me two chairs, with backs and frames, of a substance not unlike ivory, and two tables, with a cabinet to put my things in.  The room was quilted on all sides, as well as the floor and the ceiling, to prevent any accident from the carelessness of those who carried me, and to break the force of a jolt when I went in a coach.  I desired a lock for my door, to prevent rats and mice from coming in:  the smith, after several attempts, made the smallest that ever was seen among them; for I have known a larger at the gate of a gentleman’s house in England.  I made a shift to keep the key in a pocket of my own, fearing Glumdalclitch might lose it.  The queen likewise ordered the thinnest silks that could be gotten to make me clothes, not much thicker than an English blanket, very cumbersome, till I was accustomed to them.  They were after the fashion of the kingdom, partly resembling the Persian, and partly the Chinese, and are a very grave and decent habit.

The queen became so fond of my company that she could not dine without me.  I had a table placed upon the same at which her Majesty ate, just at her left elbow, and a chair to sit on.  Glumdalclitch stood on a stool on the floor, near my table, to assist and take care of me.  I had an entire set of silver dishes and plates, and other necessaries, which, in proportion to those of the queen, were not much bigger than what I have seen in a London toy-shop for the furniture of a baby-house:  these my little nurse kept in her pocket in a silver box, and gave me at meals as I wanted them, always cleaning them herself.  No person dined with the queen but the two princesses royal the elder sixteen years old, and the younger at that time thirteen and a month.  Her majesty used to put a bit of meat upon one of my dishes, out of which I carved for myself:  and her diversion was to see me eat in miniature; for the queen (who had, indeed, but a weak stomach) took up at one mouthful as much as a dozen English farmers could eat at a meal, which to me was for some time a very nauseous sight.  She would craunch the wing of a lark, bones and all, between her teeth, although it were nine times as large as that of a full-grown turkey; and put a bit of bread in her mouth as big as two twelve-penny loaves.  She drank out of a golden cup, above a hogshead at a draught.  Her knives were twice as long as a scythe, set straight upon the handle.  The spoons, forks, and other instruments, were all in the same proportion.  I remember when Glumdalclitch carried me, out of curiosity, to see some of the tables at court, where ten or a dozen of these enormous knives and forks were lifted up together, I thought I had never till then beheld so terrible a sight.