They made me a sign, that I should throw down the two hogsheads, but first warning the people below to stand out of the way, crying aloud, _Borach nevola_; and, when they saw the vessels in the air, there was an universal shout of _Hekinah degul_.
I confess, I was often tempted, while they were passing backwards and forwards on my body, to seize forty or fifty of the first that came in my reach, and dash them against the ground.

But the remembrance of what I had felt, which probably might not be the worst they could do, and the promise of honor I made them--for so I interpreted my submissive behavior--soon drove out those imaginations.

Besides, I now considered myself as bound, by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence.

However, in my thoughts I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who durst venture to mount and walk upon my body, while one of my hands was at liberty, without trembling at the very sight of so prodigious a creature, as I must appear to them.
[Illustration: "PRODUCING HIS CREDENTIALS." P.14.] After some time, when they observed that I made no more demands for meat, there appeared before me a person of high rank from his imperial majesty.

His excellency, having mounted on the small of my right leg, advanced forwards up to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue: and, producing his credentials under the signet-royal,[10] which he applied close to my eyes, spoke about ten minutes, without any signs of anger, but with a kind of determinate resolution, often pointing forwards, which, as I afterwards found, was towards the capital city, about half a mile distant, whither it was agreed by his majesty in council that I must be conveyed.