Kitabı oku: «Gulliver's Travels. A Voyage to Lilliput. A2 / Путешествия Гулливера. Гулливер в стране лилипутов», sayfa 4

Idecided to lie down and not move till night, so I could free myself easily when they would go to sleep. When they saw that I didn't scream, there were no arrows anymore. Then, one man, who was older and taller than the others, came closer and spoke to me, but I couldn't understand him. He repeated the same thing several times; after that about fifty people ran closer and I was free.

I showed him that I really needed to eat because I hadn't done it since the ship. He understood and told everyone to give me food. They usedladders to do it. I ate a lot and was surprised at how hungry I was. Then I showed them I wanted to drink. They gave me a big bottle of some drink, same as the wine of Burgundy, but much better. I drank it all and asked for more, but they didn't have any. After eating and drinking, they danced on me, repeating Hekinah degulsome times.

I can tell you that as they were moving on my body, I wanted tothrowthem on the ground; but I felt that I needed to be polite with them, as they were good to me and spent so much on me. I was surprised by the fact how brave they are: they were not afraid to do that to such a big man as I was for them.