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Footnotes are given, chiefly explanatory of obsolete words and obscure expressions, or elucida- tive of various matters in regard to which many readers may desire information. ity iy) ¢ ae 6. : ‘ p wor aa ; oa! a bite 4 NRA we 7h i saan A r 4 mie hyvrpe rece ’ t +e P mi: Ma : wl suo a} aiaiovinie fe verre clonal Gide af ais nin ink aatgive i } ws a ‘ rt i) his’ Did ue Senne hdl ny ‘Coa a8) ha “esa Lepr “hh noe ‘eo 1 en at iotte ALY asia ni bas ube: a bedi ; Nort dss onde We ab ss : {on Gott: - ‘i Shai si) seal ‘Mihai Ing eran onledy tiat ery . - ty oe 1 io ie un 7 ; CONTENTS. PAGE The Author of ‘‘ Gulliver’s Travels.”......cccccocsececrcese Xiil Part I. VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT. CHAPTER I. The Author gives some Account of Himself and Family—His First Inducements to Travel—He is Shipwrecked, and Swims for his Life—Gets safe on Shore in the Country of Lilliput—Is made a Prisoner, and carried up the COUMLT Tye tn eile des ccete weeds Voi, Mlyees Fee cab ING CHAPTER IL. The Emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the Nobility, comes to see the Author'in his Confinement—The Em- peror’s Person and Habit described—Learned Men ap- pointed to teach the Author their Language—He gains Favor by his mild Disposition—His Pockets are searched, and his Sword and Pistols taken from him............. i vi OONTHNTS. CHAPTER III. PAG The Author diverts the Emperor, and his Nobility of both sexes, in a very uncommon manner—The Diversions of the Court of Lilliput described—The Author has his Liberty granted him upon certain conditions........... CHAPTER IV. Mildendo, the metropolis of Lilliput, described, together with the Emperor’s Palace—A conversation between the Author and a Principal Secretary, concerning the affairs of that Empire—The Author’s offers to serve the Emperor in his wars......-.-++- deters cts Geceseees és CHAPTER V. The Author, by an extraordinary stratagem, prevents an In- vasion—A high Title is conferred upon him—Ambassa- dors arrive from the Emperor of Blefuscu, and sue for CHAPTER VI. Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; their Learning, Laws, and Customs; the Manner of Educating their Children—The Author’s way of living in that Country—His Vindica- tion of a great Lady.........e.seeeegeee oe RGR MO cats CHAPTER VII. The Author, being informed of a Design to accuse him of High-treason, makes his Escape to Blefuscu—His Recep- ton: there. i ives’ sc epic eek atic sccecenracs Sewers CHAPTER VIII. The Author, by a lucky accident, finds means to leave Bie- fuscu; and after some difficulties, returns safe to his native Country.......... adele ¥ Galt ae ease ane Whee aie te 38 51 59 84 97 OONTENTS. . vii Parr I. A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG. CHAPTER LI. PAGE A great Storm; the Long-boat sent to fetch water, the Author goes with it to discover the Country—He is left on shore, is seized by one of the natives, and carried toa Farmer’s House—His reception there, with several Accidents that happened there—A Description of the Inhabitants...... 111 CHAPTER II. A Description of the Farmer’s Daughter—The Author carried to a Market-town, and then to the Metropolis—The Par- Sate Ta OE ISIMOULUGY Ss etre tia Uae ee a se case ts a oe 132 CHAPTER III. The Author is sent for to Court—The Queen buys him of his master the Farmer, and presents him to the King—He disputes with his Majesty’s great Scholars—An Apart- ment at Court provided for the Author—He is in high favor with the Queen—He stands up for the honor of his own Country—His quarrels with the Queen’s Dwarf 142 CHAPTER IV. [he Country described—A proposal for correcting modern Maps—The King’s Palace, and some account of the Metropolis—The Author’s way of traveling—The Chief PLOMIDIO GESCLIDON iid. air Aiesten 45 aie < 9-010 soe * «new iets ; ee LOU CHAPTER V. Several Adventures that happened to the Author—The Ex- ecution of a Criminal-~The Author shows his skill in Navigation. *-_ @©eeeee eeeeeeeeve eevee e*eoee eeeeee e@eeeeeeeoene 169 viii CONTENTS. CHAPTER VI. Several contrivances of the Author to please the King and Queen—He shows his skill in Music—The King inquires into the state of England, which the Author relates to him—The King’s observations thereon........++++++++. 185 PAGB CHAPTER VII. The Author’s love of his Country—He makes a proposal of much advantage to the King, which is rejected—The King’s great ignorance in Politics—The Learning of that Country very imperfect and confined—Their Laws, and Military Affairs, and Parties in the State.........+++.-- 200 CHAPTER VIII. The King and Queen make a progress to the frontiers—The Author attends them—The manner in which he leaves the Country very particularly related—He returns to England...........> PRIS BES ae eee s Sr iicioefta sales 211 Part III. A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGG- NAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIBB, AND JAPAN. CHAPTER I. The Author sets out on his third Voyage—Is taken by Pirates —-The malice of a Dutchman—His arrival at an Island— He is received into Laputa...........eeeeeeeeeeeoeeees 233 CHAPTER II. The humors and dispositions of the Laputians described— An account of their Learning—Of the King and his Court—The Author’s reception there—The Inhabitants subject to fears and disquietudes—An account of the SS ee CONTENTS. ix CHAPTER III. PA A Phenomenon solved by modern Philosophy and Astronomy —The Laputians’ great improvements in the latter—The King’s method of suppressing Insurrections ......... 256 GE CHAPTER IV. The Author leaves Laputa, is conveyed to Balnibarbi, arrives at the Metropolis—A Description of the Metropolis and the Country adjoining—The Author hospitably received by a great Lord—His conversation with that Lord...... 266 CHAPTER V. The Author permitted to see the Grand Academy of Lagado —The Academy largely described—The Arts wherein the Professors employ themselves...........0..0eeeeee: 276 CHAPTER VI. A further account of the Academy—The Author proposes some improvements, which are honorably received...... 287 CHAPTER VII. The Author leaves Lagado—Arrives at Maldonada—No ship ready—He takes a short voyage to Glubbdubdribb— Himreception by the, Governonges .\:.¢.e i vy P 7 att (hei sf q +e ce } PART IL A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG. PARTaLE A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG. CHAPTER I. A great Storm; the Long-boat sent to fetch water, the Author goes with it to discover the Country—He is left on shore, is seized by one of the natives, and carried to a Farmer’s House—His reception there, with several Accidents that happened there—A Description of the Inhabitants. Havine been condemned, by nature and fortune, to an active and restless life, in two months after my return I again left my native country, and took shipping in the Downs, on the 20th day of June, 1702, in the Adventure, Captain John Nicholas, a —Cornishman, commander, bound for Surat. We had avery prosperous gale till we arrived at the Cape of 112 GULLIVER’S TRA VHLS. Good Hope, where we landed for fresh water; but discovering a leak, we unshipped our goods and wintered there; for the captain falling sick of an ague,.we could not leave the Cape till the end of March. We then set sail, and had a good voyage till we passed the Straits of Madagascar ;* but hav- ing got northward of that island, and to about five degrees south latitude, the winds, which in those seas are observed to blow a constant equal gale between — the north and west, from the beginning of December ~ to the beginning of May, on the 19th of April began to — blow with much greater violence, and more westerly than usual, continuing so for twenty days together ; _ during which time we were driven a little to the east of the Molucca Islands,t and about three degrees northward of the line, as our captain found — by an observation he took the 2d of May, at which time the wind ceased, and it was a perfect calm, whereat I was not a little rejoiced. But he, being a _ man well experienced in the navigation of those seas, bid us all prepare against a storm, which accordingly happened the day following; for a * Mozambique Channel. + How they could get there without encountering Sumatra, — Java, Borneo, Celebes, or other islands of those seas, is a mystery. Celebes is a little to the west of the Moluccas; the line (or equator) passes through this group. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. Ag southern wind, called the southern monsoon, * began to set in, and soon it was a very fierce storm. During this storm, which was followed by a strong wind west-southwest, we were carried, by mv computation, about five hundred leagues to the east, so that the oldest sailor on board could not tell ir what part of the world we were. Our provisions held out well, our ship was staunch, and our crew all in good health ; but we lay in the utmost distress for water. We thought it best to hold on the same course, rather than turn more northerly, which might have brought us to the northwest parts of Great Tartary,t and into the Frozen Sea. On the 16th day of June, 1703, a boy on the top- mast discovered land.t On the 17th we came in full view of a great island, or continent (for we knew not whether), on the south side whereof was a small neck of land jutting out into the sea, and a creek too shallow to hold a ship of above one hundred tons. We cast anchor within a league of this creek, and our captain sent a dozen of his men well armed * The moonsoons are winds of the indian Ocean and Eastern ‘seas that blow in the same direction for half the year and in ‘the opposite direction the other half. t Mongolia, Manchuria, ete. { What and where this land was is explained afterward. 114 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. in the long-boat, with vessels for water, if any could be found. I desired his leave to go with them, that I might see the country, and make what discoveries I could. When we came to land we saw no river or spring, nor any sign of inhabitants. Our men therefore wandered on the shore to find out some fresh water near the sea, and I walked alone about a mile on the other side, where I observed the country all barren and rocky. I now began to be weary, and, seeing nothing to entertain my curios- ity, I returned gently down toward the creek ; and the sea being full in my view, I saw our men already got into the boat, and rowing for life to the ship. I was going to halloo after them, although it had been to little purpose, when I observed a huge creature walking after them in the sea, as fast as he could; he waded not much deeper than his knees, and took prodigious strides; but our men had got the start of him half a league, and the sea: there- abouts being full of sharp pointed rocks, the monster was not able to overtake the boat. This I was afterward told, for I durst not stay to see the issue of that adventure; but ran as fast as I could the way I first went, and then climbed up a steep hill, which gave me some prospect of the country. I found it fully cultivated; but that which first sur- prised me was the length of the grass, which in — GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 115 those grounds that seemed to be kept for hay was above twenty foot high. I fell into a highroad, for so I took it to be, though it served to the inhabitants only as a foot- path through a field of barley. Here I walked on for some time, but could see little on either side, it being now near harvest, and the corn rising at least forty foot. I was an hour walking to the end of this field, which was fenced in with a hedge of at least one hundred and twenty foot high, and the trees so lofty that I could make no computation of their altitude. There was a stile to pass from this field into the next. It had four steps, and a stone to cross over when you came to the uppermost. It was impossible for me to climb this stile, because every step was six foot high, and the upper stone above twenty. I was endeavoring to find some gap in the hedge, when I discovered one of the inhabit- ants in the next field, advancing toward the stile, of the same size with him whom I saw in the sea pursuing our boat. He appeared as tall as an ordinary spire steeple, and took about ten. yards at every stride, as near as] could guess. I was struck with the utmost fear and astonishment, and ran to hide myself in the corn, from whence I saw him at the top of the stile, looking back into the next field on the right hand, and heard him call in a voice many \16 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. degrees louder than a speaking-trumpet ; but the noise was so high in the air that at first I certainly thought it was thunder. Whereupon seven mon- sters, like himself,* came toward him with reaping hooks in their hands, each hook about the largeness of six scythes. These people were not so well clad as the first, whose servants or laborers they seemed to be; for, upon some words he spoke, they went to reap the corn in the field where I lay. I kept from them at as great a distance as I could, but was forced to move with extreme difficulty, for the stalks of the corn were sometimes not above a foot distant, so that I could hardly squeeze my body be- twixt them. However, I madea shift to go forward till I came to a part of the field where the corn had been laid by the rain and wind. Here it was im- possible for me to advance a step; for the stalks were so interwoven that I could not creep through, and the beards of the fallen ears so strong and pointed that they pierced through my clothes into my flesh. At the same time I heard the reapers not above an hundred yards behind me. Being quite dispirited with toil, and wholly overcome by grief —_—$—$— $$ *The Brobdingnagians are represented to be about as much larger than ordinary human beings as the Lilliputians are smaller (about twelve times), all their belongings being of a corresponding magnitude. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 117 and despair, I lay down between two ridges, and heartily wished I might there end my days. I be moaned my desolate widow and fatherless children. I lamented my own folly and willfulness in attempt- ing a second voyage, against the advice of all my friends and relations. In this terrible agitation of mind I could not forbear thinking of Lilliput, whose inhabitants looked upon me as the greatest prodigy that ever appeared in the world; where I was able to draw an imperial fleet in my hand, and perform those other actions which will be recorded forever in the chronicles of that empire, while posterity shall hardly believe them, although attested by millions. I reflected what a mortifi- cation it must prove to me to appear as inconsider- _ able in this nation as one single Lilliputian would be among us. But this I conceived was to be the least of my misfortunes; for, as human creatures are observed to be more savage and cruel in proportion to their bulk, what could I expect but to be a morsel in the mouth of the first among these enormous barbarians that should happen to seize me? Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. It might have pleased fortune to let the Lilliputians find some nation, where the people were as diminutive witb 118 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. respect to them as they were to me. And who. knows but that even this prodigious race of mortals might be equally overmatched in some distant part of the world, whereof we have yet no discovery. Scared and confounded as I was, I could not for- bear going on with these reflections, when one of the reapers, approaching within ten yards of the ridge where I lay, made me apprehend that with the next step I should be squashed to death under his foot, or cut in two with his reaping-hook. And therefore when he was again about to move, I screamed as loud as fear could make me; whereupon the huge creature trod short, and, looking round about under him for some time, at last espied me as I lay on the ground. He considered awhile, with the caution of one who endeavors to lay hold on a small dangerous animal in such a manner that it may not be able either to scratch or to bite him, as I myself have sometimes done with a weasel in England. At length he ventured to take me up be- hind, by the middle, between his forefinger and thumb, and brought me within three yards of his eyes, that he might behold my shape more perfectly. I guessed his meaning, and my good fortune gave me so much presence of mind that I resolved not. to struggle in the least as he held me in the air above sixty foot from the ground, although he GULLIIVER’S TRAVELS. ‘119 - grievously pinched my sides, for fear I should slip > through his fingers. All I ventured was to raise mine eyes toward the sun, and place my hands to- gether ia a supplicating posture, and to speak some words in an humble, melancholy tone, suitable to the condition I then was in; for I apprehended every moment that he would dash me against the ground, as we usually do any little hateful animal which we have a mind to destroy. But my good star would have it that he appeared pleased with my voice and gestures, and began to look upon me as a curiosity, much wondering to hear me pro- nounce articulate words, although he could not understand them. In the meantime I was not able to forbear groaning and shedding tears, and turning my head toward my sides; letting him know as well as I could how cruelly I was hurt by the pressure of his thumb and finger. He seemed to apprehend my meaning; for, lifting up the lappet* of his coat, he put me gently into it, and immediately ran along with me to his master, who wasa substantial farmer, and the same person [ had first seen in the field. The farmer having (as I supposed by their talk) received such an account of me as his servant could * Here and also below this word seems to be used as equiva- lent to skirt. 120 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. give him, took a piece of a small straw, about the size of a walking-staff, and therewith lifted up the “T pulled off my hat, and made a low bow toward the farmer.” lappets of my coat; which, it seems, he thought to be some kind of covering that nature had given me, | | He blew my hairs aside to take a better view of my GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. 121 face. He called his hinds about him, and asked them, as I afterward learned, whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature tuat resembled me? He then placed me softly on the ground upon all four, but I got immediately up, and walked slowly backward and forward, to let those people see [ had no intent torun away. They all sate down in a circle about me, the better to observe my motions. | pulled off my hat, and made a low bow toward the farmer. I fell on my knees, and lifted up my hands and eyes, and spoke several words as Joud as I could; I took a purse of gold out of my pocket, and humbly presented it to him. He re- ceived it on the palm of his hand, then applied it close to his eye to see what it was, and afterward turned it several times with the point of a pin (which he took out of his sleeve), but could make nothing of it. Whereupon I made a sign that he should place his hand on the ground. I then took the purse, and opening it, poured all the gold into his palm. There were six Spanish pieces of four nistoles* each, besides twenty or thirty smaller soins. I saw him wet the tip of his little finger ipon his tongue, and take up one of my largest dieces, and then another; but he seemed to be wholly ignorant what they were. He made me a ee ee ee * A pistole is equivalent to about 16s. sterling. 122 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. ee ees sign to put them again into my purse, and the purse again into my pocket, which, after offering to him several times, I thought it best to do.’ ) The farmer, by this time, was convinced I a be a rational creature. He spoke often to me; but the sound of his voice pierced my ears like that of a water-mill, yet his words were articulate enough, I answered as loud as I could in several languages, and he often laid his ear within two yards of me but all in vain, for we were wholly unintelligible to each other. He then sent his servants to their work, and taking his handkerchief out of his pocket, he doubled, and spread it on his left hand, which he placed flat on the ground, with the palm upwar d, making me a sign to step into it, as I could easily do, for it was not above a foot in thickness. I thought it my part to obey ; and for fear of falling laid myself at full length upon the handkerchief, with the remainder of which he lapped me up the head for further security, and in this manner carried me home to his house. There he called his ran back, as women in England do at the sight of a toad or a spider. However, when she had awhile seen my behavior, and how well I observed the signs her husband made, she was soon reconciled, and by degrees grew extremely tender of me. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS: | 123 It was about twelve at noon, and a_ servant. srought in dinner. It was only one substantial dish - #f meat (fit for the plain condition of an husband- . nan), in a dish of about twenty-four foot diameter. he company were, the farmer and his wife, three. hildren, and an old grandmother. When they vere sat down, the farmer placed me at some dis ance from him on the table, which was thirty foot igh from the floor. I was in a terrible fright, and ept as far as I could from the edge, for fear of alling. The wife minced a bit of meat, then rumbled some bread on a trencher, and placed it efore me. I made her a low bow, took out my nife and fork, and fell to eat, which gave them ex- zeding delight. The mistress sent her maid for a all dram-cup, which held about two gallons, and ed it with drink; I took up the vessel with much ifficulty in both hands, and in a most respectful ianner drank to her ladyship’s health, expressing te words as loud as I could in English, which lade the company laugh so heartily, that I was most deafened with the noise. This liquor tasted se a small cider, and was not unpleasant. Then ‘e master made me a sign to come to his trencher de; butas I walked on the table, being in great rprise all the time, as the indulgent reader will Sily conceive and excuse, I happened to stumble 124 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, against a crust, and fell flat on my face, but received | no hurt. I got up immediately, and observing the good people to be in much concern, I took my hat. (which I held under my arm out of good manners), and waving it over my head, made three huzzas, to show I had got no mischief by my fall. But advancing forward toward my master (as 1 shall henceforth call him), his youngest son, who sate’ next him, an arch boy of about ten years old, took. me up by the legs, and held me so high in the air that I trembled every limb; but his father snatched me from him, and at the same time gave him such box on the left ear as would have felled an Euro- pean troop of horse to the earth, ordering him to be taken from the table. But, being afraid the boy nught Owe me a spite, and well remembering how mischievous all children among us naturally are to sparrows, rabbits, young kittens, and puppy-dogs, I fell on my knees, and, pointing to the boy, made my | master to understand, as well as I could, that desired his son might be pardoned. The father complied, and the lad took his seat again, whereupon | I went to him, and kissed his hand, which my master took, and made him stroke me gently with it. | In the midst of dinner my mistress’ favorite cat leaped into her lap. I heard a noise behind me like that of a dozen stocking-weavers at work; and turn GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 125 ing my head I found it proceeded from the purring of this animal, who seemed to be three times larger than an ox, as I computed by the view of her head and one of her paws, while her mistress was feeding and stroking her. The fierceness of this creature’s countenance altogether discomposed me though I stood at the further end of the table, above fifty foot off; and although my mistress held her fast, for fear she might give a spring, and seize me in her talons. But it happened there was no danger; for the cat took not the least notice of me when my master placed me within three yards of her. And, as I have been always told, and found true by ex- perience in my travels, that flying or discovering* fear before a fierce animal is a certain way to make it pursue or attack you,so I resolved, in this Jangerous juncture, to show no manner of concern. { walked with intrepidity five or six times before she very head of the cat, and came within half a yard of her; whereupon she drew herself back, as f she were more afraid of me. I had less appre- fension concerning the dogs, whereof three or four same into the room as it is usual in farmers’ houses ; ye of which was a mastiff, equal in bulk to four slephants, and a greyhound, somewhat taller than she mastiff, but not so large. * Showing; Ictting it be seen. 126 ' GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. When dinner was almost done the nurse came i with a child of a year old in her arms, who immed: ately spied me, and began a squall that you migh have heard from London Bridge to Chelsea, afte the usual oratory of infants, to get me for a play thing. The mother, out of pure indulgence, tool ‘me up, and put me toward the child, who presenth: seized me by the middle, and got my head in hi mouth, where [ roared so loud that the urchin wa frighted, and let me drop, and I should infallibl have broke my neck, if the mother had not held he apron under me. The nurse, to quiet her babe made use of a rattle, which was a kind of holloy vessel filled with great stones, and fastened by : cable to the child’s waist; but all in vain, so tha she was forced to apply the last remedy by giving it suck. I must confess no object, ever disgusted m so much as the sight of her monstrous breast, whiel I cannot tell what to compare with, so as to give th curious reader an idea of its bulk, shape, and colo1 This made me reflect upon the fair skins of ow English ladies, who appear so beautiful to us, onl: because they are of our own size, and their defect not to be seen but through a magnifying glass where we find by experiment that the smoothes and whitest skins look rough, and coarse, and ill colored. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 199 _ I remember when I was at Lilliput the com- plexions of those diminutive people appeared to me the fairest in the world; and talking upon this sub- ject with a person of learning there, who was an in- timate friend of mine, he said that my face appeared much-fairer and smoother when he looked on me from the ground tlian it did upon a nearer view, when I took him up in my hand, and brought him close, which he confessed was at first a very shocking ight. He said he could discover great holes in my skin; that the stumps of my beard were ten times stronger than the bristles of a boar, and my com- plexion made up of several colors altogether dis- agreeable : although I must beg leave to say for myself: that I am as fair as most of my sex and country, and very little sunburnt by all my travels. On the other side, discoursing of the ladies in that emperor’s court, he used to tell me one had freckles, another too wide a mouth, a third too large a nose; nothing of which I was able to distinguish. I con- fess this reflection was obvious enough ; which, how- ever, I could not forbear, lest the reader might think those vast creatures were actually deformed: for I must do them the justice to say they are a comely race of people; and particularly the features of my master’s countenance, although he were but a | | 128 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. farmer, when I beheld him from the height of sixty foot, appeared very well-proportioned. When dinner was done my master went out to his laborers, and, as I could discover by his voice and gesture, gave his wife a strict charge to take care of me. I was very much tired, and disposed to sleep, which my mistress perceiving she put me on her own bed, and covered me with a clean white hand- kerchief, but larger and coarser than the mainsail of a man-of-war. | I slept about two hours, and dreamed I was at home with my wife and children, which aggravated my sorrows when I awaked and found myself alone in a vast room, between two and three hundred foot wide, and above two hundred high, lying in .a bed twenty yards wide. My mistress was gone about her household affairs, and had locked mein. The bed was eight yards from the floor. I wished to get down, but durst not presume to call; and if I had it would have been in vain, with such a voice as mine, at so great a distance as from the room where I lay to the kitchen where the family kept. While I was under these circumstances two rats crept up the curtains, and ran smelling backward and forward on the bed. One of them came up almost to my face, whereupon Troseina areas and oy out my nAneeN to o,delenms | * A kind of short, broad sword ee carried. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS 129 myself. These horrible animals had the boldness to attack me on both sides, and one of them held his forefeet at my collar; but I had the good fortune to rip up his belly before he could do me any mischief. He fell down at my feet; and the other, seeing the “The other made his escape.” fate of his comrade, made his escape, but not with- aut one good wound on the back, which I gave him as he fled, and made the blood run trickling from 1m, After this exploit I walked gently to and fro mn the bed, to recover my breath and loss of spirits. [hese creatures were of the size of a large mastiff, jut infinitely more nimble and fierce; so that, if I vad taken off my belt before I went to sleep, I must 130 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. have infallibly been torn to pieces and devoured. I measured the tail of the dead rat, and found it to be two yards long, wanting an inch; but it went against my stomach to drag the carcass off the bed, where it lay still bleeding; I observed it had yet some life, but with a strong slash across the neck I thoroughly despatched it. Soon after my mistress came into the room, who, seeing me all bloody, ran and took me up in her hand. I pointed to the dead rat, smiling, and mak- ing other signs to show I was not hurt ; whereat she was extremely rejoiced, calling the maid to, take up the dead rat with a pair of tongs, and throw it out of the window. Then she set me ona table, where I showed her my hanger all bloody, anc wiping it on the lappet of my coat, returned it to the scabbard. I hope the gentle reader will excuse me for dwell- ing on these and the like particulars, which, how- ever insignificant they may appear to eroveling vulgar minds, yet will certainly help a philosopher to enlarge his thoughts and imagination, and apply them to the benefit of public as well as private life, which was my sole design in presenting this and other accounts of my travels to the world; wherein I have been chiefly studious of truth, without affecting any ornaments of learning or of style. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 131 But the whole scene of this voyage made so strong in impression on my mind, and is so deeply fixed in ny memory, that, in committing it to paper, I did 1ot omit one material circumstance: however, upon istrict review, I blotted out several passages of less noment, which were in my first copy, for fear of be- ng censured as tedious and trifling, whereof travelers ire often, perhaps not without justice, accused. 132 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. CHAPTER II. A Description of the Farmer’s Daughter—The Author carried _ to a Market-town, and then to the Metropolis—The Par- ticulars of his Journey. | My mistress had a daughter of nine years old, a child of towardly parts for her age, very dexterous’ at her needle, and skillful in dressing her baby.* — Her mother and she contrived to fit up the baby’s | cradle for me against night ; the cradle was put into — a small drawer of a cabinet, and the drawer placed upon a hanging shelf for fear of the rats. This was my bed all the time I stayed with those people, | though made more convenient by degrees, as I | began to learn their language, and make my wants known. This young girl was so handy that, after I had once or twice pulled off my clothes before — her, she was able to dress and undress me, though I never gave her that trouble when she would let me ~ do either myself. She made me ‘seven shirts and some other linen, of as fine cloth as could be got, — which indeed was coarser than sackcloth; and * That is, her doll (an old use of the word). GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 133 these she constantly washed for me with her own hands. She was likewise my schoolmistress, to teach me the language; when I pointed to anything she told me the name of it in her own tongue, so that ina few days I was able to call for whatever I hada mind to. She was very good-natured, and not above forty foot high, being little for her age. She gave me the name of Grildrig, which the family took up, and afterward the whole kingdom. The word imports what the Latins call nanunculus, the Italians homunceletino, and the English mannikin. To her I chiefly owe my preservation in that country ; we never parted while I was there; I called her my Glumdalclitch, or little nurse, and I should be guilty of great ingratitude if I omitted this honorable mention of her care and affection to- ward me, which I heartily wish it lay in my power to requite as she deserves, mstead of being the in- nocent, but unhappy, instrument of her disgrace, as I have too much reason to fear. It now began to be known and talked of in the neighborhood that my master had found a strange animal in the field, about the bigness of a splacnuck, but exactly shaped in every part like a human creature; which it likewise imitated in all its actions ; seemed to speak in a little language of its own, had already learned several words of theirs, went 134 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. erect upon two legs, was tame and gentle, would come when it was called, do whatever it was bid, had the finest limbs in the world, and a complexion fairer than a nobleman’s daughter of three years old. Another farmer, who lived hard by, and was a particular friend of my master, came on a visit on purpose to inquire into the truth of this story. I was immediately produced, and placed upon a table, where I walked as I was commanded, drew my hanger, put it up again, made my reverence to my master’s guest, asked him in his own language how he did, and told him he was welcome, just as my little nurse had instructed me. This man, who was old and dim-sighted, put on his spectacles to behold me better, at which I could not forbear laughing very heartily, for his eyes appeared like the full moon shining into a chamber at two windows. Our people who discovered the cause of my mirth, bore me company in laughing, at which the old fellow was fool enough to be angry and out of counte- nance. He had the character of a great miser ; and, to my misfortune, he well deserved it, by the cursed advice he gave my master, to show me as a sight upon a market-day in the next town, which was half an hour’s riding, about twenty- two miles from our house. I guessed there was some mischief contriving, when I observed my GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 135 master and his friend whispering long together, sometimes pointing at me; and my fears made me fancy that I overheard and understood some of their words. But the next morning Glumdalclitch, my little nurse, told me the whole matter, which she had cunningly picked out from her mother. The poor girl laid me on her bosom, and fell a weeping with shame and grief. She apprehended some mis- chief would happen to me from rude, vulgar folks, who might squeeze me to death, or break one of my limbs by taking me in their hands. She had also observed how modest I was in my nature, how nicely I regarded my honor, and what an indignity Ishould conceive it to be exposed for money as a public spectacle to the meanest of the people. She said her papa and mamma had promised that Gril- drig should be hers; but now she found they meant to serve her as they did last year, when they pre- tended to give her a lamb, and yet, as soon as it was fat, sold it toa butcher. For my own part, I may truly affirm, that I was less concerned than my ‘nurse. I had a strong hope, which never left me, that I should one day recover my liberty; and as _to the ignominy of being carried about for a mon- ster, I considered myself to be a perfect stranger in the country, and that such a misfortune could never be charged upon me as a reproach, if ever I should 136 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. return to England; since the king of Great Britain himself, in my condition, must have undergone the same distress. My master, pursuant to the advice of his friend, carried me in a box the next market-day to the neighboring town, and took along with him his little daughter, my nurse, upon a pillion* behind him. The box was close on every side, with a little door for me to go in and out, and a few gimiet holes to let in air. The girl had been so careful as to put the quilt of her baby’s bed into it, for me to lie down on. However, I was terribly shaken and dis- composed in this journey, though it were but of half an hour: for the horse went about forty foot at _ every step, and trotted so high that the agitation was equal to the rising and falling of a ship in a great storm, but much more frequent. Our journey was somewhat further than from London to St. Alban’s. My master alighted at an inn which he used to frequent; and after consulting awhile with the inn-keeper, and making some necessary prepara- tions, he hired the grultrud, or crier, to give notice through the town of a strange creature to be seen av the sign of the Green Eagle, not so big as a splacnuck (an animal in that country, very finely * A cushion for a woman to ride behind a man on horseback GULLIVBR’S TRAVELS. 137 4 shaped, avout six foot long), and in every part of the body resembling a human creature; could speak several words, and perform an hundred diverting tricks. I was placed upon a table in the largest room of the inn, which might be near three hundred foot square. My little nurse stood on a low stool close to the table, to take care of me, and direct what I should do. My master, to avoid a crowd, would suffer only thirty people at a time to see me. I walked about the table as the girl commanded : she asked me questions, as far as she knew my under. standing of the language reached, and I answered them as loud as I could. I turned about several times to the company, paid my humble respects, said they were welcome, and used some cther speeches I had been taught. I took up a thimble filled with liquor, which Glumdalclitch had given me fora cup, and drank their health. I drew out my hanger, and flourished with it after the manner of fencers in England. My nurse gave me part of a straw, which I exercised as a pike,* having learned the art in my youth. I was that day shown to twelve sets of company, and as oiten forced to act over * A military weapon formerly used with along wooden shaft and a steel head. 138 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. again the same fopperies,* till I was half-dead with weariness and vexation: for those who had seen me made such wonderful reports that the people were ready to break down the doors to come in. My master, for his own interest, would not suffer any one to touch me except my nurse: and to prevent danger, benches were set round the table, at such a distance as put me out of everybody’s reach. How- ever, an unluckyt schoolboy aimed a hazelnut directly at my head, which very narrowly missed me; otherwise it came with so much violence that it would have infallibly knocked out my brains, for it was almost as large as a small pumpion,t but I had the satisfaction to see the young rogue well beaten and turned out of the room. My master gave public notice that he would show me again the next market-day ; and in the meantime he prepared a more convenient vehicle for me, which he had reason enough to do; for I was so tired with rr re errr er ee * Foolish tricks; a meaning in which the word is used by our older writers. + Mischievous: an obsolete meaning of the word. {A pumpkin or gourd, a fruit allied to the melon and cucumber, which sometimes grows to an enormous size, weighing 60 or 70 lbs GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 139 my first journey, and with entertaining company for eight hours together, that I could hardly stand upon my legs, or speak a word. It was at least three days before I recovered my strength; and that I might have no rest at home all the neighbor- ing gentlemen from an hundred miles around, hear- ing of my fame, came to see me at my master’s own house. There could not be fewer than thirty per- sons, with their wives and children (for the country was very populous); and my master demanded the rate of a full room whenever he showed me at home, although it were only to a single family : so ‘that for some time I had but little ease every day of the week (except Wednesday, which is their Sab- _bath), although I were not carried to the town. My master, finding how profitable I was like to be, resolved to carry me to the most considerable cities of the kingdom. Having therefore provided ' himself with ali things necessary for a long journey, -and settled his affairs at home, he took leave of his wife, and upon the 17th of August, 1703, about two months after my arrival, we set out for the metrop- olis, situated near the middle of that empire, and ‘about three thousand miles distance from our house. My master made his daughter Glumdalclitch ride ‘behind him. She carried me on her lap, in a box | tied about her waist. The girl had lined it on all 140 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. sides with the softest cloth she could get, well quilted underneath, furnished it with her baby’s bed, provided me with linen and other necessaries, and made everything as convenient as she could. We had no other company but a boy of the house, who rode after us with the luggage. My master’s design was to show me in all the towns by the way, and to step out of the road for fifty or an hundred miles, to any village or person of quality’s house, where he might expect custom. We made easy journeys, of not above seven or eight score miles a day: for Glumdalclitch, on purpose to spare me, complained she was tired with the trot- ting of the horse. She often took me out of my box, at my own desire, to give me air, and show me the country, but always held me-fast, by a leading string. We passed over five or six rivers, many degrees broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges; and there was hardly a rivulet so small as the Thames at London Bridge. We were ten weeks. in our journey, and I was shown in eighteen large towns, besides many villages and private families. On the 26th of October we arrived at the metrop- olis, called in their language Lorbrulgrud, or Pride of the Universe. My master took a lodging in the principal street of the city, not far from the royal palace, and put out bills in the usual form, contain- GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 141 ing an exact description of my person and parts.* He hired a large room between three and four hundred fuot wide. He provided a table sixty foot in diameter, upon which I was to act my part, and pallisadoed it round three foot from the edge, and as many high, to prevent my falling over. I was shown ten times a day, to the wonder and satisfaction of all people. I could now speak the language tolerably well, and perfectly understood every word that was ‘spoken to me. Besides, I had learned their alpha- bet, and could make a shift to explain a sentence here and there; for Glumdalclitch had been my in- structor while we were at home, and at leisure hours during our journey. She carried a little book ‘in her pocket, not much larger than a Sanson’s Atlas ;+ it was a common treatise for the use of young girls, giving a short account of their religion ; out of this she taught me my letters, and interpreted ‘the words. -* Accomplishments. + A very large atlas formerly in use, by a French geographer. 142 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. CHAPTER III. The Author is sent for to Court—The Queen buys him of his | master, the Farmer, and presents him to the King— He , disputes with his Majesty’s great Scholars—An Apartment at Court provided for the Author—He is in high favor with the Queen—He stands up for the honor of his own | Country—He quarrels with the Queen’s Dwarf. Tue frequent labors I underwent every day made in a few weeks a very considerable change in my | health ; the more my master got by me the more insatiable he grew. I had quite lost my stomach, and was almost reduced to a skeleton. The farmer observed it, and, concluding that I soon must die, | resolved to make as good a hand of me* as he could. While he was thus reasoning and resolving with. himself, a slardral, or gentleman-usher, came from court, commanding my master to carry me immedi- ately thither for the diversion of the queen and her. ladies. Some of the latter had already been to see. me, and reported strange things of my beauty, be- havior, and good sense. Her majesty, and those * Make as much money out of me. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 143 who attended her, were beyond measure delighted with my demeanor. I fell on my knees, and begged the honor of kissing her imperial foot; but this gracious princess held out her little finger toward me after I was set on a table, which I embraced in both my arms, and put the tip of it with the utmost respect to my lips. She made me some general questions about my country and my travels, which I answered as distinctly, and in. as few words as I could. She asked, Whether I would be content to live at court? I bowed down to the board of the table, and humbly answered, That I was my mas- ter’s slave; but if I were at my own disposal I should be proud to devote my life to her majesty’s service. She then asked my master, Whether he ‘were willing to sell me at a good price? He, who apprehended I could not live a month, was ready enough to part with me, and demanded a thousand ‘pieces of gold, which were ordered him on the spot, each piece being about the bigness of eight hundred moidores,* but, allowing for the proportion of all things between that country and Europe, and the high price of gold among them, was hardly so great asum as a thousand guineas would be in England. I then said to the queen, Since I was now her * A moidore was equivalent to about £1 7s. 144 GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. majesty’s most humble creature and vassal, I must beg the favor that Glumdalclitch, who had always tended me with so much care and kindness, and understood to do it so well, might be admitted into her service, and continue to be my nurse and instructor. Her majesty agreed to my petition, and easily got the farmer’s consent, who was glad enough to have his daughter preferred at court, and the poor girl herself was not able to hide her joy. My late master withdrew, bidding me farewell, and saying he had left me in a good service: to which I replied not a word, only making him a slight bow. The queen observed my coldness, and when the farmer was gone out of the apartment, asked me the reason. I made bold to tell her majesty that I owed no other obligation to my late master than his not dashing out the brains of a poor harmless creature found by chance in his field; which obli- gation was amply recompensed by the gain he had made in showing me through half the kingdom, and: the price he had now sold me for; that the life I had since led was laborious enough to kill an animal of ten times my strength; that my health was much: impaired by the continual drudgery of entertaining the rabble every hour of the day; and that if my master had not thought my life in danger, her — = GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 145 majesty would not have got so cheap a bargain. But as I was out of all fear of being ill-treated, under the protection of so great and good an empress, the ornament of nature, the darling of the world, the delight of her subjects, the phoenix of the creation; so, 1 hoped my late master’s appre- hensions would appear to be groundless; for I already found my spirits to revive by the influence of her most august presence. This was the sum of my speech, delivered with great improprieties and hesitation. The latter part was altogether framed in the style peculiar to that people, whereof I learned some phrases from Glum- dalclitch while she was carrying me to court. The queen, giving great allowance for my defec tiveness in speaking, was, however, surprised at so much wit and good sense in so diminutive an animal. She took me in her own hands, and carried me to ‘the king, who was then retired to his cabinet.* _SIlis majesty, a prince of much gravity and austere countenance, not well observing my shape at first ‘view, asked the queen, after a cold manner, how long it was since she grew fond of a splacnuck ? for such, it seems, he took me to be, as I lay upon my \breast in her majesty’s right hand. But this —_—_—_ “ A private room for writing in, ete. 146 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, princess, who hath an infinite deal of wit and humor, set me gently on my feet upon the scrutoire,* and commanded me to give his majesty an account of myself, which I did in a very few words; and Glumdalclitch, who attended at the cabinet door, and could not endure I should be out of her sight, being admitted, confirmed all that had passed from my arrival at her father’s house. The king, although he be as learned a person as any in his dominions, had been educated in the study of philosophy, and particularly mathematics ; yet, when he observed my shape exactly, and saw me walk erect, before I began to speak, conceived I might bea piece of clock-work (which is in that country arrived to a very great perfection), con- trived by some ingenious artist. But when he heard my voice, and found what I delivered to be regular and rational, he could not conceal his as- tonishment. He was by no means satisfied with the relation I gave him of the manner I came into his kingdom, but thought it a story concerted be- tween Glumdalclitch and her father, who had taught me a set of words, to make me sell at a higher price. Upon this imagination, he put several other ques- tions to me, and still received rational answers, no * A writing desk. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. (149 otherwise defective than by a foreign accent, and an imperfect knowledge in the language, with some rustic phrases which I had learned at the farmer’s house, and did not suit the polite style of a court. His majesty sent for three great scholars, who _were then in their weekly waiting,* according to the custom in that country. These gentlemen, after they had awhile examined my shape with much nicety, were of different opinions concerning me. They all agreed that I could not be produced ac- cording to the regular laws of nature, because I was not framed with a capacity of preserving my life, either by swiftness, or climbing of trees, or digging holes in the earth. They observed by my teeth, which they viewed with great exactness, that I was ) -acarnivorous animal; yet, most quadrupeds being an overmatch for me, and field-mice, with some others, too nimble, they could not imagine how I should be able to support myself, unless I fed upon snails and other insects, which they offered, by many learned arguments, to evince that I could not possibly do. One of these virtuosit seemed to think that I might be an embryo, or abortive birth. But this opinion was rejected by the other two, who * Attendance on the king. t Men skilled in curiosities, artistic works, ete. 148 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. observed my limbs to be perfect and finished ; and that [ had lived severa! years, as it was manifest from my beard, ths stumps whereof they plainly discovered through a magnifying glass. They would not allow me to be a dwarf, because my littleness _was beyond all degrees of comparison; for the queen’s favurite dwarf, the smallest ever known in that kingdom, was near thirty foot high. After much debate, they concluded, unanimously, that [ was only relplum scaleath, which is interpreted literally dusus nature; * a determination exactly agreeable to the modern philosophy of Europe, whose professors, disdaining the old evasion of occult causes, whereby the followers of Aristotle endeavor in vain to disguise their ignorance, have invented this wonderful solution of all difficulties, to the unspeakable advancement of human knowl- edge. After this decisive conclusion, I entreated to be heard a word or two. I applied myself to the king, and assured his majesty that I came from a coun- try which abounded with several millions of both sexes, and of my own stature; where the animals, trees, and houses were all in proportion, and where, by consequence, I might be as able to defend mvself, ‘2. __ * A sport of nature; a natural euriosity. —— Ee GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 149 and to find sustenance as any of his majesty’s sub- jects could do here; which I took for a full answer to those gentlemen’s arguments. To this they only replied with a smile of contempt, saying that the farmer had instructed me very well in my lesson. The king, who had a much better understanding, dismissing his learned men, sent for the farmer, who, by good fortune, was not yet gone out of town. Having, therefore, first examined him privately, and then confronted him with me and the young girl, his majesty began to think that what we told him might possibly be true. He desired the queen to order that a particular care ‘should be taken of me; and was of opinion that Glumdalclitch should still continue in her office of tending me, because he observed we had a great affection for each other. A convenient apartment was provided for her at court: she had a sort of governess appointed to take care of her education, a maid to dress her, and two other servants for ‘menial offices; but the care of me was wholly ap- 'propriated to herself. The queen commanded her own cabinet-maker to contrive a box, that might ‘serve me for a bedchamber, after the model that Glumdalclitch and I should agree upon. This man ‘Was a most ingenious artist, and according to my directions, in three weeks, finished forme a wooden 150 | GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. chamber, of sixteen foot square, and twelve high, with sash-windows, a door, and two closets, like a London bedchamber. The board that made the ceiling was to be lifted up and down by two hinges, to put in a bed, ready furnished by her majesty’s upholsterer, which Glumdalclitch took out every day to air, made it with her own hands, and letting it down at night, locked up the roof over me. A nice* workman, who was famous for little curios- ities, undertook to make me two chairs, with backs and frames, of a substance not unlike ivory, and | two tables, with a cabinet to put my things in. The room was quilted on all sides, as well as the floor and the ceiling, to prevent any accident from the carelessness of those who carried me, and to break the force of a jolt when I went in a, coach. I desired a lock for my door, to prevent rats and mice from coming in. The smith, after several attempts, made the smallest that ever was seen among them, for I have known a larger at the gate | of a gentleman’s house in England. I made a shift. to keep the key in a pocket of my own, fearing Glumdalclitch might lose it. The queen likewise ordered the thinnest silks that could be gotten, to make me clothes, not much thicker than an English | * Skilled in fine or delicate woxk. