I was home for ten days, then I was asked to go on another journey. This journey was planned for two months...if it went as scheduled. While we were on our boat, we were almost attacked by pirates! The pirates took over the ship and I tried my best to communicate with them so I could be set free, but I made the pirates mad. They gave me a little boat and a little food. I finally found an island to go onto. I got there and there was no one there, but it was really dark. I looked up and there was a floating island. There was someone there to help me up onto it too. The people on this island are very odd. They are shaped very weird and are uneven.I was taken to the King, who does not speak the dame language as me and then taken to an apartment. They sent an instructor to teach me the language they spoke there. This islands name was Laputa, which I found out after being there a while. Laputa means, "floating island". They base their language on mathematical and musical concepts. This island is PERFECTLY round and moves on magnetic forces...I thought that was pretty cool! When the King feels as though he should punish part of the island, he will put the rest of the island above that part.
I really feel like I don't belong on this island at all. They let me down above the mountains of Legado and invited to stay at the lords home. The lord and I went to visit a poor town on the island. Everything there is small, broken and uncultivated. The lord told me about a time when the town had a school about agriculture and such and when it went downhill, they closed it and did nothing about it. I went to the Academey and saw men and boys working on interesting experiments, like making ice into gunpowder. On the opposite side of the Academy, they were making a tad more sense about what they were doing. I sat down to listen to the professors study the issues of government. I got tired of the Acadamey really fast and wanted to go back to England. I tried to travel to Luggnag, but there was no way of transporting me there. I had a month til I could leave so I took a trip to Glubbdubdrib which is the island of magicians. That place was a little creepy to me though. The Govenor could make you talk to anyone in the world, past or present, so I talked to a lot of people. I went to Luggnagg where I had to stay still. The Luggnaggians told me about the immortal people, they Struldbrugs. They live a very sad and depressing life. I was finally able to leave that place, and I landed in Japan. I was not there for long, then I was safely back home in England to see my family.
Until Nexr time,
Lemeul Gulliver
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