Gulliver’s Travels ; A voyage to Lilliput I; Part III

Third part of Chapter I of "A voyage to Lilliput", the first of Gulliver's Travels. From the acclaimed book by Jonathan Swift.

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The hurgo (for so they call a great lord, as I afterwards learnt) understood me very well. He descended from the stage, and commanded that several ladders should be applied to my sides, on which above a hundred of the inhabitants mounted and walked towards my mouth. They had baskets full of meat, which had been provided and sent thither by the king’s orders, upon the first intelligence he received of me. I observed there was the flesh of several animals, but could not distinguish them by the taste. There were shoulders, legs, and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the wings of a lark.