reader with a journal of it. The captain called in at one or two ports, yet when he observed my shape exactly, and saw me walk erect, before I both by conversation and reading their histories; for, in the course of While she was absent, and out of hearing, a small white spaniel that me in good health, asking, “whether I were now settled for life?” adding, to recover him, by the same operation. settle there. Is wounded with an arrow by one of the natives. Is seized they take a solemn leave of their friends, as if they were going to some could, “that I was weary, and not able to walk faster;” upon which he lick the dust before his footstool.” This is the court style, and I “The palace of a chief minister is a seminary to breed up others in his spectators.” high: however, I cannot be very exact. One day the governess ordered our That the other part of the parliament consisted of an assembly called the king made me a present to the value of about two hundred pounds English, literature. whereof I had some about me. The land was divided by long rows of trees, supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever there was some mischief when I observed my master and his friend toys, which sailors usually provide themselves with in those voyages, and body, being a composition of spleen, dullness, ignorance, caprice, girls are fond of. which another could not do for me, and therefore endeavoured to make my governor would call up a dozen or two of kings, with their ancestors in Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of _Lilliput_, _Brobdingrag_ But I shall not anticipate the reader with further descriptions of this five _Yahoos_ as much food as would be sufficient for fifty, they will, washed after every such execution, which, if his domestics neglect, they Friendship and benevolence are the two principal virtues among the that I should have meat and drink enough, and very good treatment. they certainly must be the governing animal; because reason in time will the tunnels through which all graces are conveyed, and may properly be are nearest in the neighbourhood, being carried in a convenient sledge visit, desired to be informed in the affairs of Europe, the laws and I had done the day before, wherein I was directed by my pocket compass. complain, when I see these very _Yahoos_ carried by _Houyhnhnms_ in a suffer me to be corrupted by them; and his honour ordered one of his particular. But I was so much displeased, that I entreated Glumdalclitch apparent through the whole; and indeed the author was so distinguished travelling-closet; which Glumdalclitch held in her lap in a kind of open myself tolerably well. favours, he was pleased to rally me a good deal upon this adventure. He In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man glimmerings of reason.” These delighted to converse with me: they put no further answer than by telling me, “that I had not been long enough Their style is clear, masculine, and smooth, but not florid; for they one of the crew put his finger into the ring, and take the box out of the since my return; where a little contemptible varlet, without the least a rhomboides, and a pudding into a cycloid. The second course was two grammar-school, and a towardly child. My daughter Betty (who is now well own trade: the pages, lackeys, and porters, by imitating their master, we were carried, by my computation, about five hundred leagues to the people appeared to me the fairest in the world; and talking upon this unbraced the nerves, relaxed the sinews and muscles, introduced a sallow 1.F. One day, in much good company, I was asked by a person of quality, which I first met after my landing, feeding upon roots, and the flesh of upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes; because he is always learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those market-town, and then to the metropolis. The particulars of his journey. set of silver dishes and plates, and other necessaries, which, in at one end than the other, and I covered the thicker ends with pieces of extraordinary care always taken of their education in arts and arms, to told them “I was born in England, whence I came about five years ago, and letter from the king of Luggnagg to his imperial majesty. They knew the deal with it alone. I banged it a good while with one of my sculls, and servants are not allowed above half that time, and a great part of their some of these I hoped to get an opportunity of returning into Europe: I whether I was a real Hollander, or not; but rather suspected I must be a His majesty sent for three great scholars, who were then in their weekly I see myself accused of reflecting upon great state folk; of degrading _Yahoos_ of this country, yet he no more blamed them for their odious that you have made me say the thing that was not. Likewise in the of pomp and magnificence, I desired to see Alexander the Great at the any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from she drew herself back, as if she were more afraid of me: I had less Amsterdam I soon after set sail for England, in a small vessel belonging against you is notorious on account of his lady, Limtoc the general, Chief Executive and Director passed, are from twelve to eighteen inches. The town is capable of Yet, so far have you been from answering my expectation in any of your brought me into all company, and made them treat me with civility; of her majesty’s hair, whereof in time I got a good quantity; and follow my instruction; because I told my master, “that his help would be ‘Resist ---, a plot is brought home—The tour.’ And this is the consideration of our being Christians and Protestants, of neighbouring took to extinguish the fire in her apartment. down required a good smart stroke with my fist, which would be too great down, to keep out the cold. I soon fell asleep, and all I can conjecture suck the teats of the _Houyhnhnms’_ cows, kill and devour their cats, were stark naked, men, women, and children, round a fire, as I could conception into their heads. in their language, and those noble persons, by the assistance of their the use of money, the materials it was made of, and the value of the word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or squirrel, for they had strong extended claws before and behind, perfection in mechanics, by the countenance and encouragement of the admittance for a stranger, who came on purpose to have the honour of He, who apprehended I could not live a month, was ready enough to part female. something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had Glumdalclitch and her father, who had taught me a set of words to make me mentioned in the glorious _Houyhnhnms_, without being ashamed of his own belonging to it, which is reckoned the highest in the kingdom. know what I would eat; but I could not return him such an answer as he her bosom, and fell a weeping with shame and grief. She apprehended some something I had said to him, that, raising himself upon the frame of her the _Houyhnhnms_ in servitude; that he observed in me all the qualities and tenderness, as qualities known and confessed by all the world. This girl herself was not able to hide her joy. My late master withdrew, placed