people, who conjecturing by my motion what I was going to do, immediately opened to the right and left on that fide, to avoid the torrent which fell with fuch noife and violence from me. But before this they had daubed my face and both my hands with .a fort of ointment very pleasant to the smell, which in a few minutes removed all the smart of their arrows. Thefe circumftances, added to the refreshment I had received by their victuals and drink, which were very nourishing, difpofed me to fleep. I flept about eight hours, as I was afterwards affured; and it was no wonder; for the physicians, by the Emperor's order, had mingled a fleepy potion in the hog heads of wine.

Ir feems, that, upon the first moment I was discovered fleeping on the ground after my landing, the Emperor had early notice of it by an exprefs; and determined in council, that I should be tied in the manner I have related, (which was done in the night while i flept) that plenty of meat and drink fhould be fent to me, and a machine prepared to carry me to the capital city.

THIS refolution perhaps may appear very bold and dangerous, and I am confident would not be imitated by any prince in Europe on the like occafion; however, in my opinion, it was extremely prudent, as well as generous; for fuppofing thofe people had endeavoured to kill me with their fpears and arrows while I was afleep, I fhould certainly have awaked with the firft fenfe of fmart, which might fo far have rouzed my rage and ftrength, as to have enabled me to break the ftrings, wherewith I was tied; after which, as they were not able to make refiftance, so they could expect no mercy.

THESE people are most excellent mathematicians, and arrived to a great perfection in mechanics by the countenance and encouragement of the Emperor, who is a renowned patron of learning. This Prince hath feveral machines fixed on wheels for the carriage of trees and other great weights. He often builds his largeft men of war, whereof fome are nine feet long, in the woods where the timber grows, and has them carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to the fea. Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately fet at work to prepare the greatest engine they had. It was a frame of wood

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raised three inches from the ground, about feven feet long and four wide, moving upon twenty two wheels. The fhout I heard was upon the arrival of this engine, which it seems fet out in four hours after my landing. It was brought parallel to me, as I lay. But the principal difficulty was to raise and place me in this vehicle. Eighty poles, each of one foot high, were erected for this purpofe, and very strong cords of the bignefs of packthread were fastened by hooks to many bandages, which the workmen had girt round my neck, my hands, my body, and my legs. Nine hundred of the strongest men were employed to draw up thefe cords by many pullies fastened on the poles; and thus, in less than three hours, I was raised and flung into the engine, and there tied faft: All this I was told; for, while the whole operation was performing, I lay in a profound fleep by the force of that foporiferous medicine infufed into my liquor. Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horfes, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the metropolis, which, as I faid, was half a mile diftant.

ABOUT four hours after we began our journey, I a waked by a very ridiculous accident; for the carriage being stopt a while to adjust fomething that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiofity to fee how I looked when I was afleep; they climbed up into the engine, and advancing very foftly to my face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the fharp end of his half-pike a good way up into my left noftril, which tickled my nofe like a ftraw, and made me fneeze violently: whereupon they stole off unperceived, and it was three weeks before I knew the cause of my awaking

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It has been remarked, that courage in whatever caufe, tho" it fometimes excites indignation, is never the object of contempt; but this appears to be true, only becaufe courage is fuppofed to imply fuperiority; for this officer in the guards becomes extremely ridiculous and contemptible, by an act of the most daring curio Sity, which fets him in comparifon with Gulliver; to whom he was fo much inferior, that a blast of the man-mountain's noftrils would have endangered his life; and if heroifm itself is not proof against ridicule, thofe furely are Lilliputians in philofophy, who confider ridicule as the test of truth. Hawkef.

fo fuddenly. We made a long march the remaining part of the day, and rested at night with five hundred guards on each fide of me, half with torches, and half with bows and arrows, ready to shoot me, if I fhould offer to ftir. The next morning at fun-rife we continued our march, and arrived within two hundred yards of the city-gates about noon. The Emperor, and all his court, came out to meet us, but his great officers would by no means fuffer his Majesty to endanger his perfon by mounting on my body.

