Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift

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Kaempfer, Engelbert	(1651-1713) Dutch physician and explorer; Kaempfer's History of the Empire of Japan was published in English translation in 1726, the same year Swift published his Travels. Kaempfer's book is a likely source for passages regarding Japan in Gulliver's third (but last written) voyage. Some researchers have made a case that other portions of Swift's book may also have borrowed from Kaempfer's work (see Exploration: Kaempfer)
Duchess of Kendal	mistress of George I and a principal in the Woods halfpence affair addressed by Swift in his "Drapier's Letters"; she also assisted Robert Walpole (Flimnap) in his return to power after he was forced to resign in 1717. She is satirized as one of the King's Cushions, ie. a mistress, in Lilliput. Flimnap would have infallibly broken his Neck, if one of the King's Cushions, that accidentally lay on the Ground, had not weakened the Force of his Fall. (I:3;3)
King's Cushions	reference to Duchess of Kendal

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