other Signs to let me understand that I should have Meat and Drink enough, 
and very good Treatment. Whereupon I once more thought of attempting 
to break my Bonds, but again, when I felt the Smart of their Arrows upon 
my Face and Hands, which were all in Blisters, and many of the Darts still 
sticking in them, and observing likewise that the Number of my Enemies 
encreased, I gave Tokens to let them know that they might do with me what 
they pleased. Upon this the Hurgo and his Train withdrew with much 
Civility and chearful Countenances. Soon after I heard a general Shout, 
with frequent repetitions of the words, Peplom Selan, and I felt great 
Numbers of the People on my Left Side relaxing the Cords to such a 
Degree, that I was able to turn upon my Right, and to ease myself with 
making Water; which I very plentifully did, to the great Astonishment of 
the People, who conjecturing by my Motions what I was going to do, 
immediately opened to the right and left on that Side, to avoid the Torrent 
which fell with such Noise and Violence from me. But before this, they had 
daubed my Face and both my Hands with a sort of Ointment very pleasant 
to the Smell, which in a few Minutes removed all the Smart of their 
Arrows. These Circumstances, added to the Refreshment I had received by 
their Victuals and Drink, which were very nourishing , disposed me to 
sleep. I slept about eight Hours, as I was afterwards assured; and it was no 
Wonder, for the Physicians, by the Emperor's Order, had mingled a 
sleeping Potion in the Hogsheads of Wine.

It seems that upon the first Moment I was discovered sleeping on the 
Ground after my Landing, the Emperor had early Notice of it by an 
Express, and determined in Council that I should be tyed in the Manner I 
have related (which was done in the Night while I slept), that plenty of 
Meat and Drink should be sent me, and a Machine prepared to carry me to 
the Capital City.

This Resolution perhaps may appear very bold and dangerous, and I am 
confident would not be imitated by any Prince in Europe on the like 
Occasion; however, in my Opinion, it was extremely Prudent, as well as 
Generous. For supposing these People had endeavored to kill me with their 
Spears and Arrows while I was asleep, I should certainly have awakened 
with the first Sense of Smart, which might so far have roused my Rage and 
Strength, as to have enabled me to break the Strings wherewith I was tyed; 
after which, as they were not able to make Resistance, so they could expect 
no Mercy.

These People are most excellent Mathematicians, and arrived to great 
perfection in Mechanicks by the Countenance and Encouragement of the 
Emperor, who is a renowned Patron of Learning. This Prince has several 
Machines fixed on Wheels for the Carriage of Trees and other great 
Weights. He often builds his largest Men of War, whereof some are Nine 
Foot long, in the Woods where the Timber grows, and has them carried on 
these Engines three or four Hundred Yards to the sea. Five Hundred 
Carpenters and Engineers were immediately set at work to prepare the 
greatest Engine they had. It was a Frame of Wood raised three Inches from 
the Ground, about seven Foot long and four wide, moving upon twenty-
two Wheels. The Shout I heard was upon the Arrival of this Engine, which 
it seems set out in four Hours after my Landing. It was brought parallel to 
me as I lay. But the principal Difficulty was to raise and place me in this 
Vehicle. Eighty Poles, each of one Foot high, were erected for this 
Purpose, and very strong Cords of the bigness of Pack thread were 
fastened by Hooks to many Bandages, which the Workmen had girt round 
my Neck, my Hands, my Body, and my Legs. Nine Hundred of the 
strongest Men were employed to draw up these Cords by many Pulleys 
fastned on the Poles, and thus, in less than three Hours, I was raised and 
slung into the Engine, and there tyed fast. All this I was told, for while the 
whole Operation was performing, I lay in a profound Sleep, by the Force 
of that soporiferous Medicine infused into my Liquor. Fifteen Hundred of 
the Emperor's largest Horses, each about four Inches and a half high, were 
employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a 
Mile distant.

About four Hours after we began our Journey, I awaked by a very 
ridiculous Accident; for the Carriage being stopt a while to adjust 
something that was out of Order, two or three of the young Natives had the 
Curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep; they climbed up into the 
Engine, and advancing very softly to my Face, one of them, an Officer in 
the Guards, put the sharp End of his Half-Pike a good way up into my left 
Nostril, which tickled my Nose like a Straw, and made me sneeze violently: 
Whereupon they stole off unperceived, and it was three Weeks before I 
knew the Cause of my awaking so suddenly. We made a long March the 
remaining Part of that Day, and rested at Night with Five Hundred Guards 
on each Side of me, half with Torches, and half with Bows and Arrows, 
ready to shoot me if I should offer to stir. The next Morning at Sunrise we 
continued our March, and arrived within two Hundred Yards of the City-
Gates about Noon. The Emperor, and all his Court, came out to meet us; 
but his great Officers would by no means suffer his Majesty to endanger 
his Person by mounting on my Body.

At the Place where the Carriage stopt, there stood an antient Temple, 
esteemed to be the largest in the whole Kingdom, which having been 
polluted some Years before by an unnatural Murder, was, according to the 
Zeal of those People, looked on as prophane, and therefore had been 
applied to common Use, and all the Ornaments and Furniture carried away. 
In this Edifice it was determined I should lodge. The great Gate fronting to 
the North was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through 
which I could easily creep. On each Side of the Gate was a small Window 
not above six Inches from the Ground: Into that on the Left Side, the 
King's Smiths conveyed fourscore and eleven Chains, like those that hang 
to a Lady's Watch in Europe, and almost as large, which were locked to 
my Left Leg with six and thirty Padlocks. Over against this Temple, on the 
other Side of the great highway, at twenty Foot Distance, there was a 
Turret at least Five Foot high. Here the Emperor ascended with many 
principal Lords of his Court, to have an opportunity of viewing me, as I 
was told, for I could not see them. It was reckoned that above a hundred 
thousand Inhabitants came out of the Town upon the same Errand; and in