The author returns to Maldonada. Sails to the kingdom of Luggnagg. The author confined. He is sent for to court. The manner of his admittance. The king's great lenity to his subjects. 作者回到马尔多纳达；航行至拉格奈格王国；作者被抓；被押解到朝廷；被接见的情形；国王对臣民十分宽大。
The day of our departure being come, I took leave of his highness, the Governor of Glubbdubdrib, and returned with my two com panions to Maldonada, where, after a fortnight's waiting, a ship was ready to sail for Luggnagg. The two gentlemen, and some others, were so generous and kind as to furnish me with provisions, and see me on board. I was a month in this voyage. We had one violent storm, and were under a necessity of steering westward to get into the trade wind, which holds for above sixty leagues. On the 21st of April, 1708, we sailed into the river of Clumegnig, which is a seaport town, at the south-east point of Luggnagg. We cast anchor within a league of the town, and made a signal for a pilot. Two of them came on board in less than half an hour, by whom we were guided between certain shoals and rocks, which are very dangerous in the passage, to a large basin, where a fleet may ride in safety within a cable's length of the town wall. 我们离开的日子到了，我向格勒大锥的长官阁下辞别，与两位同伴一同回到了马尔多纳达。我在那里等了两个星期，终于等到有一艘船要开往拉格奈格去了。两位先生还有其他几个人非常慷慨和善，他们给我准备了食物，送我上了船。这次航行足足有一个月。我们遇上了一次强风暴，只好向西航行，才乘上了信风一直又往前驶进了六十多里格。一七零八年四月二十一日，我们驶进了克兰梅格尼格河。这是一座港口城市，位于拉格奈格的东南角。我们在离城不到一里格的地方抛锚，发出信号要求派名领航员来。过了不到半个小时，两名领航员就来到了船上。他们领着我们穿过部分暗礁与岩石密布的危险航道，最后才进入一个开阔的内湾，在这儿一支舰队都可以在离城墙不到一链的地方安全停泊。
Some of our sailors, whether out of treachery or inadvertence, had informed the pilots "that I was a stranger, and great traveller;" whereof these gave notice to a custom-house officer, by whom I was examined very strictly upon my landing. This officer spoke to me in the language of Balnibarbi, which, by the force of much commerce, is generally understood in that town, especially by seamen and those employed in the customs. I gave him a short account of some particulars, and made my story as plausible and consistent as I could; but I thought it necessary to disguise my country, and call myself a Hollander; because my intentions were for Japan, and I knew the Dutch were the only Europeans permitted to enter into that kingdom. 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." The officer said, "I must be confined till he could receive orders from court, for which he would write immediately, and hoped to receive an answer in a fortnight." I was carried to a convenient lodging with a sentry placed at the door; however, I had the liberty of a large garden, and was treated with humanity enough, being maintained all the time at the king's charge. I was invited by several persons, chiefly out of curiosity, because it was reported that I came from countries very remote, of which they had never heard. 我们船上有几名水手，不知是有意跟我作对还是一时不小心，对两位领航员说我是个异乡人，而且是个大旅行家。引水员把这话向一名海关官员作了汇报，结果我刚到岸上就受到了十分严格的检查。这位官员用巴尔尼巴比语同我说话，因为两地间有频繁的贸易往来，这个城市的人，尤其是水手和海关人员，一般都懂得巴尔尼巴比语。我简要地向他说了我的一些情况，尽量把事情讲得可信并且前后一致。不过我觉得有必要隐瞒我的国籍，就自称是荷兰人，因为我计划到日本去，而我知道欧洲人中只有荷兰人才被准许进入这个王国。于是我就对海关官员说自己的船在巴尔尼巴比海岸触礁沉没了，我被遗弃在了一块礁石上，后来被接上了勒皮他，也叫飞岛（他们经常听说有这么一座飞岛），现在正想办法去日本，也许到那里才可以找到回国的机会。那官员说我必须被监禁起来，直到他接到朝廷命令。他说他马上给朝廷写信，希望过两个星期就能得到朝廷的指令。我被带到一处舒适的住所，门前有哨兵看守，不过我可以自由地在一个大花园里活动。我受到了相当人道的待遇，拘禁期间的费用都由皇家负担。由于好奇，有人邀请我，因为据传我来自一个十分遥远的国家，他们从来也没听说过这个国家。