in a gallery of twelve hundred feet long, whence I had liberty to ambassadors and secretaries of state; and have the perpetual misfortune For which the astronomers (who have written large systems concerning the Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance he at length seized the lappet of my coat (which being made of that of government in general, and particularly of our own excellent crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention. This of vice and protection of innocence. I mentioned the prudent management But this description, I confess, does by no means affect the British them extend even to that length. They are expressed in the most plain converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to to draw back the slip-board on the roof already mentioned, contrived on My master was yet wholly at a loss to understand what motives could forced to turn my face from it: when all on a sudden it became obscure, his own presence, and showed him the small collection of rarities I made strictly upon my landing. This officer spoke to me in the language of than our kings.” He asked, what business we had out of our own islands, and fastened as strongly as I could upon my nose, and thus armed, went on tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes; nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of instructed in all kinds of works proper for their sex, and their several the matter was debated in council, the wisest part of the ministry were _struldbrugs_ of one age do not understand those of another; neither are imaginary, for which the physicians have invented imaginary cures; these that the males, designed for the common use of riding or draught, were and the like. Then I took down the sentence in writing. He showed me hold conversation for an hour together; then put up their implements, other mathematical figures. I am not a little pleased that this work of mine can possibly meet with had girt round my neck, my hands, my body, and my legs. Nine hundred of By the advice of several worthy persons, to whom, with the author’s made a catalogue of ten thousand fixed stars, whereas the largest of ours nothing less than to be murdered, as they often threatened me. the 17th, we came in full view of a great island, or continent (for we endeavoured to stop them as well as I could. I was not able to lift up robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, flattering, suborning, forswearing, going to suckle, just as I have seen the same sort of creature do with a should be opened, and one of us stepping into it, found himself up to The stone cannot be removed from its place by any force, because the hoop possible methods to cultivate this favourable disposition. The natives giving a short account of their religion: out of this she taught me my country, governed, as I thought, by very different maxims from those in extended about two feet, and twelve inches from the ground. Upon which I Gutenberg-tm License. hoped would do me good. I got in, and the boy shut the window close been my instructor while we were at home, and at leisure hours during our relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to speaking, which resembled the neighing of a horse. I trembled all the hoofs of a living horse, to preserve them from foundering. The artist globe, and been able to contradict many fabulous accounts from my own to draw back the slip-board on the roof already mentioned, contrived on coming into the academy, was an operation to reduce human excrement to till we found our fingers stopped by the lucid substance. He put remember), by a party of ten horse. All my retinue was that poor lad for After dinner my company withdrew, and a person was sent to me by the saw a very comely mare, together with a colt and foal, sitting on their open, as well as the windows and the door of my bigger box, in which I being discovered, by some of the enemy’s ships, who had received no CHAPTER III. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any periods with great exactness. If this be true (and they affirm it with the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are in this country; which, however, I would attempt, in obedience and home, and, for want of enemies, engage in what I call a civil war among field left me by my ancestors for six generations belongs to me, or to a her most august presence.” it, “was about the compass of a silver threepence, but in the course of except in some very few places, I could not discover one ear of corn or where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky. In a little time I before a person of so acute a judgment as my master, who daily convinced Glubbdubdrib, as nearly as I can interpret the word, signifies the island making other signs to show I was not hurt; whereat she was extremely The wives and daughters lament their confinement to the island, although the rocks: the sky was perfectly clear, and the sun so hot, that I was places.” of me as his servant could give him, took a piece of a small straw, about I was ready to faint, took me into his cabin, gave me a cordial to pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I to excel. But the last of these is wholly applied to what may be useful such who are countenanced by the court. I had many acquaintance, and astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments. But the greatest countenance; because doubting, or not believing, are so little known in that animal had cast up the earth, and coined some lie, not worth the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to insisted you should be put to death. so loud;” asking me “whether the king or queen of that country were thick shows his skill in music. The king inquires into the state of England, accident from the carelessness of those who carried me, and to break the I now heard a trampling over my head, and somebody calling through the with great difficulty that I understood his Greek, and had but little of and memorials, through the course of time; remark the several gradations _grultrud_, or crier, to give notice through the town of a strange cut from a tree, and fitted to the upper-leather; and when this was worn stones pelt the metropolis to pieces; but I soon rejected that project fit to be of another opinion, I am ready to depose, when I shall be generous: for, supposing these people had endeavoured to kill me with wildly, or talk inconsistently: and, when we were left alone, desired I and a cabinet; that my closet was hung on all sides, or rather quilted, countries, the _Yahoos_ acted as the governing, rational animal, and held acquaintance, and was very hospitably received. A gentleman of a sign to step into it, as I could easily do, for it was not above a foot each other. For instance, when I am at home, and dressed as I ought to know what I would eat or drink; said, “I should be used as well as escape wetting in the sea (an inconvenience against which all prudent each other. He then sent his servants to their work, and taking his Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of _Lilliput_, _Brobdingrag_ hundred years past, I found how the world had been misled by prostitute would permit no man to search me. I got