Kitabı oku: «Gulliver's Travels. A Voyage to Lilliput. A2 / Путешествия Гулливера. Гулливер в стране лилипутов», sayfa 11

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These are all the things that we have found in the pockets of the man-mountain. We want to add that he was good to us and you, our great emperor, and treated us with great respect.

Clefrin Frelock, Marsi Frelock.”

When it was read to the emperor, he asked me to give some details. At the same time, he ordered three thousand people with arrows to be ready tofight; I didn't see it because I only looked at the emperor. He asked to show him my sword, which was bad because of the sea water; when I showed it, everyone was surprised by the lightit reflectedsobrightly. The prince was less shocked than everyone: he ordered me to put it on the ground. After that, he asked for my pistols, which they also found. I showed how they worked; everyone got scared their noise: hundreds fell down as if they were dead. They took away my pistols and my sword. I showed them all my money, my shaver; my brush and my diary. I only hid some personal things, for example, my glasses, which were not so important for the emperor, as I believed.