Affairs.  I knew One rais’d from a Fowl of Three Foot Six Inches, to be a Makeseulsibi, a Post which rais’d him to Eight Foot Six, and is one of the greatest in the Kingdom.  He is to instruct the Grandees, when in Council, in Points of Law, and is Guardian to all Orphans.  Complaint was made to the Emperor, that he converted their Estates to his own Use, and left them all to starve; he was therefore, by the Emperor’s Consent, and to satisfy the People, brought to a Tryal.  He answer’d, That he did not deny the Charge; but that he wanted the Money to make a Figure equal to his Post:  However, the Enquiry discover’d his vast Acqusitions, and prov’d him to be so rich, that he was look’d upon with Respect, and he lived and died in as much Grandeur, and Tranquillity, as if he had been a Patriot, and at his Funeral, his great Service to his Country was blazon’d out in Figures and Hieroglyphicks by the Heralds; which being a thing I seem’d amaz’d at, and enquiring of many, how it came to pass, that a Fowl should be treated with Honour, who had been esteem’d an Oppressor? the common Answer was, he died rich, and that was enough for all Honours.

The Religion of the Cacklogallinians.

This Nation pretends to believe a first Being, and to worship one God, tho’ I confess, when I was first amongst them, I thought otherwise; for I Found the People of the best Rank amongst them always ridiculing Religion.  They had formerly a Globe of pure Gold in their Temples, an Emblem of Eternity:  It was inscribed with unintelligible Characters, by which they figured the Inscrurability of his Decrees.  This some call’d superstitious, and were for having razed, and the Ball, which was, in their Opinion, too big, new melted, and cast into a different Form.  Some were for a Square, to give an Emblem, of Justice; others would have it, an Octogon, by which they would shadow his Ubiquity.  Another Party insisted upon its being cast again, but in no regular Form; for all Forms and Regularity they look’d upon superstitious.  Their Disputes on this Subject ran so high, that they came to Blows, and each Party, as it was victorious, modelled the Globe to his own Humour or Caprice.  But the Ball being so often melted, and Part of the Gold being lost in each Fusion, it was at last almost imperceivable.  These Bickerings shed a great deal of Blood, and being at length tired with worrying each other upon this Account, a new Globe was cast, but not exactly round, to satisfy tender Consciences.  In process of Time, it was thought that a brazen Globe might do as well as one of Gold, and new Disputes beginning to arise, it was decreed, that this Globe should stand in the Temple, but that every one in particular should have at home an Idol after his own Fashion provided they wou’d only bow to this, and the Revenues were continued to the Priests to furnish Sacrifices.  The Heads of the Priests at last thinking these Sacrifices altogether needless, and a very great Expence, dropp’d