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 persuaded to live in her apartments and vowed vengeance against our hero.

Mr. Gulliver’s suit of servants was very numerous He had three hundred cooks to dress his victuals. A shoulder of mutton was one mouthful, and a barrel of liquor one reasonable draught. Once indeed, he had a surloin of beef so immensely large, that he made three bites of it The geese and turkies were a scanty mouthful and of their smaller fowls, he frequently took up twenty or thirty at a time upon the end of his knife.

At last; however, he resolved to leave the island, and return to England; which he did, andarrived in the Downs on the 13th of April.