When Gulliver alighted, people crowded round him. Those nearest seemed to be of higher rank, and all of them stared at him in wonder. Gulliver was just as astonished. He had never seen people so strange in shape, dress and face.
Every head was tilted to the right or the left. One eye was turned inward, and the other looked straight up at the top of the sky.
Their outer garments were decorated with suns, moons and stars. Among them were woven fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets and all sorts of instruments unknown in Europe.