. The travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen; . ,harpooned an exceedingly large shark, which theybrought on board and began to cut up for the pur-pose of barrelling the oil, when, behold, they foundno less than six brace of live ^artiidges in this ani-mals stomach. They had been there so long in that situation,that one of the hens was sitting upon four eggs, anda fifth was hatching when the shark was young bird we brought up, by placing it witha litter of kittens that came into the world a fewminutes before. The old cat was as fond of it asany of her own four-legged
. The travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen; . ,harpooned an exceedingly large shark, which theybrought on board and began to cut up for the pur-pose of barrelling the oil, when, behold, they foundno less than six brace of live ^artiidges in this ani-mals stomach. They had been there so long in that situation,that one of the hens was sitting upon four eggs, anda fifth was hatching when the shark was young bird we brought up, by placing it witha litter of kittens that came into the world a fewminutes before. The old cat was as fond of it asany of her own four-legged progeny, and madeherself very unhappy when it flew out of her reachtill it returned again. As to the other partridges,there were four hens among them: one or morewere, during the voyage, constantly sitting, andconsequently we had plenty of game at the cap-tains table; and in gratitude to poor Tray (for be-ing the means of winning one hundred guineas),I ordered him the bones daily, and sometimes awhole bird. 98 ORIGINAL TRAVELS OF (ffiftuptjer ( z^^ HAYE already informed you ofone trip I made to the Moon, insearch of my silver hatchet; I af-terwards made another in a muchpleasanter manner, and stayed init long enough to take notice ofseveral things, which I will endeavor to describeas accurately as my memory will permit. I went on a voyage of discovery, at the requestof a distant relation, who had a strange notion thatthere were people to be found equal in magnitude tothose described by Gulliver in the empire of Beob-DiGNAG. For my part, I always treated that ac-count as fabulous; however, to oblige him, for hehad made me his heir, I undertook it, and sailedfor the South Seas, where we arrived without meet-ing witli any thing remarkable, except some flying BAKON MUNCHAUSEN. 99 men and women who were playing at leap-frog,and dancing minuets in the air. On the eigliteenth day after we had passed theisland of Otaheite, mentioned by Captain Cook asthe place from whenc
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