I shall not trouble the reader with the difficulties I was under, by the help of certain paddles, which cost me ten days making, to get my boat to the royal port of Blefuscu, where a mighty concourse of people appeared upon my arrival, full of wonder at the sight of so prodigious a vessel.
Ez dut irakurlea gogaituko, txalupa zenbait arrabaz-hamar egun behar izan nituen hauek egiteko-Blefuscuko errege-portura eramateko izan nituen eragozpenak kontatuz, non jendetza handia agertu baitzen ni iristean, guztiz txundituta geratu zirelarik hain itsasontzi erraldoia ikusita.