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+====== TRAVELS OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN ======
+===== CHAPTER XVI =====
+//This is a very short chapter, but contains a fact for which the
+Baron's memory ought to be dear to every Englishman, especially
+those who may hereafter have the misfortune of being made
+prisoners of war.//
+On my return from Gibraltar I travelled by way of France to England.
+Being a foreigner, this was not attended with any inconvenience to me.
+I found, in the harbour of Calais, a ship just arrived with a number
+of English sailors as prisoners of war. I immediately conceived an
+idea of giving these brave fellows their liberty, which I accomplished
+as follows:--After forming a pair of large wings, each of them forty
+yards long, and fourteen wide, and annexing them to myself, I mounted
+at break of day, when every creature, even the watch upon deck, was
+fast asleep. As I hovered over the ship I fastened three grappling
+irons to the tops of the three masts with my sling, and fairly lifted
+her several yards out of the water, and then proceeded across to
+Dover, where I arrived in half an hour! Having no further occasion for
+these wings, I made them a present to the governor of Dover Castle,
+where they are now exhibited to the curious.
+As to the prisoners, and the Frenchmen who guarded them, they did not
+awake till they had been near two hours on Dover Pier. The moment the
+English understood their situation they changed places with their
+guard, and took back what they had been plundered of, but no more, for
+they were too generous to retaliate and plunder them in return.
+----
+Go to [[CHAPTER XVII]]