1: look out, but not stirring from my seat. And then
• 4:06:04
  Speaker 1: I saw this frolicsome animal, frisking and leaping up and down,
• 4:06:08
  Speaker 1: till at last he came to my box, which he
• 4:06:10
  Speaker 1: seemed to view with great pleasure and curiosity, peeping in
• 4:06:14
  Speaker 1: at the door and every window. I retreated to the
• 4:06:19
  Speaker 1: farther corner of my room or box, But the monkey
• 4:06:23
  Speaker 1: looking in at every side put me in such a
• 4:06:26
  Speaker 1: fright that I wanted presents of mine to conceal myself
• 4:06:29
  Speaker 1: under the bed, as I might easily have done. After
• 4:06:34
  Speaker 1: some time spent in peeping, grinning, and chattering, he at
• 4:06:38
  Speaker 1: last despied me, and reaching one of his paws in
• 4:06:42
  Speaker 1: at the door, as a cat does when she plays
• 4:06:44
  Speaker 1: with a mouse. Although I often shifted place to avoid him,
• 4:06:48
  Speaker 1: he at length seized the lappet of my coat, which
• 4:06:52
  Speaker 1: being made of that country silk was very thick.
• 4:06:54
  Speaker 2: And strong, and dragged me out.
• 4:06:58
  Speaker 1: He took me in his right fore foot and held
• 4:07:00
  Speaker 1: me as a nurse as a child. She is going
• 4:07:02
  Speaker 1: to suckle, just as I have seen the same sort
• 4:07:04
  Speaker 1: of creature do with a kitten in Europe. And when
• 4:07:08
  Speaker 1: I offered to struggle, he squeezed me so hard that
• 4:07:12
  Speaker 1: I thought it more prudent to submit. I have good
• 4:07:15
  Speaker 1: reason to believe that he took me for a young
• 4:07:17
  Speaker 1: of one of his own species, but is often stroking
• 4:07:20
  Speaker 1: my face very gently with his other paw. In these diversions.
• 4:07:25
  Speaker 1: He was interrupted by a noise at the closet door,
• 4:07:28
  Speaker 1: as if somebody was opening it, whereupon he suddenly leaped
• 4:07:32
  Speaker 1: up to the window at which he had come in,
• 4:07:34
  Speaker 1: and thence upon the leads the gutter, walking upon three legs,
• 4:07:39
  Speaker 1: and told me in the fourth till he climbed up
• 4:07:41
  Speaker 1: to a roof. That was next two hours. I heard
• 4:07:44
  Speaker 1: Glandalklitch give a shriek at the moment he was carrying
• 4:07:47
  Speaker 1: me out. The poor girl was almost distracted. That quarter
• 4:07:52
  Speaker 1: of the palace was all in an uproar. The servants
• 4:07:55
  Speaker 1: ran for ladders. The monkey was seen by hundreds in
• 4:07:58
  Speaker 1: the court, sitting upon the ridge of a bar, holding
• 4:08:01
  Speaker 1: me like a baby in one of his forepaws, and
• 4:08:03
  Speaker 1: feeding me with the other by cramming into my mouth
• 4:08:07
  Speaker 1: some victuals he had squeezed out of the bag on
• 4:08:09
  Speaker 1: one side of his chaps, and patter me when I
• 4:08:12
  Speaker 1: would not eat whereat. Many of the rabble below could
• 4:08:16
  Speaker 1: not forbear laughing. Neither do I think they justly ought
• 4:08:19
  Speaker 1: to be blamed for without question, the sight was ridiculous
• 4:08:23
  Speaker 1: enough to everybody but myself. Some of the people threw
• 4:08:27
  Speaker 1: up stones, hoping to drive the monkey down, but this
• 4:08:31
  Speaker 1: was strictly forbidden, or else very probably my brains had
• 4:08:34
  Speaker 1: been dashed out.
• 4:08:37
  Speaker 2: The ladders were now.
• 4:08:38
  Speaker 1: Applied and mounted by several men, which the monkey, observing,
• 4:08:42
  Speaker 1: and finding himself almost encompassed, not being able to make
• 4:08:45
  Speaker 1: enough speed with his three legs, let me drop on
• 4:08:48
  Speaker 1: a rich tiel, and made his escape. Here. I sat
• 4:08:52
  Speaker 1: for some time five hundred yards from the ground, expecting
• 4:08:56
  Speaker 1: every moment to be blown down by the wind, or
• 4:08:59
  Speaker 1: to fall by my own giddiness and come tumbling over
• 4:09:02
  Speaker 1: and over from the.
• 4:09:03
  Speaker 3: Ridge to the eaves.
• 4:09:05
  Speaker 1: But an honest lad, one of my nurse's footmen climbed up, and,
• 4:09:09
  Speaker 1: putting me into his breeches pocket, brought me down safe.
• 4:09:15
  Speaker 1: I was almost choked with the filthy stuff the monkey
• 4:09:17
  Speaker 1: had crammed down my throat, but my dear little nurse
• 4:09:20
  Speaker 1: picked it out of my mouth with a small needle,
• 4:09:24
  Speaker 1: and then I fell a vomiting, which gave me great relief.
• 4:09:28
  Speaker 2: Yet I was so.
• 4:09:29
  Speaker 1: Weak and bruised in the sides with the squeezes given
• 4:09:31
  Speaker 1: by this odious animal, that I was forced to keep
• 4:09:35
  Speaker 1: my bed a fortnight. The King, Queen and all the
• 4:09:39
  Speaker 1: court sent every day to inquire after my.
• 4:09:41
  Speaker 2: Health, and her majesty made me several visits.
• 4:09:45
  Speaker 1: During my sickness. The monkey was killed and an order
• 4:09:48
  Speaker 1: made that no such animal should be kept about the palace.
• 4:09:52
  Speaker 1: When I attended the King after my recovery to return
• 4:09:55
  Speaker 1: him thanks for his favors, he was pleased to rally
• 4:09:59
  Speaker 1: me a good deal upon this adventure. He asked me
• 4:10:03
  Speaker 1: what my thoughts and speculations were while I lay in
• 4:10:06
  Speaker 1: the monkey's poor, how I liked the victuals he gave
• 4:10:09
  Speaker 1: me his manner of feeding, and whether the fresh air
• 4:10:12
  Speaker 1: on the roof had sharpened my stomach. He desired to
• 4:10:16
  Speaker 1: know what I would have done upon such an occasion
• 4:10:19
  Speaker 1: in my own country. I told his Majesty that in
• 4:10:24
  Speaker 1: Europe we had no monkeys, except such as were brought
• 4:10:27
  Speaker 1: for curiosity from other places, and so small that I
• 4:10:31
  Speaker 1: could deal with a dozen of them together if they presumed.
• 4:10:33
  Speaker 2: To attack me.
• 4:10:35
  Speaker 1: And as of that monstrous animal with whom I am
• 4:10:37
  Speaker 1: so lately engaged, it was indeed as large as an elephant.
• 4:10:42
  Speaker 1: If my fears had suffered me to think so far
• 4:10:44
  Speaker 1: as to make use of my hanger, looking fiercely and
• 4:10:48
  Speaker 1: carrying my hand on the hilt as I spoke, when
• 4:10:51
  Speaker 1: he poked his poor into my chamber, perhaps I should
• 4:10:54
  Speaker 1: have given him such a wound as would have made
• 4:10:56
  Speaker 1: him glad to withdraw it with more haste than he
• 4:10:58
  Speaker 1: put it. In this I delivered in a firm tone,
• 4:11:03
  Speaker 1: like a person who was jealous, lest his courage should
• 4:11:05
  Speaker 1: be called in question. However, my speech produced nothing else
• 4:11:09
  Speaker 1: beside a loud laughter, which all the respect due to
• 4:11:12
  Speaker 1: his Majesty from those about.
• 4:11:14
  Speaker 2: Him could not make them contain.
• 4:11:18
  Speaker 1: As made me reflect how vain an attempt it is
• 4:11:20
  Speaker 1: for a man to endeavor to himself honor among those
• 4:11:24
  Speaker 1: who are out of all degree of equality or comparison
• 4:11:27
  Speaker 1: with him. And yet I have seen the moral of
• 4:11:30
  Speaker 1: my behavior very frequent in England since my return. Were
• 4:11:35
  Speaker 1: a little contemptible Violette, without the least title to birth,
• 4:11:39
  Speaker 1: person wit or common sense, shall presume to look with
• 4:11:42
  Speaker 1: importance and put himself upon a foot with the greatest
• 4:11:45
  Speaker 1: persons of the Kingdom. I was every day furnishing the
• 4:11:49
  Speaker 1: court with some ridiculous story, and Glamdalklitch, although she loved
• 4:11:54
  Speaker 1: me to excess, yet was ard enough to inform the
• 4:11:58
  Speaker 1: Queen whenever I committed any folly that she thought would
• 4:12:01
  Speaker 1: be diverting to her majesty. The girl who had been
• 4:12:05
  Speaker 1: out of order was carried by a governess to take
• 4:12:08
  Speaker 1: the air about an hour's distance or thirty miles from town.
• 4:12:13
  Speaker 1: They alighted out of the coach near a small footpath
• 4:12:16
  Speaker 1: in a field, and Glumdalklitch, setting down my traveling.
• 4:12:20
  Speaker 2: Box, I went out of it to walk.
• 4:12:23
  Speaker 1: There was a cow dung in the path, and I
• 4:12:25
  Speaker 1: must need try my activity by attempting to leap over it.
• 4:12:30
  Speaker 1: I took a run, but unfortunately jumped short and found
• 4:12:34
  Speaker 1: myself just in the middle. Up to my knees. I
• 4:12:38
  Speaker 1: waded through with some difficulty, and one of the footmen
• 4:12:41
  Speaker 1: wiped me as clean as he could with his handkerchief,
• 4:12:44
  Speaker 1: for I was filthy beermurd and my nurse confined me
• 4:12:48
  Speaker 1: to my box till we returned home, where the Queen
• 4:12:52
  Speaker 1: was soon informed of what had passed, and the footmen
• 4:12:55
  Speaker 1: spreaded about the court, so that all the mirth for
• 4:12:59
  Speaker 1: some days was at my expense. End of Part two,
• 4:13:03
  Speaker 1: Chapter five, Chapter six several contrivances of the author to
• 4:13:10
  Speaker 1: please the King and Queen. He shows his skill in music.
• 4:13:14
  Speaker 1: The King inquires into the state of England, which the
• 4:13:17
  Speaker 1: author relates to him the King's observations thereon. I used
• 4:13:23
  Speaker 1: to attend the King's levee once or twice a week,
• 4:13:27
  Speaker 1: and had often seen him under the barber's hand, which
• 4:13:31
  Speaker 1: indeed was at first very terrible to behold, for the
• 4:13:34
  Speaker 1: razor was almost twice as long as an ordinary Scythe
• 4:13:39
  Speaker 1: his majesty, according to the custom of the country, was
• 4:13:43
  Speaker 1: only shaved twice a week. I once prevailed on the
• 4:13:47
  Speaker 1: barber to give me some of the SuDS or lather,
• 4:13:50
  Speaker 1: of which I picked fifty or forty of the strongest
• 4:13:53
  Speaker 1: stumps of hair. I then took a piece of fine
• 4:13:56
  Speaker 1: wood and cut it like the back of a comb,
• 4:14:00
  Speaker 1: making several holes in it at equal distances. With as
• 4:14:03
  Speaker 1: small a needle as I could get from Glumdalklitch. I
• 4:14:07
  Speaker 1: fixed in the stumps so artificially, scraping and slopping them
• 4:14:11
  Speaker 1: with my knife towards the points that I made a
• 4:14:14
  Speaker 1: very tolerable comb, which was a seasonal supply, my own
• 4:14:19
  Speaker 1: being so much broken in the teeth that it was
• 4:14:22
  Speaker 1: almost useless. Neither did I know any artist in that
• 4:14:26
  Speaker 1: country so nice and exact as would undertake to make
• 4:14:30
  Speaker 1: me another. And this puts me in mind of an
• 4:14:33
  Speaker 1: amusement where I spent many of my leisure hours.
• 4:14:38
  Speaker 2: I desired the.
• 4:14:38
  Speaker 1: Queen's woman to save for me the combings of her
• 4:14:41
  Speaker 1: Majesty's hair, whereof in good time I got a good quantity,
• 4:14:47
  Speaker 1: and consulting with my friend the cabinet maker, who had
• 4:14:51
  Speaker 1: received general orders to do little jobs for me, I
• 4:14:54
  Speaker 1: directed him to make two chair frames no larger than
• 4:14:58
  Speaker 1: those I had in my box, and to bore little
• 4:15:00
  Speaker 1: holes with a fine aul round those parts where I
• 4:15:04
  Speaker 1: designed the backs and seats. Through these holes I wore
• 4:15:08
  Speaker 1: of the strongest hairs I could pick out just after
• 4:15:11
  Speaker 1: the manner of cane chairs in England. When they were finished,
• 4:15:16
  Speaker 1: I made a present of them to Her Majesty, who
• 4:15:19
  Speaker 1: kept them in her cabinet and used to show them
• 4:15:22
  Speaker 1: for curiosities, as indeed they were the wonder of every one.