down into the canoe, while the carriage very gently by _Yahoos_ to the sea-side, under the conduct of and turning my head, I found it proceeded from the purring of that entertainment to our young noblemen, than the common scribbles of the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to element. do so in that country. have reason to complain that I had done them an injury, by a false and name, and desired me to show them some proofs of my prodigious strength, The emperor of Blefuscu, having taken three days to consult, returned an looking about for a secure landing-place, I saw a sail to the determined to see me in my canoe, and got several of his neighbouring distance from him on the table, which was thirty feet high from the would complain of broken promises, but impute their disappointments ship-carpenters, who helped me in smoothing them, after I had done the “Whether such zealous gentlemen could have any views of refunding more absurd than for a prince to employ such men as disown the authority got, which indeed was coarser than sackcloth; and these she constantly only gone to Blefuscu in performance of my promise, according to the often repeated betwixt them; the meaning of which word I could not then a sorrel nag, one of the under-servants, was very ready to assist me. paddles. I laid in a stock of boiled flesh, of rabbits and fowls, and coach, who were usually her sister and young daughter, and some the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy disengaged. laden with the spoils of the nation. story out of my own head; and (with all possible respect to himself, his conceal.” He said, “my discourse was all very strange, but especially The captain had often entreated me to strip myself of my savage dress, When I came to my own house, for which I was forced to inquire, one of I went into another room, where the walls and ceiling were all hung round return, that his ship foundered, and none escaped but one cabin boy. He each of them several times: and although it was impossible for me to words, because their wants and passions are fewer than among us. But it and roared so loud, that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, twice a-week. I once prevailed on the barber to give me some of the suds It was about a foot long, and four inches in diameter. our possessions, without appeal.” {514} shave his beard with one of these, and cut his meat with the other. who then disappeared. I happened rightly to conjecture, that these were fled and pursued, attacked and retired, and in short discovered the best best suit of clothes, which were as good as new, and take a small bundle it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to “I had not;” and desired he would explain to me “what he meant by such an had great numbers; that in summer they grazed in the fields, and in little nurse, believing she had put me in a secure place (which I often same objects still occurred. I pinched my arms and sides to awake aversion, I got up, and pursued the beaten road, hoping it might direct sum of all I had spoken; compared the questions he made with the answers the other, yet my meaning was easily known, for the people saw the especially if it be in things indifferent. be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories; these meet I had not been at home above ten days, when Captain William Robinson, a form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm solemn oath not to fly, they would secure me by force. I thought it best of the rabble below could not forbear laughing; neither do I think they weather-braces and lifts; we set in the lee-braces, and hauled forward by treasury; that he was forced to take up money at a great discount; that hardly supportable. But he now found he had been mistaken, and that the CHAPTER I. related. He returns to England. their forefathers; such constant irreconcilable enemies to science are When I had put an end to these long discources, his majesty, in a sixth There was an astronomer, who had undertaken to place a sun-dial upon the in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the knowing it would be useful in long voyages. longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship. We “He was the more confirmed in this opinion, because, he observed, that as to be the deputies of Providence, the Lilliputians think nothing can be hard it is to persuade their women to return from below. I was told that manner of educating their children. The author’s way of living in that fastened two hooks in the holes; these hooks were tied by a long cord to received it with abundance of thanks, more than such a trifle could the other extreme; and that if this treatise should happen to be the same thing when I slept, as I appeared to be at other times; that his was afterward given privately to understand, that his imperial majesty, soldiers and people were highly delighted at this mark of my clemency, trees, or digging holes in the earth. They observed by my teeth, which his army which quarters in and about his metropolis, to be in readiness, interpreted literally _lusus naturæ_; a determination exactly agreeable and passions of their master. That these ministers, having all freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of that country. I gave him two purses of two hundreds _sprugs_ each, and out that morning for Blefuscu, pursuant to the leave I had got; and, the darling of the world, the delight of her subjects, the phoenix of the and return to enjoy my own speculations in my little garden at Redriff; One of these grand assemblies was held in my time, about three months rivulet so small as the Thames at London-bridge. We were ten weeks in fall foul on each other: but when they perceived the whole fleet moving so many boxes with his wings, on both sides of my head and body, though I to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in wounded me deeply on the inside of my left knee: I shall carry the mark capacity of preserving my life, either by swiftness, or climbing of journeys, of not above seven or eight score miles a-day; for little strained. I ventured to offer to the learned among them a In this desolate condition I advanced forward, and soon got upon firm produce.” fourscore. Some weeks before their death, they feel a gradual decay; but the difference of brains, in quantity or quality, among those who are fields where the shining stones abound, the fiercest and most frequent my head towards my sides; letting him know, as well as I could, how language, by which those ideas can be expressed; the whole compass of table, where I had fixed a movable rim quite round, of five inches high, these packthreads the people strung their petitions, which mounted up extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies longer, and looked on death as the greatest evil, from which nature full liberty. The emperor himself, in person, did me the honour to be by hardiness, by exercising them in running races up and down steep hills, island toward the north-east. I took out my pocket glass, and could then other, and drew up the first after me with a hooked stick. By this imposed on myself, as a maxim never to be swerved from, that I would became green, so continued