wounded with an arrow by one of the natives. Is feized and carried by force into a portugueze The author's veracity. His defign in publishing this work. His cenfure of those travellers who fwerve from the truth. The author clears himself from any finifter ends in writ- ing. An objection anfwered. The method of planting colonies. His native country com- mended. The right of the crown to thofe countries defcribed by the author, is justified, The difficulty of conquering them. The au- thor takes bis laft leave of the reader; pro- A VOYAGE то LILLIPUT. CHA P. I. He is The author gives fome account of himself and family: his firft inducements to travel. Shipwrecked, and fwims for his life; gets fafe on fhore in the country of Lilliput; is made a prifoner, and carried up the country. Y father had a small eftate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five fons. He fent me to Emanuel college in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I refided three years, and applied myself close to my ftudies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent furgeon in London, with whom I continued four years; and my father now and then fending me fmall fums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematicks ufeful to thofe, who intend to travel, as I always be lieved it would be fome time or other my fortune to do. When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father; where, by the affiftance of him and my uncle John, and fome other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I ftudied phyfick two years and feven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages. Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended by my good mafter Mr. Bates to be furgeon to the Swallow, captain Abraham Pannell, commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two into the Levant, and fome other parts. When I came back, I refolved to fettle in London, to which Mr. Bates, my mafter, encouraged me, and by him I was recommended to feveral patients. I took part of a small house in the Old-Jury; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton hofier in Newgate-ftreet, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion. But, my good mafter Bates dying in two years after, and I having few friends, my bufinefs began to fail; for my confcience would not fuffer me to imitate the bad practice of too many among my brethren. Having therefore confulted with my wife, and fome of my acquaintance, I determined to go again to fea. I was furgeon fucceffively in two fhips, and made fe veral voyages for fix years to the East and West Indies, by which I got fome addition to my fortune, |