Before I proceed to the description of this sea-voyage, I must first caution all severe and unmerciful critics not to frown too much at the narration2 of things, which seem to war against nature, and even surpass the faculties4 of faith in the most credulous5 man. I relate incredible but true things, that I have seen with my own eyes. Raw and ignorant ninnies who have never started a foot from their homes, regard every thing as fable6, whose equal they have never heard of or seen; or, with which they have not been familiar from childhood. Learned people, on the contrary, especially those who have a deep knowledge of natural history, and whose experience has proved to them how fruitful nature is in changes, will pass a more reasonable sentence upon the uncommon7 things narrated8.
In former days a people were found in Scythia, called Arimasps, who had but one eye, which was placed in the middle of the forehead: another people, under the same climate, had their foot-soles turned out backwards9, and in Albany were people born with gray hairs. The ancient Sanromates ate only on every third day and fasted the other two; in Africa were certain families who could bewitch others by their talk; and it is a well known fact, that there were certain persons in Illyria, with two eye-balls to each eye, who killed people by merely looking at them: this, however, they could do, only when they were angry; then their fierce and scintillating10 stare was fatal to whomever was rash or unfortunate enough to meet it: on the mountains of Hindostan were to be found whole nations with dog’s heads, who barked; and others who had eyes in their backs. Who would believe this and even more, if Pliny, one of the most earnest writers, had not solemnly assured us, that he had neither heard nor read the least hereof, but had seen it all with his own eyes? Yes, who would have imagined that this earth was hollow; that within its circumference11 were both a sun and moon, if my own experience had not discovered the secret? Who would have thought it possible, that there was a globe, inhabited by walking, sensible trees, if the same experience had not placed it beyond all doubt? Nevertheless, I will not pick a quarrel with any one, on account of his incredulity in this matter, because I must confess, that I myself, before I made this voyage, mistrusted whether these tales might not have arisen from the exaggerated representations of seamen12, or that they were the result of that well-known qualification of this class of men, familiarly styled the “spinning a yarn13.”
In the beginning of the month Radir, we went on board our ship, weighed anchor, and
The wind in swelling14 sails embraced the bending masts,
And, like an arrow in the air, with lightning speed,
The keel shrieked15 through the foaming16 billows.
The wind was fair for some days, during which we poor rowers had a comfortable time, for the oars17 were not needed; but on the fourth day it fell calm;
The sails did fall: in haste the seats were fixed18;
With plashing stroke, the oars smote19 heaven in the waters.
For a long time we met with nothing; but as soon as we lost sight of land, strange figures raised themselves from the quaking gulph. They were mermaids20, who, when the weather becomes calm and the billows rest themselves, rise to the surface and swim towards any passing ship, to ask for alms. Their language was so similar to the Martinianic, that some of our sailors could speak with them without an interpreter. One of these singular creatures demanded of me a piece of meat; when I gave it to her, she looked at me steadily21 for a time, and said: you will soon become a hero, and rule over mighty22 nations! I laughed at this divination23, for I considered it empty flattery, although the sailors swore to it, that the mermaids’ prediction seldom failed. At the end of eight days we came in sight of land; which the seamen called Picardania. As we entered the harbor, a magpie24 came flying towards us, which, they said, was the custom-house inspector25-general. When this dignitary had flown thrice around the ship, he returned to the shore and came back with three other magpies26: these seated themselves on the prow27 of the ship. I came very near bursting with laughter, when I saw one of our interpreters approach these magpies, with many compliments, and heard him hold a long conversation with them. They had come for the purpose of examining our freight and detecting any forbidden articles that we might have concealed28; when all was found correct, we were suffered to unload. As soon as this was done, a number of magpies flew to the ship, who proved to be merchants. The captain then went ashore29, accompanied by myself and two monkeys, namely, our supercargo and an interpreter; after clearing the ship and disposing of the cargo30, we returned, and shortly set sail.
In three days we reached Music-land. After casting anchor, we went on shore, preceded by one of the interpreters, who carried a bass-viol in his hand. As we found the whole country about us empty and desolate31, discovering no where any trace of living creatures, the captain ordered a trumpet32 to be sounded, to inform the inhabitants of our arrival. Before the echoes of the blast from the trumpet had subsided33, (and they seemed to penetrate34 farther and reverberate35 longer than usual from the perfect stillness of this apparently36 void region,) about thirty musical instruments came hopping37 towards us. These were bass-viols. On the very long neck of each was placed a little head; the body was also small, and covered by a smooth bark, which, however, did not close entirely38 around the frame, but was open in front and disposed loosely about them. Over the navel, nature had built a bridge, above which four strings39 were drawn40. The whole machine rested on a single leg, so that their motion was a spring rather than a walk. Their activity was very great, and they jumped with much agility41 over the fields. In short, we should have taken them for musical instruments, as their general appearance purported42, if they had not had each two arms and hands. In the one hand was a bow, the other was used upon the frets43. When our interpreter would converse44 with them, he put his viol in its position, and commenced playing an air. They immediately answered him by touching45 their strings, and thus alternating with each other, a regular musical conversation was carried on. At first they played only Adagio46, with much harmony; then they passed over to discordant47 tunes48; and finally concluded with a very pleasant and lively Presto49. As soon as our people heard this, they leaped and sung for joy, saying, that the bargain for the wares50 was now fixed. Afterwards I learnt that the Adagio, they first played, was merely an opening or preface to the conversation, and consisted only of compliments; that the discordant tones which followed, were bickerings and disputes about prices; and, finally, that the sweet sounding Presto indicated that an agreement had been made. At the conclusion of these negotiations51, the wares stipulated53 for were landed. The most important of these is Kolofonium, with which the inhabitants rub their bows or organs of speech.