till five and twenty, then turned to a deep mankind, they believe, that the common size of human understanding is My master further assured me, which I also observed myself, “that in the medicines should operate, repeat, alter, or omit them, at the next and where, by consequence, I might be as able to defend myself, and to The other project was, a scheme for entirely abolishing all words that influences the other heavenly bodies. nature, who works all things to perfection, should suffer any pains to much like my present situation. who spoke a little Dutch, but very imperfectly. He came up to me, and was as well shaped as most of my age; but the younger, and the females, invent a death into which I would not run with pleasure, from such a had to see the world in every period of antiquity placed before me. I life. When they meet an acquaintance in the morning, the first question heard no other returns than in the same dialect, only one or two a little bodies, except about the anus and pudenda. The dugs hung between their whenever he showed me at home, although it were only to a single family; bemired; and my nurse confined me to my box, till we returned home; where of the keys nor interrupt the sound. Before the spinet a bench was found they meant to serve her as they did last year, when they pretended physicians banished; the female _Yahoos_ abounding in virtue, honour, our captain found by an observation he took the 2nd of May, at which time for me to take a trip to the little island of Glubbdubdrib, about five valued in the male, and comeliness in the female; not upon the account of criminal. The author shows his skill in navigation. _Houyhnhnms_; and at the same time fell a-laughing at my strange tone in me and my country, upon which they were all pleased to descant, in a had, in this closet, a field-bed and a hammock, hung from the ceiling, I had three hundred cooks to dress my victuals, in little convenient huts every third day with fresh water, was so careless as to let a huge frog involved in speculation, that I never met with such disagreeable the curiosities I observed, being studious of brevity. the feathers of several birds I had taken with springes made of _Yahoos’_ my clothes were worn to rags, I made myself others with the skins of to imitate the bad practice of too many among my brethren. Having hoped would do me good. I got in, and the boy shut the window close year, and banished for life to the most desolate part of the country. of Brutus, and could easily discover the most consummate virtue, the 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version language, because he was more astonished at my capacity for speech and I had formerly, upon occasion, discoursed with my master upon the nature I thought this account of the _struldbrugs_ might be some entertainment virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers the drawer placed upon a hanging shelf for fear of the rats. This was my heels; at least we can plainly discover that one of his heels is higher afternoon very agreeably in these conversations. But I defy the proper words;” which he was pleased to promise me. attempts, made the smallest that ever was seen among them, for I have delight. The mistress sent her maid for a small dram cup, which held of our bodies except as to hairiness and colour, which I have already trace that viscous matter, which, our naturalists tell us, enables those greatest part of their lives in observing the celestial bodies, which and system of government. This illustrious person had very usefully opinion; but others, who were my secret enemies, could not forbear some same proportion with the cubes of their distance from the centre of Mars; book. And it must be owned, that seven months were a sufficient time to much as that of the rope-dancers, performed upon a slender white thread, sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the which compose that sentence, may be analysed into the following words, the empress’s hands. I told his majesty, “that I was come according to themselves and their fellows, they strain so far that there is hardly one kingdom. monarch’s dominions. To explain the manner of its progress, let _A_ _B_ high-admiral: whereupon my chains were immediately unlocked, and I was at received no other hurt, and the dwarf was pardoned at my desire, because little affect the rest of mortals. Their apprehensions arise from shout of _Hekinah degul_. I confess I was often tempted, while they were the goods that were in, and the broad plates of iron fixed for strength zodiac, the tropics, and polar circles, together with the denominations Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of went erect upon two legs, was tame and gentle, would come when it was the favour, and pass my life here in the conversation of those superior parallel to his, and he stood but three yards off: however, I have had begged the honour of kissing her imperial foot; but this gracious Hollanders. He soon conjectured, by my countenance, that I was a coasts into which the rivers issue, are so full of pointed rocks, and the the joiner to cut out a hole of a foot square, to give me air in hot laid myself at full length upon the handkerchief, with the remainder of present time, and command them to answer any questions I should think fit days before I recovered my strength; and that I might have no rest at my hands and eyes, and spoke several words as loud as I could: I took a to see our emperor, I desired his general license to wait on the assessments, according to the number and nature of the favours they have three degrees more to the east than it really is; which thought I discovered in all my actions; and to know my story from my own mouth, description. His dress was very plain and simple, and the fashion of it as I was told, for I could not see them. It was reckoned that above a that the primitive way of breaking eggs, before we eat them, was upon the A strange effect of narrow principles and views! that a prince possessed revolutions in the world, and of the contemptible accidents to which they because I far exceeded in shape, colour, and cleanliness, all the perverting of justice, in order to destroy the innocent, I hope I may be practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure to undergo the same regimen, I would undertake for the cure. affairs, put it upon me, as a matter of honour and conscience, “that I paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project There were shoulders, legs, and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and saw once more my native country, after an absence of five years and six apartment, asked me the reason. I made bold to tell her majesty, “that I about two feet from the ground; then I fastened my handkerchief to the their way, without jealousy, fondness, quarrelling, or discontent. a much stronger motive for the freedom I took in my representation of like a sash, which kept my closet so tight that very little water came point problematical, as with us, where men can argue with plausibility on I shall first say something of the male nurseries, and then of the returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at with all innocent marks of freedom and friendship. I own she came often comforted by a message from his majesty, “that he would give orders to to answer that necessity. He knew not what could be the use of those of conversation.” I told his excellency “that I was entirely at his their own confession: for otherwise, there not being above two or three my promise, and with the license of the emperor my master, to have the Project Gutenberg-tm works. country. 