I hired a young man, who came in the same ship, to be an interpreter; he was a native of Luggnagg, but had lived some years at Maldonada, and was a perfect master of both languages. By his assistance, I was able to hold a conversation with those who came to visit me; but this consisted only of their questions, and my answers. 我雇了和我同船来的一位青年担任我的翻译。 他是拉格奈格人，但在马尔多纳达住过几年，所以精通两地语言。在他的帮助下，我可以同前来看我的那些人进行交谈，不过谈话内容只限于他们提问我回答。
The despatch came from court about the time we expected. It contained a warrant for conducting me and my retinue to Traldragdubh, or Trildrogdrib (for it is pronounced both ways as near as I can remember), by a party of ten horse. All my retinue was that poor lad for an interpreter, whom I persuaded into my service, and, at my humble request, we had each of us a mule to ride on. A messenger was despatched half a day's journey before us, to give the king notice of my approach, and to desire, "that his majesty would please to appoint a day and hour, when it would by his gracious pleasure that I might have the honour to lick the dust before his footstool." This is the court style, and I found it to be more than matter of form: for, upon my admittance two days after my arrival, I was commanded to crawl upon my belly, and lick the floor as I advanced; but, on account of my being a stranger, care was taken to have it made so clean, that the dust was not offensive. However, this was a peculiar grace, not allowed to any but persons of the highest rank, when they desire an admittance. Nay, sometimes the floor is strewed with dust on purpose, when the person to be admitted happens to have powerful enemies at court; and I have seen a great lord with his mouth so crammed, that when he had crept to the proper distance from the throne, he was not able to speak a word. Neither is there any remedy; because it is capital for those who receive an audience to spit or wipe their mouths in his majesty's presence. There is indeed another custom, which I cannot altogether approve of: when the king has a mind to put any of his nobles to death in a gentle indulgent manner, he commands the floor to be strewed with a certain brown powder of a deadly composition, which being licked up, infallibly kills him in twenty-four hours. But in justice to this prince's great clemency, and the care he has of his subjects' lives (wherein it were much to be wished that the Monarchs of Europe would imitate him), it must be mentioned for his honour, that strict orders are given to have the infected parts of the floor well washed after every such execution, which, if his domestics neglect, they are in danger of incurring his royal displeasure. I myself heard him give directions, that one of his pages should be whipped, whose turn it was to give notice about washing the floor after an execution, but maliciously had omitted it; by which neglect a young lord of great hopes, coming to an audience, was unfortunately poisoned, although the king at that time had no design against his life. But this good prince was so gracious as to forgive the poor page his whipping, upon promise that he would do so no more, without special orders. 