• 4:15:26
  Speaker 2: That beheld them.
• 4:15:28
  Speaker 1: The Queen would have me sit upon one of these chairs,
• 4:15:32
  Speaker 1: but I absolutely refused to obey her, protesting I would
• 4:15:36
  Speaker 1: rather die than place a dishonorable part of my body
• 4:15:39
  Speaker 1: on those precious hairs that once adorned Her Majesty's head.
• 4:15:44
  Speaker 2: Of these hairs, as I.
• 4:15:46
  Speaker 1: Had always a mechanical genius, I likewise made a neat
• 4:15:50
  Speaker 1: little purse about five feet long, with Her Majesty's name
• 4:15:55
  Speaker 1: deciphered in gold letters, which I gave to Glumdale Clitch
• 4:15:59
  Speaker 1: by the Queen's consent. To say the truth, it was
• 4:16:04
  Speaker 1: more for show than use, being not of strength to
• 4:16:07
  Speaker 1: bear the weight of the larger coins, and therefore she
• 4:16:11
  Speaker 1: kept nothing in it but some little toys that girls
• 4:16:14
  Speaker 1: are fond of. The King, who delighted in music, had
• 4:16:18
  Speaker 1: frequent concert at court, at which I was sometimes carried
• 4:16:23
  Speaker 1: and set in my box on a table to hear them.
• 4:16:27
  Speaker 1: But the noise was so great that I could hardly
• 4:16:29
  Speaker 1: distinguish the tunes. I am confident that all the drums
• 4:16:33
  Speaker 1: and trumpets of a royal army, beating and sounding together
• 4:16:37
  Speaker 1: just at your ears, could not equal it. My practice
• 4:16:41
  Speaker 1: was to have my box removed from the place where
• 4:16:43
  Speaker 1: the performers sat as far as I could, then to
• 4:16:47
  Speaker 1: shut the doors and windows of it, and draw the
• 4:16:50
  Speaker 1: window curtains, after which I found their music not disagreeable.
• 4:16:57
  Speaker 1: I had learned in my youth to play a little
• 4:16:59
  Speaker 1: upon the spin yet plum Ducklet kept one in her chamber,
• 4:17:04
  Speaker 1: and a master attended twice a week to teach her.
• 4:17:08
  Speaker 1: I called it a spinnet because it somewhat resembled that
• 4:17:11
  Speaker 1: instrument and was played upon in the same manner. A
• 4:17:16
  Speaker 1: fancy came into my head that I would entertain the
• 4:17:19
  Speaker 1: King and Queen with an English tune upon this instrument,
• 4:17:24
  Speaker 1: But this appeared extremely difficult, for the spinnet was near
• 4:17:27
  Speaker 1: sixty feet long, each key being almost a foot wide,
• 4:17:32
  Speaker 1: so that with my arms extended I could not reach
• 4:17:36
  Speaker 1: to above five keys, and to press them down required
• 4:17:39
  Speaker 1: a good smart stroke with my fist, which would be
• 4:17:43
  Speaker 1: too great a labor, and to no purpose. The method
• 4:17:47
  Speaker 1: I contrived was this. I prepared two round sticks about
• 4:17:52
  Speaker 1: the bigness of common cudgels. They were thicker at one
• 4:17:56
  Speaker 1: end than the other, and I covered the thicker ends
• 4:17:59
  Speaker 1: with pieces of a man else's skin, that by wrapping
• 4:18:02
  Speaker 1: on them I might neither damage the tops of the
• 4:18:04
  Speaker 1: keys nor interrupt the sound. Before the spinnet, a bench
• 4:18:10
  Speaker 1: was placed about four feet below the keys, and I
• 4:18:14
  Speaker 1: was put upon the bench. I ran sidelong upon it
• 4:18:19
  Speaker 1: that way in this as fast as I could, banging
• 4:18:23
  Speaker 1: the proper keys with my two sticks, and made a
• 4:18:25
  Speaker 1: shift to play a jig, to the great satisfaction of
• 4:18:29
  Speaker 1: both their majesties. But it was the most violent exercise
• 4:18:34
  Speaker 1: I ever underwent, and yet I could not strike above
• 4:18:37
  Speaker 1: sixteen keys, nor consequently played the bass and travel together
• 4:18:43
  Speaker 1: as other artists do, which was a great disadvantage to
• 4:18:47
  Speaker 1: my performance. The King, who as I before observed, was
• 4:18:53
  Speaker 1: a prince of excellent understanding, would frequently order that I
• 4:18:57
  Speaker 1: should be brought in my box and set upon the
• 4:19:00
  Speaker 1: table in his closet. He would then command me to
• 4:19:03
  Speaker 1: bring one of my chairs out of the box and
• 4:19:06
  Speaker 1: sit down within three yards distance upon the top of
• 4:19:09
  Speaker 1: the cabinet, which brought me almost to a level with
• 4:19:12
  Speaker 1: his face. In this manner I had several conversations with him.
• 4:19:19
  Speaker 1: I one day took the freedom to tell his Majesty
• 4:19:22
  Speaker 1: that the contempt he discovered towards Europe and the rest
• 4:19:25
  Speaker 1: of the world did not seem answerable to those excellent
• 4:19:28
  Speaker 1: qualities of mind that he was master of. That reason
• 4:19:32
  Speaker 1: did not extend itself with the bulk of the body.
• 4:19:35
  Speaker 1: On the contrary, we observed in our country that the
• 4:19:39
  Speaker 1: tallest persons were usually the least provided with it, that
• 4:19:44
  Speaker 1: among other animals, bees and ants has the reputation of
• 4:19:47
  Speaker 1: more industry, art and sagacity that many of the larger kinds,
• 4:19:53
  Speaker 1: And that, as inconsiderable as he took me to be,
• 4:19:57
  Speaker 1: I hoped I might live to do his Majesty's sum
• 4:19:59
  Speaker 1: signs service. The King heard me with attention, and began
• 4:20:05
  Speaker 1: to conceive a much better opinion of me than he
• 4:20:08
  Speaker 1: ever had before. He desired I would give him as
• 4:20:13
  Speaker 1: exact an account of the government of England as I
• 4:20:15
  Speaker 1: possibly could, because as fond as princes commonly are of
• 4:20:20
  Speaker 1: their own customs, for so he conjectured of other monarchs
• 4:20:24
  Speaker 1: by my former discourses, he should be glad to hear
• 4:20:27
  Speaker 1: of anything that might deserve imitation. Imagine with thyself, courteous reader,
• 4:20:34
  Speaker 1: how often I then wished for the tongue of Demosthenes
• 4:20:37
  Speaker 1: or Cicero, that might have enabled me to celebrate the
• 4:20:41
  Speaker 1: praise of my own dear native country in a style
• 4:20:44
  Speaker 1: equal to its merits and felicity. I began my discourse
• 4:20:50
  Speaker 1: by informing His Majesty that our Dominions consisted of two islands,
• 4:20:55
  Speaker 1: which composed three mighty kingdoms under one sovereign. Besides I
• 4:21:00
  Speaker 1: plantations in America, I dwelt long upon the fertility of
• 4:21:04
  Speaker 1: our soil and the temperature of our climate. I then
• 4:21:08
  Speaker 1: spoke at large upon the constitution of an English Parliament,
• 4:21:12
  Speaker 1: partly made up of an illustrious body called the House
• 4:21:14
  Speaker 1: of Peers. Persons of the noblest blood and of the
• 4:21:18
  Speaker 1: most ancient and ample patrimonies. I described as extraordinary care
• 4:21:24
  Speaker 1: always taken of their education in arts and arms, to
• 4:21:28
  Speaker 1: qualify them for being counselors both to the King and kingdom,
• 4:21:32
  Speaker 1: to have a share in the legislature, to be member
• 4:21:35
  Speaker 1: of the highest court of judicator, whence there can be
• 4:21:39
  Speaker 1: no appeal, and to be champions always ready for the
• 4:21:43
  Speaker 1: defense of their prince and country by their valor, conduct
• 4:21:47
  Speaker 1: and fidelity. That these were the ornament and bulwark of
• 4:21:51
  Speaker 1: the kingdom, worthy followers of their most renowned ancestors, whose
• 4:21:56
  Speaker 1: honour had been the reward of their virtue, from which
• 4:21:59
  Speaker 1: their posterity were in once known to degenerate.
• 4:22:03
  Speaker 2: To these were joined.
• 4:22:04
  Speaker 1: Several holy persons as part of that assembly, under the
• 4:22:09
  Speaker 1: title of bishops, whose peculiar business is to take care
• 4:22:12
  Speaker 1: of religion, and of those who instruct the people therein.
• 4:22:17
  Speaker 1: These were searched and sought out through the whole nation
• 4:22:20
  Speaker 1: by the Prince and his wisest counselors, among such of
• 4:22:24
  Speaker 1: the priesthood as were most deservedly distinguished by the sanctity
• 4:22:28
  Speaker 1: of their lives and the depth of their erudition, who
• 4:22:32
  Speaker 1: were indeed the spiritual fathers of the clergy and the people.
• 4:22:38
  Speaker 1: That the other part of the Parliament consisted of an
• 4:22:40
  Speaker 1: assembly called the House of Commons, who were all principal gentlemen,
• 4:22:45
  Speaker 1: freely picked and called out by the people themselves for
• 4:22:49
  Speaker 1: their great abilities in love of their country, to represent
• 4:22:53
  Speaker 1: the wisdom of the whole nation. And that these two
• 4:22:56
  Speaker 1: bodies made up the most august assembly in Europe, to whom,
• 4:23:01
  Speaker 1: in conjecture with the Prince, the whole legislature is committed.
• 4:23:06
  Speaker 1: I then descended to the courts of justice, over which
• 4:23:09
  Speaker 1: the judges, those venerable sages and interpreters of the law
• 4:23:13
  Speaker 1: presided for determine the disputed rights and properties of men,
• 4:23:19
  Speaker 1: as well as for the punishment of vice and protection
• 4:23:21
  Speaker 1: of innocence. I mentioned the prudent management of our treasury,
• 4:23:26
  Speaker 1: the valor and achievements of our forces by sea and land.
• 4:23:31
  Speaker 1: I computed the number of our people by reckoning how
• 4:23:34
  Speaker 1: many millions they might be, of each religious sect or
• 4:23:37
  Speaker 1: political party among us. I did not omit even our
• 4:23:41
  Speaker 1: sports and pastimes, or any other particular which I thought
• 4:23:45
  Speaker 1: might redoubt to the honor of my country. And I
• 4:23:49
  Speaker 1: finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and
• 4:23:53
  Speaker 1: events in England for about a hundred years past. This
• 4:23:57
  Speaker 1: conversation was not ended. Under five audiences, each of several hours,
• 4:24:04
  Speaker 1: and the King heard of the whole with great attention,
• 4:24:07
  Speaker 1: frequently taking notes of what I spoke, as well as
• 4:24:11
  Speaker 1: memorandums of what questions he intended to ask me. When
• 4:24:15
  Speaker 1: I had put an end to these long discourses, his
• 4:24:18
  Speaker 1: majesty in a Sith audience. Consulting his notes, proposed many doubts, queries,
• 4:24:24
  Speaker 1: and objections upon every article. He asked, what methods were
• 4:24:30
  Speaker 1: used to cultivate the minds and bodies of a young nobility,
• 4:24:34
  Speaker 1: and in what kind of business they commonly spent the
• 4:24:36
  Speaker 1: first and teachable parts of their lives. What course was
• 4:24:40
  Speaker 1: taken to supply that assembly when any noble family became extinct.
• 4:24:45
  Speaker 1: What qualifications were necessary in those who are to be
• 4:24:48
  Speaker 1: created new lords, Whether the humor of the prince, a
• 4:24:53
  Speaker 1: sum of money to a court lady, or a design
• 4:24:56
  Speaker 1: of strengthening a party opposite to the public interest, What
• 4:25:00
  Speaker 1: ever happened to be the motive in those advancements. What
• 4:25:04
  Speaker 1: share of knowledge these lords had in the laws of
• 4:25:06
  Speaker 1: their country, and how they came by it so as
• 4:25:10
  Speaker 1: to enable them to decide the properties of their fellow
• 4:25:12
  Speaker 1: subjects in the last resort. Whether they were always so
• 4:25:16
  Speaker 1: free from avarist partialities or want that a bribe or
• 4:25:21
  Speaker 1: some other sinister view could have no place among them.
