;;. ~~T- THE LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT. ^J»oo oc^^o>—oc^^>^oo oc^^^oo—oo^^^oo oc^^- o Y * o iGULLIVER'S TRAVELS.! r r A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT. A 40^ Y father, T {IJJ^tL who was 1 a gentleman of<> N ottinghamshire £ bound me an ap- § prentice to a n ? eminent surgeon A in London, withT whom I continued O four years ? I made several voyages to the Levant as surgeon, After the expiry of my indenture, <> & and at length went in that capacity on board g <>the Antelope^ bound for the East Indies. InQ | our passage we were driven by a very violent ? X storm to the north-west of Van Dieman's Land, £ (^©O—OC<§^>^30 OC^^^OO—-OO^^^OO——OC^^£< ,»o- " I lay on the ground to kiss his hand."—Page 14. 4 Gulliver's Travels. and the ship immediately split. What became of my companions I cannot tell; but I swam as fortune directed me, till I got on shore. Being extremely tired I lay dowrn, where I slept sounder than I ever remember to have done in my life. When I awoke, I found I was not able to stir ; for my arms and legs were fastened on each side to the ground, and my hair was tied down in the same manner. In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advanced gradually up to my chin ; when, bending my eyes downward I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands and a quiver at his back. In the meantime I felt at least forty more of the same kind, as I conjectured, following the first. I was in utmost astonishment, and roared so loud that they all ran back in a fright However, they soon returned, and one of them lifting up his hands and eyes by way of admiration, cried out in a shrill but distinct voice, Hekinah degul! the others repeated the same words several times. The creatures now ran off a second time before I could seize them ; whereupon there was a great shout in a very shrill accent, and after it ceased one of them cried aloud, Tolgo Phonac! when in an instant I felt above a hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, which pricked me like so many needles. I now thought it best to lie still, and when the people observed I was quiet, they discharged no more arrows; but about four yards from me, over against my right ear, I heard a knocking like that of people at work ; I A Voyage to Lilliftut 5 when, turning my head that way as well as the strings would permit, I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants, with ladders to mount to it; from whence one of them, who seemed to be a person of quality, made a long speech, whereof I understood not one syllable. Being almost famished with hunger I put my finger frequently to my mouth to signify that I wanted food. The hurgo, or lord, understood me, and commanded ladders to be brought, on which a number of the inhabitants mounted, and walked towards my mouth, laden with baskets full of meat. There were shoulders, legs, and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the wings of a lark. I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. I then made another sign that I wanted drink ; when they slung up one of their largest hogsheads, which I drank off at a draught, for it did not hold half a pint; they brought a second hogshead, which I drank in the same manner, and made signs for more, but they had none to give me. Soon after there appeared before me a person of high rank from his majesty. He advanced straight up to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue, and spoke without any signs of anger, but with a kind of determined resolution, often pointing forwards, which as I afterwards found, was towards the capital city, about half a mile distant; whither it was agreed by his majesty in council I should be conveyed. After some 6 Gulliver's Travels. time I felt numbers of people relaxing my cords. There was an ancient temple, the largest in the whole kingdom, in which it was determined I should lodge. The great gate wras about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep. The country appeared like a continued garden, and the enclosed fields generally forty feet square, resembled so many beds of flowers. I viewed the town on my left hand, which looked like the painted scene of a city in a theatre. I was now visited by the emperor, the empress, and young princes of the blood of both sexes, attended by a vast concourse of people, who surveyed me round with the greatest admiration. The emperor having ordered a couch to be prepared for me, six hundred beds of the common measure were brought in carriages, and worked up in my house ; a hundred and fifty of their beds sewn together made up the breadth and length ; and these were four double ; by the same computation they provided me with sheets, blankets, and coverlets. His majesty one day said, he hoped " I would not take it ill if he gave orders to certain proper officers to search me ?" I said, " His majesty should be satisfied; for I was ready to strip myself, and turn out my pockets before him." Two officers were then appointed for this task. These I took up in my hands, and put them into my several coat pockets. Their inventory was as follows ;—' Imprimis, In the right coat pocket of the great man-mountain we found a large piece of coarse cloth, sufficient enough to be a foot cloth for your .: A Voyage to Lilliput. 