my spectacles the tide was now quite high and i waited an hour or two for it to go down it was much easier to when the water was shallow the sun was almost down when i reached the shore of with my captured fleet behind me how all the little people cheered when they saw me coming i waved my hand above my head and shouted long live the mighty king of the king was at the landing place to welcome me here are the ships of your enemy i said as i fastened the to the shore well done my noble man cried the king he would have shaken hands with me if he could but he did that which was much better he made me a on the spot a in is much the same as a knight it is the highest honor that a man can hold kneel noble man mountain said the king i knelt as humbly as i could i threw myself down before him he struck me three times with the flat of his sword he muttered some words which i did not understand then he bade me rise rise sir man mountain most powerful of my subjects he said it is thus that i reward thee the king was beside himself with joy he was not satisfied with what had been done he wished me to capture all the ships of every kind that could be found on the coast of more than this he wished me to help him conquer the whole country of he wished to build up a great empire he dreamed of becoming the ruler of the whole world i was sorry to see him thus filled with an unworthy ambition i tried to show him that he was happier as king of than he could ever be as emperor of the world besides i said these have a right to life and liberty never will i be the means of bringing a brave and free people into slavery the wisest men of the court declared that i was right we can gain nothing by conquering other lands they said but it was plain that the king did not agree with us at the moment of victory he was displeased how i became a about three weeks passed by the king had not given up the thought of conquering he wanted to become the ruler of the whole world and make all the people ever break their eggs on the little end with the fifty ships which i had captured for him he now had a very large navy he had also a fine army of nearly a hundred thousand men it was a grand sight to see them all drawn up in marching order but the king s wise men held him back they told him how foolish it was to wish to become a world power as they called it let us attend to our own business they said and let the attend to theirs as for myself i stayed quite close at home i gave the king to understand that i thought one great victory was enough at length a ship arrived from with a flag of flying from her mast on board of her were six of the chief men of with a train of about five hundred persons they were all dressed in fine style and when they landed they made a very grand appearance they had come to beg for peace after some days a treaty was signed the were to keep the fleet that i had captured for them the were to keep all the big and make them behave themselves what more could our people wish after this business was ended the six chiefs came to pay me a visit they had heard that by the king i had them and they came to thank me you were very brave to capture our fleet they said but you were a thousand times when you told the king that you would not help him a free people then in their emperor s name they invited me to visit their country i thanked them and asked them to give my respects to their emperor i will surely visit i said before i return to england the chiefs bowed and departed i watched them as they sailed away with their splendid train of followers they were indeed noble looking men the next time that our king came to see me i told him that i very much wished to visit and see what sort of country it was would he give me leave to go he looked at me coldly he frowned but at last he said that i might go for a short time if i would promise to return to it was easy for me to do this and so the business was settled how the people of lived before i go farther with my story i will tell you something more about the country of and how i lived there the people as i have said were very small the men were not more than six inches in height the commonest height was about five and a half inches while the women were somewhat smaller the animals and plants on the island were of like size the horses and oxen were between four and five inches in height the sheep were an inch and a half more or less their were not as big as our their were smaller than our house flies their trees were about seven feet high those that grew in the king s park were but little higher than my head when i walked among them outside of the city there were many beautiful farms where all kinds of grain and cattle were raised it was quite funny to see the little farmers with their little horses or oxen in the fields or their produce to 