• 4:25:26
  Speaker 1: Whether those holy lords I spoke of were always promoted
• 4:25:29
  Speaker 1: to that rank upon account of their knowledge of religious
• 4:25:32
  Speaker 1: matters and the sanctity of their lives had never been
• 4:25:36
  Speaker 1: compliers with the times, while they were common priests or
• 4:25:41
  Speaker 1: slavish prostitute chaplains to some noblemen, whose opinions then continued
• 4:25:45
  Speaker 1: servilely to follow after they admitted into the Assembly. He
• 4:25:51
  Speaker 1: then desired to know what arts were practiced in electing
• 4:25:54
  Speaker 1: those whom I called commoners, whether a stranger with a
• 4:25:59
  Speaker 1: strong purse might not influence the vulgar voters to choose
• 4:26:03
  Speaker 1: him before their own landlord or the most considerable gentlemen
• 4:26:08
  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. How it came to pass that people
• 4:26:12
  Speaker 1: were so violently bent upon getting into this assembly, which
• 4:26:16
  Speaker 1: I allowed to be a great trouble and expense, often
• 4:26:20
  Speaker 1: to the ruin of their families, without any salary or pension.
• 4:26:25
  Speaker 1: Because this appeared such an exalted strain of virtue and
• 4:26:28
  Speaker 1: public spirit, that his Majesty seemed to doubt it might
• 4:26:32
  Speaker 1: possibly not be always sincere. And he desired to know
• 4:26:37
  Speaker 1: whether such a zealous gentlemen could have any views of
• 4:26:40
  Speaker 1: refunding themselves for the charge and trouble they were at
• 4:26:44
  Speaker 1: by sacrificing the public good to the designs of a
• 4:26:47
  Speaker 1: weak and vicious prince in conjunction with a corrupted ministry.
• 4:26:53
  Speaker 1: He multiplied his questions and sifted me thoroughly upon every
• 4:26:57
  Speaker 1: part of this head, proposing numberless inquiries and objections, which
• 4:27:02
  Speaker 1: I think it is not prudent or convenient to repeat
• 4:27:07
  Speaker 1: upon what I said in relation to our courts of justice.
• 4:27:11
  Speaker 1: His Majesty desire to be satisfied in several points, and
• 4:27:15
  Speaker 1: this I was better able to do, having been formerly
• 4:27:19
  Speaker 1: almost ruined by a long suit in chancery, which was
• 4:27:23
  Speaker 1: decreed for me with costs. He asked what time was
• 4:27:28
  Speaker 1: usually spent in determining between right and wrong, and what
• 4:27:31
  Speaker 1: degree of expense. Whether advocators and orators had liberty to
• 4:27:36
  Speaker 1: plead in cases manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive,
• 4:27:43
  Speaker 1: whether party in religion or politics were observed to be
• 4:27:47
  Speaker 1: any weight in the scale of justice, Whether those pleading
• 4:27:51
  Speaker 1: orators were persons educated in the general knowledge of equity
• 4:27:55
  Speaker 1: or only in provincial, national, and other local customs, Whether
• 4:28:01
  Speaker 1: they or their judges had any part in penning those
• 4:28:04
  Speaker 1: laws which they assumed the liberty of interpreting and glossing
• 4:28:09
  Speaker 1: upon it their pleasure. Whether they had ever, at different
• 4:28:13
  Speaker 1: times pleaded for and against the same cause, And cited
• 4:28:18
  Speaker 1: precedents to prove contrary opinions, whether they were rich or
• 4:28:23
  Speaker 1: a poor corporation, whether they received any pycuniary reward for
• 4:28:28
  Speaker 1: pleading or delivering their opinions, and particularly whether they were
• 4:28:33
  Speaker 1: ever admitted as members in the Lower Senate. He fell
• 4:28:38
  Speaker 1: next upon the management of our treasury, and said he
• 4:28:41
  Speaker 1: thought my memory had failed me, because I computed our
• 4:28:45
  Speaker 1: taxes at about five or six million a year, and
• 4:28:48
  Speaker 1: when I came to mention the issues, he found they
• 4:28:51
  Speaker 1: sometimes amounted to more than double. For the notes he
• 4:28:54
  Speaker 1: had taken. Were very particular in this point, because he hoped,
• 4:28:58
  Speaker 1: as he told me, that the knowledge of our conduct
• 4:29:01
  Speaker 1: might be useful to him, and he couldnot be deceived
• 4:29:05
  Speaker 1: in his calculations. But if what I told him were true,
• 4:29:10
  Speaker 1: he was still at a loss how a kingdom could
• 4:29:12
  Speaker 1: run out of its estate like a private person. He
• 4:29:16
  Speaker 1: asked me who were our creditors, and where we found
• 4:29:19
  Speaker 1: money to pay them. He wandered to hear me talk
• 4:29:23
  Speaker 1: of such chargeable and expensive wars, that certainly we must
• 4:29:29
  Speaker 1: be a quarrelsome people, all of among very bad neighbors,
• 4:29:33
  Speaker 1: and that our generals must needs be richer than our kings,
• 4:29:38
  Speaker 1: He asked what business we had out of our own islands,
• 4:29:42
  Speaker 1: unless upon the score of trade or treaty, or to
• 4:29:46
  Speaker 1: defend the coasts with our fleet. Above all, he was
• 4:29:50
  Speaker 1: amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army
• 4:29:53
  Speaker 1: in the midst of peace and among a free people.
• 4:29:57
  Speaker 1: He said, if we were going, and by our own
• 4:30:00
  Speaker 1: consent in the persons of our representatives, he could not
• 4:30:04
  Speaker 1: imagine of whom we were afraid, or against whom we
• 4:30:07
  Speaker 1: were to fight. And would hear my opinion whether a
• 4:30:11
  Speaker 1: private man's house might not be better defended by himself,
• 4:30:15
  Speaker 1: his children, and his family than by half a dozen
• 4:30:19
  Speaker 1: rascals picked up at a venture in the streets for
• 4:30:21
  Speaker 1: small wages, who might get a hundred times more by
• 4:30:25
  Speaker 1: cutting their throats. He laughed at my odd kind of arithmetic,
• 4:30:30
  Speaker 1: as he was pleased to call it, In reckoning the
• 4:30:33
  Speaker 1: numbers of our people by a computation drawn from the
• 4:30:36
  Speaker 1: several sects among us in religion and politics, he said,
• 4:30:41
  Speaker 1: he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions pudicial
• 4:30:45
  Speaker 1: to the public should be obliged to change, or should
• 4:30:49
  Speaker 1: not be obliged to conceal them. And as It was
• 4:30:53
  Speaker 1: tyranny in any government to require the first, so it
• 4:30:57
  Speaker 1: was weakness not to enforce the second. For a man
• 4:31:00
  Speaker 1: may be allowed to keep poisons in his closet, but
• 4:31:03
  Speaker 1: not to vend them about for cordials. He observed that
• 4:31:09
  Speaker 1: among the divisions of our nobility and gentry I had
• 4:31:12
  Speaker 1: mentioned gaming. He desired to know at what aige this
• 4:31:16
  Speaker 1: entertainment was usually taken up, and when it was laid down,
• 4:31:21
  Speaker 1: how much of their time it employed, whether it ever
• 4:31:24
  Speaker 1: went so high as to affect their fortune, where the mean,
• 4:31:28
  Speaker 1: vicious people, by their dexterity in that art, might not
• 4:31:32
  Speaker 1: arrive at greater riches, and sometimes keep our very nobles independence,
• 4:31:38
  Speaker 1: as well as habituate them to vile companions, wholly take
• 4:31:42
  Speaker 1: them from the improvement of their minds, and force them,
• 4:31:45
  Speaker 1: by the losses they received, to learn and practice that
• 4:31:49
  Speaker 1: infamous dexterity upon others. He was perfectly astonished with the
• 4:31:54
  Speaker 1: historical account given him of our affairs during the last century.
• 4:32:01
  Speaker 1: It was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments,
• 4:32:07
  Speaker 1: the very worst effects of avarice, fiction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice,
• 4:32:18
  Speaker 1: and ambition could produce his majesty. In another audience, was
• 4:32:25
  Speaker 1: at pains to recapitulate the sum of all I had spoken,
• 4:32:29
  Speaker 1: compared to the questions he had made with the answers
• 4:32:32
  Speaker 1: I had given. Then taken me into his hands and
• 4:32:36
  Speaker 1: stroken me gently delivered himself in these words, which I
• 4:32:41
  Speaker 1: shall never forget, nor the manner he spoke them in.
• 4:32:45
  Speaker 1: My little friend, Guildric, you've made a most admirable penegic
• 4:32:48
  Speaker 1: upon your country. You've clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and
• 4:32:53
  Speaker 1: vice are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator, that
• 4:32:58
  Speaker 1: laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied by those whose
• 4:33:02
  Speaker 1: interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them.
• 4:33:07
  Speaker 1: I observe among you some lines of an institution which
• 4:33:11
  Speaker 1: in its original might.
• 4:33:12
  Speaker 2: Have been tolerable.
• 4:33:14
  Speaker 1: But these half are raised, and the rest wholly blurred
• 4:33:17
  Speaker 1: and blotted by corruptions. It does not appear from all
• 4:33:21
  Speaker 1: you have said, how any one perfection is required towards
• 4:33:25
  Speaker 1: the procurement of any one station among you, much less
• 4:33:29
  Speaker 1: that men are ennobled on account of their virtue, that
• 4:33:33
  Speaker 1: priests are advanced for their piety or learning, soldiers for
• 4:33:37
  Speaker 1: their conduct or valor judges for their integrity, senators for
• 4:33:41
  Speaker 1: the love of their country, or counselors for their wisdom.
• 4:33:46
  Speaker 1: As for yourself, continued the King, who have spent the
• 4:33:50
  Speaker 1: greatest part of your life in traveling, I am well
• 4:33:53
  Speaker 1: disposed to hope you may hither have escaped many vices
• 4:33:55
  Speaker 1: of your country. But by what I have gathered from
• 4:33:59
  Speaker 1: your own read and the answers I have, with much
• 4:34:02
  Speaker 1: pains wrung and exhorted from you, I cannot but conclude
• 4:34:06
  Speaker 1: the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious
• 4:34:09
  Speaker 1: race of little, odious vermin that nature ever suffered to
• 4:34:13
  Speaker 1: crawl upon the surface of the earth. End of Part two,
• 4:34:17
  Speaker 1: Chapter six, Chapter seven, the author's love of his country.
• 4:34:24
  Speaker 1: He makes a proposal of much advantage to the King,
• 4:34:27
  Speaker 1: which is rejected the King's great ignorance in politics, the
• 4:34:32
  Speaker 1: learning of that country very imperfect and confined, the laws
• 4:34:37
  Speaker 1: and military affairs, and parties in the state. Nothing but
• 4:34:41
  Speaker 1: an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from
• 4:34:44
  Speaker 1: concealing this part of my story. It was in vain
• 4:34:48
  Speaker 1: to discover my resentments, which were always turned into ridicule,
• 4:34:52
  Speaker 1: and I was forced to rest with patience while my
• 4:34:56
  Speaker 1: noble and beloved country was so injuously treated. I am
• 4:35:00
  Speaker 1: as heartily sorry as any of my readers can possibly
• 4:35:03
  Speaker 1: be that such an occasion was given. But this prince
• 4:35:08
  Speaker 1: happened to be so curious and inquisitive upon every particular
• 4:35:13
  Speaker 1: that it could not consist, either with gratitude or good
• 4:35:16
  Speaker 1: manners to refuse giving him what satisfaction I was able.
• 4:35:21
  Speaker 1: Yet thus much I may be allowed to say in
• 4:35:24
  Speaker 1: my own vindication that I artfully eluded many of his
• 4:35:29
  Speaker 1: questions and gave to every point a more favorable turn
• 4:35:33
  Speaker 1: by many degrees. Then the strictness of truth would allow.
