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men had girt round his neck, hands, body, and legs. Nine hundred of the strongest men were employed to draw up these cords, by pullies fastened on the poles, and in a ⟨few⟩ hours he was raised, slung into the engine and tied down. All this Mr Gulliver was told afterwards, for while the whole operation was performing, he lay fast asleep by the force of a medicine that had been purposely infused in the wine he had drunk Fifteen hundred strong horses, about four inches and a half high, were yoked to the machine and had much ado to drag it along They made a long march this day, and then Mr. Gulliver was guarded in the night, by five thousand men, on each side one half of them with torches, and the other half of them with bows and arrows ready to shoot him if he offered to stir. Early the next morning, they continued their march, and at noon arrived within two hundred yards of the city gate.
The carriage stopped near an old temple the largest in the kingdom, but which on account of a murder having been committed therein, was never frequented. In this edifice it was agreed Mr. Gulliver