7 Majesty's room of state. Next we saw a huge silver chest, with a cover of the same metal: we desired it should be opened, and one of us stepping into it found himself up to the mid-leg in a sort of dust, some part whereof flying up, set us both a-sneezing several times. In a large pocket we saw two hollow pillars of iron about the length of a man, fastened to strong pieces of timber larger than the pillars ; and upon one side of the pillars were huge pieces of iron sticking out cut into strange figures, which we knew not what to make of. Out of another pocket he called a fob hung a great silver chain, with a wonderful kind of engine at the bottom. We directed him to draw out whatever was at the end of that chain ; half silver, and half of some other transparent metal. He put his engine to our ears, which made an incessant noise like that of a water mill. From another he took out a net, almost large enough for a fisherman, but contrived to open and shut like a purse, and which served him for the same use* We found therein several massive pieces of yellow metal, which, if they be real gold, must be of immense value. " Having thus diligently searched his pockets we observed a girdle round about his waist made of the hide of some prodigious animal, from which hung a sword of the length of five men; and on the right a bag or pouch divided into two cells, each capable of holding three of your majesty's subjects. In one of these cells were several balls of a most ponderous metal, about the bigness of our heads; the other con- Gulliver's Travels. tained a heap of certain black grains, but of no bulk or weight, for we could hold about fifty of them in the palms of our hands." When this inventory was read over, the emperor directed me, although in very gentle terms, to deliver up the several particulars. He first called for my scimitar which I took out. In the mean time he ordered three thousand of his choicest troops to surround me at a distance with their bows and arows ready to discharge. He then desired me to draw my scimitar. I did so, and immediately ail the troops gave a shout between terror and surprise, for the sun shone clear, and the reflection dazzled their eyes as I waived the scimitar to and fro in my hand. The next thing he demanded was one of the hollow pillars ; by which he meant my pocket-pistol. I drew it out, and at his desire, as well as I could, expressed to him the use of it ; I then let it off in the air. Hundreds fell down as if struck dead ; and even the emperor, although he stood us ground could not recover himself for some time. I ■hen delivered up my pistols, my scimitar, my pouch of powder and bullets, and other effects which his majesty received very graciously. One day the emperor having ordered that part of his army which quarters in and about the metropolis to be in readiness, took a fancy in diverting himself in a very singular manner. He desired that I would stand with my legs as far asunder as I conveniently could. He then commanded his general to draw up the troops in close order, and march them under me twenty-four A Voyage to Lilliput. 9 a breast, and the horse by sixteen, with drums beating^ colours flying, and pikes advanced. This body consisted of three thousand foot and a thousand horse. I had sent so many petitions for my liberty, that his majesty at last granted my request, but upon certain conditions, drawn up by the chief secretary, which I solemnly agreed to. These conditions ran as follows: " His most sublime majesty, the Emperor of Lilliput, proposes to the man-mountain, lately arrived in our celestial dominions, the following articles, which by solemn oath he shall be obliged to perform :— " ist, The man-mountain shall not depart from our dominions without our license under our great seal. 2nd, He shall not come into our metropolis without our express order; at which time the inhabitants shall have two hours' warning. 3rd, As he walks the said roads, he shall take care not to trample upon the bodies of any of our loving subjects, their horses, or carriages. 