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On the other three sides the peninsula is surrounded by the ocean.	I shall be ready to help them correct their maps.
The whole country has not a single seaport.	My clothes were not even torn.
When I tried to catch one of these birds, it bravely turned against me, ready to fight.	Glumdalclitch often carried me to the palace garden for a walk.
Now I shall describe the country of the giants as far as I travelled in it.	Once a sparrow seized a piece of cake out of my hand and ate it.

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II

I often travelled in this country, because when the queen went to some place, she always took Glumdalclitch and me with her. Besides the large box, in which I lived, I had a smaller one, in which I travelled. On the top of the box there was a ring, by which it was carried. This box had three windows, one in each of three walls. The fourth wall had no window. Oh that wall there were two strong hooks. If the servant who car­ried me was riding on horseback, he fastened my box to his waist by these hooks. I asked the workman to make a hole in the roof above my bed to give me air in hot weather when I slept. I could shut this hole with a board that moved backwards and forwards.

Two years passed. At the beginning of the third year Glumdalclitch and I went with the king and queen to the south coast of the country. When we came to our journey’s end, the king decided to stay for some time in a palace he had there. Glumdalclitch was ill and had to stay in bed. I had a great wish to see the ocean, for I knew that the ocean was the only way by which I could escape. I asked Glumdalclitch to allow a boy-servant whom I knew well, to carry me to the shore.

When we were on the shore, I told the boy to put my box on the ground. I opened one of my windows and looked at the ocean for a long time. I didn’t feel very well. I closed the win­dow, and told the boy that I wanted to rest a little. Then I lay down on my bed and fell asleep. I suppose when I was asleep, the boy went among the rocks to look for bird’s eggs. I woke up suddenly, because something pulled the ring which was fas­tened to the top of my box. It was raised very high in the air and carried forward very fast. I shouted loudly, but got no answer. Through my windows I could see nothing but the sky. I heard a noise over my head, like the noise of wings. Then I understood the terrible condition I was in. An eagle was car­rying my box by the ring. It was clear that it wanted to drop my box on a rock and break it, after which it could get me out and eat me.

Suddenly the box began to shake, I fell off the bed and then I felt that I was quickly falling. I think that the eagle which was carrying my box, was attacked by two or three others, and it had to drop it. The box fell into the ocean and went deep into the water. In a minute it began to rise, and soon I saw light through the tops of the windows.