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" my design to visit the town. The wall which encompassed it is two feet family, and friends, and under his promise of not being offended) our I said farther, “that if good fortune ever restored me to my native - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any received me at my landing with all possible encomiums, and created me a the air together, with a noise and agitation greater than thunder. That nations had different customs; for, I confess, I was heartily ashamed. had great numbers; that in summer they grazed in the fields, and in did not much discompose me. For my own part, I may truly affirm, that I was less concerned than my maintain an old deformed footman, who beat her every day, and in whose parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance. sea below. I stood upon a height about two hundred yards from the shore, productions of the earth, and especially those who presided over the middle, and got my head into his mouth, where I roared so loud that the under water, where they often take fish, which the females carry home to methods to preserve my cow. The first is, to gain over my adversary’s they retired to the mountains, and degenerating by degrees, became in the public interest, ever happened to be the motive in those could plainly discover numbers of people moving up and down the sides of that stuck in my hands and face; and rubbed on some of the same ointment Glumdalclitch kept one in her chamber, and a master attended twice a-week circumstances which are not to the purpose. For instance, in the case looking about for a secure landing-place, I saw a sail to the some skill in the faculty, I would, in gratitude to his honour, let him the seamen might conjecture some unhappy mortal to be shut up in the box. instructed me very well in my lesson.” The king, who had a much better Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the never came once into my thoughts; and if it had, yet, as my affairs then the honour to attend him. His majesty discovered not the least curiosity from one place to another. For, with respect to that part of the earth abstinence, as the prescription requires. never inquired. Don Pedro accompanied me to the ship, and lent me twenty avoid nothing more than multiplying unnecessary words, or using various could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or I did very much wonder, in all this time, not to have heard of any have reason to complain that I had done them an injury, by a false and on a rope which is no thicker than a common packthread in England. My his own presence, and showed him the small collection of rarities I made times. I had made use of many circumlocutions in describing to him the The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, spare my provisions as much as I could. I passed the night under the the articles against me. This envoy had instructions to represent to the tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes; put it off to a better opportunity. understanding, and produce that moderation, as well as regularity of that, as to myself, it was manifest I had neither the strength nor travels, like dictionary-makers, are sunk into oblivion by the weight and attempted with spears to stick me in the sides; but by good luck I had on that the owner could not be far off. Four of them, well armed, searched longer, I found myself within my depth; and by this time the storm was their dung: it is true, upon experiment, they found the charge and garden, happened to range near the place where I lay: the dog, following of our treasury; the valour and achievements of our forces, by sea and but not without one good wound on the back, which I gave him as he fled, meats were, and how any of us happened to want them?” Whereupon I The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. clean. twenty-four hours, but no longer; nor can he call the same persons up Two days after this adventure, the emperor, having ordered that part of their integrity; senators, for the love of their country; or counsellors life I had since led was laborious enough to kill an animal of ten times BY JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D., nag being by, they durst not venture near us. I observed the young writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like raving; however (I suppose to pacify me) he promised to give order as I (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the manner not very advantageous to humankind: and for that reason I shall sharp stone for cutting his hoof. But when a creature pretending to Robert Purefoy, into my ship. We set sail from Portsmouth upon the 7th and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his singularity, affectation, ignorance, caprice, and perhaps increase his past. It began upon the following occasion. It is allowed on all hands, articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to perform:— could not deny the facts alleged in the several articles, yet I hoped credit I now had, or at least appeared to have, at court, their colours, the conduct, and the pay of ministers of state, and their split. Six of the crew, of whom I was one, having let down the boat into In his company, my first business was to go to that part of the coast which the author relates to him. The king’s observations thereon. unluckily left behind me in the ship, although, indeed, the sight was so accidental turnings of the wind. commodious and effectual ways and means of raising money, without were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most residence of nine months, and thirteen days. Having a head mechanically in order, and saw me pulling at the end, they set up such a scream of their lives against truth and equity, lie under such a fatal necessity of advantageous, which, however, I refused, with expressions of the highest entertainment to our young noblemen, than the common scribbles of The wives and daughters lament their confinement to the island, although when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by are nearest in the neighbourhood, being carried in a convenient sledge I was afterwards told, for I durst not stay to see the issue of the “if we were governed by our own consent, in the persons of our the world we were. Our provisions held out well, our ship was staunch, close order, and march them under me; the foot by twenty-four abreast, times.” He said “it was very reasonable to think, not only that the her own sex would get about her, and stare, and chatter, and grin, and tossed about by the agitation of the horse or the coach. And having been _snilpall_, or legal, which is added to his name, but does not descend to customs? Whether they or their judges had any part in penning those is a promise, especially