. The travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen; . BAK(J.\ MUiNCIlAUc^tiN. i&Hx^Htx ^x%tttnt\ K my return from Gibraltar, Itravelled by way of France toEngland. Being a foreigner,tlii8 was not attended with any^-:^r^^s^^^^^^^ inconvenience to me. I foundin the harbor of Calais a ship just arrived, with anumber of English sailors, as prisoners of war. I im-mediately conceived an idea of giving these bravefellows their liberty, which I accomplished as fol-lows. After forming a pair of large wrings, each ofthem forty yards long, and fourteen wide, and annex-ing them to myself, I mo
. The travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen; . BAK(J.\ MUiNCIlAUc^tiN. i&Hx^Htx ^x%tttnt\ K my return from Gibraltar, Itravelled by way of France toEngland. Being a foreigner,tlii8 was not attended with any^-:^r^^s^^^^^^^ inconvenience to me. I foundin the harbor of Calais a ship just arrived, with anumber of English sailors, as prisoners of war. I im-mediately conceived an idea of giving these bravefellows their liberty, which I accomplished as fol-lows. After forming a pair of large wrings, each ofthem forty yards long, and fourteen wide, and annex-ing them to myself, I mounted at break of day, whenevery creature, even the watch upon deck, was fastasleep. As I hovered over the ship, I fastened threegrappling irons to the tops of the three masts, with mysling, and fairly lifted her several yards out of thewater, and then proceeded across to Dover, where I 1)1 okigi:nal tkavels of arrived in lialf an hour. Having no further occasionfor these wings, I made them a present to the gover-nor of Dover Castle, where they are now exhibitedto the curious. As to the prisoners, and t
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