• 4:35:39
  Speaker 1: For I have always borne that laudable partiality to my
• 4:35:42
  Speaker 1: own country, which Dionysius Halicarnassus, with so much justice, recommend
• 4:35:49
  Speaker 1: to an historian. I would hide the frailties and deformities
• 4:35:54
  Speaker 1: of my political mother and place her virtues and beauties
• 4:35:58
  Speaker 1: in the most advantageous light. This was my sincere endeavor
• 4:36:03
  Speaker 1: in those many discourses I had with that monarch, although
• 4:36:07
  Speaker 1: it unfortunately failed a success. But great allowances should be
• 4:36:13
  Speaker 1: given to a king who lives wholly secluded from the
• 4:36:16
  Speaker 1: rest of the world, and must therefore be altogether unacquainted
• 4:36:21
  Speaker 1: with the manners and customs that most prevail in other nations,
• 4:36:27
  Speaker 1: the want of which knowledge will ever produce many prejudices
• 4:36:31
  Speaker 1: and a certain narrowness of thinking, for which we and
• 4:36:35
  Speaker 1: the politer countries of Europe are wholly exempt. And it
• 4:36:40
  Speaker 1: would be hard, indeed, if so a mode of Prince's
• 4:36:43
  Speaker 1: notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as
• 4:36:47
  Speaker 1: a standard for all mankind. To confirm what I have
• 4:36:52
  Speaker 1: now said, and further to show the miserable effects of
• 4:36:55
  Speaker 1: confined education, I shall hear in cert a passage which
• 4:37:00
  Speaker 1: will hardly obtain belief. In hopes to ingratiate myself further
• 4:37:06
  Speaker 1: into His Majesty's favor, I told him of an invention
• 4:37:10
  Speaker 1: discovered between three and four hundred years ago, to make
• 4:37:13
  Speaker 1: a certain powder into a heap of which the smallest
• 4:37:17
  Speaker 1: spark of fire falling would kindle the whole in a moment,
• 4:37:22
  Speaker 1: although it were as big as a mountain, and make
• 4:37:25
  Speaker 1: it all fly up in the air, together with a
• 4:37:28
  Speaker 1: noise and agitation greater than thunder. That a proper quantity
• 4:37:33
  Speaker 1: of this powder rammed into a hollow tube of brass
• 4:37:36
  Speaker 1: or iron, according to its bigness, would drive a ball
• 4:37:40
  Speaker 1: of iron or lead with such violence and speed as
• 4:37:44
  Speaker 1: nothing was able to sustain its force, that the largest
• 4:37:48
  Speaker 1: balls thus discharged would not only destroy whole ranks of
• 4:37:52
  Speaker 1: an army at once, but batter the strongest walls to
• 4:37:56
  Speaker 1: the ground, sink down ships with a thousand men in
• 4:37:59
  Speaker 1: eas each to the bottom of the sea, and when
• 4:38:03
  Speaker 1: linked together by a chain, would cut through masts and rigging,
• 4:38:08
  Speaker 1: divide hundreds of bodies in the middle, and lay all
• 4:38:11
  Speaker 1: waste before them. That we often put this powder into
• 4:38:16
  Speaker 1: large hollow bars of iron, and discharged them by an
• 4:38:19
  Speaker 1: engine into some city we were besieging, which would rip
• 4:38:24
  Speaker 1: up the pavements, tear the houses to pieces, burst and
• 4:38:28
  Speaker 1: throw splinters on every side, dashing out the brains of
• 4:38:32
  Speaker 1: all who came near. That I knew the ingredients very well,
• 4:38:38
  Speaker 1: which were cheap and common. I understood the manner of
• 4:38:42
  Speaker 1: compounding them, and could direct his workmen how to make
• 4:38:45
  Speaker 1: those tubes of a size proportional to all other things
• 4:38:49
  Speaker 1: in His Majesty's kingdom. And the largest need not be
• 4:38:53
  Speaker 1: above a hundred feet long, twenty or thirty of which
• 4:38:57
  Speaker 1: tubes charged with the proper quantity of powder and bulls,
• 4:39:02
  Speaker 1: would batter down the walls of the strongest town in
• 4:39:04
  Speaker 1: his dominions in a few hours, or destroy the whole metropolis,
• 4:39:10
  Speaker 1: if ever, it should pretend to dispute his absolute commands.
• 4:39:16
  Speaker 1: This I humbly offered to his Majesty as a small
• 4:39:19
  Speaker 1: tribute of acknowledgment, in turn for so many marks that
• 4:39:22
  Speaker 1: I had received of his royal favor and protection. The
• 4:39:27
  Speaker 1: King was struck with horror at the description I had
• 4:39:29
  Speaker 1: given of those terrible engines and the proposal I had made.
• 4:39:34
  Speaker 1: He was amazed, how so impotent and groveling an insector's eye,
• 4:39:39
  Speaker 1: these were his expressions, could entertain such inhuman ideas, and
• 4:39:44
  Speaker 1: in so familiar a manner as to appear wholly unmoved
• 4:39:48
  Speaker 1: at the scenes of blood and desolation, which I had
• 4:39:51
  Speaker 1: painted as the common effects of those destructive machines, whereof
• 4:39:57
  Speaker 1: he said, some evil genius enemy to mankind, must have
• 4:40:01
  Speaker 1: been the first contriver. As for himself, he protested that
• 4:40:08
  Speaker 1: although a few things delighted him so much as new
• 4:40:10
  Speaker 1: discoveries in art or in nature, yet he would rather
• 4:40:14
  Speaker 1: lose half his kingdom than be privy to such a secret,
• 4:40:19
  Speaker 1: which he commanded me as I valued my life, never
• 4:40:22
  Speaker 1: to mention any more a strange effect of narrow principles
• 4:40:27
  Speaker 1: and views that the Prince, possessed of air equality, which
• 4:40:32
  Speaker 1: procures venetration, love and esteem of strong parts, great wisdom
• 4:40:37
  Speaker 1: and profound learning, endowed with admirable talents, and almost adored
• 4:40:43
  Speaker 1: by his subjects, should from a nice, unnecessary scruple, whereof
• 4:40:48
  Speaker 1: in Europe we can have no conception let slip an
• 4:40:52
  Speaker 1: opportunity put into his hands that would have made him
• 4:40:55
  Speaker 1: absolute master of the lies, the liberties, and the fortunes
• 4:40:59
  Speaker 1: of his people. Neither do I say this with the
• 4:41:04
  Speaker 1: least intention to distract from the many virtues of that
• 4:41:07
  Speaker 1: excellent King, whose character I am sensible, will on this
• 4:41:12
  Speaker 1: account be very much lessened in the opinion of an
• 4:41:14
  Speaker 1: English reader. But I take this defect among them to
• 4:41:19
  Speaker 1: have risen from their ignorance by not having hither I
• 4:41:22
  Speaker 1: reduced politics into a science, as the more acute wits of.
• 4:41:26
  Speaker 2: Europe have done.
• 4:41:29
  Speaker 1: For I remember very well in a discourse one day
• 4:41:33
  Speaker 1: with the King, when I happened to say that there
• 4:41:36
  Speaker 1: were several thousand books among us written upon the art
• 4:41:39
  Speaker 1: of government, it gave him, directly contrary to my intention,
• 4:41:44
  Speaker 1: a very mean opinion of our understandings. He professed both
• 4:41:50
  Speaker 1: to abominate and despise all mystery, refinement, and intrigue. Either
• 4:41:55
  Speaker 1: in a prince or a minister. He could not tell
• 4:41:58
  Speaker 1: what I meant by secrets of state where an enemy
• 4:42:02
  Speaker 1: or some rival nation were not in the case. He
• 4:42:06
  Speaker 1: confined the knowledge of governing within very narrow bounds, to
• 4:42:10
  Speaker 1: common sense and reason, to justice and lenientity, to the
• 4:42:14
  Speaker 1: speedy determination of civil and criminal causes, with some other
• 4:42:20
  Speaker 1: obvious topics which are not worth considering, And he gave
• 4:42:24
  Speaker 1: it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears
• 4:42:27
  Speaker 1: of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon
• 4:42:30
  Speaker 1: a spot of ground where any one grew before, would
• 4:42:33
  Speaker 1: deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to
• 4:42:36
  Speaker 1: his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
• 4:42:42
  Speaker 1: The learning of this people is very defective, consisting only
• 4:42:46
  Speaker 1: a morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must.
• 4:42:51
  Speaker 2: Be allowed to excel.
• 4:42:53
  Speaker 1: But the last of these is wholly applied to what
• 4:42:56
  Speaker 1: may be useful in life, to the improvement of agriculture
• 4:43:00
  Speaker 1: and or mechanical arts, so that among us it would
• 4:43:05
  Speaker 1: be little esteemed. And as to ideas in treaties, abstractions,
• 4:43:10
  Speaker 1: and transcendentals, I could never drive the least conception into
• 4:43:14
  Speaker 1: their heads. No law in that country must exceed, in
• 4:43:19
  Speaker 1: words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists
• 4:43:23
  Speaker 1: only of two and twenty. But indeed few of them
• 4:43:27
  Speaker 1: extend even to that length. They are expressed in the
• 4:43:30
  Speaker 1: most plain and simple terms, wherein those people are not
• 4:43:35
  Speaker 1: mercurial enough to discover above one interpretation, and to write
• 4:43:40
  Speaker 1: a comment upon any law.
• 4:43:41
  Speaker 2: Is a capital crime.
• 4:43:44
  Speaker 1: As to the decision of civil causes or proceedings against criminals,
• 4:43:50
  Speaker 1: their precedents are so few that they have little reason
• 4:43:53
  Speaker 1: to boast of any extraordinary skill in either.
• 4:43:57
  Speaker 2: They have had the art of printing as well.
• 4:44:00
  Speaker 1: As the Chinese time out of mind. But the libraries
• 4:44:04
  Speaker 1: are not very large, for that of the King, which
• 4:44:08
  Speaker 1: is reckoned. The largest does not amount to above a
• 4:44:11
  Speaker 1: thousand volumes placed in a gallery of twelve hundred feet long.
• 4:44:16
  Speaker 1: Whence they had liberty to borrow what books I pleased.
• 4:44:21
  Speaker 1: The Queen's joiner had contrived in one of Glumdale Clitch's
• 4:44:24
  Speaker 1: rooms a kind of wooden machine five and twenty feet high,
• 4:44:29
  Speaker 1: formed like a standing ladder. The steps were each fifty
• 4:44:33
  Speaker 1: feet long. It was indeed a movable pair of stairs,
• 4:44:38
  Speaker 1: the lowest end placed at ten feet distance from the
• 4:44:40
  Speaker 1: wall of the chamber. The book I had a mind
• 4:44:44
  Speaker 1: to read was put up, leaning against the wall. I
• 4:44:49
  Speaker 1: first mounted to the upper step of the ladder, and
• 4:44:52
  Speaker 1: turning my face towards the book, began at the top
• 4:44:55
  Speaker 1: of the page, and so walking to the right, and
• 4:44:59
  Speaker 1: left about eight or ten paces, according to the length
• 4:45:02
  Speaker 1: of the lines, till I had gotten a little below
• 4:45:05
  Speaker 1: the level of mine eyes, and then ascended gradually till
• 4:45:09
  Speaker 1: I came to the bottom, after which I mounted again
• 4:45:14
  Speaker 1: and began the other page in the same manner, and
• 4:45:17
  Speaker 1: so turned over the leaf, which I could easily do
• 4:45:20
  Speaker 1: with both my hands, for it was as thick and
• 4:45:23
  Speaker 1: stiff as a pasteboard, and in the largest folios not
• 4:45:27
  Speaker 1: above eighteen or twenty feet long. Their style is clear, masculine,
• 4:45:33
  Speaker 1: and smooth, but not florid, for they avoid nothing more
• 4:45:37
  Speaker 1: than modiplying unnecessary words or using various expressions.
• 4:45:43
  Speaker 2: I have perused many.
• 4:45:44
  Speaker 1: Of their books, especially those in history and morality. Among
• 4:45:50
  Speaker 1: the rest, I was much diverted with a little old treatise,
• 4:45:54
  Speaker 1: which always lay in Glumduklitch's bedchamber and belonged to her governess,
• 4:46:00
  Speaker 1: grave elderly gentlewoman who dwelt in writings of morality and devotion.
• 4:46:06
  Speaker 2: The book treats of.
• 4:46:07
  Speaker 1: The weakness of humankind, and is in little esteem except
• 4:46:12
  Speaker 1: among the women and the vulgar. However, I was curious
• 4:46:17
  Speaker 1: to see what an author of that country could say
• 4:46:19
  Speaker 1: upon such a subject. This writer went through all the
• 4:46:24
  Speaker 1: usual topics of European moralists, showing hajaminutive, contemptible, and helpless
• 4:46:31
  Speaker 1: an animal was man in his own nature, how unable
• 4:46:35
  Speaker 1: to defend himself from inclemencies of the air or the
• 4:46:38
  Speaker 1: fury of wild beasts. How he was much excelled by
• 4:46:42
  Speaker 1: one creature in strength, by another in speed, by a
• 4:46:46
  Speaker 1: third in foresight, by a fourth in industry. He added
• 4:46:52
  Speaker 1: that nature was degenerated in these latter declining ages of
• 4:46:55
  Speaker 1: the world, and could now produce only small, abortive births
• 4:47:00
  Speaker 1: in comparison of those in ancient times. He said, it
• 4:47:06
  Speaker 1: was very reasonable to think not only that the species
• 4:47:09
  Speaker 1: of men were originally much larger, but also that there
• 4:47:13
  Speaker 1: must have been giants in former ages.
• 4:47:15
  Speaker 2: Which, as it is asserted.
• 4:47:17
  Speaker 1: By history and tradition. So it has been confirmed by
• 4:47:21
  Speaker 1: huge bones and skulls casually dug up in several parts
• 4:47:25
  Speaker 1: of the Kingdom, far exceeding the common dwindled race of
• 4:47:29
  Speaker 1: men in our days.
• 4:47:33
  Speaker 2: He argued that the very.
• 4:47:35
  Speaker 1: Laws of nature absolutely required we should have been made
• 4:47:40
  Speaker 1: in the beginning of a size more large and robust,
• 4:47:43
  Speaker 1: not so liable to destruction from every little corner, or
• 4:47:47
  Speaker 1: of a tile falling from a house, or a stone
• 4:47:50
  Speaker 1: cast from the hand of a boy, or being drowned
• 4:47:53
  Speaker 1: in a little brook. From this way of reasoning, the
• 4:47:58
  Speaker 1: author drew several moral applications useful in the conduct of life,
• 4:48:03
  Speaker 1: but needless here to repeat.
