I got to the shore, and slept. When I woke up, I found my

arms and legs strongly fastened on each side to the ground.

Lilliput.

Likewise, I felt several slender ropes across my body, from my armpits to my thighs.

I felt something moving on my left leg, which, advancing forwards over

my chest, came almost up to my chin. Bending my eyes downwards…

…I recognised it to be a human creature not more than six inches high.

I felt at least forty more following the fi rst.

Hekina degul!

I lay in great uneasiness, struggling to free myself…

…until I had the fortune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground.

Tolgo phonac!

I felt a hundred arrows pricking my left hand like many needles.

Then they shot another fl ight of arrows into the air, as we

do with bombs in Europe.

I was striving again to get loose, when they discharged yet another volley.

I thought it best to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night. Then, using my left hand,

which was already loose, I could easily free myself.

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I got to the shore, and slept. When I woke up, I found my

arms and legs strongly fastened on each side to the ground.

Lilliput.

Likewise, I felt several slender ropes across my body, from my armpits to my thighs.

I felt something moving on my left leg, which, advancing forwards over

my chest, came almost up to my chin. Bending my eyes downwards…

…I recognised it to be a human creature not more than six inches high.

I felt at least forty more following the fi rst.

Hekina degul!

I lay in great uneasiness, struggling to free myself…

…until I had the fortune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground.

Tolgo phonac!

I felt a hundred arrows pricking my left hand like many needles.

Then they shot another fl ight of arrows into the air, as we

do with bombs in Europe.

I was striving again to get loose, when they discharged yet another volley.

I thought it best to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night. Then, using my left hand,

which was already loose, I could easily free myself.

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I had reason to believe I might be a match for the greatest armies they could bring against me, if they were all of the same size.

But by the noise I heard, I knew their

numbers had increased.

Langro dehul san.

Another person of some importance made me a long speech, of which I

understood not one syllable.

Being almost famished with hunger, having not eaten a morsel for some hours before I left the ship, I showed my impatience…

…by putting my fi nger frequently to my mouth, to signify that I wanted food.

The man understood what I was saying. He narrated my plight to the king, who,

in turn, sent baskets full of meat.

The baskets had bread and fl esh of several animals. I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took

three loaves at a time.

A person of high rank gestured that I would be treated well… but I must be

carried as a prisoner to the capital city.

I once more thought of attempting to break my bonds, but I felt the pain of their arrows upon my face and hands…

I let them know that they might do with me as they pleased.

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It seems that when I was discovered, the emperor

determined that I should be tied…

…that plenty of meat and drink should be sent to me, mingled

with a sleeping potion…

…and a machine be prepared to carry me to the capital city.

This resolution perhaps may appear very bold and dangerous. But in my opinion, it

was extremely prudent, as well as generous.

Supposing these people had tried to kill me while I was asleep, I would certainly have woken up with the fi rst sense of

pain. That would have roused my rage and strength, enabling me to break free…

…after which they could have expected no mercy.

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It was decided that I should lodge in an ancient temple, the largest in the

whole kingdom, applied to common use.

The chains that held my left leg allowed me to creep in, and lie at my full length in the temple.

The emperor surveyed me with great admiration.

After about two hours, I was left with a strong guard, to prevent the audacity

and malice of the rabble, who were very impatient to crowd about me.Some of them were

foolish enough to shoot their arrows at me.

The colonel ordered the ringleaders to be seized, and thought it the most proper punishment to deliver them

bound into my hands.

I took them all in my right hand, and made a face as if I would eat them alive.

The poor men screamed terribly, and the colonel and his offi cers were shocked…

Aaaaaaaa!

…when they saw me take out my penknife.

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Lemuel Gulliver always dreamt of travelling the world. But

when a violent storm claims his ship and casts him adrift among

unchartered lands, he is taken to places that he had never

imagined could exist.

Gulliver travels to Lilliput, where the inhabitants measure just

centimetres tall, and to Brobdingnag, where they tower into

the sky like giants. Then he goes to an island fl oating above

the clouds, after which he visits a race of immortals, and f inds

himself stranded in a land ruled by horses.

Face to face with warring armies and power-hungry kings, each

new journey makes Gulliver more desperate to fi nd a way back

home. But once he discovers the truth about his own land and

himself, returning home becomes the last thing he desires.

Written by the renowned satirist Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s

Travels is one of the most fantastical adventure stories ever told.