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He chose his day, and went aboard the good ship Phantasy, quitted harbour, sailed away, reached in two years the Fortunate Isles, and, leaving the shores of Africa behind him, came in sight of the black headland of Crapulia. Here Introduction ends and Travel begins with the part partly translated by Dr.
What cook soever shall treat food so that it cannot be eaten, shall be tied to a stake beside which is hung meat half raw or half burnt, and shall remain so tied until somebody comes who will eat that meat. No coin of metal is current in Crapulia, but they make payment in kind.
These are among the laws of Crapulia: It is a crime to drink alone. Whoever has defrauded Nature by fasting four hours after sleep shall be compelled to sup. When the mouth is full it is enough to answer questions by holding out a finger.
King: Crapulia, named from Crapula, is the Land of Inebriate Excess, and its two provinces, Pamphagonia and Yvronia, mean by their names the provinces of Omnivorous Gluttony and Drunkenness. Dr. King has translated six chapters, and begun the seventh, which is upon the wars of the Pamphagonians, to which they march forth armed with spits and two-pronged forks and heavy ribs of beef.
When he came across Joseph Hall's satire, he found it so much to his mind that he began to translate as follows: The Situation of the Country. Crapulia is a very fair and large territory, which on the north is bounded with the Æthiopic Ocean, on the east with Laconia and Viraginia, on the south by Moronia Felix, and westward with the Tryphonian Fens.
Let him be my heir who can, my subject who will, my enemy who dares. Farewell and Fatten." After a description of the Island of Hunger, the traveller passes from Pamphagonia to Yvronia, the other province of Crapulia. These are among the laws of Yvronia: A cup must be either full or empty. Whoever takes or returns a cup half empty shall be guilty of lèse societé.
His early work, the "Mundus Alter et Idem," represents an ideal world divided into regions answering to man's chief weaknesses or vices. He gave with it a map of its Crapulia, Latronia, &c., fully peopled, with a neighbouring land in which there are no signs of settlement, Terra Sancta, ignota etiam adhuc, the Holy Land, even yet unknown.
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