• 4:48:06
  Speaker 2: For my own part.
• 4:48:07
  Speaker 1: I could not avoid reflecting how universally this talent was spread,
• 4:48:12
  Speaker 1: of drawing lectures immorality, or indeed rather matter of discontent
• 4:48:16
  Speaker 1: and repining, from the quarrels we raise with nature. And
• 4:48:22
  Speaker 1: I believe, upon a strict inquiry, those quarrels might be
• 4:48:26
  Speaker 1: shown as ill grounded among us as they are among
• 4:48:30
  Speaker 1: that people. As to their military affairs, they boast that
• 4:48:35
  Speaker 1: the King's army consists of one hundred and seventy six
• 4:48:38
  Speaker 1: thousand foot and thirty two thousand horse, if that may
• 4:48:43
  Speaker 1: be called an army which is made up of tradesmen
• 4:48:46
  Speaker 1: in the several cities, and farmers in the country, whose
• 4:48:50
  Speaker 1: commanders are only the nobility and gentry, without pay or reward.
• 4:48:56
  Speaker 1: They are indeed perfect enough in their exercises, and a
• 4:49:00
  Speaker 1: very good discipline, wherein I saw no great merit, For
• 4:49:05
  Speaker 1: how should it be otherwise, where every farmer is under
• 4:49:08
  Speaker 1: the command of his own landlord, and every citizen under
• 4:49:11
  Speaker 1: that of the principal men in his own city, chosen
• 4:49:15
  Speaker 1: after the manner of venice by ballot. I have often
• 4:49:19
  Speaker 1: seen the militia of Loberal Grud drawn out to exercise
• 4:49:24
  Speaker 1: in a great field near the city of twenty miles square.
• 4:49:29
  Speaker 1: They were in all not above twenty five thousand foot
• 4:49:32
  Speaker 1: and six thousand horse, but it was impossible for me
• 4:49:37
  Speaker 1: to compute their number, considering the space of ground they
• 4:49:41
  Speaker 1: took up. A cavalier mounted on a large steed might
• 4:49:46
  Speaker 1: be about ninety feet high. I have seen this whole
• 4:49:51
  Speaker 1: body of horse, upon a word of command, draw their
• 4:49:55
  Speaker 1: swords at once and brandish them in the air. Imagination
• 4:49:59
  Speaker 1: can figure nothing things so grand, so surprising, and so astonishing.
• 4:50:04
  Speaker 1: It looked as if ten thousand flashes of lightning were
• 4:50:07
  Speaker 1: darting at the same time from every quarter of the sky.
• 4:50:11
  Speaker 1: I was curious to know how this prince, to whose
• 4:50:14
  Speaker 1: dominions there is no access from any other country, came
• 4:50:18
  Speaker 1: to think of armies or to teach his people the
• 4:50:21
  Speaker 1: practice of military discipline. But I was soon informed, both
• 4:50:26
  Speaker 1: by conversation and reading their histories, for in the course
• 4:50:30
  Speaker 1: of many ages they had been troubled with the same
• 4:50:33
  Speaker 1: disease to which the whole race of mankind is subject,
• 4:50:38
  Speaker 1: the nobility often contending for power, the people for liberty,
• 4:50:42
  Speaker 1: and to the king for absolute dominion, all which, however
• 4:50:48
  Speaker 1: happily tempered by the laws of that kingdom, have been
• 4:50:51
  Speaker 1: sometimes violated by each of the three parties, and have
• 4:50:56
  Speaker 1: more than once occasioned civil wars, the last whereof was
• 4:51:02
  Speaker 1: happily put an end to by this Prince's grandfather in
• 4:51:06
  Speaker 1: a general composition, and the militia, then settled with common consent,
• 4:51:12
  Speaker 1: has been ever since kept in the strictest duty. End
• 4:51:16
  Speaker 1: of Part two, Chapter seven, Chapter eight, the King and
• 4:51:23
  Speaker 1: Queen make a progress to the frontiers. The author attends them.
• 4:51:28
  Speaker 1: The manner in which he leaves the country very particularly
• 4:51:31
  Speaker 1: related he returns to England. I had always a strong
• 4:51:37
  Speaker 1: impulse that I should sometime recover my liberty, though it
• 4:51:42
  Speaker 1: was impossible to conjecture by what means, or to form
• 4:51:45
  Speaker 1: any project with the least hope of succeeding. The ship
• 4:51:49
  Speaker 1: in which I sailed was the first ever known to
• 4:51:52
  Speaker 1: be driven within sight of that coast, and the king
• 4:51:56
  Speaker 1: had given strict orders that if at any time another appeared,
• 4:52:01
  Speaker 1: it should be taken ashore, and with all its crew
• 4:52:04
  Speaker 1: and passengers brought in Tumbril to lauberal grud. He was
• 4:52:10
  Speaker 1: strongly bent to get me a woman of my own size,
• 4:52:14
  Speaker 1: by whom I might propagate the breed. But I think
• 4:52:18
  Speaker 1: I should rather have died than undergone the disgrace of
• 4:52:21
  Speaker 1: leaving a posterity to be kept in cages like tame
• 4:52:25
  Speaker 1: canary birds, and perhaps in time sold about the kingdom
• 4:52:30
  Speaker 1: to persons of quality for curiosities. I was indeed treated
• 4:52:37
  Speaker 1: with much kindness. I was the favorite of a great
• 4:52:40
  Speaker 1: king and Queen, and the delight of the whole court.
• 4:52:44
  Speaker 1: But it was upon such a foot as ill became
• 4:52:46
  Speaker 1: the dignity of human kind. I could never forget those
• 4:52:51
  Speaker 1: domestic pledges I had left behind me. I wanted to
• 4:52:55
  Speaker 1: be among people with whom I could converse upon even terms,
• 4:53:00
  Speaker 1: and to walk about the streets and fields without being
• 4:53:03
  Speaker 1: afraid of being trod to death like a frog or
• 4:53:06
  Speaker 1: a young puppy. But my deliverance came sooner than I expected,
• 4:53:11
  Speaker 1: and in a manner not very common. The whole story
• 4:53:15
  Speaker 1: and circumstances of which I shall faithfully relate, I had
• 4:53:21
  Speaker 1: now been two years in this country, and about the
• 4:53:25
  Speaker 1: beginning of the third glum duck Litch and I attended
• 4:53:28
  Speaker 1: the King and Queen in a progress to the south
• 4:53:31
  Speaker 1: coast of the Kingdom. I was carried as usual in
• 4:53:35
  Speaker 1: my traveling box, which, as I have already described, was
• 4:53:39
  Speaker 1: a very convenient closet of twelve feet wide, and I
• 4:53:44
  Speaker 1: had ordered a hammock to be fixed by silken ropes
• 4:53:47
  Speaker 1: from the four corners at the top to break the
• 4:53:50
  Speaker 1: jolts when a servant carried me before him on horseback.
• 4:53:54
  Speaker 1: As I sometimes desired and would often sleep in my hammock.
• 4:53:59
  Speaker 2: While we were upon the road.
• 4:54:02
  Speaker 1: On the roof of my closet, not directly over the
• 4:54:05
  Speaker 1: middle of the hammock, I ordered the joiner to cut
• 4:54:08
  Speaker 1: out a hole of a foot square to give me
• 4:54:11
  Speaker 1: air in hot weather as I slept, which hole I
• 4:54:15
  Speaker 1: shut at pleasure with a board that drew backward and
• 4:54:19
  Speaker 1: forward through a groove. When we came to our journey's end,
• 4:54:23
  Speaker 1: the king thought proper to pass a few days at
• 4:54:26
  Speaker 1: a palace he has near van Flassnik, a city within
• 4:54:31
  Speaker 1: eighteen English miles of the seaside. Glumdalklitch and I were
• 4:54:36
  Speaker 1: much fatigued. I had gotten a small cold, but the
• 4:54:40
  Speaker 1: poor girl was so ill as to be confined to
• 4:54:42
  Speaker 1: her chamber. I longed to see the ocean, which must
• 4:54:48
  Speaker 1: be the only scene of my escape, if ever it
• 4:54:50
  Speaker 1: should happen. I pretended to be worse than I really was,
• 4:54:55
  Speaker 1: and as I had leave to take the fresh air
• 4:54:57
  Speaker 1: off the sea with a page whom I was very
• 4:55:00
  Speaker 1: fond of, and who had sometimes been trusted with me.
• 4:55:05
  Speaker 1: I shall never forget.
• 4:55:07
  Speaker 3: With what unwillingless Glandalklitch consented, nor the strict charge she
• 4:55:12
  Speaker 3: gave the page to be careful of me, bursting at
• 4:55:15
  Speaker 3: the same time into a flood of tears, as if
• 4:55:19
  Speaker 3: she had some foreboding of what was to happen.
• 4:55:23
  Speaker 1: The boy took me out in my box about half
• 4:55:26
  Speaker 1: an hour's walk from the palace towards the rocky sea shore.
• 4:55:31
  Speaker 1: I ordered him to set me down, and, lifting up
• 4:55:34
  Speaker 1: one of my sashes, cast many a wistful, melancholy look
• 4:55:38
  Speaker 1: towards the sea. I found myself not very well and
• 4:55:44
  Speaker 1: told the page that I had a mind to take
• 4:55:46
  Speaker 1: a nap in my hammock, which I hoped would do
• 4:55:49
  Speaker 1: me some good. I got in, and the boy shut
• 4:55:53
  Speaker 1: the window close down to keep out the cold. I
• 4:55:58
  Speaker 1: soon fell asleep, and all I can conjecture is while
• 4:56:02
  Speaker 1: I slept, the page, thinking no danger could happen, went
• 4:56:07
  Speaker 1: among the rocks to look for birds eggs, having before
• 4:56:11
  Speaker 1: observed him from my window, searching about and picking up
• 4:56:15
  Speaker 1: one or two in the clefts.
• 4:56:18
  Speaker 2: Be that as it will.
• 4:56:20
  Speaker 1: I found myself suddenly awaked with a violent pull upon
• 4:56:23
  Speaker 1: the ring which was fastened at the top of my
• 4:56:25
  Speaker 1: box for the conveniency of carriage. I felt my box
• 4:56:30
  Speaker 1: rise very high in the air, and then borne forward
• 4:56:33
  Speaker 1: with prodigious speed. The first jolt had liked to have
• 4:56:38
  Speaker 1: shaken me out of my hammock, but afterwards the motion
• 4:56:42
  Speaker 1: was easy enough. I called out several times as loud
• 4:56:47
  Speaker 1: as I could raise my voice, but all to no purpose.
• 4:56:51
  Speaker 1: I looked towards my windows and could see nothing but
• 4:56:54
  Speaker 1: the clouds and sky. I heard an noise just over
• 4:56:59
  Speaker 1: my head, like the clapping of wings, and then began
• 4:57:03
  Speaker 1: to perceive the woeful condition I was in that some
• 4:57:07
  Speaker 1: eagle had got the ring of my box in his beak,
• 4:57:11
  Speaker 1: with an intent to let it fall on a rock
• 4:57:13
  Speaker 1: like a tortoise in a shell, and then pick out
• 4:57:16
  Speaker 1: my body and devour it. For the sagacity and smell
• 4:57:21
  Speaker 1: of this bird enables him to discover his quarry at
• 4:57:24
  Speaker 1: a great distance, though better concealed than I could be
• 4:57:28
  Speaker 1: within a two inch board. In a little time, I
• 4:57:32
  Speaker 1: observed the noise and flutter of wings to increase very fast,
• 4:57:36
  Speaker 1: and my box was tossed up and down like a
• 4:57:39
  Speaker 1: sign in a windy day. I heard several bangs or buffets,
• 4:57:44
  Speaker 1: as I thought given to the eagle, for such I
• 4:57:47
  Speaker 1: am certain it must have been that held the ring
• 4:57:49
  Speaker 1: of my box in his beak. And then all on
• 4:57:53
  Speaker 1: a sudden, felt myself falling perpendicularly down for above a minute,
• 4:57:59
  Speaker 1: but with such incredible swiftness that I almost lost my breath.
• 4:58:04
  Speaker 1: My fall was stopped by a terrible squash that sounded
• 4:58:08
  Speaker 1: louder to my ears than the Cataract of Niagara, after
• 4:58:13
  Speaker 1: which I was quite in the dark for another minute,
• 4:58:16
  Speaker 1: and then my box began to rise so high that
• 4:58:20
  Speaker 1: I could see light from the tops of the windows.