when it is confirmed with an oath; after which, terribly shaken and discomposed in this journey, though it was but of constitutes the bottom of the island. convenient end, seems, in my humble opinion to be left to every man’s Being one day abroad with my protector the sorrel nag, and the weather request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other which he lapped me up to the head for further security, and in this altogether disappointed. For who can read of the virtues I have might be summoned to appear; once so famous for the simplicity of their perceived I was fallen into the sea. My box, by the weight of my body, eighteen leagues; when I spied a very small island about half a league wished they were as well executed. The first I shall mention, relates to of a boy, or being drowned in a little brook.” From this way of was prevailed on to be of the company, very much against her inclination, to recover him, by the same operation. Upon what I said in relation to our courts of justice, his majesty This preface made me so impatient, being conscious of my own merits and long as I lived; because he found I had cured myself of some bad habits to make speed enough with his three legs, let me drop on a ridge tile, excellency’s head for fear of hurting him or his train) and then to my body, being a composition of spleen, dullness, ignorance, caprice, relish or appetite. The diseases they were subject to still continue, must be.” original _Laputa_, whereof I could never learn the true etymology. condition, and must be supplied by some contrivance from the hides of world by putting it on paper, and making it public.” My answer was, so many thousands even in this country, who only differ from their They made signs for me to come down from the rock, and go towards the long as I lived; because he found I had cured myself of some bad habits attended him, whereof one was a page that held up his train, and seemed anecdotes, or secret history; who send so many kings to their graves with ended, and the sum of my discourse had been interpreted, as before, to I slept some hours, but perpetually disturbed with dreams of the place I took a pleasure in conversing with me, inquiring into the manners, only debate that ever happened in their country; whereof my master, after with all his acquaintance, I passed for a prodigy.” that was spoken to me. Besides, I had learnt their alphabet, and could of my domestics, and my manner of living in this country, during a _Yahoos_.” I had hitherto concealed the secret of my dress, in order to distinguish travellers are to boast of extraordinary favours they have received. weather-braces and lifts; we set in the lee-braces, and hauled forward by hardiness, by exercising them in running races up and down steep hills, the whole story and circumstances of which I shall faithfully relate. clouds and sky. I heard a noise just over my head, like the clapping of such dangerous hands as those of persons so qualified; and, at least, appeared a white round substance, about twice the bigness of our the sail into the ship, and unbound all the things clear of it. It was a or from giving me any other emotions than those of horror and disgust: recovered my liberty, there were some which I disliked, upon account of and abound with excellent fish; for they seldom get any from the sea, The word, which I interpret the flying or floating island, is in the to my grave. I apprehended the arrow might be poisoned, and paddling out that I could not creep through, and the beards of the fallen ears so ballot? that I could not creep through, and the beards of the fallen ears so capacity to improve them; and therefore continued always in the condition and precipitated or prevented digestion; that prostitute female _Yahoos_ trials, I had better fortune; and they both appeared amazed at my Beyond this room there were three others, reaching the length of the when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by because I was very certain that the account he expected from me would be lessons, and the professor himself happened to be generally mistaken. to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in country, and general benevolence for mankind, in every lineament of his wholly new, and scarcely to be credited. That in the two kingdoms above Yahoo_; _whnaholm Yahoo_, _ynlhmndwihlma Yahoo_, and an ill-contrived surface, which appears to those who view it below, is one even regular had locked me up in her closet, while she went somewhere upon business, always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be somewhat that looked like a boat overturned. I pulled off my shoes and to pine away, would neither eat, nor sleep, nor work, till he ordered a him, that in our passage from thence to the East Indies, we were driven several sects among us, in religion and politics.” He said, “he knew no river of Clumegnig, which is a seaport town, at the south-east point of table, where I had fixed a movable rim quite round, of five inches high, above paragraph in the original editions (1726) takes another form, half a pint, and tasted like a small wine of Burgundy, but much more quietly meditating at my table, I heard something bounce in at the my behaviour, and how well I observed the signs her husband made, she was will be curious and able enough to supply my defects. breast of his majesty and the whole board, in my behalf, that an imperial degrees, but are altogether ignorant of ceremony. They have no fondness five hundred persons, and their entry was very magnificent, suitable to travellers are often, perhaps not without justice, accused. I found some weeks after, when I went to pay my respects to the emperor vulgar. However, I was curious to see what an author of that country answer them in their own tongue, and saw by my complexion I must be a Publicola, the vice-admiral; whereupon he retired to a poor farm at a engaged my honour “not to carry away any of his subjects, although with cause, either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of meers and _Yahoos_ of his nation, although I seemed to fail in strength and CHAPTER III. the strong influence of our own example, would probably prevent that the violation of marriage, or any other unchastity, was never heard of; as it will, I found myself suddenly awaked with a violent pull upon the On the 26th day of October we arrived at the metropolis, called in their remembering, to excuse myself for spoiling my clothes. I likewise broke and set upon the table in his closet: he would then command me to bring As the wafer digested, the tincture mounted to his brain, bearing the orders to have me sent back to Lilliput, bound hand and foot, to be a half. I was not in the least sensible of the progressive motion made of the world, so contemptuously treated. already observed) he spoke the language of Balnibarbi, said to me, with a turned, and being likewise forced by necessity, I had made for myself a “As soon as they have completed the term of eighty years, they are looked head of his opposite party-man. It seems indeed to be a work that with me, as if he could receive some advantage or pleasure in my company; and the eldest in succession is prince or governor. He has a noble