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 151 blanket, very cumbersome till I was accustomed to them. They were after the fashion of the kingdom, partly resembling the Persian, and partly the Chinese, and are a very grave and decent. habit. The queen became so fond of my company, that she could not dine without me. I had a table placed upon the same at which her majesty eat, just at her left elbow, and a chair to sit on. Glumdal- clitch stood upon a stool on the floor near my table, to assist and take care of me. I had an entire set of silver dishes and plates, and other necessaries, which, in proportion to those of the queen, were not much bigger than what I have seen of the same kind in a London toy-shop, for the furniture of a _baby-house; these my little nurse kept in her pocket ‘in a silver box, and gave me at meals as I wanted them, always cleaning them herself. No person dined with the queen but the two princesses royal, the elder sixteen years old, and the younger at that time thirteen and a month. Her majesty used to put a bit of meat upon one of my dishes, out of which I carved for myself, and her diversion was to ‘see me eat in minature; for the queen (who had, indeed, but a weak stomach) took up, at one mouth- ‘ful, as much as a dozen English farmers could eat | at a meal; which to me was, for some time, a very ‘Qauseous sight. She would craunch the wing of a 152 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. lark, bones and all, between her teeth, although it were nine times as large as that of a full-grown | turkey; and put a bit of bread in her mouth as big as two twelve-penny loaves. She drank out of a golden cup, above a hogshead at a draught. Her knives were twice as large as a scythe, set straight upon the handle. The spoons, forks, and other in- struments, were all in the same proportion. I remember when Glumdalclitch carried me, out of curiosity, to see some of the tables at court, where ten or a dozen of those enormous knives and forks were lifted up together, I thought I had never till then beheld so terrible a sight. It is the custom, that every Wednesday (which, as Ihave before observed, was their Sabbath) the - king and queen, with the royal issue of both sexes, dine together in the apartment of his majesty, to whom I was now become a great favorite; and at these times my little chair and table were placed at his left hand, before one of the salt-cellars. This prince took a pleasure in conversing with me, in-- quiring into the manners, religion, laws, govern — ment, and learning of Europe; wherein I gave him. the best account I was able. His apprehension was | so clear, and his judgment so exact, that he made. very wise reflections and observations upon all I said. But, I confess, that, after I had been a little es GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 153 J too copious in talking of my own beloved country, of our trade, and wars by sea and land, of our schisms in religion, and parties in the state, the prej- udices of his education prevailed so far that he could not forbear taking me up in his right hand, and, stroking me gently with the other, after a hearty fit of laughing, asked me, Whether I were a Whig or Tory? Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed, How contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such dimin- _utive insects as I; and yet, said he, I dare engage these creatures have their titles and distinctions of honor; they contrive little nests and burrows, that 'they call houses and cities; they make a figure in dress and equipage; they love, they fight, they dis- | pute, they cheat, they betray! And thus he con- tinued on, while my color came and went several times, with indignation, to hear our noble country, the mistress of arts and arms, the scourge of France, the arbitress of Europe, the seat of virtue, piety, honor, and truth, the pride and envy of the world, ‘So contemptuously treated. But as I was not in a condition to resent injuries, so upon mature thoughts I began to doubt whether { was injured or no. For, after having been accus- | 154 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. tomed several months to the sight and converse of — this people, and observed every object upon which I ‘ cast mine eyes to be of proportionable magnitude, ) | | the horror I had first conceived from their bulk and aspect was so far worn off, that, if I had then beheld a company of English lords and ladies in their finery — and birthday clothes, acting their several parts in the most courtly manner of strutting, and bowing, and prating; to say the truth, I should have been strongly | tempted to laugh as much at them as the king and— his grandees did at me. Neither, indeed, could [I forbear smiling at myself, when the queen used to- place me upon her hand toward a looking-glass, by _ which both our persons appeared before me in full | view together; and there could be nothing more | ridiculous than the comparison; -so that I really began to imagine myself dwindled many degrees below my usual size. Nothing angered and mortified me so much as_ the queen’s dwarf; who being of the lowest stature that was ever in that country (for I verily think he was not full thirty foot high), became so insolent at seeing a creature so much beneath him, that he _ would always affect to swagger and look big as he passed by me in the queen’s antechamber, while 1 was standing on some table, talking with the lords or _ ladies of the court, and he seldom failed of a smart saan GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 1590 word or two upon my Jitéleness ; against which I could only revenge myself by calling him brother, challenging him to wrestle, and such repartees as are usual in the mouths of court pages. One day, at dinner, this malicious little cub was so nettled with something I had said to him, that, raising him- self upon the frame of her majesty’s chair, he took me up by the middle, as I was sitting down, not thinking any harm, and let me drop into a large silver bowl of cream, and then ran away as fast as she could. I fell over head and ears, and, if I had not been a good swimmer, it might have gone very hard with me; for Glumdalclitch in that instant happened to be at the other end of the room, and the queen was in such a fright that she wanted presence of mind to assist me. But my little nurse ran to my relief, and took me out, after I had swallowed above a quart of cream. I was put to bed: however, I received no other damage than the loss of a suit of clothes, which was utterly spoiled. The dwarf was soundly whipped, and, as a further punishment, forced to drink up the bowl of cream into which he had thrown me; neither was he ever restored to favor; for soon after the queen bestowed him on a lady of high quality; so that I saw him no More, to my very great satisfaction; for I could not 156 GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. | tell to what extremity such a malicious urchin mig have carried his resentment. He had before served me a scurvy trick, whic ——— pases CHE baggie ENE teen oh ae S, By R i} “4 oT) th fl ty + 5 : i) th z Hf He had before served me a scurvy trick. set the queen a-laughing, although at the same tir she was heartily vexed, and would have immediate cashiered him if I had not been so generous as intercede. 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A VOYAGE TQ THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS. CHAPTER I. The Author sets out as Captain of a Ship—His Men conspire against him—Confine him a long time to his Cabin—Set him on shore in an Unknown Land—He travels up into the Country—The Yahoos, a strange sort of Animal, described—The Author meets two Houyhnhnms. I continvep at home with my wife and children about five months, in a very happy condition, if I could have learned the lesson of knowing when I was well. I left my poor wife, and accepted an ad- vantageous offer made me to be captain of the Adventure, a stout merchantman of three hundred and fifty tons: for I understood navigation well, and being grown weary of a surgeon’s employment at sea, which, however, I could exercise upon occa- sion, I took a skillful young man of that calling, one Robert Purefoy, into my ship. We set sail from Portsmouth upon the 7th day of September, 1710 ; 346 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. on the 14th we met with Captain Pocock of Bristol, at Teneriffe, who was going to the Bay of Campechy to cut logwood. On the 16th he was parted from us by a storm; I heard, since my return, that this ship foundered, and none escaped but one cabin-boy. He was an honest man, and a good sailor, but a little too positive in his own opinions, which was the cause of his destruction, as it hath been of several others. For, if he had followed my advice, he might have been safe at home with his family, at this time, as well as myself. I had several men die in my ship of calentures,* so that I was forced to get recruits out of Barba- does and the Leeward Islands, where I touched, by the direction of the merchants who employed me; which I had soon too much cause to repent; for I found afterward that most of them had been buc- caneers.t I had fifty hands on board; and my orders were that I should trade with the Indians in the South Sea, and make what discoveries I could. These rogues, whom I had picked up, debauched: * A kind of fever said to attack seamen in hot climates. + The buccaneers were little else than pirates. Their depre- dations, however, were chiefly confined to the Spaniards in. America. The name was originally given to certain French. refugees in the West Indies, from a Carib word meaning a, _ place for smoking the meat of wild .cattle.., GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 341 my other men, and they all formed a conspiracy to ‘seize the ship and secure me; which they did one morning, rushing into my cabin, and binding me hand and foot, threatening to throw me overboard if I offered to stir. I told them I was their prisoner, and would submit. This they made me swear to do, and then they unbound me, only fastening one of my legs with a chain, near my bed, and placed a sentry at my door with his piece charged, who was commanded to shoot me dead if I attempted my liberty. They sent me down victuals and drink, and took the government of the ship to themselves. ‘Their design was to turn pirates, and plunder the Spaniards, which they could not do till they got more men. But first they resolved to sell the goods in the ship, and then go to Madagascar* for recruits, several among them having died since my confine- ment. They sailed many weeks, and traded with the Indians ; but I knew not what course they took, being kept a close prisoner in my cabin, and ex- pecting nothing less than to be murdered, as they often threatened me. Upon the 9th day of May, 1711, one James Welch came down to my cabin, and said he had orders from the captain to set me ashore. I expostulated * This island was a great haunt of pirates. 348 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. with him, but in vain; neither would he so much as tell me who their new captain was. They forced me into the long-boat, letting me put on my best suit of clothes, which were as good as new, and take a small bundle of linen, but no arms, except my hanger ; and they were so civil as not to search my pockets, into which I conveyed what money I had, with some other little necessaries. They rowed about a league, and then set me down on a strand. I desired them to tell me what country it was. They all swore they knew no more than myself ; but said that the captain (as they called him) was resolved, after they sold the lading, to get rid of me in the first place where they could discover land. They pushed off immediately, advising me to make haste, for fear of being overtaken by the tide, and so bade me farewell. In this desolate condition I advanced forward, and soon got upon firm ground, where I sate down on a bank to rest myself, and consider what I had best todo. When I was a little refreshed I went up into the country, resolving to deliver myself to the first savages I should meet, and purchase my life from them by some bracelets, glass rings, and other toys, which sailors usually provide themselves with in those voyages, and whereof I had some about me. The land was divided by long rows of ee GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 349 trees, not regularly planted, but naturally growing ; there was great plenty of grass, and several fields of oats. I walked very circumspectly, for fear of being surprised or suddenly shot with an arrow from behind, or on either side. I fell into a beaten road, where I saw many tracks of human feet, and some of cows, but most of horses. At last I beheld several animals in a field, and one or two of the same kind sitting in trees. Their shape was very singular and deformed, which a little discomposed me, so that I lay down behind a thicket to observe them better. Some of them coming forward near the place where I lay, gave me an opportunity of distinctly marking their form. Their heads and ‘breasts were covered with a thick hair, some frizzled, and others lank; they had beards like goats, and a long ridge of hair down their backs, and the foreparts of their legsand feet; but the rest of their bodies was bare, so that I might see their skins, which were ofa brown buff color. They had no tails. They often sate on the ground, as well as lying down, and often stood on their hind feet. They climbed high trees as nimbly as a squirrel, for they had strong extended claws, before and behind, terminating in sharp points, and hooked. They would often spring, and bound and leap, with prodigious agility. The females were 350 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. not so large as the males; they had long lank hair on their head, but none on their faces, nor anything more than a sort of down on the rest of their bodies. Their dugs hung between their forefeet, and often reached almost to the ground as they walked. The hair of both sexes was of several colors—brown, red, black, and yellow. Upon the whole, I never be- held, in all my travels, so disagreeable an animal, nor one against which I naturally conceived so strong an antipathy. So that, thinking I had seen enough, full of contempt and aversion, I got up, and pursued the beaten road, hoping it might direct me to the cabin of some Indian. I had not gone far when I met one of these creatures full in my way, and coming up directly tome. The ugly monster, when he saw me, distorted several ways every feature of his visage, and stared, as at an object he had never seen before; then approaching nearer, lifted up his forepaw, whether out of curiosity or mischief, I could not tell: but I drew my hanger, and gave him a good blow with the flat side of it; for I durst not strike him with the edge, fearing the inhabitants might be provoked against me, if they should come to know that I had killed or maimed any of their cattle. When the beast felt the smart, he drew back, and roared so loud that a herd of at least forty came flocking about me from the mext GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 351 field, howling, and making odious faces; but I ran to the body of a tree, and leaning my back against it, kept them off by waving my hanger. In the midst of this distress I observed them all to run away on a sudden as fast as they could; at which I ventured to leave the tree, and pursue the road, wondering what it was that could put them into this fright. But, looking on my left hand, I saw a horse walking softly in the field, which my persecutors having sooner discovered was the cause of their flight. The horse started a little when he came near me, but, soon recovering himself, looked full in my face, with manifest tokens of wonder. He viewed my hands and feet, walking round me several times. I would have pursued my journey, but he placed himself directly in the way, yet, look- ing with a very mild aspect, never offering the least violence. We stood gazing at each other for some time ; at last I took the boldness to reach my hand toward his neck, with a design to stroke it, using the common style and whistle of jockeys when they are going to handle a strange horse. But this animal seemed to receive my civilities with disdain, shook his head, and bent his brows, softly raising up his right forefoot to remove my hand. Then he neighed three or four times, but in so different a 352 GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. cadence that I almost began to think he was speak. ing to himself in some language of his own. While he and I were thus employed another horse came up, who, applying himself to the first in a very formal manner, they gently struck each other’s right hoof before, neighing several times by turns, and vary: ing the sound, which seemed to be almost articulate They went some paces off, as if it were to confei together, walking side by side, backward and for ward, like persons deliberating upon some affair oi weight, but often turning their eyes toward me, as it were to watch that I might not escape. I was amazed to see such actions and behavior in brute beasts, and concluded with myself that if the inhab itants of this country were endued with a proportion able degree of reason they must needs be the wises' people upon earth. This thought gave me so muck comfort that I resolved to go forward until I coule discover some house or village, or meet with any 0. the natives, leaving the two horses to discourse to gether as they pleased. But the, first, who was ‘ dapple gray, observing me to steal off, neighed afte me in so expressive a tone that I fancied myself t understand what he meant; whereupon I turnec back, and came near to him, to expect his furthe commands, but concealing my fear as much as . could, for I began to be in some pain how this ad GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 353 venture might terminate; and the reader will easily believe I did not much like my present situation. The two horses came up close to me, looking with great earnestness upon my face and hands. The gray steed rubbed my hat all round with his right forehoof, and discomposed it so much that I was forced to adjust it better, by taking it off, and settling it again; whereat both he and his com- panion (who was a brown bay) appeared to be much surprised: the latter felt the lappet of my coat, and, finding it to hang loose about me, they both looked with new signs of wonder. He stroked my right hand, seeming to admire the softness and color, but he squeezed it so hard between his hoof and his pastern that I was forced to roar; after which they both touched me with all possible ten- derness. They were under great perplexity about my shoes and stockings, which they felt very often, neighing to each other, and using various gestures, not unlike those of a philosopher when he would attempt to solve some new and difficult phenomenon. Upon the whole the behavior of these animals was so orderly and rational, so acute and judicious, that I at last concluded they must needs be magi- clans, who had thus metamorphosed themselves upon some design, and, seeing a stranger in the way, were resolved to divert themselves with him, or 354 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. perhaps were really amazed at the sight of a man so very different in habit, feature, and complexion, from those who might probably live in so remote a climate. Upon the strength of this reasoning I ventured to address them in the following manner: “Gentlemen, if you be conjurors, as I have good. cause to believe, you can understand any language; therefore I make bold to let your worships know that I am a poor, distressed Englishman, driven by his misfortunes upon your coast; and I entreat one | of you to let me ride upon his back, as if he were a | real horse, to some house or village where I can be relieved. In return of which favor I will make you a present of this knife and bracelet” (taking them out of my pocket). The two creatures stood silent ) while I spoke, seeming to listen with great atten- tion ; and when I had ended they neighed frequently | ae each other, as if they were engaged in serious conversation. I plainly observed that their language expressed the passions very well, and their. | words might, with little pains, be resolved into an alphabet more easily than the Chinese. I could frequently distinguish the word Yahoo, which was repeated by each of them several times ; | and, although it was impossible for me to conjecture what it meant, yet, while the two horses were busy in conversation, I endeavored to practice this word GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 355 upon my tongue; and as soon as they were silent I boldly pronounced Yahoo in a loud voice, imitating at the same time, as near as I could, the neighing of a horse, at which they were both visibly surprised ; and the gray repeated the same word twice, as if he meant to teach me the right accent; wherein I spoke after him as well as I could, and found myself perceivably to improve every time, though very far from any degree of perfection. Then the bay tried me with a second word, much harder to be pro- nounced, but, reducing it to the English orthography, it may be spelt thus, Houyhnhnm. I did not succeed in this so well as in the former; but after two or three further trials I had better fortune, and they both appeared amazed at my capacity. After some further discourse, which I then con- jectured might relate to me, the two friends took their leaves, with the same compliment of striking each other’s hoof, and the gray made me signs that I should walk before him; wherein I thought it prudent to comply, till I could find a better director. When I offered to slacken my pace, he would cry, hhuun, hhuun. I guessed his meaning, and gave him to understand, as well as I could, that I was weary, and not able to walk faster; upon which he would stand a while to let me rest. 356 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. CHAPTER IL. The Author conducted by a Houyhnhnm to his House—The House described—The Author’s reception—The Food of the Houyhnhnms—The Author in distress for want of Meat—Is at last relieved—His manner of feeding in this, Country. Havine traveled about three miles, we came to a long kind of building, made of timber stuck in the ground, and wattled across; the roof was low, and covered with straw. I now began to be a little comforted, and took out some toys, which travelers usually carry for presents to the savage Indians of America, and other parts, in hopes the people of the house would be thereby encouraged to receive me kindly. The horse made mea sign to go in first. It was a large room, with a smooth clay floor, and a rack and manger extending the whole length om one side. There were three nags and two mares, not eating, but some of them sitting down upon their hams, which I very much wondered at, but wondered more to see the rest employed in domestie GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 357 business : these seemed but ordinary cattle. How- ever, this confirmed my first opinion, that a people who could so far civilize brute animals must needs excel in wisdom all the nations of the world. The gray came in just after, and thereby prevented any ill treatment which the others might have given me. He neighed to them several times in a style of authority, and received answers. Beyond this room there were three others, reach- ing the length of the house, to which you passed through three doors, opposite to each other, in the manner of a vista: we went through the second room toward the third. Here the gray walked in first, beckoning me to attend ; I waited in the second Toom, and got ready my presents for the master and mistress of the house; they were two knives, three bracelets of false pearls, a small looking-glass, and a bead necklace. The horse neighed three or four times, and I waited to hear some answers in a human voice, but I observed no other returns than ‘in the same dialect, only one or two a little shriller than his. I began to think that this house must be- long to some person of great note among them, because there appeared so much ceremony before I could gain admittance. But, that a man of quality Should be served all by horses, was beyond my com- prehension. I feared my brain was disturbed by 358 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. my sufferings and misfortunes. I roused myself, and looked about me in the room where I was left alone; this was furnished like the first, only after a | more elegant manner. I rubbed my eyes often, but the same objects still occurred. I pinched my arms and sides to awake myself, hoping I might be ina dream. I then absolutely concluded that all these appearances could be nothing else but necromancy and magic. But I had no time to pursue these reflections ; for the gray horse came to the door, and made me a sign to follow him into the third room, where I saw a very comely mare, together with a colt and foal, sitting up on their haunches upon mats of straw, not unartfully made, and per- fectly neat and clean. The mare, soon after my entrance, rose from her mat, and coming up close, after having nicely ob- served my hands and face, gave me a most con- temptuous look, then turning to the horse, I heard the word Yahoo often repeated betwixt them, the meaning of which word I could not then compre- hend, although it was the first I had learned to} pronounce. but I was soon better informed, to my. everlasting mortification; for the horse, beckoning to me with his head and repeating the word hhwun, Ahwun, as he did upon the road, which I understood was to attend him, led me out into a kind of court, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 359 where was another building at some distance from the house. Here we entered, and I saw three of those detestable creatures which I first met after my landing, feeding upon roots and the flesh of some animals, which I afterward found to be that of asses and dogs, and now and then a cow, dead by accident or disease. They were all tied by the neck with strong withes fastened to a beam; they held their food between the claws of their forefeet, and tore it with their teeth. The master horse ordered a sorrel nag, one of his ‘servants, to untie the largest of these animals, and take him into the yard. The beast and I were brought close together, and our countenances dili- gently compared, both by master and servant, ‘who thereupon repeated several times the word Yahoo. My horror and astonishment are not to be described when I observed in this abominable ani- mala perfect human figure; the face of it indeed was flat and broad, the nose depressed, the lips large, and the mouth wide; but these differences are common to all savage nations, where the lineaments of the countenance are distorted by the natives suffering their infants to lie groveling on the earth, or by carrying them on their backs, nuzzling with their face against the mother’s shoulders. The fore- feet of the Yahoo differed from my hands in noth- 360 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. ing else but the length of the nails, the coarseness and brownness of the palms, and the hairiness on the backs. There was the same resemblance between ‘*The beast and I were SEY, close together, and our countenances diligently compared.” our feet, with the same differences which I knew very well, though the horses did not, because of my shoes and stockings ; the same in every part of oul bodies, except as to hairiness and color, which I have already described. i The great difficulty that seemed to stick with the GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 361 two horses was to see the rest of my body so very different from that of a Yahoo; for which I was obliged to my clothes, whereof they had no concep- tion. The sorrel nag offered me a root, which he held (after their manner, as we shall describe in its proper place) between his hoof and pastern. I took it in my hand, and, having smelled it, returned it to him again as civilly as I could. He brought out of the Yahoo’s kennel a piece of ass’ flesh; but it smelled so offensively that I turned from it with loathing : he then threw it to the Yahoo, by whom it was greedily devoured. He afterward showed me a wisp of hay, and a fetlock* full of oats; but I shook my head, to signify that neither of these were food forme. And indeed I now apprehended that I must absolutely starve if I did not get to some of my own species; for, as to those filthy Yahoos, although there were few greater lovers of mankind at that time than myself, yet I confess I never saw any sensitive being so detestable on all accounts; and the more I came near them the more hateful they grew, while I stayed in that country. This the master horse observed by my behavior, and therefore sent the Yahoo back to his kennel. He * What Swift means by this word is doubtful. Its proper signification is the tuft of long hair on a horse’s pastern. 