• 4:58:23
  Speaker 1: I now perceived I was fallen into the sea. My box,
• 4:58:28
  Speaker 1: being the weight of my body, the goods that were
• 4:58:30
  Speaker 1: in it, and the broad plates of iron fixed for
• 4:58:33
  Speaker 1: strength at the four corners of the top and the bottom,
• 4:58:36
  Speaker 1: floated about five feet deep in water. I did then,
• 4:58:42
  Speaker 1: and do now, suppose that the eagle which flew away
• 4:58:46
  Speaker 1: with my box, was pursued by two or three others
• 4:58:50
  Speaker 1: and forced to let me drop while he defended himself
• 4:58:54
  Speaker 1: against the rest who hoped to share in the prey.
• 4:59:00
  Speaker 1: The plates of iron fastened at the bottom of the box,
• 4:59:03
  Speaker 1: for those were the strongest, preserved the balance while it fell,
• 4:59:08
  Speaker 1: and hindered it from being broken. On the surface of
• 4:59:10
  Speaker 1: the water. Every joint of it was well grooved, and
• 4:59:15
  Speaker 1: the door did not move on hinges, but up and
• 4:59:18
  Speaker 1: down like a sash, which kept my closet so tight
• 4:59:22
  Speaker 1: that very little water came in. I got with much
• 4:59:26
  Speaker 1: difficulty out of my hammock, having first ventured to draw
• 4:59:30
  Speaker 1: back the slip board on the roof already mentioned, contrived
• 4:59:34
  Speaker 1: on purpose to let erin, for want of which I
• 4:59:37
  Speaker 1: found myself almost stifled. How often did I then wish
• 4:59:43
  Speaker 1: myself with my dear Glumdalklitch, for whom one single hour
• 4:59:47
  Speaker 1: had so far divided me. And I may say with
• 4:59:51
  Speaker 1: truth that in the midst of my own misfortunes, I
• 4:59:55
  Speaker 1: could not forbear lamenting my poor nurse the grief she
• 4:59:59
  Speaker 1: would suffer my loss, the displeasure of the queen, and
• 5:00:03
  Speaker 1: to the ruin of her fortune. Perhaps many travelers have
• 5:00:07
  Speaker 1: not been under greater difficulties and distress than I was
• 5:00:11
  Speaker 1: at this juncture, expecting every moment to see my box
• 5:00:16
  Speaker 1: dashed to pieces, or at least overset by the first
• 5:00:20
  Speaker 1: violent blast or rising wave. A breach in one single
• 5:00:26
  Speaker 1: pane of glass would have been immediate death. Nor could
• 5:00:31
  Speaker 1: anything have preserved the windows but the strong lattice wires
• 5:00:35
  Speaker 1: placed on the outside against accidents. In traveling, I saw
• 5:00:40
  Speaker 1: the water ooze in at several crannies. Although the leaks
• 5:00:44
  Speaker 1: were not considerable, and I endeavored to stop them as
• 5:00:47
  Speaker 1: well as I could, I was not able to lift
• 5:00:51
  Speaker 1: up the roof of my closet, which otherwise I certainly
• 5:00:55
  Speaker 1: should have done, and sat on top of it. Where
• 5:00:59
  Speaker 1: am I at preserve myself some hours longer then by
• 5:01:03
  Speaker 1: being shut up, as I may call it, in the hold?
• 5:01:08
  Speaker 1: Or if I escaped these dangers for a day or two,
• 5:01:11
  Speaker 1: what could I expect but a miserable death of cold
• 5:01:14
  Speaker 1: and hunger. I was four hours under these circumstances, expecting
• 5:01:21
  Speaker 1: and indeed wishing every moment to be my last. I
• 5:01:26
  Speaker 1: have already told the reader that there were two strong
• 5:01:29
  Speaker 1: saples fixed upon that side of my box, which had
• 5:01:32
  Speaker 1: no window, and into which the servant who used to
• 5:01:37
  Speaker 1: carry me on horseback would put a leaven belt and
• 5:01:40
  Speaker 1: buckle it about his waist. Being in this disconsolate state,
• 5:01:45
  Speaker 1: I heard, or at least thought I heard, some kind
• 5:01:49
  Speaker 1: of grating noise on that side of my box where
• 5:01:52
  Speaker 1: the staples were fixed, And soon after I began to
• 5:01:56
  Speaker 1: fancy that the box was pulled or towed along the sea.
• 5:02:01
  Speaker 1: For I now and then felt a sort of tugging
• 5:02:04
  Speaker 1: which made the ways rise near the tops of my windows,
• 5:02:08
  Speaker 1: leaving me almost in the dark. This gave me some
• 5:02:13
  Speaker 1: faint hopes of relief, although I was not able to
• 5:02:16
  Speaker 1: imagine how it could be brought about. I ventured to
• 5:02:21
  Speaker 1: unscrew one of my chairs, which were always fastened to
• 5:02:24
  Speaker 1: the floor, and having made a hard shift, to screw
• 5:02:27
  Speaker 1: it down again directly under the slipping border that I
• 5:02:30
  Speaker 1: had lately opened. I mounted on the chair, and, putting
• 5:02:34
  Speaker 1: my mouth as near as I could to the hole,
• 5:02:37
  Speaker 1: I cried for help in a loud voice and in
• 5:02:40
  Speaker 1: all the languages I understood. I then fastened my handkerchief
• 5:02:46
  Speaker 1: to a stick I usually carried, and, thrusting it up
• 5:02:49
  Speaker 1: the hole, waved it several times in the air, that
• 5:02:53
  Speaker 1: if any boat or ship were near, the seaman might
• 5:02:56
  Speaker 1: conjecture some unhappy mortal to be shut up in the box.
• 5:03:02
  Speaker 1: I found no effect from all I could do, but
• 5:03:06
  Speaker 1: plainly perceived my closet to be moved along, and in
• 5:03:09
  Speaker 1: the space of an hour or better, that side of
• 5:03:12
  Speaker 1: the box, where the staples were and had no windows,
• 5:03:16
  Speaker 1: struck against something that was hard.
• 5:03:20
  Speaker 2: I apprehended it.
• 5:03:21
  Speaker 1: To be a rock, and found myself tossed more than ever.
• 5:03:25
  Speaker 1: I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my
• 5:03:27
  Speaker 1: closet like that of a cable, and the grating of
• 5:03:31
  Speaker 1: it as it passed through the ring. I then found
• 5:03:36
  Speaker 1: myself hoisted up by degrees at least three feet higher
• 5:03:40
  Speaker 1: than I was before, whereupon I again thrust up my
• 5:03:44
  Speaker 1: stick and handkerchief, calling for help while I was almost hoarse,
• 5:03:50
  Speaker 1: in return to which I heard a great shout repeated
• 5:03:54
  Speaker 1: three times, giving me such transports of joy as are
• 5:03:58
  Speaker 1: not to be conceived but by those who feel them.
• 5:04:02
  Speaker 1: I now heard a trampling over my head, and somebody
• 5:04:06
  Speaker 1: calling through the hole with a loud voice in the
• 5:04:09
  Speaker 1: English tongue, if there be anybody below, let them speak,
• 5:04:14
  Speaker 1: I answered, I was an Englishman, drawn by ill fortune
• 5:04:18
  Speaker 1: into the greatest calamity that any creature underwent, and begged
• 5:04:22
  Speaker 1: by all that was moving to be delivered out of this.
• 5:04:25
  Speaker 2: Dungeon I was in.
• 5:04:28
  Speaker 1: The voice replied I was safe, for my box was
• 5:04:32
  Speaker 1: fastened to their ship, and the carpenter should immediately come.
• 5:04:35
  Speaker 1: And saw a hole in the cover large enough to
• 5:04:38
  Speaker 1: pull me out. I answered that was needless and would
• 5:04:42
  Speaker 1: take up too much time, for there was no more
• 5:04:45
  Speaker 1: to be done. For there was no more to be
• 5:04:48
  Speaker 1: done but let one of the crew put his finger
• 5:04:50
  Speaker 1: into the ring and take the box out of the
• 5:04:53
  Speaker 1: sea into the ship. And sew into the captain's cabin.
• 5:04:58
  Speaker 1: Some of them, hearing me talk so wildly, thought I
• 5:05:02
  Speaker 1: was mad. Others laughed. For indeed, it never came into
• 5:05:07
  Speaker 1: my head that I was now got among people of
• 5:05:10
  Speaker 1: my own.
• 5:05:10
  Speaker 2: Stature and strength.
• 5:05:13
  Speaker 1: The carpenter came and in a few minutes sawed a
• 5:05:16
  Speaker 1: passage about four feet square, then let down a small
• 5:05:20
  Speaker 1: ladder upon which I mounted, and thence was taken into
• 5:05:24
  Speaker 1: the ship in a very weak condition. The sailors were
• 5:05:28
  Speaker 1: all in amazement and asked me a thousand questions, which
• 5:05:32
  Speaker 1: I had no inclination to answer. I was equally confounded
• 5:05:37
  Speaker 1: at the sight of so many pigmies, for such I
• 5:05:40
  Speaker 1: took them to be, after having so long accustomed mine
• 5:05:44
  Speaker 1: eyes to the monstrous objects I had left. But the captain,
• 5:05:50
  Speaker 1: mister Thomas Wilcox, an honest, worthy Shopshire man, observing I
• 5:05:55
  Speaker 1: was ready to faint, took me into his cabin, gave
• 5:05:59
  Speaker 1: me a cordial to comfort me, and made me turn
• 5:06:02
  Speaker 1: in upon his own bed, advising me to take a
• 5:06:05
  Speaker 1: little rest, of which I had great need, before I
• 5:06:11
  Speaker 1: went to sleep. I gave him to understand that I
• 5:06:14
  Speaker 1: had some valuable furniture in my box too, good to
• 5:06:17
  Speaker 1: be lost, a fine hammock, a handsome field bed, two chairs,
• 5:06:22
  Speaker 1: a table, and a cabinet. That my closet was hung
• 5:06:26
  Speaker 1: on all sides, or rather quilted with silk and cotton.
• 5:06:31
  Speaker 1: That if he would let one of the crew bring
• 5:06:33
  Speaker 1: my closet into his cabin I would open it there
• 5:06:36
  Speaker 1: before him and show him my goods. The captain, hearing
• 5:06:42
  Speaker 1: me utter these absurdities, concluded I was raving. However, I
• 5:06:48
  Speaker 1: supposed to pacify me. He promised to give order as
• 5:06:51
  Speaker 1: I desired, and, going upon deck, sent some of his
• 5:06:55
  Speaker 1: men down into my closet, whence as I afterwards found,
• 5:07:00
  Speaker 1: they drew up all my goods and stripped off the quilting.
• 5:07:03
  Speaker 1: But the chairs, cabinet and bedstand, being screwed to the floor,
• 5:07:08
  Speaker 1: were much damaged by the ignorance of the seamen, who
• 5:07:11
  Speaker 1: tore them up by force. Then they knocked off some
• 5:07:15
  Speaker 1: of the boards for the use of the ship, And
• 5:07:17
  Speaker 1: when they had got all they had mined for, let
• 5:07:20
  Speaker 1: the whole drop into the sea, which, by reason of
• 5:07:24
  Speaker 1: many breeches made in the bottom and sides, sunk to rights.
• 5:07:31
  Speaker 1: And indeed, I was glad not to have been a
• 5:07:33
  Speaker 1: spectator of the havoc they made, because I am confident
• 5:07:37
  Speaker 1: it would have sensibly touched me by bringing former passages
• 5:07:40
  Speaker 1: into my mind.
• 5:07:42
  Speaker 2: Which I would rather have forgot.
• 5:07:48
  Speaker 1: I slept some hours, but perpetily deserved with dreams of
• 5:07:52
  Speaker 1: the place I had left and the dangers I had escaped. However,
• 5:07:58
  Speaker 1: upon waking I found and myself much recovered. It was
• 5:08:03
  Speaker 1: now about eight o'clock at night, and the captain ordered supper, immediately,
• 5:08:08
  Speaker 1: thinking I had already fasted too long. He entertained me
• 5:08:12
  Speaker 1: with great kindness, observing me not to look wildly or
• 5:08:17
  Speaker 1: talking consistently, And when we were left alone, desired I
• 5:08:22
  Speaker 1: would give him a relation of my travels, and by
• 5:08:25
  Speaker 1: what accident I came to be set adrift in that
• 5:08:28
  Speaker 1: monstrous wooden chest. He said that about twelve o'clock at noon,
• 5:08:35
  Speaker 1: as he was looking through his glass, he spied it
• 5:08:37
  Speaker 1: at a distance, and thought it was a sail, which
• 5:08:41
  Speaker 1: he had a mind to make, being not much out
• 5:08:44
  Speaker 1: of his course, in hopes of buying some biscuit, his
• 5:08:47
  Speaker 1: own beginning to fall short.
• 5:08:51
  Speaker 2: That upon coming.
• 5:08:53
  Speaker 1: Nearer and finding his error, he sent out his long
• 5:08:56
  Speaker 1: boat to discover what it was. That his men came
• 5:09:00
  Speaker 1: back in a fright, swearing they had seen a swimming house.
• 5:09:05
  Speaker 2: That he laughed at their.