Late in the month of Cusan, we set sail from Music-land, and after some days sailing hove in sight of a new land, which, on account of the foul54 smell that reached our noses at a great distance, our seamen supposed to be Pyglossia.
The inhabitants of this land are not very unlike the human race in their general appearance; the sole difference being, that these people have no mouth: they speak from the face which turns towards the south when the nose points to the north. The first of them who came on board, was a rich merchant. He saluted55 us after the custom of his nation, by turning his back towards us, and immediately began to bargain with us for our wares. I kept myself considerably56 remote during the negotiation52, as neither the sound nor the smell of his speech pleased me. To my great horror our barber was taken sick at this time, so that I was obliged to summon a Pyglossian perfume. As the barbers here are quite as talkative as among us, this one, while shaving me, filled the cabin with so disagreeable a smell, that, on his departure, we were obliged to smoke with all the incense57 we had on board.
We sailed hence to Iceland. This land consisted of desolate rocks, covered by eternal snows. The inhabitants who are all of ice, live here and there in the clefts58 of the rocks on the tops of the mountains, where the sun is never seen, enveloped59 by almost perpetual darkness and frost. The only light they have comes from the shining rime60.
These lands, of which I here have given a view, are all subject to the great emperor of Mezendora proper, and are therefore called by seafaring people the Mezendoric islands. This great and wonderful country, namely, Mezendora, is the goal of all extended voyages. Eight days sail from Iceland brought us to the imperial residence. There we found all that realized, which our poets have fancied of the societies of animals, trees and plants; Mezendora being, so to speak, the common father-land of all sensible animals and plants. In this empire each animal and every tree can obtain citizenship61, merely by submitting to the government and laws. One would suppose, that, on account of the mixture of so many different creatures, great confusion would prevail among them: but this is far from the case. On the contrary, this very difference produces the most happy effects; which must be attributed to their wise laws and institutions, decreeing to each subject that office and employment to which his nature and special faculties are best fitted. Thus, the lion, in consideration of his natural magnanimity, is always chosen regent. The elephant, on account of his keen judgment62, is called to sit in the State-council. Courtiers are made of chameleons63, because they are inconstant and know how to temporize64. The army consists of bears, tigers and other valorous animals; in the marine65 service, on the contrary, are oxen and bulls; seamen being generally hardy66 and brave people; but severe, inflexible67, and not particularly delicate in their living, which corresponds very well with their element. There is a seminary for this class, where calves68 or sea-cadets are educated for sea-officers. Trees, for their natural discretion69 and gravity, are usually appointed judges: counsellors are geese; and the lawyers of the courts in ordinary are magpies. Foxes are generally selected as ambassadors, consuls70, commercial-agents, and secretaries-of-legation. The ravens71 are chosen for dealing-masters and executors on the effects of those deceased. The buck-goats are philosophers, and especially grammarians, partly for the sake of their horns, which they use on the slightest occasion, to gore72 their opponents, and partly in consideration of their reverend beards, which so notably73 distinguish them from all other creatures. The staid yet energetic horse has the suffrage74 for the mayoralty and other civil dignitaries. Estate owners and peasants are serpents, moles75, rats and mice. The ass3, on account of his braying76 voice, is always the leader of the church-choir. Treasurers77, cashiers and inspectors78 are commonly wolves; their clerks, being hawks79. The (roosters) cocks are appointed for watchmen, and the dogs house-porters.
The first who came on board of us, was a lean wolf or inspector, the same as a custom-house-officer in Europe, followed by four hawks, his clerks. These took from our wares what pleased them best, proving to us thereby80 that they understood their business perfectly81, and had all its appropriate tricks at their fingers’ ends. The captain took me ashore with him. As soon as we had set foot on the quay82, a cock came towards us, demanded whence we were, the nature of our cargo, and announced us to the inspector-general. This latter received us with much courtesy, and invited us to dine with him. The mistress of the house, whom I had heard to be one of the greatest beauties among the female wolves, was not present at the table: the reason of this was, as we afterwards learned, her husband’s jealousy83, who did not deem it advisable to allow such a handsome wife to be seen by strangers. There were, however, several ladies at table; among others, a certain commodore’s wife, a white cow with black spots: next to her sat a black cat, wife to the master of hunt at court, newly arrived from the country. At my side was placed a speckled sow, the lady of a renovation-inspector: that species of officer-ship being generally taken from the hog-race. It must be observed that the inhabitants of the Mezendoric empire, although they are animals in figure, have hands and fingers on the fore1 feet.