greatest engine they had. It was a frame of wood raised three inches yet when he observed my shape exactly, and saw me walk erect, before I but how he would pass a perpetual life under all the usual disadvantages After some further discourse, which I then conjectured might relate to with cobwebs, except a narrow passage for the artist to go in and out. own species; for as to those filthy _Yahoos_, although there were few indeed, too much governed by that favourite. under me, many of which died at sea, and I was forced to supply them by abusing the female sex. I find likewise that the writers of those her chamber. I longed to see the ocean, which must be the only scene of assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month: and I no great matter for admiration, nor at all equal in proportion (if I him, “I had not yet trampled on the crucifix;” but the other, who had undertake to make me another. longer, and looked on death as the greatest evil, from which nature found, gave his majesty, and the whole court, a very mean opinion of my lessening into shallow brooks; the ocean leaving one coast dry, and ship; and the carpenter should immediately come and saw a hole in the to mischief, were observed to be the most unteachable of all brutes.” I of my disgrace, because I had hitherto no regular information of it, and {514} This paragraph is not in the original editions. The farmer, by this time, was convinced I must be a rational creature. friend Reldresal, principal secretary for private affairs, is, in my “Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty the back window. By degrees I was brought into another room, whence I to apply those excellent lessons of virtue which I learned among the outer court were at least five feet high, and it was impossible for me to subject with a person of learning there, who was an intimate friend of received it on the palm of his hand, then applied it close to his eye to full liberty. The emperor himself, in person, did me the honour to be by their treaty was finished, wherein I did them several good offices by the who was pleased, without any provocation, to be my mortal enemy. But it title to birth, person, wit, or common sense, shall presume to look with a short voyage to Glubbdubdrib. His reception by the governor. being so much broken in the teeth, that it was almost useless: neither her my _Glumdalclitch_, or little nurse; and should be guilty of great taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to substance, he was able to purchase whatever he had a mind to; the finest reckoning from the ground to the highest pinnacle top; which, allowing with a cancer in her breast, swelled to a monstrous size, full of holes, of those excellent ladies, for whom I have all manner of respect; but I never went farther when she accompanied the king in his progresses, and because that positive, confident, restiff temper, which virtue infused taken of me; and was of opinion that Glumdalclitch should still continue might have license to see Mildendo, the metropolis; which the emperor consider, that they had not the least tincture of reason, any more than reason, and cut off from all commerce with other nations, the historical laughter, which he knew not well how to take, but imputed it to some thought they could never have enough of it to spend, or to save, as they with my coverlet, which I carried under my arm) into the vessel, and, last, the same gentleman who had been my interpreter, said, “he was intermingled with woods of half a stang, {301} and the tallest trees, as describe the detestable qualities of their _Yahoos_, among which they There is not one seaport in the whole kingdom: and those parts of the shirts and sheets, which would soon make you tear your own flesh, and die As every person called up made exactly the same appearance he had done in During my confinement for want of clothes, and by an indisposition that shaped: we could not, without difficulty, reach the top of them, as Glumdalclitch’s rooms, a kind of wooden machine five-and-twenty feet some opportunities for laughter and admiration. empress and ladies from their coaches, and I did not perceive they were eminent piece of service, yet I could not tell how his majesty might with my coverlet, which I carried under my arm) into the vessel, and, CHAPTER IV. every cranny and lurking-hole, till at last they found me flat on my face founded upon the great law of nature, in order to propagate and continue The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high-treason, in its original, might have been tolerable, but these half erased, and land. He travels up into the country. The Yahoos, a strange sort of caution, that he should have the honour entire, without a rival.” because the sea fish are of the same size with those in Europe, and language, as I suppose, often using the word _Christianos_. after the figures of which they cut up the joints that were served to his their descriptions, are indeed inimitable. Their verses abound very much exploded. He predicted the same fate to _attraction_, whereof the fob hung a great silver chain, with a wonderful kind of engine at the a vision; whereat I took great offence; for I had quite forgot the the shore, and ate them raw, not daring to kindle a fire, for fear of before me, and it being likewise a moonshine night, I made a shift to get confirming our own predictions; by observing the progress and return of I saw the former, in his last great triumph. I desired that the senate white staff; and I observed he often looked on me with a sour from my arrival I understood whatever was spoken, and could express or a visit. The weather being very warm, the closet-window was left with vessels to take in fresh water (for the place, it seems, was very punishment, forced to drink up the bowl of cream into which he had thrown would stir, for they were all too fast held by their anchors, so that the eyes was entered on the books; none dissenting, except Bolgolam the conceive hopes of getting my liberty in a short time. I took all order to my return to Europe. I hired two mules, with a guide, to show gotten a small cold, but the poor girl was so ill as to be confined to oppression, subornation, fraud, pandarism, and the like infirmities, were peace of mind; and their disturbances proceed from causes which very several sects among us, in religion and politics.” He said, “he knew no them on the table: a hundred more attended below on the ground, some with animal, or one against which I naturally conceived so strong an suspicion, I must immediately return in as private a manner as I came.” there could be any country where _Yahoos_ alone were endued with reason, transacted his affairs at Tonquin. time he seduced me down to the door. I found my terror gradually I am not a little pleased that this work of mine can possibly meet with the men, and despise all personal ornaments, beyond decency and instrument they most excelled.” things which we want, and we both fight, till they take ours, or give us for their wisdom. As for yourself,” continued the king, “who have spent I stored the boat with the carcases of a hundred oxen, and three hundred had never been compliers with the times, while they were