• 5:09:06
  Speaker 1: Folly and went himself in the boat, ordering his men
• 5:09:10
  Speaker 1: to take a strong cable along with them. That the
• 5:09:13
  Speaker 1: weather being calm, He rode round me several times, observing
• 5:09:18
  Speaker 1: my windows and wire lattices that defended them. That he
• 5:09:23
  Speaker 1: discovered two staples upon one side, which was of all
• 5:09:26
  Speaker 1: boards without any passage for light. He then commanded his
• 5:09:32
  Speaker 1: men to row up to that side, and fastening a
• 5:09:35
  Speaker 1: cable to one of the staples, ordered them to tow
• 5:09:38
  Speaker 1: my chest as they caused it towards the ship. When
• 5:09:43
  Speaker 1: it was there, he gave directions to fasten another cable
• 5:09:46
  Speaker 1: to the ring fixed in the cover, and to raise
• 5:09:50
  Speaker 1: up my chest with pulleys, which all the sailors were
• 5:09:53
  Speaker 1: not able to do above three or four feet. He
• 5:09:57
  Speaker 1: said they saw my stick and handkerchief thro out of
• 5:10:00
  Speaker 1: the hole, and concluded that some unhappy man must be.
• 5:10:04
  Speaker 2: Shut up in the cavity.
• 5:10:07
  Speaker 1: I asked whether he or the crew had seen any
• 5:10:10
  Speaker 1: priticious birds in the air about the time he first
• 5:10:13
  Speaker 1: discovered me, to which he answered that discoursing this matter
• 5:10:18
  Speaker 1: with the sailors while I was asleep one of them
• 5:10:21
  Speaker 1: said he had observed three eagles flying towards the north,
• 5:10:26
  Speaker 1: but remarked nothing of their being larger than the usual size,
• 5:10:30
  Speaker 1: which I suppose must be imputed to the great heights
• 5:10:33
  Speaker 1: they were at, and he could not guess the reason
• 5:10:36
  Speaker 1: of mine question. I then asked the captain how far
• 5:10:40
  Speaker 1: he reckoned we might be from land. He said, by
• 5:10:44
  Speaker 1: the best computation he could make, we were at least
• 5:10:47
  Speaker 1: a hundred leagues. I assured him that he must be mistaken.
• 5:10:52
  Speaker 2: By almost half, for I had not left.
• 5:10:55
  Speaker 1: The country whence I had come above two hours before
• 5:10:58
  Speaker 1: I dropped into the sea. Whereupon he began again to
• 5:11:02
  Speaker 1: think that my brain was disturbed, of which he gave
• 5:11:06
  Speaker 1: me a hint, and advised me to go to bed
• 5:11:09
  Speaker 1: in a cabin he had provided. I assured him I
• 5:11:13
  Speaker 1: was well refreshed with his good entertainment and company, and
• 5:11:17
  Speaker 1: as much in my sense as ever I was in
• 5:11:19
  Speaker 1: my life. He then grew serious and desired to ask
• 5:11:25
  Speaker 1: me freely whether I were not troubled in my mind
• 5:11:29
  Speaker 1: by the consciousness of some enormous crime for which I
• 5:11:32
  Speaker 1: was punished, as the command of some prince by exposing
• 5:11:36
  Speaker 1: me in that chest as great criminals in other countries,
• 5:11:40
  Speaker 1: having forced to see in a leaky vessel without provisions.
• 5:11:46
  Speaker 1: For although he should be sorry to have taken so
• 5:11:48
  Speaker 1: ill a man into his ship, yet he would engage
• 5:11:52
  Speaker 1: his word to set me safe ashore in the first
• 5:11:55
  Speaker 1: port where we arrived. He added that his suspicion were
• 5:12:00
  Speaker 1: much increased by some very absurd speeches I had delivered,
• 5:12:03
  Speaker 1: at first to his sailors and afterwards to himself, in
• 5:12:08
  Speaker 1: relation to my closet or chest, as well as by
• 5:12:11
  Speaker 1: my odd looks and behavior. While I was at supper,
• 5:12:16
  Speaker 1: I begged his patience to hear me tell my story,
• 5:12:19
  Speaker 1: which I faithfully did from the last time I left
• 5:12:22
  Speaker 1: England to the moment he first discovered me. And as
• 5:12:27
  Speaker 1: truth always forces its way into rational minds, so this honest,
• 5:12:32
  Speaker 1: worthy gentleman, who had some tincerature of learning and very
• 5:12:36
  Speaker 1: good sense, was immediately convinced with my candor and veracity.
• 5:12:41
  Speaker 1: But further to confirm all I had said, I entreated
• 5:12:46
  Speaker 1: him to give order that my cabinet should be brought,
• 5:12:49
  Speaker 1: of which I had the key in my pocket, for
• 5:12:52
  Speaker 1: he had already informed me how the seaman disposed of
• 5:12:54
  Speaker 1: my closet. I opened it in his own presence, and
• 5:13:00
  Speaker 1: owed in the small collection of rarities I made in
• 5:13:02
  Speaker 1: the country from which I had been so strangely delivered.
• 5:13:07
  Speaker 1: There was the comb I had contrived out of the
• 5:13:09
  Speaker 1: stumps of the King's beard, and another of the same materials,
• 5:13:14
  Speaker 1: but fixed into a pairing of Her Majesty's thumb nail,
• 5:13:17
  Speaker 1: which served.
• 5:13:18
  Speaker 2: For the back.
• 5:13:20
  Speaker 1: There was a collection of needles and pins from a
• 5:13:23
  Speaker 1: foot to half a yard long, four wasp stings like
• 5:13:28
  Speaker 1: joiner's tax, some combings of the Queen's hair, a gold ring,
• 5:13:33
  Speaker 1: which one day she made me a present of in
• 5:13:36
  Speaker 1: a most obliging manner, taken it from her little finger
• 5:13:40
  Speaker 1: and throwing it over my head like a collar.
• 5:13:44
  Speaker 2: I desired the.
• 5:13:45
  Speaker 1: Captain would please to accept this ring in return for
• 5:13:48
  Speaker 1: his civilities, which he absolutely refused. I showed him a
• 5:13:54
  Speaker 1: corn that I had cut off with my own hand
• 5:13:57
  Speaker 1: from a maid of honor's toe. It was about the
• 5:14:00
  Speaker 1: bigness of a Kentish pippin, and grown so hard that
• 5:14:05
  Speaker 1: when I returned to England, I got it hollowed into
• 5:14:08
  Speaker 1: a cup and set in silver. Lastly, I desired him
• 5:14:12
  Speaker 1: to see the breeches I had then on which were
• 5:14:15
  Speaker 1: made of a mouse's skin. I could force nothing on
• 5:14:19
  Speaker 1: him but a footman's tooth, which I observed him to
• 5:14:23
  Speaker 1: examine with great curiosity, and found he had a fancy
• 5:14:26
  Speaker 1: for it.
• 5:14:29
  Speaker 2: He received it.
• 5:14:29
  Speaker 1: With abundance of thanks, more than such a trifle could deserve.
• 5:14:36
  Speaker 1: It was drawn by an unskillful surgeon, in a mistake,
• 5:14:40
  Speaker 1: from one of glandal Klitch's men, who was afflicted with
• 5:14:43
  Speaker 1: the toothache. But it was as sound as any in
• 5:14:46
  Speaker 1: his head. I got it cleaned and put it into
• 5:14:50
  Speaker 1: my cabinet. It was about a foot long and four
• 5:14:53
  Speaker 1: inches in diameter. The Captain was well satisfied with this
• 5:14:58
  Speaker 1: plain relation I had given him, and said he hoped
• 5:15:02
  Speaker 1: when we returned to England, I would oblige the world
• 5:15:05
  Speaker 1: by putting it on paper and making it public. My
• 5:15:10
  Speaker 1: answer was that we were overstocked with books of travels,
• 5:15:14
  Speaker 1: that nothing could now pass which was not extraordinary, wherein
• 5:15:19
  Speaker 1: I doubted some authors less consulted truth than their own
• 5:15:23
  Speaker 1: vanity or interest, or the diversion of ignorant readers, that
• 5:15:28
  Speaker 1: my story could contain little beside common events without those
• 5:15:33
  Speaker 1: ornamental descriptions of strange plants, trees, birds, and other animals,
• 5:15:39
  Speaker 1: or of the barbarious customs and idolatry of savage people
• 5:15:43
  Speaker 1: with which most writers abound. However, I thanked him for
• 5:15:48
  Speaker 1: his good opinion, and promised to take the matter into
• 5:15:51
  Speaker 1: my thoughts. He said he wondered at one thing very much,
• 5:15:58
  Speaker 1: which was to hear me speak so loud, asking me
• 5:16:02
  Speaker 1: whether the king or queen of that country were thick
• 5:16:05
  Speaker 1: of hearing. I told him it was what I had
• 5:16:10
  Speaker 1: been used to for above two years past, and that
• 5:16:13
  Speaker 1: I admired as much at the voices of him and
• 5:16:16
  Speaker 1: his men, who seemed to me only to whisper. And
• 5:16:20
  Speaker 1: yet I could hear them well enough. But when I
• 5:16:25
  Speaker 1: spoke in that country, it was like a man talking
• 5:16:28
  Speaker 1: in the streets to another looking out from the top
• 5:16:30
  Speaker 1: of a steeple, unless when I was placed on a
• 5:16:33
  Speaker 1: table or held in any person's hand. I told him
• 5:16:38
  Speaker 1: I had likewise observed another thing, that when I first
• 5:16:42
  Speaker 1: got into the ship and the sailors all stood about me,
• 5:16:46
  Speaker 1: I thought they were the most little contemptible creatures I
• 5:16:49
  Speaker 1: had ever beheld. For Indeed, while I was in that
• 5:16:54
  Speaker 1: Prince's country, I could never endure to look in a glass.
• 5:16:59
  Speaker 1: After mine eyes had been accustomed to such prodigious objects,
• 5:17:03
  Speaker 1: because the comparison gave me so despicable a conceit of myself.
• 5:17:09
  Speaker 1: The Captain said that while we were at supper, he
• 5:17:13
  Speaker 1: observed me to look at everything with a sort of wonder,
• 5:17:16
  Speaker 1: and that I often seemed hardly able to contain my laughter,
• 5:17:21
  Speaker 1: which he knew not well how to take, but imputed
• 5:17:24
  Speaker 1: it to some disorder in my brain. I answered, it
• 5:17:29
  Speaker 1: was very true, and I wondered how I could forbear
• 5:17:33
  Speaker 1: when I saw his dishes off the size of a
• 5:17:35
  Speaker 1: silver threepence, a leg of pork hardly a mouthful, a
• 5:17:40
  Speaker 1: cup not so big as a nutshell. And so I
• 5:17:43
  Speaker 1: went on describing the rest of his household stuff and
• 5:17:47
  Speaker 1: provisions after the same manner. For although the Queen had
• 5:17:52
  Speaker 1: ordered a little equipage of all things necessary for me
• 5:17:56
  Speaker 1: while I was in her service, yet my tears were
• 5:18:00
  Speaker 1: wholly taken up with what I saw on every side
• 5:18:03
  Speaker 1: of me, and I winked at my own littleness, as
• 5:18:07
  Speaker 1: people do it their own faults. The captain understood my
• 5:18:13
  Speaker 1: rillery very well, and merrily replied with the old English
• 5:18:17
  Speaker 1: proverb that he doubted mine eyes were bigger than my belly,
• 5:18:22
  Speaker 1: for he did not observe my stomach so good, although
• 5:18:25
  Speaker 1: I had fasted all day, and continuing in his mirth,
• 5:18:31
  Speaker 1: protested he would have gladly given a hundred pounds to
• 5:18:35
  Speaker 1: have seen my closet in the eagle's bill, and afterwards
• 5:18:39
  Speaker 1: in its fall from so great a height into the sea,
• 5:18:42
  Speaker 1: which would certainly have been a most astonishing object, worthy
• 5:18:46
  Speaker 1: to have the description of it transmitted to future ages.
• 5:18:52
  Speaker 1: And the comparison of theaton was so obvious that he
• 5:18:56
  Speaker 1: could not forbear applying it, although I did not much
• 5:18:59
  Speaker 1: at my life the conceit. The captain, having been at Tonquin,
• 5:19:05
  Speaker 1: was in his return to England, driven northeastward to the
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  Speaker 1: latitude of forty four degrees and longitude of one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and forty three, but meeting a trade wind two days
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  Speaker 1: after I came on board. We sailed southward a long time,
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  Speaker 1: and coast in New Holland, kept our course west southwest,
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  Speaker 1: and then south southwest till we doubled the Cape of
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  Speaker 1: Good Hope. Our voyage was very prosperous, but I shall
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  Speaker 1: not trouble the reader with the journal of it. The
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  Speaker 1: captain called in at one or two ports and sent
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  Speaker 1: in his longboat for provisions and fresh water. But I
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  Speaker 1: never went out of the ship till we came into
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  Speaker 1: the Downs, which was on the third day of June
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  Speaker 1: seventeen o six, about nine months after my escape. I
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  Speaker 1: offered to leave my goods in security for payment of
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  Speaker 1: my freight, but the captain protested he would not receive
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  Speaker 1: one farthing. We took a kind of leave of each other,
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  Speaker 1: and I made him promise he would come to see
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  Speaker 1: me at my house in Redriff.
