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  p: SHILLING ENTERTAINING LIBRAEY.
  p: EDITED BY J. S. LAURIE.
  p: 'Not at all,' replied Sampson; 'for it is so plain, that there is no difficulty in it : children thumb it, boys read it, men understand it, and old folks commend it.'
  p: DON QUIXOTE.
  p: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS:
  p: A YOYAGE TO LILLIPUT AND BROBDINGNAG.
  p: JONATHAN SWIFT.
  p: LONDON:
  p: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN. 1803.
  p: INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES.
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  p: VI INTRODUCTION.
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  p: It is proper to state that the Editor assumes the right of adapting the original texts so as to suit his purpose. Gram-matical constructions which are too involved and difficult will be simplified; modern words and idioms will be substituted
  p: INTRODUCTION. Til
  p: for such as have become obsolete or nearly obsolete; and in all cases passages which are unsuitable to the young will be expunged.
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  p: GTJLLIYER'S TEAVELS.
  p: CONTENTS.
  p: Xll CONTENTS.
  p: CONTENTS. Xlll
  p: CHAPTER HI.
  p: XIV CONTENTS.
  p: CHAPTER VIIL
  p: LIST OF ILLUSTEATIONS.
  p: 1 The captain was very well satisfied with this plain nar-ration I had given him, and said, 'he hoped I would oblige the world by putting it on paper, and making it public.' My answer was, ' that I thought we were overstocked with books of travels; that nothing could now pass which was not ex-traordinary; and that my story could contain little except common events' .... However I thanked him for his good opinion, and^ promised to take the matter into my consider-ation. —p. 180.
  p: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS.
  p: PAET I.
  p: A VOYAGE TO LILLTPUT.
  p: CHAPTEK I.
  p: The Author gives some Account of Himself and Family: his first Induce-ments to travel — He is shipwrecked and swims for his Life; gets safe on Shore in the Country of Lilliput — He is made Prisoner, and carried up the Country.
  p: MY father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emanuel College, Cambridge, at fourteen years of age. There I resided three years, and applied myself closely to my studies. Although I had a very scanty allowance, the charge of maintaining me was too great for a narrow fortune: I was therefore bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years. During that period my father sent me small sums of money, which I laid out in B
  p: 2 ' GULLIVERS TRAVELS:
  p: learning navigation, and other branches of the mathe-matics, useful to those who intend to travel, for this, I always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do. When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father; where, by his assistance, and that of my uncle John, and some other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a-year to maintain me at Leyden. There I studied medicine two years and seven months, knowing it would be useful to me in long voyages.
  p: Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recom-mended by my good master, Mr. Bates, as surgeon to the Swallow, Captain Abraham Pannell, commander. With him I continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two to the Levant, and some other places. When I came back, I resolved to settle in London : a project in which Mr. Bates, my master, en-couraged me. By him I was recommended to several patients. I took part of a small house in Old Jewry; and, being advised to alter my condition, I married Miss Maiy Burton, second daughter to Mr, Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate Street, with whom I received four hundred pounds as a dowry.
  p: My good master Bates died two years after, and, having few friends, my business began to fail; for my conscience would not suffer me to imitate the bad prac-tices of too many of my brethren. Having,' therefore,
  p: A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT. 8
  p: consulted with my wife and some of my acquaintances, I determined to go again to sea. I was surgeon suc-cessively in two ships, and made several voyages, for six years, to the East and West Indies, by which I got some addition to my fortune. My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a goodly number of books ; and when I was ashore, I occupied myself with observ-ing the manners and dispositions of the people, and with learning their language. In the latter object I was greatly aided by the strength of my memory.
  p: The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family. I removed from Old Jewry to Fetter Lane, and thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the sailors, but my success was small. After three years' expectation that things would mend, I accepted an advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was about to make a voyage to the South Sea. We set sail from Bristol, May 4, 1699, and our voyage, at first, was very prosperous.
  p: It would not be proper, for various reasons, to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas ; let it suffice to inform him, that in our pas-sage to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the north-west of Van Diemen's Land. By an
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  p: observation, we found ourselves in the latitude of 30 degrees 2 minutes south. Twelve of our crew died from immoderate labor and bad food; the rest were in a very weak condition- On the 5th of November, which was the beginning of summer in those parts, during hazy weather^ the seamen spied a rock within half a cable's length of the ship; but the wind was so strong, that the vessel drifted directly upon it, and im-mediately split. Six of the crew, of whom I was one, having let down the boat into the sea, made a shift to get clear of the ship and the rock. We rowed, according to my reckoning, about three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent with the exertions we had made to save the ship. We, therefore, trusted our-selves to the mercy of the waves, and in about half an hour the boat was upset by a sudden squall from the north. What became of my companions in the boat, as well as of those who escaped to the rock, or were left in the vessel, I cannot tell; but I conclude they were all lost. For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide. I often let my legs drop, and could feel no bottom ; but when I was almost exhausted, and able to struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth; and by this time the storm had greatly abated. The coast was so flat, that I walked nearly a mile before I got to the shore, and this, I conjectured, was about eight o'clock in the evening.
