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men; on his right side was a bag, containing two cells, in one of which were several balls as big as a man’s head and which we were scarce able to lift; the other was filled with black grains, about fifty of which we could hold in the palms of our hands.
When this inventory was read over; the King desired Mr. Gulliver to give up the several particulars; he therefore first took out his scymeter out of the scabbard and waving it backward and forward, the reflection of the suu greatly dazzled the eyes of the beholders. The next thing he demanded, was one of the hollow iron pillars; Mr Gulliver took it out of his pocket, and charging it with powder only he let it off in the air; on which hundreds of Lilliputians fell to the ground as if they had been dead, and even the Emperor was greatly confounded- His pistols were then delivered up, together with the pouch of powder and bullets, after begging that the former might be kept from the fire, for fear his Imperial Majesty's palace might be blown in the air. The Emperor being desirous of seeing his watch, two of the yeomen of the
