Part 2 — CHAPTER VIII
Reading edition
CHAPTER VIII
The king and queen make a progress to the frontiers—The Author attends them—The manner in which he leaves the country very particularly related—He returns to England
NOTE.
LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
"They concluded I was only Relplum Sealcath" Map of Brobdingnag "A huge creature walking ... on the sea" "Whereupon the huge creature trod short" "I drew my hanger to defend myself" "I called her my Glumdalclitch" "Flourished after the manner of fencers in England" "This gracious princess held out her little finger" "She carried me to the king" "I could only revenge myself by calling him brother" "The smaller birds did not appear to be at all afraid of me" "Gave me a gale with their fans" "The most violent exercise I ever underwent" "You have made an admirable panegyric" "She had some foreboding" "Somebody calling in the English tongue" "My daughter kneeled, but I could not see her"
AND TWELVE SMALLER ONES IN THE TEXT.
