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Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels
c z y t a m y
Retold by Scotia Victoria Gilroy
w o r y g i n a l e
Chapter I
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A Voyage to Lilliput
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All my life I have wanted to travel. As a young man I studied to be a doctor, but the only thing I dreamed of was to travel around the world and see new lands.
Finally the chance to travel came when I was employed as a surgeon upon a ship that was making a voyage to the South Seas.
We left England on May 4th, 1699, and at first our voyage was very successful.
Unfortunately, however, there was a violent storm. Our ship hit a large rock and was immediately split in half.
I don’t know what happened to the rest of the men on the ship. I swam as far as I could, and when I was nearly dead from tiredness, I reached land.
I couldn’t see any houses or people, and I was extremely tired, so I lay down on the grass and fell asleep.
When I awoke it was already the next morning. I tried to stand up, but I wasn’t able to move. I was lying on my back, and my arms and legs were strongly tied to the ground, and my hair, which was
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long and thick, was tied down in the same way. I felt several thin ropes across my body, and I could only look upwards.
The sun was beginning to grow hot, and the light was very painful to my eyes.
I heard a lot of noise around me. In a little while I felt something moving on my left leg, which advanced gently over my chest and
Gulliver’s Travels
c z y t a m y
Retold by Scotia Victoria Gilroy
w o r y g i n a l e
Chapter I
© Mediasat Poland Bis 2005
Mediasat Poland Bis sp. z o.o. ul. Mikołajska 26
31-027 Kraków
A Voyage to Lilliput
www.czytamy.pl czytamy@czytamy.pl Projekt okładki i ilustracje: Małgorzata Flis
Skład: Marek Szwarnóg
ISBN 83 - 89652 - 32 - 3
Wszelkie prawa do książki przysługują Mediasat Poland Bis. Jakiekolwiek publiczne korzystanie w całości, jak i w postaci fragmentów, a w szczególności jej zwielokrotnianie jakąkolowiek techniką, wprowadzanie do pamięci komputera, publiczne odtwarzanie, nadawanie za pomocą wizji oraz fonii przewodowej lub bezprzewodowej, wymaga wcześniejszej zgody Mediasat Poland Bis.
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All my life I have wanted to travel. As a young man I studied to be a doctor, but the only thing I dreamed of was to travel around the world and see new lands.
Finally the chance to travel came when I was employed as a surgeon upon a ship that was making a voyage to the South Seas.
We left England on May 4th, 1699, and at first our voyage was very successful.
Unfortunately, however, there was a violent storm. Our ship hit a large rock and was immediately split in half.
I don’t know what happened to the rest of the men on the ship. I swam as far as I could, and when I was nearly dead from tiredness, I reached land.
I couldn’t see any houses or people, and I was extremely tired, so I lay down on the grass and fell asleep.
When I awoke it was already the next morning. I tried to stand up, but I wasn’t able to move. I was lying on my back, and my arms and legs were strongly tied to the ground, and my hair, which was
4
long and thick, was tied down in the same way. I felt several thin ropes across my body, and I could only look upwards.
The sun was beginning to grow hot, and the light was very painful to my eyes.
I heard a lot of noise around me. In a little while I felt something moving on my left leg, which advanced gently over my chest and