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  Speaker 2: I hired a horse and.
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  Speaker 1: Guide for five shillings, which I borrowed off the captain.
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  Speaker 1: As I was on the road, observing the littleness of
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  Speaker 1: the houses, the trees, the cattle, and the people, I
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  Speaker 1: began to think myself in Lilliput. I was afraid of
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  Speaker 1: trampling on every traveler I met, and often called aloud
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  Speaker 1: to have them stand out of the way, so that
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  Speaker 1: I had liked to have gotten one or two broken
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  Speaker 1: heads from my impertinence. When I came to my house,
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  Speaker 1: for which I was forced to inquire, one of the
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  Speaker 1: servants opened the door. I bent down to go in
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  Speaker 1: like a goose under a gate, for fear of striking
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  Speaker 1: my head and my wife ran out to embrace me,
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  Speaker 1: but I stooped lower than her knees, thinking she could
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  Speaker 1: otherwise never be able to reach my mouth. My daughter
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  Speaker 1: need to ask my blessing, but I could not see
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  Speaker 1: her till she arose, having been so long used to
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  Speaker 1: stand with my head and my eyes erect to above
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  Speaker 1: sixty feet, And then I went to take her up
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  Speaker 1: with one hand by the waist. I looked down upon
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  Speaker 1: the servants and one or two friends were in the house,
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  Speaker 1: as if they had been pigmies, and I a giant.
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  Speaker 2: I told my.
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  Speaker 1: Wife she had been too thrifty, for I found she
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  Speaker 1: had starved herself and her daughter to nothing. In short,
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  Speaker 1: I behaved myself so unaccountably that they were all of
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  Speaker 1: the captain's opinion when he first saw me, and concluded
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  Speaker 1: I had lost my wits. This I mention as an
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  Speaker 1: instance of the great power of her habit and prejudice.
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  Speaker 1: In a little time, I and my family and friends
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  Speaker 1: came to a right understanding, but my wife protested I
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  Speaker 1: should never go to sea any more, although my evil
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  Speaker 1: destiny so ordered that she had not power to hinder me,
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  Speaker 1: as the reader may know hereafter, In the meantime, I
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  Speaker 1: here conclude the second part of My Unfortunate Voyages. End
• 5:22:29
  Speaker 1: of Part two, Chapter eight, Part three A voyage to Laputer,
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  Speaker 1: pal Nabarbie lugnag glub dub drib and Japan. Chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: the author sets out on his third voyage, is taken
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  Speaker 1: by pirates the malice of a Dutchman. His arrival at
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  Speaker 1: an island, he is received into Laputer. I had not
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  Speaker 1: been at home above ten days when Captain William Robinson,
• 5:23:00
  Speaker 1: a cornish Man, commander of the Hope Well, a stout
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  Speaker 1: ship of three hundred tons, came to my house. I
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  Speaker 1: had formerly been surgeon of another ship where he was
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  Speaker 1: master and a fourth part owner in voyage to the Levant.
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  Speaker 1: He had always treated me like a brother than an
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  Speaker 1: inferior officer, and hearing of my arrival, made me a visit,
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  Speaker 1: as I apprehended only out of friendship, for nothing passed
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  Speaker 1: more than what is usual after long absences, but repeating
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  Speaker 1: his visits, often expressing his joy to find me in
• 5:23:36
  Speaker 1: good health, asking whether I were now settled for life,
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  Speaker 1: adding that he intended a voice to the East Indies
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  Speaker 1: in two months. At last, he plainly invited me, though
• 5:23:50
  Speaker 1: with some apologies to be surgeon of the ship, that
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  Speaker 1: I should have another surgeon under me besides our two mates,
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  Speaker 1: that my salary should be double to the usual pain,
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  Speaker 1: and that, having experienced my knowledge and sea affairs, to
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  Speaker 1: be at least equal to his, he would enter into
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  Speaker 1: any engagement to follow my advice as much as if
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  Speaker 1: I had shared in the command.
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  Speaker 2: He said so many other.
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  Speaker 1: Obliging things, and I knew him to be so honest
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  Speaker 1: a man that I could not.
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  Speaker 2: Reject this proposal, the first I.
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  Speaker 1: Had of seeing the world, notwithstanding my past misfortunes continuing
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  Speaker 1: as violent as ever. The only difficulty that remained was
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  Speaker 1: to persuade my wife, whose consent, however, I at last
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  Speaker 1: obtained by the prospect of advantage she proposed to her children.
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  Speaker 1: We set out the fifth day of August seventeen o six,
• 5:24:50
  Speaker 1: and arrived at Fort Saint George the eleventh of April
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  Speaker 1: seventeen o seven. We stayed there three weeks to refresh
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  Speaker 1: our crew, many of whom were sick. From thence, we
• 5:25:01
  Speaker 1: went to Tonquin, where the captain resolved to continue some
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  Speaker 1: time because many of the goods he intended to buy
• 5:25:08
  Speaker 1: were not ready. Now could he expect to be dispatched
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  Speaker 1: in several months. Therefore, in hopes to defray some other
• 5:25:17
  Speaker 1: charges he must be at, he brought a sloop, loaded
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  Speaker 1: it with several sorts of goods, worried the Tonquinese usually
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  Speaker 1: trade to the neighboring islands, and putting fourteen men on board,
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  Speaker 1: whereof three were of the country. He appointed me master
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  Speaker 1: of the sloop and gave me power to traffic while
• 5:25:36
  Speaker 1: he transacted his affairs at Tonquin. We had not sailed
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  Speaker 1: above three days when a great storm arising. We were
• 5:25:45
  Speaker 1: driven five days to the north northeast and then to
• 5:25:49
  Speaker 1: the east, after which we had fair weather, but still
• 5:25:53
  Speaker 1: with a pretty strong gale from the west. Upon the
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  Speaker 1: tenth day we were chased by two pirates, who soon
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  Speaker 1: overtook us. For my sloop was so deep laden that
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  Speaker 1: she sailed very slow. Neither were we in a condition
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  Speaker 1: to defend ourselves. We were warded about the same time
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  Speaker 1: by both the pirates, who entered furiously at the head
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  Speaker 1: of their men. But finding us all prostrate upon our faces.
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  Speaker 1: For so I gave order, they poignant us with strong
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  Speaker 1: ropes and setting guard upon us. When to search the sloop,
• 5:26:30
  Speaker 1: I observed among them a Dutchman, who seemed to be
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  Speaker 1: of some authority, though he was not commander of either ship.
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  Speaker 1: He knew us by our countenance to be Englishmen, and,
• 5:26:42
  Speaker 1: jabbering to us in his own language, swore we should
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  Speaker 1: be tied back to back and thrown into the sea.
• 5:26:50
  Speaker 1: I spoke and Dutch tolerably well. I told him who
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  Speaker 1: we were, and begged him, in consideration of our being
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  Speaker 1: Christians and Protestants of neighboring countries in strict alliance, that
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  Speaker 1: he would move the captains to take some pity on us.
• 5:27:08
  Speaker 1: This inflamed his rage. He repeated his threatenings, and, turning
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  Speaker 1: to his companions, spoke with great vehemence in the Japanese language,
• 5:27:18
  Speaker 1: as I suppose, after news in the word Christianos. The
• 5:27:24
  Speaker 1: lardest of the two pirate ships was commanded by a
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  Speaker 1: Japanese captain who spoke a little Dutch, but very imperfectly.
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  Speaker 1: He came up to me, and, after several questions, which
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  Speaker 1: I answered in great humility, he said we should not die.
• 5:27:43
  Speaker 1: I made the captain a very low bow, and then,
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  Speaker 1: turning to the Dutchman, said I was sorry to find
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  Speaker 1: more mercy in a heathen than in a brother Christian,
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  Speaker 1: But I had soon reason to repent those foolish words,
• 5:27:59
  Speaker 1: for that militious reprobate, having often endeavored in vain to
• 5:28:04
  Speaker 1: persuade both the captains that I might be thrown into
• 5:28:07
  Speaker 1: the sea, which they would not yield to. After they promised,
• 5:28:11
  Speaker 1: they made me that I should not die. However, prevailed
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  Speaker 1: so far as to have a punishment inflicted on me
• 5:28:19
  Speaker 1: worse in all human appearance than death itself. My men
• 5:28:25
  Speaker 1: were sent by equal division into both the pirate ships,
• 5:28:29
  Speaker 1: my sloop new manned. As to myself, it was determined
• 5:28:35
  Speaker 1: that I should be set adrift in a small canoe
• 5:28:37
  Speaker 1: with paddles under sail and four days provisions which last.
• 5:28:43
  Speaker 1: The Japanese captain was so kind to double out of
• 5:28:46
  Speaker 1: his own stores and would permit no man to search me.
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  Speaker 1: I got down into the canoe while the Dutchmen standing
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  Speaker 1: upon the deck loaded me with all the curses and
• 5:28:58
  Speaker 1: injurious terms his langue, which could afford. About an hour
• 5:29:03
  Speaker 1: before we saw the pirates, I had taken an observation
• 5:29:07
  Speaker 1: and found we were in the latitude of forty six
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  Speaker 1: north and longitude of one hundred and eighty three. When
• 5:29:15
  Speaker 1: I was at some distance from the pirates. I discovered
• 5:29:18
  Speaker 1: by my pocket class several islands to the southeast. I
• 5:29:24
  Speaker 1: set up my sail, the wind being fair, with a
• 5:29:27
  Speaker 1: design to reach the nearest of those islands, which I
• 5:29:30
  Speaker 1: made a shift to do in.
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  Speaker 2: About three hours.
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  Speaker 1: It was all rocky, however, I got many birds, eggs,
• 5:29:39
  Speaker 1: and striking fire. I kindled some heath and dry seaweed,
• 5:29:43
  Speaker 1: by which I roasted my eggs. I ate no other supper,
• 5:29:49
  Speaker 1: being resolved to spare my provisions as much as I could.
• 5:29:52
  Speaker 1: I passed the night under the shelter of a rock,
• 5:29:55
  Speaker 1: stirring some heath under me, and slept pretty well. The
• 5:30:01
  Speaker 1: next day I sailed to another island, and thence to
• 5:30:04
  Speaker 1: a third and fourth, sometimes using my sail and sometimes
• 5:30:08
  Speaker 1: my paddles. But not to trouble the reader with a
• 5:30:13
  Speaker 1: particular account of my distresses, let it suffice that on
• 5:30:17
  Speaker 1: the fifth day I arrived at the last island in
• 5:30:20
  Speaker 1: my sight, which lay south southeast to the former. This
• 5:30:26
  Speaker 1: island was at a greater distance than I expected, and
• 5:30:30
  Speaker 1: I did not reach it in less than five hours.
• 5:30:33
  Speaker 1: I encompassed it almost round before I could find a
• 5:30:36
  Speaker 1: convenient place to land in, which was a small creek
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  Speaker 1: about three times the wideness of my canoe. I found
• 5:30:45
  Speaker 1: the island to be all rocky, only a little intermingled
• 5:30:48
  Speaker 1: with tufts of grass and sweet smelling herbs. I took
• 5:30:54
  Speaker 1: out my small provisions, and after having refreshed myself, I
• 5:30:59
  Speaker 1: secured the remainder in a cave, whereof there were great numbers.
• 5:31:04
  Speaker 1: I gathered plenty of eggs upon the rocks, and got
• 5:31:07
  Speaker 1: a quantity of dry seaweed and parched grass, which I
• 5:31:11
  Speaker 1: designed to kindle the next day, And rosed my eggs
• 5:31:14
  Speaker 1: as well as I could, for I had about me
• 5:31:17
  Speaker 1: my flint, steel match, and burning glass. I lay all
• 5:31:23
  Speaker 1: night in the cave where I had lodged my provisions.
• 5:31:26
  Speaker 1: My bed was the same dry grass and seaweed which
• 5:31:29
  Speaker 1: I intended for fuel. I slept very little, for the
• 5:31:34
  Speaker 1: disquies of my mind prevailed over my weariness and kept
• 5:31:37
  Speaker 1: me awake. I considered how impossible it was to preserve
• 5:31:42
  Speaker 1: my life in so desolate a place, and how measurable
• 5:31:46
  Speaker 1: my end must be. Yet found myself so listless and
• 5:31:51
  Speaker 1: desponding that I had not the heart to rise. And
• 5:31:56
  Speaker 1: before I could get spirits enough to creep out of
• 5:31:59
  Speaker 1: my cave, the day was far advanced. I walked awhile
• 5:32:04
  Speaker 1: among the rocks. The sky was perfectly clear and the
• 5:32:08
  Speaker 1: sun so hot