I therefore told the officer, "that having been shipwrecked on the coast of Balnibarbi, and cast on a rock, I was received up into Laputa, or the flying island (of which he had often heard), and was now endeavouring to get to Japan, whence I might find a convenience of returning to my own country."
Honela bada, esan nion aduanariari, ontzia hondoratu Balnibarbiko kostaldean eta harkaitz baten gainean geratu nintzelarik, Laputa edo Irla Hegalarira eraman nindutela (haren berri sarritan izana zuen) eta orain Japoniara iritsi nahian nenbilela, han aurkituko nuelakoan neure sorterrira itzultzeko aukera egokirik.