362 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. then put his forehoof to his mouth, at which I was © much surprised, although he did it with ease, and | with a motion that appeared perfectly natural; and made other signs to know what I would eat; but I | could not return him such an answer as he was able to apprehend; and if he had understood me, I did © not see how it was possible to contrive any way for — finding myself nourishment. While we were thus engaged I observed a cow passing by, whereupon I © pointed to her, and expressed a desire to go and — milk her. This had its effect; for he led me back — into the house, and ordered a mare servant to open © a room, where a good store of milk lay in earthen 4 and wooden vessels, after a very orderly and cleanly | manner. She gave mea large bowlful, of which I drank very heartily, and found myself well re-— freshed. : About noon I saw coming toward the house a i xind of vehicle drawn like a sledge by four Yahoos. i There was in it an old steed, who seemed to be of quality ; he alighted with his hind feet forward, | having by accident got a hurt in his left forefoot. | He came to dine with our horse, who received him — x with great civility. They dined in the best room, and had oats boiled in milk for the second course, : which the old horse eat warm, but the rest cold. — Their mangers were placed circular in the middle GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 363 of the room, and divided into several partitions, round which they sate on their haunches upon bosses of straw. In the middle was a large rack, with angles answering to every partition of the manger ; so that each horse and mare ate their own hay, and their own mash of oats and milk, with much decency and regularity. The behavior of the young colt and foal appeared very modest, and that of the master and mistress extremely cheerful and complaisant to their guest. The gray ordered me to stand by him; and much discourse passed _ be- tween him and his friend concerning me, as I found by the stranger’s often looking on me, and the fre- quent repetition of the word Yahoo. I happened to wear my gloves, which the master gray observing, seemed perplexed, discovering signs of wonder what I had done to my forefeet. He put his hoof three or four times to them, as if he would signify that I should reduce them to their former shape ; which I presently did, pulling off both my gloves, and putting them into my pocket. This oc- casioned further talk: and I saw the company was pleased with my behavior, whereof I soon found the good effects. I was ordered to speak the few words I understood ; and while they were at dinner, the master taught me the names for oats, milk, fire, water, and some others, which I could readily pro- 564 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. nounce after him, having from my youth a great facility in learning languages. When dinner was done, the master horse took me aside, and by signs and words made me understand the concern he was in that I had nothing to eat. Oats in their tongue are called Alunnh. This word I pronounced two or three times; for although I had refused them at first, yet, upon second thoughts, I considered that I could contrive to make of them a kind of bread, which might be sufficient, with milk, to keep me alive till I could make my escape to some other country, and to creatures of my own species. The horse immediately ordered a white mare-servant of his family to bring me a good quantity of oats in a sort of wooden tray. These I heated before the fire, as well as I could, and rubbed them till the husks came off, which I made a shift to winnow from the grain: I ground and beat them between two stones, then took water, and made them into a paste or cake, which I toasted at the fire, and eat warm with milk. It was at first a very insipid diet, though common enough in many parts of Europe, but grew tolerable by time; and having been often reduced to hard fare in my life, this was not the first experiment I had made, how easily nature is satisfied. And I cannot but observe that I never had one hour’s sickness while I stayed © GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 365 in this island. ’Tis true, I sometimes made a shift to catch a rabbit, or bird, by springes made otf Yahoos’ hairs; and I often gathered wholesome herbs, which I boiled, or eat as salads with my bread; and now and then, for a rarity, I made a little butter, and drank the whey. I was at first at a great loss for salt, but custom soon reconciled me to the want of it: and I am confident that the fre- quent use of salt among us is an effect of luxury, and was first introduced only as a provocative to drink, except where it is necessary for preserving of flesh in long voyages, or in places remote from great markets : for we observe no animal to be fond of it but man :* and as to myself, when I left this coun- try, it was a great while before I could endure the taste of it in anything that I eat. This is enough to say upon thesubject of my diet, wherewith other travelers fill their books, as if the readers were personally concerned whether we fare well or ill. However, it was necessary to mention this matter, lest the world should think it impossible that I could find sustenance for three years in such a country, and among such inhabitants. When it grew toward evening, the master horse *This is quite a mistake; cattle, sheep, horses, etc., are very fond of it. 366 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. ordered a place for me to lodge in: it was but six yards from the house, and separated from the stable of the Yahoos. Here I got some straw, and cover- ing myself with my own clothes, slept very sound. But I was in a short time better accommodated, as the reader shall know hereafter, when I come to treat more particularly about my way of living. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 36? CHAPTER III. The Author studies to learn the Language—The Houyhnhnm, his Master, assists in teaching him—The Language described—Several Houyhnhnms of quality come out of curiosity to see the Author—He gives his Master a short account of his Voyage. My principal endeavor was to learn the language, which my master (for so I shall henceforth call him) and his children, and every servant of his house, were desirious to teach me: for they looked upon it as a prodigy that a brute animal should dis- cover such marks of a rational creature. I pointed to everything, and inquired the name of it, which I wrote down in my journal-book when I was alone: and corrected my bad accent by desiring those of the family to pronounce it often. In this employ- ment a sorrel nag, one of the under-servants, was very ready to assist me. In speaking, they pronounce through the nose and throat; and their language approaches nearest to the High Dutch, or German, of any I know in Europe; but is much more graceful and significant, 368 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. The Emperor Charles V. made almost the same observation when he said that if he were to speak to his horse it should be in High Dutch. The curiosity and impatience of my master were so great that he spent many hours of his leisure to instruct me. He was convinced (as he afterward told me) that I must be a Yahoo; but my teachable- ness, civility, and cleanliness astonished him; which were qualities altogether opposite to those animals. He was most perplexed about my clothes, reasoning sometimes with himself, whether they were a part of my body; for I never pulled them off till the family were asleep, and got them on before they waked in the morning. My master was eager to learn from whence I came; how I acquired those appearances of reason which I discovered in all my actions; and to know my story from my own mouth; which he hoped he should soon do, by the great proficiency I made in learning and _pro- nouncing their words and sentences. To help my memory, I formed all I learned into the English alphabet, and writ the words down, with the trans- lations. This last, after some time, I ventured to do in my master’s presence. It cost me much trouble to explain to him what I was doing; for the inhabitants have not the least idea of books and literature. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 369 In about ten weeks’ time I was able to understand most of his questions, and in three months could give him some tolerable answers. He was extremely curious to know from what part of the country I came, and how I was taught to imitate a rational creature; because the Yahoos (whom he saw I ex- ‘actly resembled in my head, hands, and face, that were only visible), with some appearance of cunning, and the strongest disposition to mischief, were observed to be the most unteachable of all brutes. I answered that I came over the sea, from a far place, with many others of my own kind, in a great hollow vessel, made of the bodies of trees: that my ~ “companions forced me to land on this coast, and then left me to shift for myself. It was with some difficulty, and by the help of many signs, that I brought him to understand me. He replied that I must needs be mistaken, or that I said the thing which was not; for they have no word in their ‘language to express lying or falsehood. He knew ‘it was impossible that there could be a country ‘beyond the sea, or that a parcel of brutes could ‘Move a wooden vessel whither they pleased upon ‘water. He was sure no Houyhnhnm alive could make such a vessel, nor would trust Yahoos to manage it. The word Howyhnhnm, in their tongue, signifies 370 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. a horse, and, in its etymology, the perfection of nature. I told my master that I was at a loss for expression, but would improve as fast as I could; and hoped in a short time I should be able to tell him wonders. He was pleased to direct his own mare, his colt and foal, and the servants of the family, to take all opportunities of instructing me}; and every day, for two or three hours, he was at the same pains himself. Several horses and mares of quality in the neighborhood came often to our house, upon the report spread of a wonderful Yahoo that could speak like a Houyhnhnm, and seemed, in his words and actions, to discover some glimmerings of reason. These delighted to converse with me; they put many questions, and received such answers as I was able to return. By all these advantages I made so great a progress that in five months from my arrival I understood whatever was spoke, and could express myself tolerably well. The Houyhnhnms, who came to visit my master out of a design of seeing and talking with me, could hardly believe me to be a right Yahoo, because my body had a different covering from others of my kind. They were astonished to observe me without the usual hair or skin, except on my head, face, and hands; but I discovered that secret to my master, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 371 ‘ upon an accident which happened about a fortnight before. I have already told the reader that every night, when the family were gone to bed, it was my cus- tom to strip, and cover myself with my clothes. It happened, one morning early, that my master sent for me by the sorrel nag, who was his valet. When he came I was fast asleep, my clothes fallen off on one side. I awaked at the noise he made, and observed him to deliver his message in some dis- order; after which he went to my master, and in a great fright gave him a very confused account of what he had seen. This I presently discovered ; for, going, as soon as I was dressed, to pay my attend- ance upon his honor, he asked me the meaning of what his servant had reported, that I was not the same thing when I slept as I appeared to be at other times. I had hitherto concealed the secret of my dress, ‘in order to distinguish myself, as much as I could, ‘from the cursed race of Yahoos; but now I found it ‘in vain to do so any longer. Besides, I considered ‘that my clothes and shoes would soon wear out, which already were in a declining condition, and must be supplied by some contrivance, from the ‘hides of Yahoos, or other brutes; whereby the whole secret would be known. I therefore toid my 372 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. master that in the country from whence I came those of my kind always covered their bodies with the hairs of certain animals, prepared by art, as well for decency as to avoid the inclemencies of air, both hot and cold. I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so © often the appellation of Yahoo, an odious animal, for which I had so utter an hatred and contempt: I begged he would forbear applying that word to me, and make the same order in his family and among his friends whom he suffered to see me. I requested likewise that the secret of my having a false cover- ing to my body might be known to none but him- self, at least as long as my present clothing should last; for, as to what the sorrel nag, his valet, had observed, his honor might command him to con- ceal it. All this my master very graciously consented to; and thus the secret was kept till my clothes began to wear out, which I was forced to supply by several — contrivances that shall hereafter be mentioned. In the meantime he desired I would go on with my utmost diligence to learn their language, because he was more astonished at my capacity for speech and reason than at the figure of my body, whether it were covered or no; adding that he waited with some impatience to hear the wonders which I GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. WES, promised to tell him. From thenceforward he doubled the pains he had been at to instruct me; he brought me into all company, and made them treat ‘me with civility ; because, as he told them privately, this would put me into good humor and make me more diverting. Every day, when I waited on him, beside the trouble he was at in teaching, he would ask me sev- eral questions concerning myself, which I answered as well as I could; and by these means he had already received some general ideas, though very imperfect. It would be tedious to relate the several steps by which I advanced to a more regular con- versation ; but the first account I gave of myself in any order and length was to this purpose: That I came from a very far country, as I had already attempted to tell him, with about fifty more of my own species; that we traveled upon the seas in a great, hollow vessel made of wood, and larger than his honor’s house. I described the ship to him in the best terms I could, and explained, by the help of my handkerchief displayed, how it was driven forward by the wind. That, upon a quarrel among us, I was set on shore on this coast, where I walked forward, without knowing whither, till he delivered me from the persecution of those execrable Yahoos. He asked me who made the ship, and how it was 374 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. possible that the Houyhnhnms of my country would leave it to the management of brutes? My answer was, that I durst proceed no further in my relation, unless he would give me his word and honor that he would not be offended, and then I would tell him the wonders I had so often promised. He agreed, and I went on by assuring him that the ship was made by creatures like myself; who, in all the countries I had traveled, as well as in my own, were the only governing rational animals: and that, upon my arrival hither, I was as much astonished to see the Houyhnhmns act like rational beings as he, or his friends, could be in finding some marks of reason in a creature he was pleased to call a Yahoo; to which I owned my resemblance in every part, but could not account for their degenerate and brutal nature. I said further that if good fortune ever restored me to my native country, to relate my travels hither, as I resolved to do, everybody would believe that I said the thing which was not, that I in- vented the story out of my own head; and (with all possible respect to himself, his family and friends, and under his promise of not being offended) our countrymen would hardly think it probable that a Houyhnhnm should be the presiding creature of a nation, ard a Yahoo the brute. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 37d CHAPTER IV. The Houyhnhnms’ notion of Truth and Falsehood—The Author’s discourse disapproved by his Master — The Author gives a more particular account of himself, and the Accidents of his Voyage. My master heard me with great appearances of uneasiness in his countenance; because doubting, or not believing, are so little known in this country that the inhabitants cannot tell how to behave themselves under such circumstances. And I re- member, in frequent discourses with my master concerning the nature of manhood in other parts of the world, having occasion to talk of lying and false representation, it was with much difficulty that he comprehended what I meant, although he had other- wise a most acute judgment; for he argued thus: That the use of speech was to make us understand one another, and to receive information of facts ; now if any one said the thing which was not, those ends were defeated, because I cannot properly be said to understand him; and Jam so far from re- 376 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. ceiving information that he leaves me worse than in ignorance ; for I am led to believe a thing black when it is white, and short when it is long. And these were all the notions he had concerning that faculty of lying, so perfectly well understood, and so universally practiced among human creatures. To return from this digression. "When I asserted that the Yahoos were the only governing animals in my country, which my master said was altogether past his conception, he desired to know whether we had Houyhnhnms among us, and what was their employment? I told him we had great numbers; that in summer they grazed in the fields, and in winter were kept in houses with hay and oats, where Yahoo servants were employed to rub their skins smooth, comb their manes, pick their feet, serve them with food, and make their beds. “TI understand you well,” said my master ; “it is now very plain, from all you have spoken, that whatever share of reason the Yahoos pretend to, the Houy- hnhnms are your masters. I heartily wish our Yahoos would be so tractable.” I begged his honor would please to excuse me from proceeding any further, because I was very certain that the account he expected from me would be highly displeasing. But he insisted in commanding me to let him know the best and the worst. I told him he should be a ee ee eee » GULLIVER’S TRAVHLS. 377 obeyed. I owned that the Houyhnhnms among us, whom we called /orses, were the most generous and comely animals we had; that they excelled in strength and swiftness; and, when they belonged to persons of quality, were employed in traveling, racing, or drawing chariots; they were treated with ‘much kindness and care till they fell into diseases, ‘or became foundered in the feet; and then they were sold, and used to all kind of drudgery till they died; after which their skins were stripped, and sold for what they were worth, and their bodies left to be devoured by dogs and birds of prey. But the common race of horses had not so good fortune, being kept by farmers and carriers, and other mean people, who put them to greater labor, and fed them worse. I described, as well as I could, our way of riding; the shape and use of a bridle, a ‘saddle, a spur, and a whip; of harness and wheels. I added that we fastened plates of a certain hard ‘substance, called iron, at the bottom of their feet, to preserve their hoofs from being broken by the ‘stony ways on which we often traveled. My master, after some expressions of great indig- nation, wondered how we dared to venture upon a Houyhnhnm’s back ; for he was sure that the weak- est servant in his house would be able to shake off ‘the strongest Yahoo, or, by lying down, and rolling 378 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. on his back, squeeze the brute todeath. I answered, that our horses were trained up, from three or four years old, to the several uses we intended them for ; that if any of them proved intolerably vicious, they were employed for carriages ;* that they were severely beaten, while they were young, for any mischievous tricks ; that they were indeed sensible of rewards and punishments; but his honor would please to consider that they had not the least tincture of reason, any more than the Yahoos in this country. It put me to the pains of many circumlocutions to give my master a right idea of what I spoke; for their language doth not abound in variety of words, because their wants and passions are fewer than among us. But it is impossible to express his noble resentment at our savage treatment of the Houy- hnhnm race. He said, if it were possible there could be any country where Yahoos alone were endued with reason, they certainly must be the governing animal; because reason will, in time, always prevail against brutal strength. But, con- sidering the frame of our bodies, and especially of mine, he thought no creature of equal bulk was so ill contrived for employing that reason in the * Wagons or heavy vehicles must be meant here, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 379 common offices of life; whereupon he desired to know whether those among whom I lived resembled me or the Yahoos of his country. I assured him that I was as well shaped as most of my age; but the younger, and the females, were much more soft and tender, and the skins of the latter generally as white as milk. He said I differed indeed from other Yahoos, being much more cleanly, and not altogether so deformed ; but, in point of real advan- tage, he thought I differed for the worse. That my nails were of no use either to my fore or hinder foot. As to my forefeet, he could not properly call them by that name, for he never observed me towalk upon them; that they were too soft to bear the ground; that I generally went with them uncovered ; neither was the covering I some- times wore on them of the same shape, or so strong as that on my feet behind. That I could not walk with any security, for if either of my hinder feet ‘slipped, I must inevitably fall. He then began to find fault with other parts of my body: the flatness of my face, the prominence of my nose, mine eyes placed directly in front, so that I could not look on either side without turning my head; that I was not able to feed myself without lifting one of my forefeet to my mouth; and therefore nature had placed those joints to answer that necessity. He 380 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. knew not what could be the use of those several clefts and divisions in my feet behind; that these were too soft to bear the hardness and sharpness of stones, without a covering made from the skin of some other brute; that my whole body wanted a fence* against heat and cold, which I was forced to put on and off every day, with tediousness and trouble. And lastly, that he observed every animal in this country naturally to abhor the Yahoos, whom the weaker avoided, and the stronger drove from them. So that, supposing us to have the gift of reason, he could not see how it were possible to cure that natural antipathy which every creature dis- covered against us; nor, consequently, how we could tame and render them serviceable. However, he would, as he said, debate the matter no further, be- cause he was more desirious to know my own story, the country where I was born, and the several actions and events of my life before I came hither. I assured him how extremely desirous I was that he should be satisfied on every point; but I doubted much whether it would be possible for me to explain myself on several subjects, whereof his honor could have no conception, because I saw nothing in his country to which I could resemble them; that, * Defense or protection. —. ’ 7 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 381 however, I would do my best, and strive to express myself by similitudes, humbly desiring his assistance when I wanted proper words; which he was pleased to promise me. I said my birth was of honest parents, in an island called England, which was remote from this country as many days’ journey as the strongest of his honor’s servants could travel in the annual course of the sun; that I was bred a surgeon, whose trade is to cure wounds and hurts in the body, gotten by accident or violence; that my country ‘was governed by a female man, whom we called ‘queen ; that I left it to get riches, whereby I might ‘maintain myself and family, when I should return ; ‘that in my last voyage I was commander of the ‘ship, and had about fifty Yahoos under me, many of which died at sea, and I was forced to supply ‘them by others picked out from several nations ; ‘that our ship was twice in danger of being sunk; ‘the first time by a great storm, and the second by striking against a rock. Here my master inter- posed, by asking me how I could persuade strangers, out of different countries, to venture with me, after the losses I had sustained, and the hazards Ihad run? I said they were fellows of desperate fortunes, forced to fly from the places of their birth ‘on account of their poverty or their crimes. Some 382 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. were undone by lawsuits; others spent all they had in drinking, debauchery, and gaming; others fled for treason; many for murder, theft, poisoning, robbery, perjury, forgery, coining false money, for flying from their colors,* or deserting to the enemy ; and most of them had broken prison: none of these durst return to their native countries, for fear of — being hanged, or of starving in a jail; and therefore — they were under a necessity of seeking a livelihood in other places, During this discourse my master was pleased to interrupt me several times. I had made use of many circumlocutions in describing to him the > nature of the several crimes for which most of our crew had been forced to fly their country. This — labor took up several days’ conversation before he | was able to comprehend me. He was wholly at a loss to know what could be the use or necessity of i | cal = practicing those vices: to clear up which i endeavored to give him some ideas of the desire of — power and riches ; of the terrible effects of lust, in- temperance, malice, and envy. All this I was forced to define and describe by putting of cases, ; and making of suppositions. After which, like * Deserting from their regiment. one whose imagination was struck with something — GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 383 never seen or heard of before, he would lift up his eyes with amazement and indignation. Power, government, war, law, punishment, and a thousand other things had no terms wherein that language could express them, which made the difficulty almost insuperable, to give my master any concep- tion of what I meant. But being of an excellent understanding, much improved by contemplation and converse, he at last arrived at a competent knowledge of what human nature, in our parts of the world, is capable to perform, and desired | would give him some particular account of that land which we call Europe, but especially of my own country. 384 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. CHAPTER V. The Author, at his Master’s command, informs him of the state of England—The causes of war among the Princes of Europe—The Author begins to explain the English Con- stitution. Tux reader may please to observe that the follow- ing extract of many conversations I had with my master contains a summary of the most material points which were discoursed at several times for above two years; his honor often desiring fuller satisfaction, as I further improved in the Houyhn- hnm tongue. I laid before him, as well as I could, — the whole state of Europe; I discoursed of trade and manufactures, of arts and sciences ; and the answers I gave to all the questions he made, as they arose upon several subjects, were a fund of conver. sation not to be exhausted. But I shall here only — set down the substance of what passed between us concerning my own country, reducing it into order as well as I can, without any regard to time or _ other circumstances, while I strictly adhere to truth. My only concern is, that I shall hardly be able to GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 385 do justice to my master’s arguments and expressions, which must needs suffer by my want of capacity as well as by a translation into our barbarous English. In obedience, therefore, to his honor’s commands, I related to him the revolution under the Prince of Orange ; the long war with France, entered into by the said prince, and renewed by his successor, the ‘present queen, wherein the greatest powers of Christendom were engaged, and which still con- tinued. I computed, at his request, that about a million of Yahoos might have been killed in the whole progress of it; and perhaps a hundred or more cities taken, and five times as many ships burned or sunk. He asked me what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another? I answered they were innumerable, but I should only mention a few of the chief. Sometimes the ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern; some- times the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war in order to stifle or divert the slamor of the subjects against their evil administra- tion. Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives; for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a 386 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. certain berry be blood or wine;* whether whist- ling be a vice or a virtue,t whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire ;{ what is the best color for a coat, whether black, white, red, or gray ;§ and whether it should be long or short, narrow or wide, dirty or clean, with many more. Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance, as those occasioned by differ- ence in opinion, especially if it be in things indif- ferent. Sometimes the quarrel between two princes is to decide which of them shall dispossess a third of his dominions, where neither of them pretend to any right. Sometimes one prince quarreleth with another, for fear the other should quarrel with him. Sometimes a war is entered upon because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak. Sometimes our neighbors want the things which we have, or have the things which we want, and we both fight till they take ours, or give us theirs. It is a very justifiable cause of war to in- vade a country after the people have been wasted * These are allusions to the doctrine of transubstantiation. — + Alluding to the use of music in churches. t Alluding to the cross or crucifix. § Alluding to the use of vestments in churches. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 387 by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions among themselves. It is justifiable to enter into war against our nearest ally, when one of his towns lies convenient for us, or a territory of land that would render our dominions round and compact. If a prince sends forces into a nation where the people are poor and ignorant, he may lawfully put half of them to death, and make slaves of the rest, in order to civilize and reduce them from their barbarous way of living. It is a very kingly, honorable, and frequent practice, when one ‘prince desires the assistance of another to secure him against an invasion, that the assistant, when he hath driven out the invader, should seize on the dominions himself, and kill, imprison, or banish the prince he came to relieve. Alliance by blood or marriage is a frequent cause of war between princes ; and the nearer the kindred is, the greater is their ‘disposition to quarrel. Poor nations are hungry, ‘and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger ‘will ever be at variance. For those reasons the trade of a soldier is held the most honorable of all others ; because the soldier is a Yahoo hired to kill, in cold blood, as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can. . There is likewise a kind of beggarly princes in Europe, not able to make war by themselves, who 388 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. hire out their troops to richer nations, for so much a day to each man; of which they keep three- fourths to themselves, and it is the best part of their maintenance; such are those in many northern: parts of Europe.* What you have told me, said my master, upon the subject of war, does, indeed, discover most admir- ably the effects of that reason you pretend to; how- ever, it is happy that the shame is greater than the danger; and that nature hath left you utterly in. capable of doing much mischief; for your mouths lying flat with your faces, you can hardly bite each other to any purpose, unless by consent. Then as to the claws upon your feet, before and behind, they . are so short and tender that one of our Yahoos would drive a dozen of yours before him. And therefore, in recounting the numbers of those who have been killed in battle, I cannot but think that you have said the thing which is not. I could not forbear shaking my head, and smiling a little at his ignorance. And being no stranger to the art of war, I gave him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, pow- : der, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, at- tacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, * Some of the princes of the smaller German states did so, _ GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 389 sea-fights, ships sunk with a thousand men, twenty thousand killed on each side, dying groans, limbs flying in the air, smoke, noise, confusion, trampling to death under horses’ feet, flight, pursuit, victory ; fields strewed with carcasses, left for food to dogs, and wolves, and birds of prey; plundering, strip- ping, burning, and destroying. And to set forth the valor of my own dear countrymen, I assured him that I had seen them blow up a hundred ene- mies at once in a siege, and as many ina ship; and beheld the dead bodies drop down in pieces from the clouds, to the great diversion of the spectators. I was going on to more particulars, when my master commanded me silence. He said whoever understood the nature of Yahoos might easily be- lieve it possible for so vile an animal to be capable of every action I had named, if their strength and cunning equaled their malice. But as my discourse had increased his abhorrence of the whole species, so he found it gave him a disturbance in his mind, to which he was wholly a stranger before. He thought his ears, being used to such abominable words, might, by degrees, admit them with less detesta- tion; that although he hated the Yahoos of this country, yet he no more blamed them for their odious qualities than he did a gnnayh (a bird of prey) for its cruelty, or a sharp stone for cutting his 390 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. hoof. But when a creature pretending to reason could be capable of such enormities, he dreaded lest the corruption of that faculty might be worse than brutality itself. He seemed, therefore, confident, that, instead of reason, we were only possessed of, some quality fitted to increase our natural vices: as the reflection from a troubled stream returns the image of an ill-shapen body, not only larger, but more distorted. He added that he had heard too much upon the. subject of war, both in this and some former dis- courses. There was another point which a little perplexed him at present. I had informed him that: some of our crew left their country on account of being ruined by law; that I had already explained the meaning of the word; but he was at a loss how it should come to pass, that the law, which was in-. country ; because he thought nature and reason were sufficient guides for a reasonable animal, as we pretended to be, in showing us what we ought to do, and what to avoid. | I assured his honor that law was a science in which I had not much conversed, further than by GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 391 employing advocates, in vain, upon some injustices that had been done me; however, I would give him all the satisfaction I was able. I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words ‘multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and ‘lack is white ; according as they are paid. To this “society all the rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbor has a mind to my cow, he has a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my ‘cow from me. I must then hire another to defend my right, it being against all rules of law that any man should be allowed to speak for himself. Now, in this case, I, who am the right owner, lie under two great disadvantages: first, my lawyer, being practiced almost from his cradle in defending false- hood, is quite out of his element when he would be ‘an advocate for justice, which is an unnatural office he always attempts with great awkwardness, if not with ill-will. The second disadvantage is, that my | lawyer must proceed with great caution, or else he will be reprimanded by the judges, and abhorred by ‘his brethren, as one that would lessen the practice of the law. And therefore I have but two methods to preserve my cow. The first is, to gain over my | eeorsary” s lawyer with a double fee: who will then betray his client, by insinuating that he has justice | ) | . } | 392 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. on his side. The second way is, for my lawyer to make my cause appear as unjust as he can, by allow- ing the cow to belong to my adversary : and this, if it be skillfully done, will certainly bespeak the favor of the bench. Now your honor is to know that. these judges are persons appointed to decide all con- troversies of property, as well as for the trial of criminals, and picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy; and having been biased all their lives against truth and equity, lie under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury, and oppression, that I have known some of them refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty, by doing anything unbecoming their nature or their office. It is a maxim among these lawyers that what- ever has been done before may legally be done again; and therefore they take special care to re- cord all the decisions formerly made against com- mon justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities to justify the most iniquitous opin- ions ; and the judges never fail of directing accord- ingly. In pleading they studiously avoid entering into the merits of the cause, but are loud, violent, and tedious in dwelling upon all circumstances which GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 393 are not to the purpose. For instance, in the case already mentioned, they never desire to know what claim or title my adversary has to my cow; but whether the said cow were red or black; her horns long or short ; whether the field I graze her in be round or square; whether she was milked at home or abroad ; what diseases she is subject to, and the like; after which they consult precedents, adjourn the cause from time to time, and in ten, twenty, or thirty years come to an issue. It is likewise to be observed that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply ; whereby they have wholly confounded the very essence of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong ; so that it will take thirty years to decide whether the field left me by my ancestors for six generations belongs to me, or to a stranger three hundred miles off. In the trial of persons accused for crime against the state, the method is much more short and com- mendable: the judge first sends to sound the dis- position of those in power; after which she can easily hang or save a criminal, strictly preserving all due forms of law. Here my master interposing, said it was a pity 394 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. that creatures endowed with such prodigious abili- ties of mind as these lawyers, by the description I gave of them, must certainly be, were not rather encouraged to be instructors of others in wisdom and knowledge. In answer to which I assured his honor that in all points out of their own trade they were usually the most ignorant and stupid gener- ation among us, the most despicable in common con- versation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning, and equally disposed to pervert the gen- eral reason of mankind in every other subject of discourse as in that of their own profession. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. | 395 CHAPTER VI. A continuation of the State of England under Queen Anne— The Character of a First Minister of State in European Courts. My master was yet wholly at a loss to understand what motives could incite this race of lawyers to perplex, disquiet, and weary themselves, and engage in a confederacy of injustice, merely for the sake of injuring their fellow-animals; neither could he comprehend what I meant in saying they did it for hire: whereupon I was at much pains to describe to him the use of money, the materials it was made of, and the value of the metals; that when a Yahoo had got a great store of this precious substance he was able to purchase whatever he had a mind to; the finest clothing, the noblest houses, great tracts of land, the most costly meats and drinks. There- fore, since money alone was able to perform all these feats, our Yahoos thought they could never have enough of it to spend, or to save, as they found themselves inclined, from their natural bent, either 396 | GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. to profusion or avarice; that the rich men enjoyed — the fruit of the poor man’s labor, and the latter were a thousand to one in proportion to the former ; that the bulk of our people were forced to live miserably, by laboring every day for small wages, to make a few live plentifully. I enlarged myself much on these, and many other particulars, to the same purpose; but his honor was still to seek,* for he went upon a supposition that all animals had a title to their share in the pro- ductions of the earth, and especially those who presided over the rest. Therefore he desired I would let him know what these costly meats were, and how any of us happened to want them? Whereupon I enumerated as many sorts as came — into my head, with the various methods of dressing © them, which could not be done without sending — vessels by sea to every part of the world, as well for liquors to drink as for sauces, and innumerable other conveniences. I assured him that this whole globe of earth must be at least three times gone round before one of our better female Yahoos could get her breakfast, or a cup to put it in. He said that must needs be a miserable country which cannot furnish food for its own inhabitants. But At a loss; puzzled. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 397 what he chiefly wondered at was, how such vast tracts of ground as I described should be wholly without fresh water, and the people put to the necessity of sending over the sea for drink. [| replied that England (the dear place of my nativity) was computed to produce three times the quantity of food more than its inhabitants are able to con- sume, as well as liquors extracted from grain, or pressed out of the fruit of certain trees, which made excellent drink, and the same proportion in every other convenience of life. But in order to feed the luxury and intemperance of the males, and the vanity of the females, we sent away the greatest part of our necessary things to other countries, from whence, in return, we brought the materials of diseases, folly, and vice, to spend among ourselves. Hence it follows, of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, star-gazing, poisoning, canting, libeling, free-thinking, and the like occupations: every one of which terms was at much pains to make him understand, That wine was not imported among us from foreign countries to supply the want of water or other drinks, but because it was a sort of liquid 398 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. which made us merry, by putting us out of our senses, diverted all melancholy thoughts, begat wild, extravagant imaginations in the brain, raised our hopes and banished our fears, suspended every office of reason for a time, and deprived us of the use of our limbs, till we fell into a profound sleep ; although it must be confessed that we always awaked sick and dispirited, and that the use of this liquor filled us with diseases which made our lives uncomfortable and short. But, beside all this, the bulk of our people sup- ported themselves by furnishing the necessities or conveniences of life to the rich, and to each other. For instance, when I am at home, and dressed as I ought to be, I carry on my body the workmanship of an hundred tradesmen, the building and furniture of my house employ as many more, and five times the number to adorn my wife. I was going on to tell him of another sort of people, who get their livelihood by attending the sick, having upon some occasions informed his honor that many of my crew had died of diseases. But here it was with the utmost difficulty that I brought him to apprehend what I meant. He could easily conceive that a Houyhnhnm grew weak and heavy a few days before his death, or by some accident might hurt a limb; but that nature, who works all GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 399 things to perfection, should suffer any pains to breed in our bodies he thought impossible, and desired to know the reason of so unaccountable an evil. _ I told him we fed on a thousand things which operated contrary to each other; that we eat when we were not hungry, and drank without the provo- cation of thirst; that we sate whole nights drinking strong liquors, without eating a bit, which disposed us to sloth, inflamed our bodies, and precipitated or prevented digestion ; that many diseases were prop- agated from father to son, so that great numbers come into the world with complicated maladies upon them: that it would be endless to give him a catalogue of all diseases incident to human bodies, for they could not be fewer than five or six hundred, spread over every limb and joint; in short, every part, external and intestine, having diseases appro- priated to itself: to remedy which there was a sort of people bred up among us in the profession, or the _ pretense, of curing the sick. But, besides real diseases, we are subject to many that were only imaginary, for which the physicians have invented imaginary cures; these have their several names, and so have the drugs that are proper for them; and with these our female Yahoos are always infested. One great excellency in this tribe is their skill at 400) GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. prognostics, wherein they seldom fail; their predic- tions in real diseases, when they rise to any degree of malignity, generally portending death, which is always in their power, when recovery is not; and, therefore, upon any unexpected signs of amend- ment, after they have pronounced their sentence, rather than be accused as false prophets, they know how to approve their sagacity to the world by a sea- sonable dose. They are likewise of special use to husbands and wives who are grown weary of their mates, to eldest sons, to great ministers of state, and often to princes. ’ I had formerly, upon occasion, discoursed with my master upon the nature of government in gen- eral, and particularly of our own excellent constitu- tion, deservedly the wonder and envy of the whole world. But, having here accidentally mentioned a minister of state, he commanded me, some time after, to inform him what species of Yahoo I had particularly meant by that appellation. I told him that a first or chief minister of state, who was the person I intended to describe, was a creature wholly exempt from joy and grief, love and hatred, pity and anger; at least, makes use of — no other passions but a violent desire of wealth, — power, and titles; that he applies his words to all GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 401 uses, except to the indication of his mind; that he never tells a truth, but with an intent that you should take it for a lie; nor a lie, but with a design that you should take it for a truth; that those he speaks worst of behind their backs are in the surest way to preferment; and whenever he begins to praise you to others, or to yourself, you are from that day forlorn. The worst mark you can receive is a promise, especially when it is confirmed with an oath; after which every wise man retires, and gives over all hopes. There are various methods by which a man may rise to be chief minister; as by betraying or under- mining his predecessor, or by a furious zeal in public assemblies against the corruptions of the court. But a wise prince would rather choose to employ those who practise the last of these methods : be- cause such zealots prove always the most obsequious and subservient to the will and passions of their master. That these ministers, having all employ- ments at their disposal, preserve themselves in power by bribing the majority of a senate or great council; and at last, by an expedient called an act of indemnity (whereof I described the nature to him), they secure themselves from after-reckonings, and retire from the public, laden with the spoils of the nation. 402 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. The palace of a chief minister is a seminary to breed up others in his own trade; the pages, lackeys, and porter, by imitating their master, become min- isters of state in their several districts, and learn to excel in the three principal ingredients of insolence, lying, and bribery. Accordingly, they have a sub- altern* court paid to them by persons of the first rank; and sometimes, by the force of dexterity and impudence, arrive, through several gradations, to be successors to their lord. One day, in discourse, my master having heard me mention the nobility of my country, was pleased to make me a compliment which I could not pretend to deserve: That he was sure I must have been born of some noble family, because I far exceeded in shape, color, and cleanliness all the Yahoos of his nation, although I seemed to fail in strength and agility, which must be imputed to my different way of living from those other brutes; and, besides, I was not only endowed with the faculty of speech, but likewise with some rudiments of reason, to a degree that, with all his acquaintance, I passed for a prodigy. He made me observe that among the Houyhnhnms the white, the sorrel, and the iron-gray were not * Subordinate ; of inferior degree. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 403 so exactly shaped as the bay, the dapple-gray, and the black; nor born with equal talents of mind, or a capacity to improve them, and therefore continued always in the condition of servants, without ever aspiring to match out of their own race, which, in that country, would be reckoned monstrous and unnatural. I made his honor my most humble acknowledg- ments for the good opinion he was pleased to con- ceive of me, but assured him, at the same time, that my birth was of the lower sort, having been born of plain, honest parents, who were just able to give me a tolerable education; that nobility among us was altogether a different thing from the idea he had of it; that our young noblemen are bred from their childhood in idleness and luxury; that when their fortunes are almost ruined they marry some woman of mean birth, disagreeable person, and un- sound constitution (merely for the sake of money), whom they hate and despise; that a weak, diseased body, a meager countenance, and sallow complexion are the true marks of noble blood; and a healthy, robust appearance is disgraceful in a man of quality. The imperfections of his mind run parailel with those of his body, being a composition of spleen,* dullness, ignorance, caprice, sensuality, and pride. i ne et *Tll temper, or peevishness. 404 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. Without the consent of this illustrious body, no law can be enacted, repealed, or altered ; and these nobles have likewise the decision of all our posses- sions, without appeal. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 405 CHAPTER VII. The Author’s great Love of his native Country—His Master’s observations upon the Constitution and Administration of England, as described by the Author, with Parallel Cases and Comparisons—His Master’s observations upon Human Nature. Tur reader may be disposed to wonder how I could prevail on myself to give so free a represen- tation of my own species, among arace of mortals who are already too apt to conceive the vilest opinion of humankind, from that entire congruity betwixt me and their Yahoos. But I must freely confess, that the many virtues of those excellent quadrupeds, placed in opposite view to human corruptions, had so far opened my eyes, and enlarged my understanding, that I began to view the actions and passions of man in a very different light, and to think the honor of my own kind not worth man- aging ;* which, besides, it was impossible for me to do before a person of so acute a judgment as my master, who daily convinced me of a thousand * Dealing gently or sparingly with it. 406 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. faults in myself, whereof I had not the least per. ception before, and which, with us, would never be numbered even among human infirmities. I had likewise learned, from his example, an utter detest- ation of all falsehood or disguise; and truth ap- peared so amiable* to me that I determined upon sacrificing everything to it. Let me deal so candidly with the reader as to confess that there was yet a much stronger motive for the freedom I took in my representation of things. I had not been a year in this country be- fore I contracted such a love and veneration for the inhabitants that I entered on a firm resolution never to return to humankind, but to pass the rest of my life among these admirable Houyhnhnms, in the contemplation and practice of every virtue, where I could have no, example or incitement to vice. But it was decreed by fortune, my perpetual enemy, that so great a felicity should not fall to my share. However, it is now some comfort to reflect that in what I said of my countrymen I extenuated their faults as much as I durst before so strict an examiner, and upon every article gave as favorable a turn as the matter would bear. For, indeed, who is there alive that will not be swayed by his bias and partiality to the place of his birth ? * Deserving to be prized or loved. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 407 I have related the substance of several conver- sations I had with my master during the greatest part of the time I had the honor to be in his service, but have, indeed, for brevity’s sake, omitted much more than is here set down, When I had answered all his questions, and his curiosity seemed to be fully satisfied, he sent for me one morning early, and commanded me to sit down at some distance (an honor which he had never be- fore conferred upon me). He said he had been very seriously considering my whole story, as far as it related both to myself and my country ; that he looked upon us as a sort of animals, to whose share, by what accident he could not conjecture, some small pittance of reason had fallen, whereof we made no other use than, by its assistance, to aggravate our natural corruptions, and to acquire new ones which nature had not given us; that we disarmed ourselves of the few abilities she had be- stowed, had been very successful in multiplying our original wants, and seemed to spend our whole lives in vain endeavors to supply them by our own inventions; that as to myself it was manifest I had neither the strength nor agility of a common Yahoo; that I walked infirmly on my hinder feet, had found out a contrivance to make my claws of no use or defense, and to remove the hair from my chin, 408 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. which was intended as a shelter from the sun and the weather ; lastly, that I could neither run with speed, nor climb trees like my brethren, as he called them, the Yahoos in his country. That our institutions of government and law were plainly owing to our gross defects in reason, and by consequence in virtue; because reason alone is suffi- cient to govern a rational creature; which was, therefore, a character we had no pretense to challenge,* even from the account I had given of my own people; although he manifestly perceived that, in order to favor them, I had concealed many par- ticulars, and often said the thing which was not. He was the more confirmed in this opinion be- cause he observed that, as I agreed in every feature of my body with other Yahoos, except where it was to my real disadvantage, in point of strength, speed, and activity, the shortness of my claws, and some other particulars, where nature had no part; so from the representation I had given him of our lives, our manners, and our actions, he found as near a resemblance in the disposition of our minds. He said the Yahoos were known to hate one another more than they did any different species of animals; and the reason usually assigned * Claim. