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They bound me with a number of slender thongs and wires, which were scarce perceptible to me, but tied as fast as if I had been a criminal, and conveyed me into the city of Lilliput, where they received me with great respect and curiosity. The Emperor, a grave and severe person, came to view me, and the whole court assembled to behold the remarkable stranger, whose body, they said, covered a great part of the horizon.