朝廷的文件在我们预计的时间内到了。原来那是一张传票，命令十名骑兵把我连同随从押解到特拉尔德拉格达布，或者叫特利尔德洛格德利布（我记得这个词有两种读法）。我的随从就只有那个做翻译的命苦小伙子，我费了不少唇舌他才答应服侍我。在我卑微的请求下，我们俩一人弄到了一头骡子骑。一位信使早我们半天先出发了，他去报告国王我就要到了，并请陛下规定个日子和时辰，看看他什么时候高兴见我，好让我有幸去“舔他脚凳子跟前的尘土”。这是这个国家朝廷的规矩，不过我发现它并不仅仅是一种形式，因为我到达后两天被引见的时候，他们命令我趴在地上朝前爬，一边前进一边舔地板；因为我是个外国人，他们倒注意事先将地板清理得干干净净，这样尘土的味道倒还不是很讨厌。不过，这是一种特殊的恩典，只有最高级的官员要求入宫时才是这样。不但如此，如果被召见的人不幸有几个有权有势的仇敌在朝，有时地板上还故意撒上尘土。 我就亲眼看到过一位大臣满嘴尘土，等他爬到御座前规定的地点时，已经一句话都说不出来了。这也没有什么办法，因为那些被召见的人如果当着国王陛下的面吐痰或抹嘴，就会被处以死刑。另外还有一种风俗，我不能完全赞同：如果国王想用一种温和宽大的方法来处死一位贵族，他就下令在地板上撒上一种褐色的毒粉，舔到嘴里，二十四小时后肯定会毒发身亡。但是，得为这位君王宽大仁慈，还有他对臣子的性命的爱护说句公道话 （这一点上，我很希望欧洲的君王都能向他学习）。为了他的荣誉，我一定要说一 下：每次以这种方法将人处死后，他都严令叫人将地板上有毒粉的地方洗刷干净，侍从们要是大意了，就会因惹恼了国王而受刑。我曾亲耳听他下令要把一个侍从鞭打一顿，因为有一次执行完刑法，轮到他去通知人洗刷地板，他却故意不通知。因为玩忽职守，一位前途无量的贵族青年就在一次被召入宫时不幸中毒身亡了，而国王那时倒并没有打算要他的命。不过这位贤明的君王十分宽大，饶恕了那个可怜的侍从，免了他一顿鞭子，只要他保证，以后没有特别的命令，下次再也不犯这样的错误。
To return from this digression. When I had crept within four yards of the throne, I raised myself gently upon my knees, and then striking my forehead seven times against the ground, I pronounced the following words, as they had been taught me the night before, Inckpling gloffthrobb squut serummblhiop mlashnalt zwin tnodbalkuffh slhiophad gurdlubh asht. This is the compliment, established by the laws of the land, for all persons admitted to the king's presence. It may be rendered into English thus: "May your celestial majesty outlive the sun, eleven moons and a half!" To this the king returned some answer, which, although I could not understand, yet I replied as I had been directed: Fluft drin yalerick dwuldom prastrad mirpush, which properly signifies, "My tongue is in the mouth of my friend;" and by this expression was meant, that I desired leave to bring my interpreter; whereupon the young man already mentioned was accordingly introduced, by whose intervention I answered as many questions as his majesty could put in above an hour. I spoke in the Balnibarbian tongue, and my interpreter delivered my meaning in that of Luggnagg. 言归正传。当我爬到离御座不到四码的地方时，就慢慢地抬起身来，跪着在地上磕了七个响头，接着按照前一天晚上他们教我的样子说了一句话。这是一句恭维话，当地法律规定，所有朝见国王的人都要这么说。翻译过来的意思就是：“祝天皇陛下的寿命比太阳还要长十一个月半！”国王听后回答了一句什么，虽然我听不懂，可还是照别人教我的话回答了他。严格地说，意思就是：“我的舌头在我朋友的嘴里。”我说这话的意思就是希望国王能允许我将翻译叫来。于是，前面已经提到的那位青年就被带了进来，有他在中间翻译，我在一个多小时的时间里就回答了国王陛下提出的许多问题。我说巴尔尼巴比语，我的翻译把我的意思译成拉格奈格话。
The king was much delighted with my company, and ordered his bliffmarklub, or high-chamberlain, to appoint a lodging in the court for me and my interpreter; with a daily allowance for my table, and a large purse of gold for my common expenses. 国王很高兴和我在一起谈话，就命令他的内侍长在宫中给我和翻译安排一处住所，每天提供饮食，另外还给了一大袋金子供日常使用。
I stayed three months in this country, out of perfect obedience to his majesty; who was pleased highly to favour me, and made me very honourable offers. But I thought it more consistent with prudence and justice to pass the remainder of my days with my wife and family. 我在这个国家住了三个月，那完全是遵从国王的旨意。他对我恩宠有加，并几次邀请我就任高官。可我觉得余年还是同妻子家人在一块度过要更妥当慎重一些。