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 409 was the odiousness of their own shapes, which all could see in the rest, but not in themselves. He had therefore begun to think it not unwise in us to cover our bodies, and by that invention conceal many of our own deformities from each other, which would else be hardly supportable. But he now found he had been mistaken, and that the dis- sensions of those brutes in his country were owing to the same cause with ours, as I had described them. For if, said he, you throw among five _ Yahoos as much food as would be sufficient for fifty, they will, instead of eating peaceably, fall together _ by the ears, each single one impatient to have all to itself ; and therefore a servant was usually employed to stand by while they were feeding abroad, and those kept at home were tied at a distance from each other; that if a cow died of age or accident, before a Houyhnhnm could secure it for his own Yahoos, those in the neighborhood would come in herds to seize it, and then would ensue such a battle _as I had described, with terrible wounds, made by their claws, on both sides, although they seldom were able to kill one another, for want of such con- venient instruments of death as we had invented. At other times, the like battles have been fought be- tween the Yahoos of several neighborhoods, with- out any visible cause; those of one district watching 410 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. all opportunities to surprise the next, before they are prepared. But if they find their project hath miscarried, they return home, and for want of enemies engage in what I call a civil war among themselves. That in some fields of his country there are certain shining stones of several colors, whereof the Yahoos are violently fond; and when part of these stones is fixed in the earth, as it sometimes hap- peneth, they will dig with their claws for whole days to get them out; then carry them away, and hide them by heaps in their kennels ; but still look- ing round with great caution, for fear their com- | rades should find out their treasure. My master said he could never discover the reason of this un-— natural appetite, or how these stones could be of any use to a Yahoo; but now he believed it might proceed from the same principle of avarice which I had ascribed to mankind: that he had once, by way | of experiment, privately removed a heap of these stones from the place where one of his Yahoos had buried it; whereupon the sordid animal, missing his treasure, by his loud lamenting brought the whole herd to the place, there miserably howled, then fell to biting and tearing the rest, began to pine away, would neither eat, nor sleep, nor work, © till he ordered a servant privately to convey the nai GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 411 stones into the same hole, and hide them as before; which, when his Yahoo had found, he presently recovered his spirits and good-humor, but took care to remove them to a better hiding-place, and hath ever since been a very serviceable brute. My master further assured me, which I also observed myself, that in the fields where the shining stones abound, the fiercest and most frequent battles are fought, occasioned by perpetual Imroads of the neighboring Yahoos. He said, it was common when two Yahoos dis- covered such a stone in a field, and were contending which of them should be the proprietor, a third ‘would take the advantage, and carry it away from ‘them both; which my master would needs contend to have some kind of resemblance with our suits at law; wherein I thought it for our credit not to undeceive him; since the decision he mentioned ‘was much more equitable than many decrees among us; because the plaintiff and defendant there lost mothing besides the stone they contended for; ‘whereas our courts of equity would never have dis- ‘missed the cause while either of them had anything left. | My master continuing his discourse, said there ‘was nothing that rendered the Yahoos more odious than their undistinguishing appetite to devour 412 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. everything that came in their way, whether herbs, roots, berries, the corrupted flesh of animals, or all mingled together: and it was peculiar in their temper that they were fonder of what they could get by rapine or stealth, at a greater distance, than much better food provided for them at home. If their prey held out, they would eat till they were ready to burst. | There was a kind of root, very juicy, but some- what rare and difficult to be found, which the Yahoos sought for with much eagerness, and would suck it with great delight: it produced in them the same effects that wine hath upon us. It would make them sometimes hug, and sometimes tear one another: they would howl, and grin, and chatter, and reel, and tumble, and then fall asleep in the dirt. I did indeed observe that the Yahoos were the only animals in this country subject to any diseases ;_ which, however, were much fewer than horses have among us, and contracted, not by any ill treatment they meet with, but by the nastiness and greediness— of that sordid brute. Neither has their language any more than a general appellation for those mala- dies which is borrowed from the name of the beast, and called /Znea-yahoo, or the Yahoo’s-evil. As to learning, government, arts, manufactures, and the like, my master confessed he could find GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. 413 little or no resemblance between the Yahoos of that country and those in ours; for he only meant to observe what parity there was in our natures. He had heard, indeed, some curious Houyhnhnms ob- serve that in most herds there was a sort of ruling Yahoo (as among us there is generally some leading or principal stag in a park), who was always more deformed in body and mischievous in disposition than any of the rest; that this leader had usually a favorite as like himself as he could get. This favor- ite is hated by the whole herd, and, therefore, to protect himself, keeps always near the person of his leader. He usually continues in office till a worse can be found; but the very moment he is discarded, his successor, at the head of all the Yahoos in that district, young and old, male and female, come in a ‘body and maltreat him. How far this might be applicable to our courts, and favorites, and minis- ters of state, my master said I could best determine. I durst make no return to this malicious insinua- ‘tion, which debased human understanding below ‘the sagacity of a common hound, who has jude- ment enough to distinguish and follow the cry cf the ablest dog in the pack, without being ever mistaken. My master told me there were some qualities re- markable in the Yahoos, which he had not observed 414 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. me to mention, or at least very slightly, in the ac- counts I had given him of humankind. One thing. he wondered at in the Yahoos was their strange disposition to nastiness and dirt ; whereas there ap- pears to be a natural love of cleanliness in all other animals. Another quality which his servants had discovered in several Yahoos to him was wholly unaccount-| able. He said a fancy would sometimes take a Yahoo to retire into a corner, to lie down, and howl and groan, and spurn away all that came near him, although he were young and fat, wanted neither food nor water; nor could the servants imagine what could possibly ail him. And the only remedy they found was to set him to hard work, after which he would infallibly come to him- self. To this I was silent, out of partiality to my own kind; yet here I could plainly discover the true seeds of spleen,* which only seizes on the lazy, the luxurious, and the rich; who, if they were forced to undergo the same regimen, I would under- take for the cure. At times if a female stranger came among them three or four of her own sex would get about her, and stare, and chatter, and grin, and smell her all * Dullness or peevishness without any sufficient cause. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 415 over, and then turn off, with gestures that seemed to express contempt and disdain. Perhaps my master might refine a little in these speculations, which he had drawn from what he ob- served himself, or had been told him by others; however, I could not reflect, without some amaze- ment and much sorrow, that the rudiments of coquetry, censure, and scandal should have place by instinct in womankind. 416 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. CHAPTER VIII. The Author relates several Particulars of the Yahoos—The great Virtues of the Houyhnhnms—The Education and Exercise of their Youth—Their General Assembly. As I ought to have understood human nature much better than I supposed it possible for my master to do, so it was easy to apply the character he gave of the Yahoos to myself and my country- men; and I believed I could yet make further dis- coveries from my own observation. I therefore often begged his honor to let me go among the herds of Yahoos in the neighborhood ; to which he always very graciously consented, being perfectly convinced that the hatred I bore those brutes would never suffer me to be corrupted by them; and his honor ordered one of his servants, a strong sorrel nag, very honest and good-natured, to be my guard; without whose protection I durst not undertake such adventures; for I have already told the reader how much I was pestered by those odious animals upon my first arrival; and I afterwards failed very narrowly, three or four times, of falling into their GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 417 clutches, when I happened to stray at any distance without my hanger. And I have reason to believe they had some imagination that I was of their own species; which I often assisted myself by stripping up my sleeves, and showing my naked arms and breast in their sight when my protector was with me. At which times they would approach as near as they durst, and imitate my actions, after the manner of monkeys, but ever with great signs of hatred ; as a tame jackdaw, with cap and stockings, is always persecuted by the wild ones, when he hap- pens to be got among them. They are prodigiously nimble from their infancy. ‘However, I once caught a young male of three ‘years old, and endeavored, by all marks of tender- ‘ness, to make it quiet; but the little imp fell a squalling, and scratching, and biting with such vio- lence that I was forced to let it go; and it was high ‘time ; for a whole troop of old ones came about us -at the noise, but finding the cub was safe (for away it ran), and my sorrel nag being by, they durst not venture near us. | But what I could discover the Yahoos appear to be the most unteachable of all animals; their capac- ities never reaching higher than to draw or carry burdens. Yet I am of opinion this defect ariseth chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition ; for they 418 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful. They are strong and hardy, but of a cowardly spirit, and by consequence, insolent, abject, and cruel. The Houyhnhnms keep the Yahoos for present use in huts not far from the house; but the rest are sent abroad to certain fields, where they dig up roots, eat several kinds of herbs, and search about for carrion, or sometimes catch weasels and luhimuhs (a sort of wild rat), which they greedily devour. Nature hath taught them to dig deep holes with their nails on the side of a rising ground, wherein they lie by themselves; only the kennels of the femaies are larger, sufficient to hold two or three cubs. They swim from their infancy like frogs, and are able to continue long under water, where they often take fish, which the females carry home to their young. Having lived three years in this country, the reader, I suppose, will expect that I should, like other travelers, give him some account of the man-— ners and customs of its inhabitants, which it was_ indeed my principal study to learn. As these noble Houyhnhnms are endowed by nature with a general disposition to all virtues, and_ have no conceptions or ideas of what is evil in a- rational creature, so their grand maxim is, to culti- i GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 419 vate reason, and to be wholly governed by it. Neither is reason among them a point problemat- ieal, as with us, where men can argue with plausi- bility on both sides of a question, but strikes you with immediate conviction, as it must needs do, where it is not mingled, obscured, or discolored, by passion and interest. JI remember it was with ex- treme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are cer- tain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either; so that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the Houyhnhnms. In like manner, when I used to explain to him our several systems of natural philosophy, he would laugh, that a creature pretending to reason should value itself upon the knowledge of other people’s conjectures, and in things where that knowledge, if it were cer- tain, could be of no use. Wherein he agreed entirely with the sentiments of Socrates, as Plato delivers them; which I mention as the highest honor I can do that prince of philosophers. I have often since reflected what destruction such a doctrine would make in the libraries of Europe, and how many 420 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. paths to fame would be then shut up in the learned world. | Friendship and benevolence are the two principal virtues among the Houyhnhnms, and these not con- fined to particular objects, but universal to the whole race; for a stranger from the remotest part is equally treated with the nearest neighbor, and wherever he goes, looks upon himself as at home. They preserve decency and civility in the highest degrees, but are altogether ignorant of ceremony. They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds en-| tirely from the dictates of reason. And I observed my master to show the same affection to his neigh- bor’s issue that he had for his own. They will have it that nature teaches them to love the whole species, and it is reason only that maketh a dis-. tinction of persons where there is a superior degreg | of virtue. Courtship, love, presents, jointures, settlements, have no place in their thoughts, or terms whereby to express them in their language. The young couple meet and are joined, merely because it is the determination of their parents and friends; it is. what they see done every day, and they look upon it as one of the necessary actions of a rational being; 1 and the married pair pass their lives with the same eee GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 421 friendship and mutual benevolence that they bear to all others of the same species who come in their way, without jealousy, fondness, quarreling, or discontent. In educating the youth of both sexes their method is admirable, and highly deserves our imitation. ‘These are not suffered to taste a grain of oats, ex- cept upon certain days, till eighteen years old; nor milk, but very rarely; and in summer they graze two hours in the morning, and as long in the even- ‘ing, which their parents likewise observe; but the servants are not allowed above half that time, and ‘a great part of their grass is brought home, which they eat at the most convenient hours, when they ‘can be best spared from work. Temperance, industry, exercise, and cleanliness are the lessons equally enjoined to the young ones of both sexes; and my master thought it monstrous in us to give the females a different kind of educa- tion from the males, except in some articles of domestic management; whereby, as he truly ob- served, one-half of our natives were good for noth- ing but bringing children into the world; and to trust the care of our children to such useless animals, he said, was yet a greater instance of brutality. But the Houyhnhnms train up their youth to 422 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. strength, speed, and hardiness by exercising them in running races up and down steep hills and over hard and stony grounds; and when they are all in a sweat they are ordered to leap over head and ears intoa pond ora river. Four times a year the youth of a certain district meet to show their pro- ficiency in running and leaping, and other feats of strength and agility, where the victor is rewarded with a song made in his or her praise. On this festival the servants drive a herd of Yahoos into the field, laden with hay and oats and milk, for a repast to the Houyhnhnms; after which these brutes are immediately driven back again, for fear of being - noisome to the assembly. Every fourth year, at the vernal equinox, there is a representative council of the whole nation, which meets in a plain about twenty miles from our house, and continues about five or six days. Here they inquire into the state and condition of the several districts; whether they abound or be defi- cient in hay or oats, or cows or Yahoos; and wher- ever there is any want (which is but seldom), it is immediately supplied by unanimous consent and contribution. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 423 CHAPTER IX. A grand debate at the General Assembly of the Houyhnhnms | —The Learning of the Houyhnhnms—Their Buildings— Their Manner of Burials—The Defectiveness of their Language. One of these grand assemblies was held in my (time, about three months before my departure, whither my master went, as the representative of ‘our district. In this council was resumed their old ‘debate, and indeed the only debate that ever hap- pened in that country ; whereof my master, after his ‘return, gave me a very particular account. The question to be debated was, Whether the Yahoos should be exterminated from the face of the earth? One of the members for the affirmative ‘offered several arguments of great strength and ‘weight, alleging that as the Yahoos were the most ‘filthy, noisome, and deformed animal which nature ever produced, so they were the most restive -and indocible, mischievous and malicious. They would privately suck the teats of the Houyhnhnms’ cows, kill and devour their cats, trample down 424 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. their oats and grass, if they were not continu. ally watched, and commit a thousand othe extravagances. He took notice of a general tradition, that Yahoos had not been always in their country; but that, many ages ago, two of these brutes appeared together upon a mountain; whether produced by the heat of the sun upon corrupted mud and slime, or from the ooze or froth of the sea, was never known; that their brood in a short time grew so numerous as to overrun and infest the whole nation; that the Houyhnhnms, to get rid of this evil, made a general hunting, and at last enclosed the whole herd; and, destroying the old ones, every Houy- hnhnm kept two young ones in a kennel, and brought them to such a degree of tameness as an animal so savage by nature can be capable of acquiring ; using them for draught and carriage; that there seemed to be much truth in this tradition ; and that those creatures could not be ylnhniamshy (or aborigines* of the land), because of the violent hatred © the Houyhnhnms, as well as all other animals, bore them; which, although their evil disposition suffi- ciently deserved, could never have arrived at so high a. degree if they nad been aborigines; or else they * Earliest or original inhabitants. GUULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 425 would have long since been rooted out; that the in- habitants, taking a fancy to use the service of the Yahoos, had very imprudently neglected to cultivate the breed of asses, which are a comely animal, easily kept, more tame and orderly, without any offensive smell; strong enough for labor, although they yield to the other in agility of body; and if their braying be no agreeable sound, it is far prefer- able to the horrible howlings of the Yahoos. My master approved of the tradition mentioned by the honorable member who spoke before, and affirmed that the two Yahoos said to be first seen among them had been driven thither over the sea; that, coming to land, and being forsaken by their companions, they retired to the mountains, and, de- generating by degrees, became in process of time much more savage than those of their own species in the country from whence these two originals came. ‘The reason of this assertion was that he had now in his possession a certain wonderful Yahoo (meaning myself), which most of them had heard of, and many of them had seen. He then related to them how he first found me ; that my body was all covered with an artificial composure of the skins und hairs of other animals; that I spoke in a anguage of my own, and had thoroughly learned sheirs; that I had related to him the accidents 426 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. which brought me thither; that when he saw me without my covering I was an exact Yahoo in every part, only of a whiter color, less hairy, and with shorter claws. He added how I had endeavored to persuade him that in my own and other countries the Yahoos acted as the governing, rational animal, and held the Houyhnhnms in servitude; that he observed in me all the qualities of a Yahoo, only a_ little more civilized by some tincture of reason; which, however, was in a degree as far inferior to the Houyhnhnm race as the Yahoos of their country _ were to me. . The Houyhnhnms have no letters, and consequently their knowledge is all traditional ; but, there happen- ing few events of any moment among a people so well | united, naturally disposed to every virtue, wholly governed by reason, and cut off from all commerce ; with other nations, the historical part is easily pre- served, without burdening their memory. I have j already observed that they are subject to no diseases, 7 and therefore can have no need of physicians. How- j ever, they have excellent medicines, composed of | herbs, to cure accidental bruises, and cuts in the’ pastern, or frog of the foot, by sharp stones, as well : as other maims and hurts in the several parts of the body. They calculate the year by the revolution of the GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 427 sun and the moon, but use no subdivisions into weeks. They are well enough acquainted with the motions of those two luminaries, and understand the nature of eclipses; and this is the utmost progress of their astronomy. In poetry they must be allowed to excel all other mortals, wherein the justness of their similes, and the minuteness, as well as exactness, of their descrip- tions, are indeed inimitable. Their verses abound very much in both of these, and usually contain either some exalted notions of friendship and benevolence, or the praises of those who were victors in races and other bodily exercises. Their buildings, although very rude and simple, are not inconvenient, but well contrived to defend them from all injuries of cold and heat. They have a kind of tree, which, at forty years old, loosens in the root, and falls with the first storm: it grows very straight, and being ‘pointed like stakes with a sharp stone (for the Houy- ‘hnhnms know not the use of iron), they stick them erect in the ground, about ten inches asunder, and ‘then weave in oat straw, or sometimes wattles, be- ‘twixt them. The roof is made after the same man. mer, and so are the doors. The Houyhnhnms use the hollow part between the pastern and the hoof of their forefeet as we do our hands, and this with greater dexterity than I 4238 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. could at first imagine. I have seen a white mare of our family thread a needle (which I lent her on pur- pose) with that joint. They milk their cows, reap their oats, and do all the work which requires hands in the same manner. ‘They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. With tools made of these flints they likewise cut their hay and reap their oats, which there grow naturally in several fields; the Yahoos draw home the sheaves in carriages, and | the servants tread them in certain covered huts, to get out the grain, which is kept in stores. They make a rude kind of earthen and wooden vessels, and bake the former in the sun. If they can avoid casualties they die only of old age, and are buried in the obscurest piaces that can | be found: their friends and relations expressing neitner joy nor grief at their departure; nor does the dying person discover the least regret that he is’ leaving the world, any more than if he were upon returning home from a visit to one of his neighbors, — I remember my master having once made an ap- pointment with a friend and his family to come to his house upon some affair of importance: on the day fixed the mistress and her two children came very late; she made two excuses; first for her hus- GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 429 band, who, as she said, happened that very morning to lhnuwnh. The word is strongly expressive in their language, but not easily rendered into English : it signifies to retire to his first mother. Her excuse for not coming sooner was that her husband dying late in the morning, she was a good while consulting her servants about a convenient place where his body should be laid: and I observed she behaved herself at our house as cheerfully as the rest. She died about three months after. They live generally to seventy or seventy-five years, very seldom to fourscore. Some weeks before their death they feel a gradual decay, but without pain. During this time they are much visited by their friends, because they cannot go abroad with their usual ease and satisfaction. However, about ten days before their death, which they seldom fail in computing, they return the visits that have been made them by those who are nearest in the neigh- borhood, being carried in a convenient sledge drawn by Yahoos; which vehicle they use, not only upon this occasion, but when they grow old, upon long journeys, or when they are lamed by any accident. And, therefore, when the dying Houyhnhnms return those visits they take a solemn leave of their friends, as if they were going to some remote part 430 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. of the country, where they designed to pass the rest of their lives. I know not whether it may be worth observing, that the Houyhnhnms have no word in their lan- guage to express anything that is evil, except what they borrow from the deformities or ill qualities of the Yahoos. Thus they denote the folly of a seryv- © ant, an omission of a child, a stone that cuts their feet, a continuance of foul or unseasonable weather, and the like, by adding to each the epithet of Yahoo. For instance: hhnm Yahoo, whnaholm Yahoo, ynlhmndwihlma Yahoo, and an ill-contrived house, ynholmhnmrohinw Yahoo. I could, with great pleasure, enlarge further upon the manners and virtues of this excellent people; but intending in a short time to publish a volume by itself expressly upon that subject, I refer the reader thither, and in the meantime proceed to — relate my own sad catastrophe. | GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 437 CHAPTER X. The Author’s Economy and happy Life among the Houy- hnhnms—His great improvement in Virtue by conversing with them—Their Conversations—The Author has notice given him by his master, that hé must depart from the Country—He falls into a swoon for grief, but submits— He contrives and finishes a Canoe by the help of a fellow-servant, and puts to sea at a venture. I wap settled my little economy* to my own heart’s content. My master had ordered a room to be made for me, after their manner, about six yards from the house, the sides and floors of which I plastered with clay, and covered with rush-mats of my own contriving. I had beaten hemp, which there grows wild, and made of it a sort of ticking ; this I filled with the feathers of several birds I had taken with springes made of Yahoos’ hairs, and were excellent food. I had worked two chairs with my knife, the sorrel nag helping me in the grosser and more laborious part. When my clothes were * Domestic concerns, or way of life. 432 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. worn to rags, I made myself others with the skins — of rabbits, and of a certain beautiful animal about the same size, called mnuhnoh, the skin of which is covered with a fine down. Of these I made very tolerable stockings. I soled my shoes with wood, which I cut from a tree, and fitted to the upper- leather ; and when this was worn out I supplied it with the skins of Yahoos dried in the sun. I often got honey out of hollow trees, which I mingled > with water, or eat with my bread. No man could more verify the truth of these two maxims, That nature is very easily satisfied; and, That necessity is the mother of invention. I enjoyed perfect health of body and tranquillity of mind; I did not feel the © treachery or inconstancy of a friend, nor the in- juries of a secret or open enemy ; I had no occasion of bribing or flattering to procure the favor of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire; here were no gibers; censurers, backbiters, pick pockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, murderers, robbers ; | no leaders or followers of party and faction; no GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 433 encouragers to vice by seducements or examples ; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories ; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics ; no pride, vanity, or affectation ; no fops, bullies, or drunkards; no ranting, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrel- some, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust for the sake of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters. I had the favor of being admitted to several Houyhnhnms, who came to visit or dine with my master; where his honor graciously suffered me to wait in the room and listen to their discourse. Both he and his company would often descend* to ask me questions and receive my answers. I had also sometimes the honor of attending my master in his visits to others. I never presumed to speak, except in answer to a question; and then I did it with in- ward regret, because it was a loss of so much time for improving myself; but I was infinitely delighted with the station of an humble auditor in such con- versations, where nothing passed but what was use- ful, expressed in the fewest and most significant a nn ee Rane L En EERREER REE ERRRE *That is, condescend. 