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  p: I then advanced onwards nearly half a mile, but I could not discover any signs of houses or inhabitants : at least, I was in so weak a condition, that I did not observe them. I was extremely tired, and the heat of the weather, together with the effects of about half a pint of brandy that I drank on leaving the ship, disposed me to sleep. I lay down on the grass, which was very short and soft, where I slept sounder than I ever remember to have done in my life, and, as I reckoned, about nine hours; for, when I awaked, it was just day-light. I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir ; for having happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs strongly fastened on each side to the ground; and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner. I likewise felt several slender cords across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards ; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture in which I lay, I could see nothing except the sky. In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which, advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin. On bending my eyes downward as much as I could, I per-ceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at hia back. In the meantime, I felt at least forty other crea-tures of the same kind, as I conjectured, following the
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  p: first. I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud, that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt by the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground. However, they soon returned, and one of them, who ventured so far as to get a full view of my face, lifting up his hands and eyes in surprise, crying out in a shrill but distinct voice, Hekinah degul: the others repeated the same words several times, but I then knew not what they meant. I lay all this while, as the reader may believe, in great uneasiness; at length, struggling to get loose, I had the good fortune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground ; for, by lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken to bind me. At the same time, with a violent pull, which gave me excessive pain,
  p: 1 slightly loosened the strings that tied down my hair on the left side, so that I was just able to turn my head about two inches. But the creatures ran off" a second time, before I could seize them ; whereupon there was a great shout in a very shrill accent, and after it had ceased I heard one of them cry aloud, Tolgophonac. In an instant I felt above a hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, which pricked me like so many needles; and besides, they shot another volley into the air, as we do bombs in Europe. Many of them, I suppose, fell on my body, though I felt them not, and some on my face,
  p: A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT. 7
  p: •which I immediately covered with my left hand. When this shower of arrows was over, I began to groan •with grief and pain, and strove again to get loose. They then discharged another volley larger than the first, and some attempted with spears to stick me in the eides; but by good luck I had on me a leather jerkin, which they could not pierce. I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to con-tinue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could easily free myself; and as for the inhab-itants, I had reason to believe I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me, if they were all of the same size as those I saw. But fortune ordered otherwise. When the people observed I was quiet, they discharged no more arrows ; but, from the noise I heard, I knew their numbers had increased. About four yards from me, over against my right ear, I heard a knocking for above an hour, like that of people at work ; and, on turning my head that way, as well as the pegs and strings would permit me, I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants, with two or three ladders to mount it: whence one of them, who seemed to be a person of rank, made me a long speech, of which I understood not one syllable. But I should have mentioned, that before the principal person began his oration, he cried out three times, Langro dehul san.
