Voyage à lilliput/a voyage to lilliput

My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire ; I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge, at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies : but the charge of maintaining me (although I had a very scanty allowance) being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years ; and my father now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be some time or other rmy fortune to do. [...] "Mon père avait un petit bien dans le comté de Nottingham. J'étais le troisième de ses cinq fils. Il m'envoya à l'âge de quatorze ans au collège Emmanuel à Cambridge, où je demeurai trois années durant lesquelles je m'adonnai à l'étude avec une grande application. Mais la charge de mon entretien (je ne recevais p