434 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. words ; where, as I have already said, the greatest decency was observed, without the least degree of — ceremony ; where no person spoke without being — pleased himself, and pleasing his companions; where there was no interruption, tediousness, heat, — or difference of sentiments. They have a notion ~ that when people are met together, a short silence — doth much improve conversation: thisI found to be — true ; for during those little intermissions of talk, new _ ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened their discourse. Their subjects are gener- © ally on friendship and benevolence, on order and economy ; sometimes upon the visible operations of nature, or ancient traditions ; upon the bounds and — limits of virtue; upon the unerring rules of reason; or upon some determinations to be taken at the — next great assembly; and often upon the various | excellences of poetry. I may add, without vanity, | that my presence often gave them sufficient matter — for discourse, because it afforded my master an — occasion of letting his friends into the history of me — and my country, upon which they were all pleased to descant, ina manner not very advantageous to — humankind ; and for that reason I shall not repeat what they said: only I may be allowed to observe that his honor, to my great admiration, appeared to understand the nature of Yahoos in all countries GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 435 much better than myself. He went through all our vices and follies, and discovered many which I had never mentioned to him, by only supposing what qualities a Yahoo of their country, with a small proportion of reason, might be capable of exerting ; and concluded, with too much probability, how vile as well as miserable, such a creature must be. I freely confess that all the little knowledge I have of any value was acquired by the lectures I re- ceived from my master, and from hearing the dis- courses of him and bis friends; to which I should be prouder to listen than to dictate to the greatest and wisest assembly in Europe. I admired the strength, comeliness, and speed of the inhabitants ; and such a constellation of virtues in such amiable persons produced in me the highest veneration. At first, indeed, I did not feel that natural awe which the Yahoos and all other animals bear toward them; but it grew upon me by degrees, much sooner than I imagined, and was mingled witha respectful love and gratitude, that they would condescend to distinguish me from the rest of my species. When I thought of my family, my friends, and my countrymen, or the human race in general, I considered them, as they really were, Yahoos, in shape and disposition, only a little civilized, and A386 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. qualified with the gift of speech; but making no — other use of reason than to improve and multiply those vices whereof their brethren in this country — had only the share that nature allotted them. 7 When I happened to behold the reflection of my — own form in a lake or a fountain I turned away my | face in horror and detestation of myself, and could — better endure the sight of a common Yahoo than of — my Own person. | By conversing with the Houyhnhnms, and looking — upon them with delight, I fell to imitate their gait and gesture, which is now grown into a habit; and my friends often tell me in a blunt way that I trot like a horse; which, however, I take for a great compliment. Neither shall I disown that in speak- ing Iam apt to fall into the voice and manner of. the Houyhnhnms, and hear myself ridiculed on that account, without the least mortification. In the midst of all this happiness, and when I looked upon myself to be fully settled for life, my master sent for me one morning a little earlier than his usual hour. I observed by his countenance that he was in some perplexity, and at a loss how to begin what he had to speak. After a short silence, he told me he did not know how I would take what he was going to say. That in the last general assembly, when the affair of the Yahoos was entered GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 437 upon, the representatives had taken offense at his keeping a Yahoo (meaning myself) in his family, more like a Houyhnhnm than a brute animal; that ne was known frequently to converse with me, as if he could receive some advantage or pleasure in my company ; that such a practice was not agreeable to reason or nature, nor a thing ever heard of before among them. The assembly did therefore exhort him either to employ me like the rest of my species, or command me to swim back to the place from whence I came. That the first of these ex- pedients was utterly rejected by all the Houyhnhnms who had ever seen me at his house or their own; for they alleged that because I had some rudiments of reason added to the natural pravity of those animals, it was to be feared I might be able to - seduce them into the woody and mountainous parts of the country, and bring them in troops by night to destroy the Houyhnhnm’s cattle as being naturally of the ravenous kind, and averse from labor. My master added that he was daily pressed by the Houyhnhnms of the neigborhood to have the assembly’s exhortation executed, which he could not put off much longer. He doubted it would be im- possible for me to swim to another country, and therefore wished I would contrive some sort of vehicle, resembling those I had described to him, 438 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. ee that might carry me on the sea, in which work I should have the assistance of his own servants, as well as those of his neighbors. He concluded that, © for his own part, he could have been content to keep © me in his service as long as I lived, because he found I had cured myself of some bad habits and disposi- tions, by endeavoring, as far as my inferior nature — was capable, to imitate the Houyhnhnms. | I should here observe to the reader that a decree | of the general assembly in this country is expressed | by the word Anhloayn, which signifies an exhorta- | tion, as near as I can render it; for they have no | conception how a rational creature can be com- pelled, but only advised or exhorted ; because no | person can disobey reason without giving up his — claim to be a rational creature. I was struck with the utmost grief and despair at _ my master’s discourse; and being unable to support the agonies I was under, I fell into a swoon at his feet. When I came to myself he told me that he concluded I had been dead (for these people are subject to no such imbecilities of nature). I an- swered in a faint voice that death would have been too great a happiness; that although I could not blame the assembly’s exhortation, or the urgency of his friends, yet, in my weak and corrapt judgement, I thought it’ might consist with reason to have been GULLIVHR’S TRAVELS. 439 less rigorous ; that I could not swim a league, and probably the nearest land to theirs might be distant above an hundred; that many materials necessary for making a small vessel to carry me off were wholly wanting in this country ; which, however, I would attempt, in obedience and gratitude to his honor, although I concluded the thing to be im- possible, and therefore looked on myself as already devoted to destruction ; that the certain prospect of an unnatural death was the least of my evils; for supposing I should escape with life, by some strange adventure, how could I think with temper of passing my days among Yahoos, and relapsing into my old corruptions, for want of examples to lead and keep me within the paths of virtue? that I knew too well upon what solid reasons all the determinations of the wise Houyhnhnms were founded, not to be shaken by arguments of mine, a miserable Yahoo ; and therefore, after presenting him with my humble thanks for the offer of his servants’ assistance in making a vessel, and desiring a reasonable time for so difficult a work, I told him I would endeavor to preserve a wretched being ; and if ever I returned to England was not without hopes of being useful to my own species by celebrating the praises of the renowned Houyhnhnms, and proposing their virtues to the imitation of mankind. 440 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, My master, in a few words, made me a very gracious reply ; allowed me the space of two months: to finish my boat; and ordered the sorrel nag, my fellow-servant (for so, at this distance, I may pre-_ sume to call him), to follow my instructions; be- cause I told my master that his help would be sufficient, and I knew he had a tenderness for me. In his company my first business was to go to_ that part of the coast where my rebellious crew had ordered me to be set on shore. I got apona height, — by and looking on every side into the sea, fancied I saw a small island toward the northeast. I took out my pocket-glass, and could then clearly distinguish it about five leagues off, as I computed; but it ap- peared to the sorrel nag to be only a blue cloud; , | | : for as he had no conception of any country beside his own, so he could not be as expert in distinguish- ing remote objects at sea as we who so much con- verse* in that element. After I had discovered this island I considered no — further, but resolved it should, if possible, be the first place of my banishment, leaving the conse-— quence to fortune. I returned home, and consulting with the sorrel FRE aag, We went into a copse at some distance, where I — * Occupy ourselves; carry on business. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 44.1 with my knife, and he with a sharp flint, fastened very artificially, after their manner, to a wooden handle, cut down several oak wattles, about the thickness of a walking-staff, and some larger pieces. But I shall not trouble the reader with a particular description of my own mechanics; let it suffice to say, that in six weeks’ time, with the help of the sorrel nag, who performed the parts that required most labor, I finished a sort of Indian canoe, but much larger, covering it with the skins of Yahoos, well stitched together with hempen threads of my own making. My sail was likewise composed of ‘the skins of the same animal; but I made use of the youngest I could get, the older being too tough and thick; and I likewise provided myself with four paddles. I laid in a stock of boiled flesh, of rabbits and fowls, and took with me two vessels, one filled with milk, and the other with water. I tried my canoe in a large pond near my master’s house, and then corrected in it what was amiss, ‘stopping all the chinks with Yahoo’s tallow, till I found it stanch, and able to bear me and my freight; and when it was as complete as I could possibly make it, I had it drawn on a carriage very gently by Yahoos to the seaside, under the conduct* of the sorrel nag and another servant. * Guidance or leadership. 449 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. When all was ready, and the day came for my departure, I took leave of my master and lady, and’ the whole family, mine eyes flowing with tears, and my heart quite sunk with grief. But his honor, out: of curiosity, and perhaps (if I may speak it without vanity) partly out of kindness, was determined to. see me in my canoe, and got several of his neighbor-) ing friends to accompany him. I was forced to. wait above an hour for the tide; and then observing the wind very fortunately bearing toward the island to which I intended to steer my course, I took a second leave of my master; but as I was going to’ prostrate myself to kiss his hoof, he did me the honor to raise it gently to my mouth. I am not ignorant how much I have been censured for men-~ tioning this last particular. For my detractors are pleased to think it improbable that so illustrious a person should descend to give so great a mark of distinction to a creature so inferior as I. Neither have I forgot how apt some travelers are to boast. of a eae favors they have received. But if they would soon ere their opinion. ' I paid my respects to the rest of the Houyhnhnms 4 in his honor’s company, then getting into my canoe I pushed off from shore. | GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 443 CHAPTER XI. The Author’s dangerous Voyage—He arrives at New Holland, hoping to settle there—Is wounded with an arrow by one of the Natives—Is seized, and carried by force into a Portuguese ship—The great civilities of the Captain—The Author arrives in England. I sxcan this desperate voyage on February 15, 1714-15,* at nine o’clock in the morning. The wind was very favorable; however, I made use at first only of my paddles; but considering I should soon be weary, and that the wind might chop about, I ventured to set up my little sail, and thus, with the help of the tide, I went at the rate of a league and a half an hour, as near as I could guess. My master and his friends continued on the shore till I was almost out of sight; and I often heard the * That is 1714 Old Style, 1715 New Style. Before the intro- duction of the new or reformed way of reckoning, the year began on the 25th of March ; hence the portion from J anuary Tl up to this date may be considered as belonging to the end of one year and the beginning of another—the latter being the proper year according to modern reckoning. 444 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. sorrel nag (who always loved me) crying out, Hnuy ila nyha majah Yahoo; Take care of thyself, gentle Yahoo. . My design was, if possible, to discover some small island uninhabited, yet sufficient, by my labor, to furnish me with the necessaries of life, which I would have thought a greater happiness than to be first minister in the politest court of Europe; so horrible was the idea I conceived of returning to live in the society, and under the government of Yahoos. For in such a solitude as I desired, I could at least enjoy my own thoughts, and reflect with delight on the virtues of those inimitable Houy- hnhnms, without any opportunity of degenerating into the vices and corruptions of my own species. — The reader may remember what I related when my crew conspired against me, and confined me to my cabin; how I continued there several weeks, without knowing what course we took; and when I was put ashore in the long-boat, how the sailo 5 told me, with oaths, whether true or false, that they knew not in what part of the world we were. How- ever, I did then believe us to be about 10 degrees southward of the Cape of Good Hope, or about 45 degrees southern latitude, as I gathered from some general words I overheard among them, being, l supposed, to the southeast in their intended vovagil GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 445 0 Madagascar. And although this were but little vetter than conjecture, yet I resolved to steer my ourse eastward, hoping to reach the southwest oast of New Holland, and perhaps some such sland as I desired, lying westward of it. The wind vas full west; and by six in the evening I com- yuted I had gone eastward at least eighteen leagues, when I spied a very small island about half a league off, which I soon reached. It was nothing but a ‘ock with one creek naturally arched by the force ftempests. Here I put in my canoe, and climbing 1 part of the rock, I could plainly discover land to he east, extending from south tonorth. I lay all night in my canoe, and repeating my voyage early in the morning, I arrived in seven hours to the southeast point of New Holland. This confirmed me in the opinion I have long entertained that the maps and charts place this country at least three degrees more to the east than it really is,* which thought I communicated many years ago to my worthy friend, Mr. Herman Moll,+ and gave him my , * Gulliver here shows a greater knowledge of the position and dimensions of Australia than he displays in telling of the ‘whereabouts of Lilliput, ete. tThis person published in 1723 a work entitled ‘‘Com- ‘pleat Geographer, or the Chorography and Topography of ‘al’ the known parts of the Earth.” 44.6 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. reasons for it, although he hath rather chosen follow other authors. and being unarmed I was afraid of venturing far into the country. I found some shellfish on the shore, and eat them raw, not daring to kindlea fire” for fear of being discovered by the natives. I con: GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 44% ‘ inued three days feeding on oysters and limpets to save my own provisions; and I fortunately found a brook of excellent water, which gave me great relief. On the fourth day, venturing out early, a little too far, I saw twenty or thirty natives upon a height, not above five hundred yards from me. They were stark naked, men, women, and children, round a fire, as I could discover by the smoke. One of them spied me, and gave notice to the rest; five of them advanced toward me, leaving the women and children at the fire. I made what haste I could to the shore, and getting into my canoe, shoved off ; the savages observing me retreat, ran after me, and before I could get far enough into the sea, dis- charged an arrow, which wounded me deeply on the inside of my left knee; I shall carry the mark to my grave. I apprehended the arrow might be poisoned; and paddling out of the reach of their darts (being a calm day), I made a shift to suck the ‘wound, and dress'it as well as I could. I was at a loss what to do; for I durst not return to the same landing-place, but stood to the north, and was forced to paddle; for the wind, though very gentle, was against me, blowing northwest. As I was looking about for a secure landing-place, I saw a sail to the north-northeast, which appearing 448 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. every minute more visible, I] was in some doubt whether I should wait for them or no; but at last my detestation of the Yahoo race teal and, turning my canoe, I sailed and paddled together to the south, and got into the same creek from whence I set out in the morning, choosing rather to trust myself among these barbarians than live with European Yahoos. I drew up my canoe as close as I could to the shore, and hid myself behind a ston by the little brook, which, as I have already “a was excellent water. ) The ship came within half a league of this crcl, and sent out her long-boat with vessels to take in fresh water (for the place, it seems, was very well known); but I did not observe it till the boat was almost on shore, and it was too late to seek another hiding-place. The seamen, at their landing, ob- | served my canoe, and, rummaging it all over, easily conjectured that the owner could not be far off, : Four of them, well armed, searched every cranny and lurking-hole, till at last they found me, flat off my face, behind the stone. They gazed awhile in admiration* at my strange, uncouth dress: my coat made of skins, my wooden-soled shoes, and my furred stockings; from whence, however, they concluded I if * Wonder. ‘ } 4 Se Sinaia “GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. 449 vas not a native of the place, who all go naked. Ine of the seamen, in Portuguese, bid me rise, and isked who I was. I understood that language very well, and, getting upon my feet, said I was a poor Yahoo, banished from the Houyhnhnms, and de- sired they would please to let me depart. They admired* to hear me answer them in their own tongue and saw by my complexion I must be an European; but were at a loss to know what [ meant by Yahoos and Houyhnhnms; and at the same time fell a-laughing at my strange tone in speaking, which resembled the neighing of a horse. I trembled all the while betwixt fear and hatred. I again desired leave to depart, and was gently moving to my canoe; but they laid hold of me, de- siring to know what country I was of? whence I came? with many other questions. I told them I ‘was born in England, from whence I came about ifive years ago, and then their country and ours were at peace. I therefore hoped they would not treat ‘me as an enemy, since I meant them no harm, but ‘was a poor Yahoo, seeking some desolate place ‘where to pass the remainder of his unfortunate life. When they began to talk I thought I never heard or saw anything so unnatural; for it appeared to * Wondered. 450 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, me as monstrous as if a dog or a cow should speak in England, or a Yahoo in Houyhnhnm-land. The honest Portuguese were equally amazed at my strange dress, and the odd manner of delivering my words, which, however, they understood very well. They spoke to me with great humanity, and said they were sure their captain would carry me gratis to Lisbon, from whence J might return to my own country ; that two of the seamen would go back to the ship, inform the captain of what they had seen, and receive his orders: in the meantime, unless I would give my solemn oath not to fly, they would: secure me by force. I thought it best to comply with their proposal. They were very curious to know my story, but I gave them very little satisfac tion, and they all conjectured that my misfortunes had impaired my reason. In two hours the boat, which went laden with vessels of water, returned with the captain’s command to fetch me on board. I fell on my knees to preserve my liberty, but all) was in vain; and the men, having tied me with cords, heaved me into the boat, from whence I was taken into the ship, and from thence into the cap- tain’s cabin. | His name was Pedro de Mendez; he was a very courteous and generous person. He entreated me. to give some account of myself, and desired to know GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, 451 what I would eat or drink; said I should be used as well as himself; and spoke so many obliging things . that I wondered to find such civilities from a Yahoo. However, I remained silent and sullen; I was ready to faint at the very smell of him and hismen. At last I desired something to eat out of my own canoe ; but he ordered me a chicken, and some excellent wine, and then directed that I should be ptt to bed in a very clean cabin. I would not undress myself, but lay on the bedclothes, and in half an hour stole out, when I thought the crew was at dinner, and, getting to the side of the ship, was going to leap into the sea, and swim for my life rather than con- tinue among Yahoos. But one of the seamen pre- vented me, and, having informed the captain, I was chained to my cabin. _ After dinner Don Pedro came to me, and desired to know my reason for so desperate an attempt; assured me he only meant to do me all the service he was able; and spoke so very movingly that at | last I descended to treat him like an animal that had ‘some little portion of reason. I gave him a very short relation of my voyage; of the conspiracy against me by my own men; of the country where ‘they set me on shore, and of my five years’ residence ‘there. All which he looked upon as if it were a dream or a vision; whereat I took great offense; | | | 452 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. for I had quite forgot the faculty of lying, so peculiar to Yahoos in all countries where they pre side, and consequently the disposition of suspecting truth in others of their own species. I asked him whether it were the custom in his country to say the thing that was not? JI assured him that I had almost forgot what he meant by falsehood, and if | had lived a thousand years in Houyhnhnm-land ] should never have heard a lie from the meanest servant; that I was altogether indifferent whether he believed me or no; but, however, in return for his favors, I would give so much allowance to the corruption of his nature as to answer any objection he would please to make, and then he might easily discover the truth. : The captain, a wise man, after many endeavors to catch me tripping in some part of my story, at last began to have a better opinion of my veracity. But he added, that since I professed so inviolable an attachment to truth, I must give him my word of honor to bear him company in this voyage, without attempting anything against my life; or else he would continue me a prisoner till we arrived at Lisbon. I gave him the promise he required ; but at the same time protested that I would suffer the greatest hardships rather than return to live among Yahoos. . GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 453 Our voyage passed without any considerable accident. In gratitude to the captain, I sometimes sat with him at his earnes* request, and strove to conceal my antipathy to humankind, although it often broke out; which he suffered to pass without observation. But the greatest part of the day | confined myself to my cabin, to avoid seeing any 0, the crew. The captain had often entreated me to strip myself of my savage dress, and offered to lend me the best suit of clothes he had. This I would not be prevailed on to accept, abhorring to cover myself with anything that had been on the back of a Yahoo. I only desired he would lend me two ‘clean shirts, which, having been washed since he wore them, I believed would not so much defile me. These I changed every second day, and washed them myself. We arrived at Lisbon, November 5,1715. Atour Janding the captain forced me to cover myself with his cloak, to prevent the rabble from crowding about me. I was conveyed to his own house; and at my earnest request he led me up to the highest room backward. I conjured him to conceal from all persons what I had told him of the Houyhnhnms ; because the least hint of such a story would not only draw numbers of people to see me, but probably put me in danger of being imprisoned, or burned by 454 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. the Inquisition. The captain persuaded me to - accept a suit of clothes newly made; but I would — not suffer the tailor to take my measure: however, © Don Pedro being almost of my size, they fitted me ; well enough. He accoutered me with other neces- | saries, all new, which I aired for twenty-four hours, y before I would use them. ‘ The captain had no wife, nor above three servants, : none of which were suffered to attend at meals ; and i his whole deportment was so obliging, added to a very good human understanding, that I really began ' to tolerate his company. He gained so far spon me that I ventured to look out of the back window. — By degrees I was brought into another room, froma whence I peeped into the street, but drew my head — back in a fright. Ina week’s time he seduced me down to the door. I found my terror gradually : lessened, but my hatred and contempt seemed to in- crease. I was at last bold enough to walk tho street in his company, but kept my nose well stopped with rue, or sometimes with tobacco. ; In ten days Don Pedro, to whom I had given some account of my domestic affairs, put it upon, me, as a matter of honor and conscience, that If ought to return to my native country, and live at home with my wife and children. He told me there was an English ship in the port just ready to GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 455 sail, and he would furnish me with all things necessary. It would be tedious to repeat his arguments, and my contradictions. He said it was altogether impossible to find such a solitary island as I had desired to live in; but I might command in my own house, and pass my time in a manner as recluse as | pleased. i I complied at last, finding I could not do better. I left Lisbon the 24th day of November, in an Eng- lish merchantman, but who was the master I never inquired. Don Pedro accompanied me to the ship, and lent me twenty pounds. He took kind leave of me, and embraced me at parting, which I bore as wellasI could. During this last voyage I had no commerce* with the master or any of his men; but, pretending I was sick, kept close in my cabin. On the 5th of December, 1715, we cast anchor in the Downs about nine in the morning, and at three in the afternoon I got safe to my house at Redriff. My wife and family received me with great surprise and joy, because they concluded me ‘certainly dead; but I must freely confess the sight of them filled me only with hatred, disgust, and contempt; and the more, by reflecting on the near alliance I had to them. for although, since my *Tntercourse; conversation. 