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TRAVEL S

PART

III.

A Voyage to LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, and

JAPAN.

СНАР. I.

The Author fets out on his third Voyage, is taken by Pyrates. The Malice of a Dutchman. His Arrival at an Island. He is received into Laputa.

I

Had not been at Home above ten Days, when Captain William Robinfon, a Cornish Man, Commander of the Hope-well, a ftout Ship of three hundred Tuns, came to my Houfe. I had formerly been Surgeon of another Ship where he was Mafter, and a fourth Part Owner, in a Voyage to the Levant; he had always treated me more like a Brother, than an inferior Officer, and, hearing of my Arrival, made me a Vifit, as I apprehended, only out of Friendship, for nothing paffed more than what is ufual after long Abfences. But repeating his Vifits often, expreffing his Joy to find me in good Health, asking whether I were now fettled for Life, adding, that he intended