How did the king of Brobdingnag receive Gulliver?

When Gulliver meets the
King of Brobdingnag in
Book 2 of "", the king at first thinks that Gulliver is a small
animal
(splacknuck) or is a clockwork toy.  When the king realizes that Gulliver is neither
of
those, he is astonished and fascinated.  The king then has scholars study
Gulliver to determine
what Gulliver was.  After the scholars studied Gulliver
and still has to simply label him a
"freak of nature", the king treats
Gulliver kindly by ordeing that good care be taken
of Gulliver.  Gulliver
began to learn more about the king as well and he wanted to be in his
good
graces.  Gulliver noted that the king and the entire kingdom lacked some grandeur and,
in
fact, the king was contemptible of excessive human behaviors.  In an
attempt to impress the king
with how advanced and civilized Gulliver's home
land was, Gulliver told the king much about
England, its people, and its
government.  The king was contemptuous of the Englsih snobbery,
English
government, and the English people in general.  The king was one of the most
sympathetic
people Gulliver encountered in Brobdingnag; he was big in heart
as well as stature just as the
Emperor of Lilliput was small in all ways. 
The king tries to understand Gulliver and his
people, but he sees them as
mean, narrow-minded people with warped values.  Despite his opinion,
however,
he never mistreats Gulliver.