[Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift]@TWC D-Link bookGulliver’s Travels CHAPTER VIII 1/60
THE KING AND QUEEN MAKE A PROGRESS[83] TO THE FRONTIERS.
THE AUTHOR ATTENDS THEM.
THE MANNER IN WHICH HE LEAVES THE COUNTRY VERY PARTICULARLY RELATED.
HE RETURNS TO ENGLAND. I had always a strong impulse that I should sometime recover my liberty, though it was impossible to conjecture by what means, or to form any project with the least hope of succeeding.
The ship in which I sailed was the first ever known to be driven within sight of the coast; and the king had given strict orders, that if at any time another appeared, it should be taken ashore, and with all its crew and passengers brought in a tumbrel[84] to Lorbrulgrud.
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