The Author's Return to Maldonada. Sails to the Kingdom of Luggnagg. The Author confined. He is sent for to Court. The Manner of his Admittance. The King's great Lenity to his Subjects.

The Day of our Departure being come, I took leave of his Highness the Governor of Glubbdubdribb, and returned with my two Companions to Maldonada, where after a Fortnight's waiting, a Ship was ready to sail for Luggnagg. The two Gentlemen and some others were so generous and kind as to furnish me with Provisions, and see me on Board. I was a Month in this Voyage.We had one violent Storm, and were under a Necessity of steeringWestward to get into the Trade-Wind, which holds for above sixty Leagues. On the 21st of April, 1708, we sailed in the River of Clumegnig, which is a Sea-port Town, at the South-East Point of Luggnagg.We cast Anchor within a League of the Town, and made a Signal for a Pilot. Two of them came on Board in less than half an Hour, by whom we were guided between certain Shoals and Rocks, which are very dangerous in the Passage, to a large Basin, where a Fleet may ride in Safety within a Cable's Length of the Town-Wall.

Some of our Sailors, whether out of Treachery or Inadvertence, had informed the Pilots that I was a Stranger and a great Traveller, whereof these gave Notice to a Custom-House Officer, by whom I was examined very strictly upon my landing. ThisOfficer spoke to me in the Language of Balnibarbi, which by the Force of much Commerce is generally understood in that Town, especially by Seamen, and those employed in the Customs. I gave him a short Account of some Particulars, and made my Story as plausible and consistent as I could; but I thought it necessary to disguise my Country, and call my self a Hollander; because my Intentions were for Japan, and I knew the Dutch were the only Europeans permitted to enter into that Kingdom.