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TRAVELS OF
BARON MUNCHAUSEN
CHAPTER I
[THE BARON IS SUPPOSED TO RELATE THESE
ADVENTURES TO HIS FRIENDS OVER A BOTTLE.]
The Baron relates an account of his first travels—The astonishing effects of a storm—Arrives at Ceylon; combats and conquers two extraordinary opponents—Returns to Holland.
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SOME years before my beard announced approaching manhood, or, in other words, when I was neither man nor boy, but between both, I expressed in repeated conversations a strong desire of seeing the world, from which I was discouraged by my parents, though my father
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