up one of their largest hogsheads, then rolled it toward my hand, and beat out the top.  I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint.  They brought me a second hogshead, which I drank, and made signs for more; but they had none to give me.  However, I could not wonder enough at the daring of these tiny mortals, who ventured to mount and walk upon my body, while one of my hands was free, without trembling at the very sight of so huge a creature as I must have seemed to them.  After some time there appeared before me a person of high rank from his Imperial Majesty.  His Excellency, having mounted my right leg, advanced to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue, and spoke about ten minutes, often pointing forward, which, as I afterward found, was toward the capital city, about half a mile distant, whither it was commanded by his Majesty that I should be conveyed.  I made a sign with my hand that was loose, putting it to the other (but over his Excellency’s head, for fear of hurting him or his train), to show that I desired my liberty.  He seemed to understand me well enough, for he shook his head, though he made other signs to let me know that I should have meat and drink enough, and very good treatment.  Then I once more thought of attempting to escape; but when I felt the smart of their arrows on my face and hands, which were all in blisters and observed likewise that the number of my enemies increased, I gave tokens to let them know that they might do with me what they pleased.  Then they daubed my face and hands with a sweet-smelling ointment, which in a few minutes removed all the smarts of the arrows.  The relief from pain and hunger made me drowsy, and presently I fell asleep.  I slept about eight hours, as I was told afterward; and it was no wonder, for the physicians, by the Emperor’s orders, had mingled a sleeping draught in the hogsheads of wine.

It seems that, when I was discovered sleeping on the ground after my landing, the Emperor had early notice of it, and determined that I should be tied 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.  Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately set to work to prepare the engine.  It was a frame of wood, raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long and four wide, moving upon twenty-two wheels.  But the difficulty was to place me on it.  Eighty poles were erected for this purpose, and very strong cords fastened to bandages which the workmen had tied round my neck, hands, body, and legs.  Nine hundred of the strongest men were employed to draw up these cords by pulleys fastened on the poles, and in less than three hours I was raised and slung into the engine, and there tied fast.  Fifteen hundred of the Emperor’s largest horses, each about four inches and a half high, were then employed to draw me toward the capital.  But while all this was done I still lay in a deep sleep, and I did not wake till four hours after we began our journey.