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the shore after our shipwreck, I was Id such confusion,
that before I came to the place where I fell asleep, my bat,
which I had fastened with a string- to my head, and which had
stuck on all the time 1 was swimming, fell off after I came to
land - the siring, as I conjecture, breaking by some accident
which 1 never observed. 1 entreated bis imperial majesty
to give orders that it might be brought to me as soon as pos­
sible, describing to him the nature and use of i t ; and the next
day the wagoners arrived
with it, but not in a very
good condition.— 1 had sent
so many memorials an<i pe­
titions for my Liberty, that
his majesty at length men­
tioned the matter, first in
the cabinet, and then in a full council, where it was agreed to
by the whole hoard, and confirmed hy the emperor.
The conditions were drawn up and sent to me by two of the
ministers of state ; and, as the reader may be curious to have
some idea of the style and manner of expression peculiar to
that people, as welt as to know the articles upon which T re­
covered my liberty* I have made a translation of the whole
instrument, word for word, as near as 1 was aUe, which I here
offer to the public,
“ Golbasto Momarem Guadilo Shcfin Mully Uily Guet
most mighty emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the
universe, monarch of ail monarchs, at whose nod the princes of
the earth shake their knees, pleasant as the spring, comfortable
as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter ; His
most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain the fol­
lowing articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to
perform: —