4th, If any express requires extraordinary despatch, the man-mountain shall be required to carry in his pocket the messenger and a horse six days' journey, once in every moon. 5th, He shall be our ally against our enemies in the island of Blefuscu, and do his utmost to destroy their fleet, which is now preparing to invade us. Lastly, That upon his solemn oath to observe the above articles, the said man-mountain shall have a daily allowance of meat and drink sufficient for the support of 1724 of our subjects." To these articles I agreed with cheerfulness and content. One morning the principal secretary for private affairs IO Gulliver's Travels. came to my house and informed me that they were threatened with a sudden invasion from the island of Blefuscu, another great empire of the universe, almost as large and powerful as that of Lilliput. The emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. At that time part of Blefuscu was tributary tp the Crown of Lilliput, and the Blefuscudians would not conform to the law, but continued to break the large end of their eggs, and war was declared to compel them to their duty. In short, that the Blefuscudians had prepared a mighty fleet to make a descent upon them, and his majesty knowing my strength, relied solely on my help. I desired the secretary to present my humble duty to the emperor, and to let him know that although I could inflict no violenee on his enemies, I was willing to bring off the whole fleet. This I accomplished by wading across the channel which separated the two empires, and tying the whole fleet with cords and hooks, I dragged it after me to the opposite shore. The emperor received me at my landing with all possible encomiums, and created me a nardac on the spot, which is the highest title of honour among them. About three week after this exploit there arrived a solemn embassy from Blefuscu, with humble offers of peace, which was soon concluded, upon conditions very advantageous to our emperor. When the treaty was finished, the ambassadors made me a visit in form. They began with many compliments on my valour and generosity, and invited me to that kingdom in their A Voyage to Lilliput. ii master's name. Accordingly the next time I had the honour to see our emperor, I desired his license to wait on the Blefuscudian monarch, which he was pleased to grant me, but, as I could perceive, in a very cold manner. It was not long after this interview that I had an opportunity of doing his majesty a most signal service. I was alarmed at midnight with the cries of many hundred people at my door, who entreated me to come immediately to the palace, where her imperial majesty's apartment was on fire. I got up in an instant; and orders being given to clear the way before me, and it being likewise a moonlight night, I made shift to get to the place without trampling on any of the people. I found they had already applied ladders to the walls, and were well provided with buckets, but the water was at some distance. These buckets were about the size of a large thimble, and the poor people supplied me with them as fast as they could ; but the flame was so violent that they did little or no good. However, in three minutes I got the fire wholly extinguished, and the rest of the noble pile, which had cost so many ages in erecting, was preserved from destruction. And here it may perhaps divert the curious reader to give some account of my domestics, and my manner of living in this country, during a residence of nine months and thirteen days. Two hundred seamstresses were employed to make me shirts, and linen for my bed and table, all of the strongest and coarse t kind they could get ; which, however, they were forced ——-"—■ 12 Gulliver's Travels. to quilt together in several folds, for the thickest was some degrees finer than lawn. Three hundred tailors were employed in the same manner to make me clothes; but they had rather a singular contrivance for taking my measure. I kneeled down, and they raised a ladder from the ground to my neck; upon this ladder one of them mounted, and let fall a plumb- line from my collar to the floor, which just answered to the length of my coat ; but my waist and arms I measured myself. I had three hundred cooks to dress my victuals. I took up twenty waiters in my hand and placed them on the table ; a hundred more attended below, some with dishes of meat, and some with barrels of wine and other liquors slung on their shoulders ; all which the waiters above drew up in a very ingenious manner by cords, as we draw the bucket out of a well. A dish of their meat was a good mouthful, and a barrel of their liquor a reasonable draught. Their mutton yields to ours, but their beef is excellent. Their geese and turkeys I usually ate at a mouthful, and I confess they far exceed ours. Of all their smaller fowls I could take up more than thirty at the end of my knife. One day his imperial majesty desired that himself and his royal consort, with the young princes of the blood of both sexes, might " have the happiness," as he was pleased to call it, of " dining with me." They came accordingly, and I placed them in chairs of state on my table, just over against me, with their guards about them. Recollecting that I had his imperial majesty's license A Voyage to Lilliput. 