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Everything being concluded, and having received my instructions for the voyage, I was conducted by the illustrious Hilaro Frosticos, the Lady Fragrantia, and a prodigious crowd of nobility, and placed sitting upon the summit of the whale's bones at the palace; and having remained in this situation for three days and three nights, as a trial ordeal, and a specimen of my perseverance and resolution, the third hour after midnight they seated me in the chariot of Queen Mab.
The Lady Fragrantia, my dear friends, was one of the most divine creatures in all Great Britain, and was desperately in love with me. She was drawing my portrait upon a piece of white satin, when the most noble Hilaro Frosticos advanced. He pointed to the cap of dignity which he had placed upon my head.
A feast on live bulls and kava The inhabitants admire the European adventurers The Emperor comes to meet the Baron, and pays him great compliments The inhabitants of the centre of Africa descended from the people of the moon proved by an inscription in Africa, and by the analogy of their language, which is also the same with that of the ancient Scythians The Baron is declared sovereign of the interior of Africa on the decease of the Emperor He endeavours to abolish the custom of eating live bulls, which excites much discontent The advice of Hilaro Frosticos upon the occasion The Baron makes a speech to an Assembly of the states, which only excites greater murmurs He consults with Hilaro Frosticos.
By the blood and by the ashes of my great grandmother, I would cut off your head!" Hilaro Frosticos resented this oration, and in short a general riot commenced.
"And now, most noble Baron," said the illustrious Hilaro Frosticos, "now is the time to make this people proceed in any business that we find convenient. Take them at this present ferment of the mind, let them not think, but at once set them to work." In short, the whole nation went heartily to the business, to build an edifice such as was never seen in any other country.
The assembly began to proceed after her in order and style of precedence, together with my whole train of Gog and Magog, Sphinx, Hilaro Frosticos, Queen Mab's chariot, the bulls and crickets, &c., preceded by bands of music; while Wauwau, descending on the earth, ran on like an ostrich before the troop, cackling all the way.
The contention between Gog and Magog, and Sphinx, Hilaro Frosticos, the Lord Whittington, &c., was productive of infinite litigation. All the lawyers in the kingdom were employed, to render the affair as complex and gloriously uncertain as possible; and, in fine, the whole nation became interested, and were divided on both sides of the question.
The Baron secures his chariot, &c., at the Cape and takes his passage for England in a homeward-bound Indiaman Wrecked upon an island of ice, near the coast of Guinea Escapes from the wreck, and rears a variety of vegetables upon the island Meets some vessels belonging to the negroes bringing white slaves from Europe, in retaliation, to work upon their plantations in a cold climate near the South Pole Arrives in England, and lays an account of his expedition before the Privy Council Great preparations for a new expedition The Sphinx, Gog and Magog, and a great company attend him The ideas of Hilaro Frosticos respecting the interior parts of Africa.
I could not sleep with the thoughts of it; I therefore determined to gain every proper assistance from Government to penetrate the celebrated source of the Nile, and assume the viceroyship of the interior kingdoms of Africa, or, at least, the great realm of Monomotapa. It was happy for me that I had one most powerful friend at court, whom I shall call the illustrious Hilaro Frosticos.
The Baron insists on the veracity of his former Memoirs Forms a design of making discoveries in the interior parts of Africa His discourse with Hilaro Frosticos about it His conversation with Lady Fragrantia The Baron goes, with other persons of distinction, to Court; relates an anecdote of the Marquis de Bellecourt.
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