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Champter ten
The flying island of laputer
I had only been at home for about ten days
When a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the east indees
I still wanted to see more of the world
And as he was offering to give me double the usual pay
But i managed to persuade my wife to let me go
The voyage took eight months and after stopping for a short time in malaysia
We arrived in the gulf of tonking
I'll have to stay here for a while on business
My friend the captain told me
But you can take the ship and some of the sailors go and see
What you can buy and sell in the islands around here
That sounded interesting to me
So i aged unfortunately we sailed straight into a terrible storm
Which drove us many miles eastward
Then by a very unlucky chance
We were seen and chased by two piraate ships
Our ship was not fast enough to escape
And the pirates cautis
They decided to keep the sailors to help sailonership
But they did not need me
I suppose
I was lucky
They did not kill me
Instead
They left me alone in a small boat
In the middle of the ocean
With only enough food for a few days
While they sailed away
I'm sure
The pirates thought i would die
However i saw land some hours later
And i managed to sattle the boat to it
As i stepped out of the boat and walked up the beach
I noticed that
Although the sun had been very hot
The air suddenly seemed cooler
At first i thought a cloud was passing over the sudden
But when i looked up
I saw to my great astonishment a large island in the sky between me and the sun
It was moving towards me
And there were people running around on it
I waved my arms
And shouted as loudly as possible
Help
Help i cried rescue me
When the island was about a hundred meters over my head
They let down a seat on a chain
I sat on it
And was pulled up to the island
I had discovered the flying island of laputer
Laputons are certainly strange looking people
Their hands always turn either to write or left one of their eyes turns inwinds the other upwards their main interest are music and mathematics
They spent on so much time thinking about mathematical problems
That they do not notice what is happening around them in fact richella putins ins impliy a servant
Whose job is to follow his master
Everywhere the servant warns him
If he is going to step into a hole and reminds him to reply
If someone speaks to him
I was taken to see the king
But had to wait for at least an hour
While he struggled with a difficult mathematical question
However when he had finished
He spoke politely to me
And ordered his servants to show me to a room for dinner
They gave me three kinds of meat
A square of beef
A triangle of chicken and a circle of lamb
Even the bread was cut into mathematical shapes in the evening
A teacher arrived to help me learn the language
And in a few days
I was able to make conversation with the island people
Laputa is a circle of land about eight kilometres across covered with houses and other buildings it is moved by a simple machine
Which uses magnets to pull the island closer to land
Or push it higher into the sky
The island always moves slowly
It can only fly over the country
Called belony babi
Which bebeonggs to the king lapeputer
It is difficult talking to laputans
As they have litally interest in anything except music and mathematics
They are however very worried about the future of the earth
The sun and the stars
When they often discuss this
I heard a conversation about this
Shortly before i left laputer
How are you my friend one man asks another as well as can be expected came in the reply
Then how is the sun
Do you think i thought he look rather feverissh this morning i'm afraid
He'll get too hot and destroy himself one day if he goes on like this
I know it's very worrying
And what about the earth
It's only thirty years
Until the next falling star comes this way hand
The earth was very nearly destroyed by the last one that's right
We know that the next falling star is almost certain to get too close to the sun and catch fire
And when the earth passes through that fire
It'll be destroyed
Immediately only thirty years that's not much to look forward to is it and the two men shook their head sadly after several months on the island
I asked if i could visit the country underneath ses the king agreed and ordered his officials to put me down on ballonibbabi
And show me round the capital legarto the most interesting place
I saw there was the university
Which was full of very clever man with very clever ideas
They were all working hard to find better faster
Cheaper easier ways of doing and making things
They had ideas for building houses from the roof downwards
Turning rocks into soft material making rivers run up hill and saving sunshine in bottles
I cannot remember half of the astonishingly clever ideas
Which they were working on one day totome they
They find the answers to all of these problems
And then their country would be the most wonderful place in the world
Meanwhile i noticed that the people looked hungry and miserable
Their clothes were old and full of holes
Their houses were badly built and falling down
There were no vegetables or corn growing in the fields
When i visited the school of mathematics
I could not understand why the students looked so unhappy
What's the matter
Young man
I asked one of them you look
Quite you yes
So he answered you see we've only just eat our lessons for today
And it's made us feel rather sick eating them
I repeated in surprise
Why did you do that
Oh
That's the way we learn here
Sir
He replied our professors write mathematical questions and answers on paper
Then we eat the paper after that we're only supposed to have bread and water for three days
While the information moves upwards to our heads
But it's awful
Sir not eating much for three days
And we often feel sick up
Excuse me
Sir and he ran past me out of the room
This highly developed system of teaching did not seem to be working well