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  p: [These words and the former were afterwards repeated and explained to me.] Whereupon, about fifty of the inhabitants came and cut the strings that fastened the left side of my head, which gave me the power of turn-ing it to the right, and of observing the person and gesture of him that was to speak. He appeared to be of middle age, and taller than any of the other three who attended him, of whom the one that held up his train was a page, seemingly somewhat longer than my middle finger; the other two stood one on each side to support him. He acted every part of an orator, and I could observe many periods of threatenings, and others of promises, pity and kindness. I answered in a few words, but in the most submissive manner, lifting Tip my left hand and both my eyes to the sun, as call-ing that luminary for a witness; and being almost famished with hunger, not having eaten a morsel for some hours before I left the ship, I found the demands of nature so strong upon me that I could not forbear showing my impatience by putting my finger frequently to my mouth, to signify that I wanted food. The hurgo (for so they call a great lord, as I afterwards learnt) un-derstood me very well. He descended from the stage, and commanded that several ladders should be applied to my sides. On the former above a hundred of the inhabitants mounted, and walked towards my mouth, laden with baskets full of meat, which had been pro-
  p: A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT. 9
  p: vided and sent thither by the king's orders, as soon as he received intelligence of me. I observed there was the flesh of animals of several sorts, but could not dis-tinguish them by the taste. There were shoulders, legs and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the wings of a lark. I ate them two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, which were about the size of musket bullets. They supplied me as fast as" they could, showing a thousand marks of wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite. I then made another sign, that I wanted to drink. They found by my eating that a small quantity would not be enough for me; and, being a most ingenious people, they slung up, with great dexterity, one of their largest hogsheads, then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out the top. I drank it off at a draught, which I could well do, for it did not hold half a pint. It tasted like Burgundy, but much more delicious. They brought me a second hogshead, which I drank in the same manner, and made signs for more; but they had none to give me. When I had performed these wonders, they shouted for joy, and danced upon my breast, repeating several times as they did at first, Hekinah degul. They made me signs that I should throw down the two hogsheads, but first warning the people below to stand out of the way, crying aloud, Borach mevolah ; and when they saw the vessels in the
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  p: air, there was a universal shout of Hekinah degul. I confess I was often tempted, while they were passing backwards and forwards on my body, to seize forty or fifty of the first that came within my reach, and dash them against the ground; but the remembrance of what I had felt, which probably might not be the worst they could do, and the promise of honor I made them — for so I interpreted my submissive behaviour— Boon forbade my doing so. Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much magnificence. How-ever, in my thoughts I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who ventured to mount and walk upon my body, without trembling at thevery sight of so prodigious a creature as I must have appeared to them. After some time, when they observed that I made no more demands for meat, there appeared before me a person of high rank, a messenger from his imperial majesty. His excellency, having mounted on the small of my right leg, advanced upwards to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue, and pro-ducing his credentials under the signet royal, which he applied close to my eyes, spoke about ten minutes with-out any signs of anger, but with a kind of determinate resolution. He often pointed forwards, which, as I after-wards found, was towards the capital city, about half a mile distant, whither it was agreed by his majesty in
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  p: council that I must be conveyed. I answered in a few- words, to him of course unintelligible, and 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), and then to my own head and body, to signify that I desired my liberty. It appeared that he understood me well enough, for he shook his head by way of disapprobation, and held his hand in a manner that showed I must be carried as a prisoner. However, he made 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, with many of the darts still sticking in them, and observing likewise that the number of my enemies increased, I made signs to let them know that they might do with ine what they pleased. Upon this, the hurgo and his train withdrew, with much civility and cheerful countenances.
  p: 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 tied in the manner I have related; that plenty of meat and drink should be sent me, and a machine prepared to carry me to the capital city.
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  p: 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 endeavoured to kill me with their spears and arrows, while I was asleep, I should certainly have awaked with the first sense of smart, and this might so far have aroused my rage and strength, as to have enabled me to break the strings wherewith I was tied; after which, as they were not able to make resistance, so they could expect no mercy.
  p: These people are most excellent mathematicians, and have attained a great perfection in mechanics by the favor and encouragement of the emperor, who is a re-nowned patron of learning. This prince has several machines fixed on wheels, for the carriage of trees and other great weights. He often builds Ms largest men of war, of which some are nine feet long, in the woods where the timber grpws, and has them carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to the sea. Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately set to work to prepare the largest engine they had. It was a frame of wood raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long and four wide, moving upon twenty-two wheels. A loud shout was raised on the arrival of this engine, which, it seems, set out four hours
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  p: 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 size of packthread, 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 fastened on the poles; and thus, in less than three hours, I was raised and slung into the engine, and there tied fast. All this I was afterwards told; for, while the operation was being performed, I lay in a profound sleep, by the force of a 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.
  p: About four hours after we began our journey, I awoke by a very ridiculous accident; for the carriage being stopped 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 advanced 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
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  p: tmperceived, and it was three weeks before I knew the cause of my waking so suddenly. We made a long inarch the remaining part of the 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 sun-rise, 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 the chief officers would by no means suffer his majesty to endanger his person by mounting on my body.
  p: At the place where the carriage stopped, there stood an ancient temple, noted as 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 upon as profane, and there-fore had been applied to common use, and all the ornaments and furniture carried away. In this edifice it was determined I should lodge. The gate fronting the north was about four feet high and 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 smith conveyed four score 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
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  p: of the great highway, twenty feet distant, there was a turret at least five feet 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 spite of my guards, I believe there could not be fewer than ten thousand at several times, who mounted my body by the help of ladders. But a proclamation was soon issued, to forbid it upon pain of death. When the workmen found it was impos-sible for me to break loose, they cut all the strings that bound me; whereupon, I rose up, in as melancholy a state as I ever had been in. The noise and astonish-ment of the people, at seeing me rise and walk, are indescribable. The chains that held my left leg were about two yards long, and gave me not only the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semicircle, but, being fixed within four inches of the gate, allowed me to creep into and lie at full length in the temple.