13 to pay my attendance on the emperor of Blefusca, I seized a large man-of-war, tied a cable to the prow, and lifting up the anchors, I stripped myself, put my clothes into the vessel, and drawing it after me, between wading and swimming arrived at the royal port of Blefusca. Three days after my arrival, walking about I observed, about half a league off in the sea, something that looked like a boat overturned. I pulled off my shoes and stockings, and, wading two or three hundred yards, I found the object to be a boat, which I supposed might by some tempest have been driven from a ship. Being quite overjoyed at my good fortune, I hastened to notify my intention of departing from his dominions ; to which he and the court, impatient to have me away, ver\ readily contributed. Five hundred workmen were employed to make two sails to my boat, according to my direction, by quilting thirteen folds of their strongest linen together. I was at the pains of framing ropes and cables by twisting ten, twenty, or thirty of the largest and stoutest of theirs. A large stone I happened to find after a long search by the sea shore, served me for an anchor. I had the tallow of three hundred cows for greasing my boat and other uses. I was at incredible pains in cutting down some of the largest timber trees for oars and masts, wherein I was, however, much assisted by his majesty's ship carpenters, who helped me in smoothing them after I had done the rough portion. In about a month, when I was prepared, I sent to receive his majesty's commands, and to take my leave. H Gulliver's Travels. The Emperor and royal family came out of the palace, when I lay down on my face to kiss his hand which he very graciously gave to me ; so did the empress and young princes of the blood. His Majesty presented me with fifty purses of two hundred sprugs a-piece, together with his picture at full length, which I at once put into one of my gloves. I stored the boat with the carcases of a hundred sheep, with bread and drink proportionably, and as much meat ready dressed as four hundred cooks could provide. I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country—and to feed them on board I had a good bundle of hay and a bag of corn. I would gladly have carried along with me a dozen of the natives, but this was a thing the emperor would by no means permit ; and besides a diligent search into my pockets, his majesty engaged my honour 'not to carry off any of his subjects, although with their own consent and desire.' Having thus prepared all things as well as I was able, I set sail on the 24th of September, 1701. I discovered nothing that day ; but upon the next, about three in the afternoon, when I had by my computation made 24 leagues from Blefuscu, I descried a ship steering to the south-east. I made all the sail I could, and in half an hour she spied me ; then hung out her ancient and discharged a gun. The vessel was an English merchantman returning from Japan. I shall not trouble the reader with an account of this A Voyage to Lilliput. IS voyage, which was a very prosperous one. We arrived in the Downs on the 13th April, 1702. My cattle I got safe ashore, and set them a-grazing in a bowling- green at Greenwich, where the fineness of the grass made them feel very hearty, though I had always feared the contrary : neither could I _ possibly have preserved them in so long a voyage if the captain had not allowed me some of his best biscuits, which, rubbed to powder and mingled with water, was their constant food. The short time I continued in England I made a considerable profit by showing my cattle to many persons of quality and others : and before I began my second voyage I sold them for six hundred pounds. Since my last return I find the breed is considerably increased, especially the sheep, which I hope will prove much to the advantage of the woollen manufacture by the fineness of their fleeces. i6 Gulliver's Travels. To QUINBUS FLESTRIN, the MAN-MOUNTAIN, AN ODE, BIT TITTY TIT, ESQ,., Poet-Laureate to His Majesty of Lilliput. ^ranslateb inter (English. In amaze, Lost, I gaze ! Can our eyes Reach thy size! May ray lays Swell with praise! Worthy thee, Worthy me! Muse inspire All thy fire. Bards of old Of him told, When they said Atlas' head Propp'd the skies: See, and believe your eyes. See him stride Valleys wide, Over woods, Over floods, When he treads Mountains' heads Groan and shake; Armies quake, Lest his spurn Overturn Man and steed: Troops take heed! Left and right, Speed your flight! Lest an host Beneath his foot he lost. Turn'd aside From his hide, Safe from wound Darts rebound: From his nose Clouds he blows; When he speaks, Thunder breaks! When he eats Famine threats; When he drinks Neptune shrinks! Nigh thy ear, In mid air, On thy hand Let me stand, So shall I, Lofty poet, touch the sky ARDROSSAN AND SALTCOATS : A. GUTHRIE. OLD STYLE SERIES OF THE OLD FAVOURITES i.—ROBINSON CRUSOE. 2.—GULLIVER'S TRAVELS.—A Voyage Lilliput. 3.—GULLIVER'S TRAVELS.—A Voyage Brobdingnag. to to 4._JACK THE GIANT-KILLER. 5.—JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK. 6.—SINBAD THE SAILOR. 7 .—BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. 8.—CINDERELLA. 9.—ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES. I0.—PUSS IN BOOTS. 11.—ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP. 12.—THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. ,3._The SEVEN CHAMPIONS of CHRISTENDOM.
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