rship, for they set apart every seventh day as sacred; but
upon my going into one of these holy houses on that day, I could not
observe any circumstance of devotion in their behaviour. There was,
indeed, a man in black, who was mounted above the rest, and seemed to
utter some thing with a great deal of vehemence; but as for those
underneath him, instead of paying their worship to the deity of the
place, they were most of them bowing and curtsying to one another, and a
considerable number of them fast asleep.

"The queen of the country appointed two men to attend us, that had enough
of our language to make themselves understood in some few particulars.
But we soon perceived these two were great enemies to one another, and
did not always agree in the same story. We could make a shift to gather
out of one of them that this island was very much infested with a
monstrous kind of animals, in the shape of men, called Whigs; and he
often told us that he hoped we should meet with none of them in our way,
for that, if we did, they would be apt to knock us down for being kings.

"Our other interpreter used to talk very much of a kind of animal called
a Tory, that was as great a monster as the Whig, and would treat us as
ill for being foreigners. These two creatures, it seems, are born with a
secret antipathy to one another, and engage when they meet as naturally
as the elephant and the rhinoceros. But as we saw none of either of
these species, we are apt to think that our guides deceived us with
misrepresentations and fictions, and amused us with an account of such
monsters as are not really in their country.

"These particulars we made a shift to pick out from the discourse of our
interpreters, which we put together as well as we could, being able to
understand but here and there a word of what they said, and afterwards
making up the meaning of it among ourselves. The men of the country are
very cunning and ingenious in handicraft works, but withal so very idle,
that we often saw young, lusty, raw-boned fellows carried up and down the
streets in little covered rooms by a couple of porters, who were hired
for that service. Their dress is likewise very barbarous, for they
almost strangle themselves about the neck, and bind their bodies with
many ligatures, that we are apt to think are the occasion of several
distempers among them, which our country is entirely free from. Instead
of those beautiful feathers with which we ado