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  p: The Emperor ot Lilliput, attended by several of the Nobility, comes to see the Author in his Confinement—The Emperor's Person and Dress de-scribed—Learned Men appointed to teach the Author their Language- He gains Favor by his mild Disposition — TT'g Pockets are searched, and his Sword and Pistols taken from hi™,
  p: WHEN I found myself on my feet, I must confess that, on looking about me, I never beheld a more charming prospect. The country around appeared like a con-tinuous garden, and the enclosed fields, which were generally about forty feet square, resembled so many beds of flowers. These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang,* and the tallest trees, as far as I could judge, appeared to be seven feet high. I viewed the town on my left hand, which looked like the painted scene of a city in a theatre.
  p: The emperor presently descended from the tower, and advanced on horseback towards me. This was on the point of costing him dear; for the beast, though very well trained, yet wholly unused to such a sight, which appeared as if a mountain moved before him, reared up on his hinder-feet. The prince, however, who is an excellent horseman, kept his seat, till his attendants ran

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    ref: A VOYAGE TO LILLIPtJT. CHAPTEE X The Author gives some Account of Himself and Family: his first Inducements to travel — He is shipwrecked and swims for his Life; gets safe on Shore' in the Country of Lilliput — He is made Prisoner, and carried up the Country . Page 1
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    ref: CHAPTER II. The Emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the Nobility, comes to see the Author in his Confinement — The Emperor's Person and Dress described — Learned Men appointed to teach the Author their Language — He gains Favor by his mild Disposition — His Pockets are searched, and his Sword and Pistols taken from him 16
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    ref: CHAPTER III. The Author diverts the Emperor, and his Nobility of both Sexes, in a very uncommon Manner — The Diversions of the Court of Lilliput described — The Author has his Liberty granted him upon certain Conditions 30

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    ref: CHAPTER IV. Mildendo, tie Metropolis of Lilliput, together with the Em-peror's Palace, described—A Conversation between the Author and a principal Secretary, concerning the Affairs of that Em-pire — The Author offers to serve the Emperor in his Wars Page 41
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    ref: CHAPTER V. The Author, by an extraordinary Stratagem, prevents an Inva-sion — A high Title of Honor is conferred upon him — Am-bassadors arrive from the Emperor of Blefuseu, and sue for Peace 46
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    ref: -CHAPTER VI. Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; their Learning, Laws, and Customs; the Manner of Educating their Children — The Author's Way of Living in that Country . . .64
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    ref: CHAPTER VII. The Author, being informed of a Design to accuse him of High Treason, makes his Escape to Blefuscu — Hia Reception there 63 CHAPTER VIII.
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    ref: The Author, by a lucky Accident, finds means to leave Blefescu; and, after some Difficulties, returns safe to his native Country 75

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    ref: A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG. CHAPTER I. A great Storm described; the Long Boat sent to fetch Water; the Author goes with it to discover the Country — He is left on Shore, is seized by one of the Natives, and carried to a Farmer's House — His Reception, with several Accidents that happened there — A Description of the Inhabitants Page 85 CHAPTER II.
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    ref: A Description of the Farmer's Daughter — The Author carried to a Market-Town, and then to the Metropolis — The Par-ticulars of his Journey 101

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    ref: The Author sent for to Court—The Queen buys him of his Master the Farmer, and presents him to the King — He dis-putes with his Majesty's great Scholars—An Apartment at Court provided for the Author — He is in high Favor with the Queen — He stands up for the Honor of his own Country — He quarrels with the Queen's Dwarf . . .110
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    ref: CHAPTER IV. The Country described—A Proposal for correcting modern Maps — The King's Palace, and some Account of the Metropolis — The Author's Way of Travelling—The chief Temple de-
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    ref: CHAPTER VI. Several Contrivances of the Author to please the King and Queen — He shows his Skill in Music — The King inquires into the State of England, which the Author describes to him — The King's Observations thereon .... 144
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    ref: CHAPTER VII. The Author's Love of his Country — He makes a Proposal of much Advantage to the King, which is rejected — The King's great Ignorance in Politics — The Learning of that Country very imperfect and confined—The Laws, and military Affairs, and Parties in the State ...... 157

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    ref: 6. DEPAETUBE FEOM BBOBDINONAO 170

hi: CHAPTER II.