THE ISLE OF LAUGHING.
They next came to an island with a great plain extending over its whole
surface. They saw a vast multitude of people on it, engaged in sundry
youthful games, and all continually laughing. The voyagers cast lots who
should go to examine the island; and the lot fell upon Maildun's third
foster brother.
The moment he landed he went among the others and joined in their
pastimes and in their laughter, as if he had been among them all his
life. His companions waited for him a very long time, but were afraid to
venture to land after him; and at last, as there seemed no chance of his
returning, they left him and sailed away.