Ar the place where the carriage ftopt, there stood an ancient temple, esteemed to be the largest in the whole kingdom, which, having been polluted fome years before by an unnatural murder, was, according to the zeal of thofe people, looked upon as prophane, and therefore had been applied to common ufe, and all the ornaments and furniture carried away. In this edifice it was determined I fhould lodge. The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almoft two feet wide, thro'which I could easily creep. On each fide of the gate was a small window, not above fix inches from the ground: into that, on the left fide, the King's fmith conveyed fourscore and eleven chains, like thofe that hang to a lady's watch in Europe, and almost as large, which were locked to my left leg with fix and thirty padlocks. Over-againft this temple, on the other fide of the great highway, at twenty feet distance, there was a turret at leaft five feet high. Here the Emperor afcended with many principal lords of his court to have an opportunity of viewing me, as I was told, for I could not fee them. It was reckoned, that above an hundred thousand inhabitants came out of the town upon the fame errand; and in spite of my guards, I believe, there could not be fewer than ten thousand at feveral times, who mounted my body by the help of ladders. But a proclamation was foon iffued to forbid it upon pain of death. When the workmen found it was impoffible for me to break loofe, they cut all the ftrings that bound me; whereupon I rofe up with as melancholy a difpofition, as ever I had in my life. But the noife and astonishment of the people at feeing me rife and walk are not to be expreffed. The chains that held my left leg, were about two yards long, and gave me

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not only the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a femicircle; but being fixed within four inches of the gate, allowed me to creep in, and lie at my full length in the temple.

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The Emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to fee the author in his confinement. The Emperor's perfon and habit defcribed. Learned men appointed to teach the author their language. He gains favour by bis mild difpofition. His pockets are fearched, and his fword and fiftols taken from him.

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HEN I found myself on my feet, I looked about me, and muft confefs I never beheld a more entertaining profpect. The country around appeared like a continued garden, and the inclofed fields, which were generally forty feet fquare, refembled fo many beds of flowers. Thefe fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang *, and the talleft trees, as I could judge, appeared to be feven feet high. I viewed the town on my left hand, which looked like the painted fcene of a city in a theatre.

I had been for fome hours extremely preffed by the neceffities of nature; which was no wonder, it being almost two days fince I had last difburthened myself. I was under great difficulties between urgency and fhame. The best expedient I could think on, was to creep into my houfe, which I accordingly did; and fhutting the gate after me, I went as far as the length of my chain would fuffer, and difcharged my body of that uneafy load. But this was the only time I was ever guilty of fo uncleanly an action; for which I cannot but hope the candid reader will give fome allowance, after he hath maturely and impartially confidered my cafe, and the diftrefs I was in. From this time my conftant practice was, as foon as I rofe, to perform that business in open air, at the full extent of my chain; and due care was taken every morning before company came, that the offenfive matter fhould

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be carried off in wheel-barrows by two fervants appointed for that purpose. I would not have dwelt fo long upon a circumftance, that perhaps at first fight may appear not. very momentous, if I had not thought it neceffary to justify my character in point of cleanliness to the world; which I am told fome of my maligners have been pleased, upon this and other occafions, to call in question.

WHEN this adventure was at an end, I came back out of my houfe, having occafion for fresh air. The Emperor was already defcended from the tower, and advancing on horse back towards me, which had like to have coft him dear; for the beast, tho' very well trained, yet wholly unufed to fuch a fight, which appeared as if a mountain moved before him, reared up on his hinder feet: but that Prince, who is an excellent horfeman, kept his feat, till his attendants ran in, and held the bridle, while his Majefty had time to difmount. When he alighted, he furveyed me round with great admiration; but kept beyond the length of my chain. He ordered his cooks and butlers, who were already prepared, to give me victuals and drink, which they pufhed forward in a fort of vehicles upon wheels, till I could reach them. I took thefe vehicles, and foon emptied them all; twenty of them were filled with meat, and ten with liquor; each of the former afforded me two or three good mouthfuls; and I emptied. the liquor of ten veffels, which was contained in earthen vials, into one vehicle, drinking it off at a draught; and fo I did with the reft. The Emprefs and young princes of the blood of both fexes, attended by many ladies, fat at fome distance in their chairs; but upon the accident that happened to the Emperor's horse, they alighted, and came near his perfon, which I am now going to defcribe. He is taller by almoft the breadth of my nail than any of his court, which alone is enough to ftrike an awe into the beholders. His features are ftrong and masculine, with an Auftrian lip, an arched nofe, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majeftic. He was then paft his prime, being twenty eight years and three quarters old, of which he had reigned about seven in great felicity, and generally victorious. For the better convenience of beholding him I

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