The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
(by R. E. Raspe - excerpts 1786)
"I now come to the part in my discourse of my life to describe my trip to the moon and the several things which happened. I will endeavour to describe all as accurately as my memory will permit. I went on a voyage of discovery at the request of a distant relation, who had a strange notion that there were people to be found equal in magnitude to those described by Gulliver in the empire of BROBDINGNAG."
