Kitabı oku: «Gulliver's Travels. A Voyage to Lilliput. A2 / Путешествия Гулливера. Гулливер в стране лилипутов», sayfa 3

I cannot tell what happened to other people in the group; they were all lost. Speaking about myself, Idecided to trust the ocean; when I almost died, I saw that the storm had finished. I was finally on the ground at about eight o'clock in the evening. There I did not find any people; or maybe I was so weak that I could not see them. I was extremely tired. After that, I lay down and slept for about nine hours; when I woke up, the sun was shining brightly. I felt that I couldn't move my body: something kept me on the ground. The sun began to be hot, and I opened my eyes because of its light.

When I looked down, I saw a small man not higher than six inches; there were at least forty more of them. I was shocked and startedscreaming and they all got scared. However, they were back soon, and the bravest one of them looked at my face and said, Hekinah degul: the others repeated the same words several times. I didn't know what it meant, I only wanted to be free.

For a long time, I felt very uncomfortable: I saw that theyhad tied me up. I could only move my head a little bit. These people ran away again, and one of them screamed Tolgo phonac, and I felt a hundred arrows in my hand and a terrible pain.