my raillery very well, and merrily replied with the old English proverb, 'that he doubted mine eyes were bigger than my belly, for he did not observe my stomach so good, although I had fasted all day;' and, continuing in his mirth, protested 'he would have gladly given a hundred pounds, to have seen my chest in the eagle's bill, and afterwards in its fall from so great a height into the sea; which would certainly have been a most astonishing object, worthy to have the description of it transmitted to future ages:' and the comparison of Phaeton was so obvious, that he could not forbear applying it, although I did not much admire the conceit. Our voyage not trouble The captain The captain having been at Tonquin, was, in his return to England, driven north-eastward to the latitude of 44 degrees, and longitude of 143. But meeting a trade-wind two days after I came on board him, we sailed southward a long time, and coasting New Holland, kept our course west-southwest, and then south-south-west, till we doubled the Cape of Good Hope. was very prosperous, but I shall the reader with a journal of it. called in at one or two ports, and sent in his long-boat for provisions and fresh water; but I never went out of the ship, till we came into the Downs, which was on the third day of June, 1706, about nine months after my escape. I offered to leave my goods in security for payment of my freight; but the captain protested he would not receive one farthing. We took a kind leave of each other, and I made him promise he would come to see me at my house in Redriff. I hired a horse and guide for five shillings, which I borrowed of the captain. As I was on the road, observing the littleness of the houses, the trees, the cattle, and the people, I began to think myself in Lilliput. I was afraid of trampling on every traveller I met, and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence. When I came to my own house, for which I was forced to inquire, one of the servants opening the door, I bent down to go in, (like a goose under a gate,) for fear of striking my head. My wife ran out to embrace me, but I stooped lower than her knees, thinking she could otherwise never be able to reach my mouth. My daughter kneeled to ask my blessing, but I could not see her till she arose, having been so long used to stand with my head and eyes erect to above sixty feet; and then I went to take her up with one hand by the waist. I looked down upon my servants, and one or two friends who were in the house, as if they had been pigmies and I a giant. told my wife, 'she had been too thrifty, for I found she had starved herself and her daughter to nothing.' In short, I behaved myself so unaccountably, that they were all of the captain's opinion when he first saw me, and concluded I had lost my wits. This I men I tion as an instance of the great power of habit and prejudice. In a little time I and my family and friends came to a right understanding: but my wife protested 'I should never go to sea any more;' although my evil destiny so ordered, that she had not power to hinder me, as the reader may know hereafter. In the mean time, I here conclude the second part of my unfortunate voyages. VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, PART III. CHAPTER I. The Author sets out on his third voyage. Is taken by pirates. The malice of a DutchHis avrival at an island. He is re man. ceived into Laputa. I HAD not been at home above ten days, when captain William Robinson, a Cornish man, commander of the Hopewell, a stout ship of three hundred tons, came to my house. I had formerly been surgeon of another ship, where he was master and a fourth part owner, Dr. Swift seems to have borrowed several hints, in his Voyage to Laputa, from a novel written by the learned Dr. Francis Godwin, bishop of Llandaff, called "Man in the Moon, or a Discourse of a Voyage thither, by Domingo Gonsales, 1638,' 8vo. This philosophic romance, which has been several times printed, shows that Bishop Godwin had a creative genius. His Nuncius Iuanimatus,' which contains instructions to convey secret intelligence, is very scarce. He died in April 1633.-N. in a voyage to the Levant. He had always treated me more like a brother, than an inferior officer; and hearing of my arrival, made me a visit, as I apprehended only out of friendship, for nothing passed more than what is usual after long absences. But repeating his visits often, expressing his joy to find me in good health, asking, 'whether I were now settled for life, adding, 'that he intended a voyage to the East Indies in two months,' at last he plainly invited me, though with some apologies, to be surgeon of the ship; that I should have another surgeon under me, beside our two mates; that my salary should be double to the usual pay; and that having experienced my knowledge in sea-affairs to be at least equal to his, he would enter into any engagement to follow my advice, as much as if I had shared in the cominand.' He said so many other obliging things, and I knew him to be so honest a man, that I could not reject his proposal; the thirst I had of seeing the world, notwithstanding my past misfortunes, continuing as violent as ever. The only difficulty that remained, was to persuade my wife, whose consent however I at last obtained, by the prospect of advantage she proposed to her children. We set out the 5th of August, 1706, and arrived at Fort St. George the 11th of April, 1707. We staid there three weeks to refresh our crew, many of whom were sick. From thence we went to Tonquin, where the cap |