456 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. unfortunate exile from the Houyhnhnm country, 1 had compelled myself to tolerate the sight of Yahoos, and to converse with Don Pedro de Mendez, yet my memory and imagination were perpetually filled with the virtues and ideas of those exalted Houyhnhnms. : As soon as I entered the house my wife took me in her arms and kissed me; at which, having not been used to the touch of that odious animal for so” many years, I fell into a swoon for almost an hour, At the time I am writing, it is five years since my last return to England; during the first year I | could not endure my wife or children in my pres- ence; the very smell of them was intolerable; much less could I suffer them to eat in the same room. To this hour they dare not presume to touch my bread, or drink out of the same cup; neither was I ever able to let one of them take me by the hand. The first money I laid out was to buy two young horses, which I kept in a good stable; and, next to them, the groom is my greatest favorite; for I feel my spirits revived by the smell he contracts in the stable. My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship to each other. x GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, 45% CHAPTER XII. The Author’s Veracity—His design in publishing this Work— His Censure of those Travelers who swerve from the Truth—The Author clears himself from any sinister ends in writing—An objection aswered—The method of plant- ing Colonies—His native Country commended—The right of the Crown to those Countries described by the Author is justified—The Difficulty of conquering them—The Author takes his last leave of the Reader—Proposeth his Manner of Living for the future—Gives good Advice, and concludes. Tuus, gentle reader, I have given thee a faithful history of my travels for sixteen years and above seven months; wherein | have not been so studious of ornament as of truth. I could, perhaps, like others, have astonished thee with strange, improb- able tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform, and not to amuse thee. It is easy for us who travel into remote countries, ABS GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. which are seldom visited by Englishmen or other. Europeans, to form descriptions of wonderful ani- mals both at sea and land. Whereas a traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad, as well as good example, of what they deliver concerning foreign places. I could heartily wish a law was enacted that every traveler, before he were permitted to publish, his voyages, should be obliged to make oath before the Lord High Chancellor, that all he intended to print was absolutely true to the best of his knowl. edge; for then the world would no longer be de- ceived, as it usually is, while some writers, to make their works pass the better upon the public, impose the grossest falsities on the unwary reader. I have perused several books of travels with great delight in my younger days; but having since gone over most parts of the globe, and been able to contradict | many fabulous accounts from my own observation, it hath given me a great disgust against this part of reading, and some indignation to see the credulity of mankind so impudently abused. Therefore, since my acquaintance were pleased to think my poor en- deavors might not be unacceptable to my country, I imposed on myself, as a maxim never to be swerved from, that I would strictly adhere to truth ; neither GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 459 ndeed can I be ever under the least temptation to rary from it, while I retain in my mind the lectures ind example of my noble master and the other illus- ios Houyhnhnms, of whom I had so long the ionor to be an humble hearer. I know very well how little reputation is to be got by writings, which require neither genius nor learning, nor indeed any other talent, except a good memory, or an exact journal. I know likewise that writers of travels, like dictionary makers, are sunk into oblivion by the weight and bulk of those who come last, and therefore lie uppermost. And it is highly probable that such travelers, who shall here- after visit the countries described in this work of mine, may, by detecting my errors (if there be any), and adding many new discoveries of their own, jostle me out of vogue, and stand in my place, mak- ing the world forget that ever I was an author. ‘This indeed would be too great a mortification if I wrote for fame; but as my sole intention was the public good, I cannot be altogether disappointed ‘For who can read of the virtues I have mentioned in the glorious Houyhnhnms, without being ashamed of his own vices, when he considers himself as the reasoning, governing animal of his country? Ishall say nothing of those remote nations where Yahoos preside ; among which the least corrupted are the 460 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. Brobdingnagians, whose wise maxims in morality and government it would be our happiness to ob serve. But I forbear descanting further, and rather leave the judicious reader to his own remarks ang applications. Iam not a little pleased that this work of mine can possibly meet with no censurers ; for what ob- jections can be made against a writer who relates only plain facts that happened in such distant coun- tries, where we have not the least interest with respect either to trade or negotiations? I have carefully avoided every fault with which ‘common writers of travels are often too justly charged. Besides, I meddle not with any party, but write without passion, prejudice, or ill-will against any: man, or number of men, whatsoever. I write for the noblest end, to inform and instruct mankind; over whom I may, without breach of modesty, pre- tend to some superiority, from the advantages I received by conversing so long among the most: accomplished Houyhnhnms. I write without any view toward profit or praise. I never suffer a word to pass that may look like reflection, or possibly. give the least offense, even to those who are most ready to take it. So that I hope I may with justice pronounce myself an author perfectly blameless 5, against whom the tribes of Answerers, Considerers, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 461 Observers, Reflectors, Detectors, Remarkers,* will never be able to find matter for exercising their talents. I confess it was whispered to me that I was bound in duty, as a subject of England, to have given in a memorial to a secretary of state at my first coming over; because whatever lands are dis- sovered by a subject belong to the crown. But I doubt whether our conquests in the countries I treat of would be as easy as those of Ferdinando Cortez over the naked Americans. The Lilliputians, I think, are hardly worth the charge of a fleet and army to reduce them; and I question whether it might be prudent or safe to attempt the Brobding- nagians; or whether an English army would be much at their ease with the Flying Island over their heads. The Houyhnhnms indeed appear not to be so well prepared for war, a science to which they are perfect strangers, and especially against missive weapons. However, supposing myself to be a minister of state, I could never give my advice for invading them. Their prudence, unanimity, un- acquaintedness with fear, and their love of their ; * Alluding to writers who bring out books or pamphlets dealing with other books, and giving their productions such titles as Answers to, Considerations on, Observations on, etc., such or such a work. 462 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. country, would amply supply all defects in the military art. Imagine twenty thousand of them breaking into the midst of an European army, con- founding the ranks, overturning the carriages, bat- tering the warriors’ faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs; for they would well deserve the character given to Augustus, Recalcitrat undique tutus.* But, instead of proposals for con- quering that magnanimous nation, I rather wish they were in a capacity, or disposition, to send a sufficient number of their inhabitants for civilizing Europe, by teaching us the first principles of honor, justice, truth, temperance, public spirit, fortitude, chastity, friendship, benevolence, and fidelity, the names of all which virtues are still retained among us in most languages, and are to be met with in some modern as well as ancient authors; which I am able to assert from my own small reading. But I had another reason, which made me less: forward to enlarge his majesty’s dominions by my discoveries. To say the truth I had conceived a few scruples with relation to the distributive justice of princes upon those occasions. For instance a crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the * He kicks out behind, safe on every side. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 463 topmast; they go on shore to rob and plunder; they see a harmless people; are entertained with kindness; they give the country a new name; they take formal possession of it for their king; they set up a rotten plank, or a stone, for a memorial; they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple more by force, for a sample ; return home and get their pardon. Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed ; their princes tor- tured to discover their gold ; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking “with the blood of its inhabitants; and this execrable ‘erew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedi- tion, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize ‘an idolatrous and barbarous people !* But this description, I confess, doth by no means affect the British nation, who may be an example to the whole world for their wisdom, care, and jus- ‘tice in planting colonies; their liberal endowments ‘for the advancement of religion and learning; their choice of devout and able pastors to propagate Christianity ; their caution in stocking their prov- 7% This, unfortunately, is too true a picture of the manner in which some European colonies have been founded, as, for instance, those of the Spanish in America. 464 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. inces with people of sober lives and conversations, from this the mother kingdom ; their strict regard to the distribution of justice, in supplying the civil administration through all their colonies with offi- cers of the greatest abilities, utter strangers to cor- ruption; and, to crown all, by sending the most vigilant and virtuous governors, who have no other views than the happiness of the people over whom. they preside, and the honor of the king their master.* But as those countries, which I have described, do not appear to have a desire of being conquered and enslaved, murdered or driven out by colonies; nor abound either in gold, silver, sugar, or tobacco, I did humbly conceive they were by no means proper objects of our zeal, our valor, or our interest. However, if those whom it more concerns think fit. to be of another opinion, I am ready to depose, when I shall be lawfully called, that no European did ever visit those countries before me. I mean, if the inhabitants ought to be believed, unless a dis- pute may arise concerning the two Yahoos, said to have been seen many ages ago upon a mountain in Houyhnhnm-land. But, as to the formality of taking possession in * These statements are, of course, ironical on Swift’s part. — GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 465 my sovereign’s name, it never came once into my thoughts; and if it had, yet, as my affairs then stood, I should perhaps, in point of prudence and self-preservation, have put it off to a better oppor- tunity. Having thus answered the only objection that can ever be raised against me as a traveler, | here take a final leave of all my courteous readers, and return to enjoy my own speculations in my little garden at Redriff ; to apply those excellent lessons of virtue which I learned among the Houyhnhnms; to instruct the Yahoos of my own family, as far as I shall find them docible animals; to behold my figure often in a glass, and thus, if possible, habitu- ate myself by time to tolerate the sight of a human creature; to lament the brutality of Houyhnhnms in my own country, but always treat their persons with respect, for the sake of my ncble master, his family, his friends, and the whole Houyhnhnm race, whom these of ours have the honor to re- semble in all their lineaments, however their intel- lectuals came to degenerate. I began last week to permit my wife to sit at dinner with me, at the furthest end of a long table; and to answer (but with the utmost brevity) the few questions I asked her. Yet the smell of a Yahoo continuing very offensive, I always keep my 466 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. nose well stopped with rue, lavender, or tobacco ee leaves. And although it be hard for a man late in _ life to remove old habits, I am not altogether out of hopes, in some time, to suffer a neighbor Yahoo in my company without the apprehensions I am yet — under of his teeth or his claws. My reconcilement to the Yahoo kind in general might not be so difficult if they would be content with those vices and follies only which nature hath entitled them to. I am not in the least provoked at the sight of a lawyer, a pickpocket, a colonel, a fool, a lord, a gamester, a politician, a physician, an — evidence,* a suborner, an attorney, a traitor, or the like; this is all according to the due course of things; but when I behold a lump of deformity and diseases, both in body and mind, smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all the measures of my patience; neither shall I be ever able to compre- hend how such an animal and such a vice could taily together. The wise and virtuous Houy- hnhnms, who abound in all excellences that can adorn a rational creature, have no name for this vice in their language; which hath no terms to express anything that is evil, except those whereby they describe the detestable qualities of their Pg ae ge ge ee an ee * One who brings false accusations. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 467 Yahoos; among which they were not able to dis- tinguish this of pride, for want of thoroughly understanding human nature, as it showeth itself in other countries where that animal presides. But I, who had more experience, could plainly observe some rudiments of it among the wild Yahoos. But the Houyhnhnms, who live under the govern- ment of reason, are no more proud of the good qualities they possess than I should be for not wanting a leg or an arm; which no man in his wits would boast of, although he must be miserable without them. I dwell the longer upon this sub- ject from the desire I have to make the society of an English Yahoo by any means not insupportable ; and therefore I here entreat those who have any tincture of this absurd vice that they will not pre- sume to come in my sight. THE END. A. L. Burt’s Catalogue of Books for Young People by Popular Writers, 52- 58 Duane Street, New York “© <~ BOOKS FOR BOYS. Joe’s Luck: A Boy’s Adventures in California. By Horatio ALGER, Jk. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. The story is chock full of stirring incidents, while the amusing situ- ations are furnished by Joshua Bickford, from Pumpkin Eollow, and the fellow who modestly styles himself the ‘‘Rip-tail Roarer, from Pike Co., Missouri.’’ Mr. Alger never writes a poor book, and ‘‘Joe’s Luck’’ is cer- tainly one of his best. Tom the Bootblack; or, The Road to Success. By Horatto ALGER, JR. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. A bright, enterprising lad was Tom the Bootblack. He was not at all ashamed of his humble calling, though always on the lookout to better himself. The lad started for Cincinnati to look up his heritage. Mr. Grey, the uncle, did not hesitate to employ a ruffian to kill the lad. The plan failed, and Gilbert Grey, once Tom the bootblack, came into a com- fortable fortune. This is one of Mr. Alger’s best stories. Dan the Newsboy. By Horatio AuLcerR, JR. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. Dan Mordaunt and his mother live in a poor tenement, and the lad is pluckily trying to make ends meet by selling papers in the streets of New York. A little heiress of six years is confided to the care of the Mor- daunts. The child is kidnapped and Dan tracks the child to the house where she is hidden, and rescues her. The wealthy aunt of the little heiress is so delighted with Dan’s courage and many good qualities that she adopts him as her heir. Tony the Hero: A Brave Boy’s Adventure with a Tramp. By Horatio ALGER, Jk. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. Tony, a sturdy bright-eyed boy of fourteen, is under the control of Rudolph Rugg, a thorough rascal. After much abuse Tony runs away and gets a job as stable boy in a country hotel. Tony is heir to a large estate. Rudolph for a consideration hunts up Tony and throws him down a deep well. Of course Tony escapes from the fate provided for him, and by a brave act, a rich friend secures his rights and Tony is prosperous. A very entertaining book. The Errand Boy; or, How Phil Brent Won Success. By Horatio AtgER, JR. 12mo, cloth illustrated, price $1.00. The career of ‘‘The Errand Boy’? embraces the city adventures of a emart country lad. Philip was brought up by a kind-hearted innkeeper named Brent. The death of Mrs. Brent paved the way for the hero’s subsequent troubles. A retired merchant in New York secures him the situation of errand boy, and thereafter stands as his friend. Tom Temple’s Career. By Horatio ALGER, JR. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. Tom Temple is a bright, self-reliant lad. He leaves Plympton village to seek work in New York, whence he undertakes an important mission to California. Some of his adventures in the far west are so startling that the reader will scarcely close the book until the last page shall have been reached. The tale is written in Mr. Alger’s most fascinating style. tal cts ahaa REI NALD IRE EOE Tne For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publisher, A, L. BURT, 52-88 Duane Street, New York. tr ; A. L. BURT’S BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. BOOKS FOR BOYS. Frank Fowler, the Cash Boy. By Horatio Atcer, JR. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. Frank Fowler, a poor boy, bravely determines to make a living for himself and his foster-sister Grace. Going to New York he obtains a Situation as cash boy in a dry goods store. He renders a service to a wealthy old gentleman who takes a fancy to the lad, and thereafter helps the lad to gain success and fortune. Tom Thatcher’s Fortune. By Horatio ALceER, JR. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. Tom Thatcher is a brave, ambitious, unselfish boy. He supports his mother and sister on meagre wages earned as a shoe-pegger in John Simpson’s factory. Tom is discharged from the factory and starts over- land for California. He meets with many adventures. The story is told in a way which has made Mr. Alger’s name a household word in so many homes. The Train Boy. By Horatio Atcer, Jr. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. Paul Palmer was a wide-awake boy of sixteen who supported his mother ; and sister by selling books and papers on the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad. He dctects a young man in the act of picking the pocket of a young lady. In a railway accident many passengers are killed, but Paul is fortunate enough to assist a Chicago merchant, who out of gratitude takes him into his employ. Paul succeeds with tact and judgment and is well started on the road to business prominence. iiark Mason’s Victory. The Trials and Triumphs of aie ae Boy. By Horatio Auger, Jr. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price Mark Mason, the telegraph boy, was a sturdy, honest lad, who pluckily won his way to success by his honest manly efforts under many diffi- culties. This story will please the very large class of boys who regard Mr. Alger as a favorite author. A Debt of Honor. The Story of Gerald Lane’s Success iF ie Far West. By Horatio ALGER, Jr. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price .U0. The story of Gerald Lane and the account of the many trials and dis- appointments which he passed through befor. he attained success, will rere all boys who have read the previous stories of this delightful 2utaor. Ben Bruce. Scenes in the Life of a Bowery Newsboy. By Horatio ALGER, JR. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. Ben Bruce was a brave, manly, generous boy. The story of his efforts, and many seeming failures and disappointments, and his final success, are most interesting to all readers.. The tale is written in Mr. Alger’s most fascinating style. The Castaways; or, On the Florida Reefs. By Jamzs Otis. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. This tale smacks of the salt sea. From the moment that the Sea Queen leaves lower New York bay till the breeze leaves her becalmed off the coast of Florida, one can almost hear the whistle of the wind through her rigging, the creak of her straining cordage as she heels to the leeward. The adventures of Ben Clark, the hero of the story and Jake the cook, cannot fail to charm the reader. AS a writer for young people Mr. Otis is a prime favorite. a LN NRA SRR a a For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publisher, A. L, BURT, 52-58 Duane Street, New York. A. E. BURT’S BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 3 BOOKS FOR BOYS. Wrecked on Spider Island; or, How Ned Rogers Found the Treasure. By James Oris. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. Ned Rogers, a ‘‘down-east’’ plucky lad ships as cabin boy to earn a livelihood. Ned is marooned on Spider Island, and while there dis- covers a wreck submerged in the sand, and finds a considerable amount of treasure. The capture of the treasure and the incidents of the yoyage serve to make as entertaining a story of sea-life as the most eaptious boy could desire. The Search for the Silver City: A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan. By James Otis. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. Two lads, Teddy Wright and Neal Emery, embark on the steam yacht Day Dream for a cruise to the tropics. The yacht is destroyed by fire, and then the boat is east upon the coast of Yucatan. They hear of the wonderful Silver City, of the Chan Santa Cruz Indians, and with the help of a faithful Indian ally carry off a number of the golden images from the temples. Pursued with relentless vigor at last their escape is effected in an astonishing manner. The story is so full of exciting incidents that the reader is quite carried away with the novelty and realism of the narrative. A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise. By James Oris. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. This is a sea tale, and the reader can look out upon the wide shimmer- ing sea as it flashes back the sunlight, and imagine himself afloat with Harry Vandyne, Walter Morse, Jim Libby and that old shell-back, Bob Brace, on the brig Bonita. The boys discover a mysterious document which enables them to find a buried treasure. They are stranded on an island and at last are rescued with the treasure. The boys are sure to be fascinated with this entertaining story. The Treasure Finders: A Boy’s Adventures in Nicaragua. By James OTIs. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. Roy and Dean Coloney, with their guide Tongla, leave their father’s indigo plantation to visit the wonderful ruins of an ancient city. The boys eagerly explore the temples of an extinct race and discover three golden images cunningly hidden away. They escape with the greatest difficulty. Eventually they reach safety with their golden prizes. We doubt if there ever was written a more entertainrng story than ‘‘The Treasure Finders.’’ Jack, the Hunchback. A Story of the Coast of Maine. By James OTs. Price $1.00. This is the story of a little hunchback who lived on Cape Elizabeth, on the coast of Maine. His trials and successes are most interesting. From first to last nothing stays the interest of the narrative. It bears us rege 3 as on a stream whose current varies in direction, but never loses s force. With Washington at Monmouth: A Story of Three Philadelphia Boys. By James Otis. 12mo, ornamental cloth, olivine edges, illustrated, price $1.50. Three Philadelphia lads assist the American spies and make regular and frequent visits to Valley Forge in the Winter while the British occupied the city. The story abounds with pictures of Colonial life skillfully drawn, and the glimpses of Washington’s soldiers which are given shown that the work has not been hastily done, or without con- siderable study. The story is wholesome and patriotic in tone, as are all of Mr. Otis’ works. ee ee es For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publisher, A. L, BURT, 52-58 Duane Street, New York. 4 A. L. BURT’S BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. BOOKS FOR BOYS. | With Lafayette at Yorktown: A Story of How Two Boys Joined the Continental Army. By Jamzs OTIs. 12mo, ornamental cloth, olivine edges, illustrated, price $1.50. Two lads from Portmeuth, N. H., attempt to enlist in the Colonial Army, and are given employment as spies. There is no lack of exciting incidents which the youthful reader craves, but it is healthful excite- ment brimming with facts which every boy should be familiar with, and while the reader is following the adventures of Ben Jaffrays and Ned Allen he is acquiring a fund of historical lore which will remain in his memory long after that which he has memorized from text- books has been forgotten. At the Siege of Havana. Being the Experiences of Three Boys Serving under Israel Putnam in 1762. By James Otis. 12mo, ornamental cloth, olivine edges, illustrated, price $1.50. ““At the Siege of Havana’’ deals with that portion of the island’s history when the English king captured the capital, thanks to the assistance given by the troops from New England, led in part by Col. Israel Putnam. The principal characters are Darius Lunt, the lad who, represented as telling the story, and his comrades, Robert Clement and Nicholas Vallet. Colonel Putnam also figures to considerable extent, necessarily, in the tale, and the whole forms one of the most readable stories founded on historical facts. The Defense of Fort Henry. A Story of Wheeling Creek in 1777. By Jamss Ot1s. 12mo, ornamental cloth, olivine edges, illustrated, price $1.50. Nowhere in the history of our country can be found more heroic or thrilling incidents than in the story of those brave men and women who founded the settlement of Wheeling in the Colony of Virginia. The recital of what Hlizabeth Zane did is in itself as heroic a story as can be imagined. The wondrous bravery displayed by Major McCulloch and his gallant comrades, the sufferings of the colonists and their sacrifice of blood and life, stir the blood of old as well as young readers. The Capture of the Laughing Mary. A Story of Three New York Boys in 1776. By James Or1s. 12mo, ornamental cloth, olivine edges, price $1.50. “During the British occupancy of New York, at the outbreak of the Revolution, a Yankee lad hears of the plot to take General Washington’s person, and calls in two companions to assist the patriot cause. They do some astonishing things, and, incidentally, lay the way for an American navy later, by the exploit which gives its name to the work. Mr. Otis’ books are too well known to require any particular commendation to the young.’’—Evening Post. With Warren at Bunker Hill. A Story of the Siege of Boston. By James OTIs. 12mo, ornametnal cloth, olivine edges, illus trated, price $1.50. “This is a tale of the siege of Boston, which opens on the day after the doings at Lexington and Concord, with a description of home life in Boston, introduces the reader to the British camp at Charlestown, shows Gen. Warren at home, describes what a boy thought of the battle of Bunker Hill, and closes with the raising of the siege. The three heroes, George Wentworth, Ben Scarlett and an old ropemaker, incur the enmity of a young Tory, who causes them many adventures the boys will like to read.’’—Detroit Free Press. SSS SSS For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on Fecelnt of price by the publisher, A, L, BURT, 52-58 Duane Street, New York. 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