vel, or about any violent
exercise, they generally leave them at home, for they can consult them
at any distance; this is a very common practice; and when those of rank
or quality among the Lunarians have an inclination to see what's going
forward among the common people, they stay at home, _i.e._, the body
stays at home, and sends the head only, which is suffered to be present
_incog._, and return at pleasure with an account of what has passed.

The stones of their grapes are exactly like hail; and I am perfectly
satisfied that when a storm or high wind in the moon shakes their vines,
and breaks the grapes from the stalks, the stones fall down and form
our hail showers. I would advise those who are of my opinion to save a
quantity of these stones when it hails next, and make Lunarian wine. It
is a common beverage at St. Luke's. Some material circumstances I had
nearly omitted. They put their bellies to the same use as we do a sack,
and throw whatever they have occasion for into it, for they can shut and
open it again when they please, as they do their stomachs; they are not
troubled with bowels, liver, heart, or any other intestines, neither
are they encumbered with clothes, nor is there any part of their bodies
unseemly or indecent to exhibit.

Their eyes they can take in and out of their places when they please,
and can see as well with them in their hand as in their head! and if
by any accident they lose or damage one, they can borrow or purchase
another, and see as clearly with it as their own. Dealers in eyes are
on that account very numerous in most parts of the moon, and in this
article alone all the inhabitants are whimsical: sometimes green and
sometimes yellow eyes are the fashion. I know these things appear
strange; but if the shadow of a doubt can remain on any person's mind,
I say, let him take a voyage there himself, and then he will know I am a
traveller of veracity.

CHAPTER XIX

_The Baron crosses the Thames without the assistance of a bridge, ship,
boat, balloon, or even his own will: rouses himself after a long nap,
and destroys a monster who lived upon the destruction of others._

My first visit to England was about the beginning of the present king's
reign. I had occasion to go down to Wapping, to see some goods shipped,
which I was sending to some friends at Hamburgh; after that business was
over, I took the Tower Wharf in my way back. Here I found the sun very
powerful, and I was so much