The emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to see the author in his confinement.

The emperor's person and habit described.

Learned men appointed to teach the author their language.

He gains favour by his mild disposition.

His pockets are searched, and his sword and pistols taken from him. When I found myself on my feet, I looked about me, and must confess I never beheld a more entertaining prospect.

The country around appeared like a continued garden, and the enclosed fields, which were generally forty feet square, resembled so many beds of flowers.

These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang, [301] and the tallest trees, as I could judge, appeared to be seven feet high.

I viewed the town on my left hand, which looked like the painted scene of a city in a theatre.

I had been for some hours extremely pressed by the necessities of nature; which was no wonder, it being almost two days since I had last disburdened myself.

I was under great difficulties between urgency and shame.