After dinner the speckled sow entered into conversation with our interpreter, during which she told him that she was overhead and ears in love with me. He comforted her in the best manner he could, and promised her his support and aid; then he turned himself towards me and endeavored to persuade me to be easy; but when he observed that his flattering and arguments were vain, he advised me to take to flight, as he knew that this lady would move heaven and earth to satisfy her desires. From this time I remained constantly on board; but the ship itself was not a fortification sufficiently84 secure from the attacks of this lady, who by messengers and love-letters strove to melt the ice that surrounded my heart. Had I not, in the shipwreck85 I afterwards suffered, lost my papers, I should now give some specimens87 of the swine’s poetry. I have forgotten it all, except the following lines, in which she praises her being thus:
O thou! for whom my too fond soul most ardently88 doth thirst,
For whom my earliest passion, in retirement89 I have nursed:
Think not my figure homely90, though it be endued91 in bristles92 —
What beauty hath the leafless tree, through which the cold wind whistles?
How unadorned the noble horse, when of his beauteous mane he’s shorn!
O! who would love a purring cat, all in her furlessness forlorn.
Ah, look around my darling pig! look on all living things,
From the huge unwieldy mammoth93 to the smallest bird that sings; —
Were these not shagged or feathered all, how loudly should we jeer94; —
Who would warmly strive to please e’en man, were man without a beard?
After our truck was finished and a rich freight stowed away, we sailed for home. We had scarcely got into the open sea when it suddenly became calm, but soon after the wind breezed up. Having sailed awhile with a good wind, we saw again some mermaids, who
— dripping wet
Shot forth95, and dived between the foaming waves,
and now and then emitted horrible shrieks96. The sailors were much terrified at this, for they knew by experience, that these mournful sounds were presages97 of storm and wreck86. They had scarcely taken in the sails, before the whole heavens became veiled in black clouds:
Day sinks in night: all nature shudders98.
Then, in an instant, loose from every point
The storm, in frightful99 gusts100 and devilish uproar101
Breaks; the axis102 of the globe grates fearful —
And thunders, clap on clap, resound103 the concave:
The waves, din-maddened, tower to mountains.
Wildly, gone her helm, the half-crushed craft
Tumbles ungovernable. Now despairing shrieks
Mingling104 with ocean’s roar and crash of heaven,
Rise from the peopled deck: ’tis finished!
Every movable thing on deck floated off, for besides the ever-rolling billows, an immense rain fell in terrific water-spouts, accompanied by thunder and lightning. It seemed as though all the elements had conspired105 for our destruction. During the rolling of the ship, our masts were carried away, and then all hope of salvation106 was gone. Now and then a huge billow rolled over us, and carried with it one or two men far beyond the ship. The storm raged more and more; no one cared longer for the vessel107: without helm, without masts, without captain and mates, who had been washed overboard, the wreck lay at the pleasure of the waves. Having floated thus for three days, a bauble108 for the storm, we finally descried109 a mountainous land in the distance. While rejoicing in the hope of soon reaching this haven110, our vessel struck so hard against a blind rock, that she was instantly dashed in pieces. In the confusion and terror of the moment I got hold of a plank111, and, careless for the rest, thought only upon saving myself, so that even now I know nothing of the fate of my companions. I was quickly driven forth by the billows; and this was fortunate for me, for otherwise I should have been crushed among the timbers of the ship or torn in pieces by the jagged rocks upon which we had been cast, or escaping this should eventually have perished from hunger and fatigue112. I was wafted113 by the waves within a cape114, where the sea was calmer, and where the roaring of the excited ocean sounded less frightfully. When I saw that I was near the shore, I began to scream vigorously, hoping to call the inhabitants to my assistance. I soon heard a sound on the seashore, and saw some of the natives come from a wood near by; they got into a yawl and sailed towards me; this boat being curiously115 fashioned of ozier and oak-branches twisted together, I concluded that this people must be very wild and uncultivated. I was heartily116 glad, when I found them to be men, for they were the first human beings I had met during the whole voyage. They are very like the inhabitants of our globe, who live in hot climates; their beards are black and their hair curled; the few among them who have long and light hair, are considered monsters. The land which they inhabit is very rocky: from the curved ridges117 of the rocks and the connecting tops of the mountains, which cut the air in multiplied sinuosities, every sound reverberates118 in echo upon echo from the dales below. The people in the yawl approached the plank upon which I floated, drew me from it, carried me to the shore, and gave me to eat and drink. Although the food did not taste very good, yet as I had fasted for three days, it refreshed me very much, and in a short time I regained119 my former strength.
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