. The travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen; . MAJOK-S nation so mnch that he dis- 1^ charged all his ft|^ attendants, and, to make a short story, His Ho- iness passed the night there. 88 ORIGINAL TKAVELS OF. fflftapt^r iiUHXitU. OMITTED several very materialparts in my fathers journey acrossthe English Channel to Holland,which, that they may not be total-ly lost, I will now faithfully giveyou in his own words, as I heardhim relate them to his friends several times. On my arrival, says my father, at Helvoet-sluys, I was observed to breathe with some difficul-ty : upon the inhab
. The travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen; . MAJOK-S nation so mnch that he dis- 1^ charged all his ft|^ attendants, and, to make a short story, His Ho- iness passed the night there. 88 ORIGINAL TKAVELS OF. fflftapt^r iiUHXitU. OMITTED several very materialparts in my fathers journey acrossthe English Channel to Holland,which, that they may not be total-ly lost, I will now faithfully giveyou in his own words, as I heardhim relate them to his friends several times. On my arrival, says my father, at Helvoet-sluys, I was observed to breathe with some difficul-ty : upon the inhabitants inquiring into the cause, Iinformed them that the animal upon whose backI rode from Harwich across to their shore, did notswim ! Such is their peculiar form and disposition,that they cannot float or move upon the surface ofthe water; he ran with incredible swiftness uponthe sands from shore to sliore, dj-iviiioj fish in millionsbefore him, many of which wore quite different BARON MUNCHAUSEN. 89 from any I had yet seen, carrying their heads at theextremity of their tails. I crossed, continued he, one prodigious range of rocks, equal in height to theAlps (the tops or highest part of these marine moun-tains are s
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