Having perform’d such an amazing Series of Exploits, and our Fleet being considerably augmented, by the Addition of the _Martinian_ Ships, we now hoisted Sail, and return’d to _Quama_, where, upon our Arrival, we triumph’d with more than _Roman_ Magnificence. And, in good Truth, the noble Deeds we had atchiev’d, deserv’d the highest Pomp of Festivals and publick Rejoicings. For what can be conceiv’d more heroic, than to transform a Nation the most abject, and the most expos’d to the Insults of their Neighbours, into the Lords and Sovereigns of the whole Subterranean Globe? What can be conceiv’d more glorious, or more for my Honour, as a Man, whose Fate it happen’d to be to live among so many heterogeneous Creatures, what, I say, could redound more to my Glory, than to have asserted that Dominion which Nature gave Mankind over the Animal Creation? A Description of the Splendor of this Triumph, the Crowds, and the Applauses of Men of all Ranks and Ages, would of itself make a regular Volume, and therefore I shall not attempt it in this short Account. I shall only observe, that from this Time a new Æra appears in History, and there may now be reckon’d five Monarchies, namely, the _Assyrian_, the _Persian_, the _Grecian_, the _Roman_, and the _Quamitic_, the last of which seems to surpass the rest in Power and Grandeur. And accordingly I accepted the Title of _Koblu_, or +Great+, which was offer’d me, as well by the _Quamites_, as by the other vanquish’d Nations. There is, I confess, something excessively vain and arrogant in the Name +Great+: But yet, when you compare me with the _Cyrus’s_, the _Alexanders_, the _Pompeys_, and the _Cæsars_, the Title then seems perfectly humble and modest. _Alexander_ indeed enslav’d the _East_, but with what Forces? with hardy veteran Troops inur’d to War; for such were the _Macedonians_ in the Time of his Father _Philip_. But I, in a shorter Space of Time, subdued far more and fiercer Nations than the _Persians_, and that by the Help only of a rude and barbarous People, whom I myself had form’d and instructed. The Titles I now us’d were these; _Nicolas the Great_, _Emperor of Quama and Mezendoria_, _King of Tanachin_, _Alectoria and Arctouia_, _Great Duke of Kispucia_, _Lord of Martinia and Canalisca_, &c. &c. _Ingens jam stabat Regnum, poteramque videri Exilio felix: sed scilicet ultima semper Expectanda dies homini, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet._