This great Person shewed me to his family, every one of which admired me as a most monstrous Production of Nature.  My Master was rewarded, by being made Nosocomionarcha, or Paymaster to the Invalids, had the Title of Quityardo, which answers to our Squire, conferred on him, and was ever after a Favourite of the Minister.  He sprung up immediately Nine Inches higher, grew considerably more bulky, and would eat you Three or Four Cacklogallinian Chicks in a Day; for the Ministers, and those in Post, feed on their own Species, and not one of the poorer Sort is in any Security of their Lives, in case a hungry Grandee sets his Eyes on, and has a Mind to him.  Nay, the slavish Spirit of the Cacklogallinians is such, that many of them, thro’ Folly or Superstition, will come in Bodies to the House of a Minister, and beg as the greatest Favour and Honour, they and their Families may be served up to his Lordship’s Table; and I have seen the Fools, who had thus offered themselves, and been accepted, if there was not immediate Occasion for them, strut in the Streets with a Chain of Silver about their Necks, which they look’d upon as the greatest Honour; and when call’d for by his Lordship’s Cook, run exulting, and offer their Throats to his Knife; tho’ this Nation was, in Time past, the bravest, and the most tenacious of their Liberty, of any of the feather’d Race.  But I have digress’d too far.

My new Master, or, more properly, Lord, order’d an Apartment and a Table for me, with a Tutor to teach me the Languages, by whose Diligence, and my own Avidity of Learning, I began in Four Months to understand a great Part of what was said to me; and my Lord was so very much pleased at my Progress, that he gave my Tutor a Post, which raised him about Four Inches.  My Lord forbore asking me any Questions concerning my self, till I was perfectly Master or the Languages, which I was in about Eleven Months.

He one Day sent for me into his Chamber, and accosted me in the following Words: 

Probusomo (which is, Monster of Nature, the Name he gave me) I have suspended my Curiosity of enquiring whence, and how you came into this Kingdom, till we could perfectly understand each other, that I might not be troubled with an imperfect Relation:  Now that you are Master of our Language, tell me of what Part of the World you are; whether you are of savage, or a civiliz’d Nation? if of the latter, what is your Policy, what are your Manners and Customs, and what Accident brought you hither?

I threw my self on my Face, and kiss’d his right golden Spur (for the Grandees saw off those which Nature has provided them, and substitute these in their Places) then rising, I answer’d, That I was of Europe, a Country so distant from Cacklogallinia, that I was near Six Moons at Sea, before I was cast on its Coast.

  Why, said he, is it possible you can swim so long? for you being
  destitute of Wings, can have no other Method of passing so vast a
  Water.