when out of sight of land, find all the seamen drunk and 

 incapable of navigating the vessel. Some fall asleep, some 

 tumble into the sea ; the remainder fight one with another, - 

 until two only are left, who now turn upon the passengers, 

 charging them with having been the cause of all their dis- 

 asters. They are easily disarmed and bound, and at length 

 the vessel, wafted by a favourable breeze that springs up, 

 arrives in safety at the destined Port. The citizens of 

 Schlauchberg are described as being for the most part 

 passionate and suspicious, with trembling hands and totter- 

 ing gait, and, what was worst of all — imbibing and breath- 

 ing out fire, like the fabled Dragon. Our author willingly 

 quits the barbarous country, directing his course towards 

 Houbelonia, another division of Yvronia, but is surprised 

 on the frontier by an armed force of the Viraginians and 

 carried as a prisoner to their capital city, called Gynaeeopo- 

 lis (the City of Women.) 



Book II. 



The second book is occupied with a description of New 

 Guinea, or Yiraginia (the land of Viragoes). Our author 

 being taken by his female captors to the public forum, 

 undergoes a long and strict examination, and is committed 

 to prison, whence he is delivered after a tedious confine- 

 ment, on his assuring them that he is a native of that 

 paradise of women — England. " Placing my hand" — says 

 he — " upon the altar of Juno, I swore faithfully to observe 

 " the following laws : — 



" That I would never, in word or deed, contrive against 

 " the most noble female sex. 



" That I would never interrupt a woman when speaking. 



" That I would always concede the government of the 

 " house to the female. 



■• Thai T would never tell secrets. 