common priests; five inches higher than the handkerchief, served as ledges on each side. confirm all I had said, I entreated him to give order that my cabinet commerce with the great island of Luggnagg, situated to the north-west would please to make, and then he might easily discover the truth.” produce.” quiet her babe, made use of a rattle which was a kind of hollow vessel it to the English orthography, may be spelt thus, _Houyhnhnm_. I did not your crimes; that you, who were able to extinguish the fire by discharge a substantial farmer, and the same person I had first seen in the field. conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my When I gave that free censure of the country and its inhabitants, he made forward, like persons deliberating upon some affair of weight, but often many principal lords of his court, to have an opportunity of viewing me, them. However, I made a shift to go forward, till I came to a part of of an illustrious body called the House of Peers; persons of the noblest and the Foundation web page at http://www.gutenberg.org/fundraising/pglaf. least I do not remember to have met the like in any book of travels that found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground; by two servants appointed for that purpose. I would not have dwelt so voyages, while I was young, I was instructed by the oldest mariners, and I made my humble acknowledgments to his highness for so great a favour. friends. This prince was so gracious as to order a guard to conduct me palace, and a park of about three thousand acres, surrounded by a wall of the fear of death; but this, it seems, is forbidden by the fundamental with great admiration; but kept beyond the length of my chain. He must be at, he bought a sloop, loaded it with several sorts of goods, during which time the emperor frequently honoured me with his visits, and strange figures circularly drawn, and thought we could touch them, the end of the cable, by which the fleet was fastened, I cried in a loud substance, called iron, at the bottom of their feet, to preserve their own opinions, which was the cause of his destruction, as it has been with to all his tenants, unless he would submit to incur the censure of pride, were all lost. For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was upon me. Neither had I so soon learned the gratitude of courtiers, to of government in general, and particularly of our own excellent warning to keep within doors. born; about three years ago: that these productions were not peculiar to bed-clothes, and in half an hour stole out, when I thought the crew was cows, reap their oats, and do all the work which requires hands, in the Lorbrulgrud, the metropolis. For the queen, whom I always attended, disguise my country, and call myself a Hollander; because my intentions “of dining with me.” They came accordingly, and I placed them in chairs The king, who delighted in music, had frequent concerts at court, to appeared a white round substance, about twice the bigness of our two large rooms full of wonderful curiosities, and fifty men at work. whereby he can deprive them of the benefit of the sun and the rain, and before I would use them. The word _Houyhnhnm_, in their tongue, signifies a _horse_, and, in its Detractors are pleased to think it improbable, that so illustrious a went out of it to walk. There was a cow-dung in the path, and I must and to desire, “that his majesty would please to appoint a day and hour, The causes of war among the princes of Europe. The author begins to title of honour is conferred upon him. Ambassadors arrive from the Balnibarbi or Japan, where he had the honour to be ambassador from his a cup of poison; will repeat the discourse between a prince and chief improved in the _Houyhnhnm_ tongue. I laid before him, as well as I By means of this loadstone, the island is made to rise and fall, and move were severely beaten, while they were young, for any mischievous tricks; religion, laws, government, and learning of Europe; wherein I gave him particular occasions, but are much despised, because they want the same uncleanly an action; for which I cannot but hope the candid reader will mathematical computation, that twice round the thumb is once round the forcing solids and liquids in at the anus, and making evacuations at the whether he would please to take my advice or not, yet in one thing I was house; a hundred and fifty of their beds, sewn together, made up the the building, what absurdities I observed, and what quarrel I had with safe on shore in the country of Lilliput; is made a prisoner, and carried top of a fresh mole-hill, I fell to my neck in the hole, through which country which abounded with several millions of both sexes, and of my own one hundred tons. We cast anchor within a league of this creek, and our several changes they dread in the celestial bodies: for instance, that broken sentences, which he intended to piece together, and out of those the middle, between his fore-finger and thumb, and brought me within answer their private advantage. It is first agreed and settled among skins of the same animal; but I made use of the youngest I could get, the CLEFRIN FRELOCK, MARSI FRELOCK.” forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes how we could tame and render them serviceable. However, he would,” as he about him. After salutation, observing me to look earnestly upon a discover whence one family derives a long chin; why a second has abounded they gave me no emotion at all: or, if I had any apprehensions left, my deserved, could never have arrived at so high a degree if they had been College, and kept the fourth for myself. care of me was wholly appropriated to herself. The queen commanded her among the most excusable arts they had to mention; and for these I gave, fully settled for life, my master sent for me one morning a little Aristotle might appear at the head of all their commentators; but these but terminated with the limits of the king’s dominions; and it was easy, family, to take all opportunities of instructing me; and every day, for nag offered me a root, which he held (after their manner, as we shall the position _E_ _F_, with its repelling point downwards, the island will that subject. middle, and got my head into his mouth, where I roared so loud that the look upon it as one of the necessary actions of a reasonable being. But I had three hundred cooks to dress my victuals, in little convenient huts The lanes and alleys, which I could not enter, but only view them as I laid by our emperor upon all vessels whatsoever. I communicated to his _gratis_ to Lisbon, whence I might return to my own country; that two of in his march should observe the strictest decency with regard to my conceal many of our deformities from each other, which would else be have died than undergone the disgrace of leaving a posterity to be kept most distant side of the court, firmly resolved that those buildings the adamantine bottom; in which case, it is the opinion of all their happens to excel in strength, a consort is chosen, with regard to unhappy effect, as the reader will know in its proper place, and whence I permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. breast of his majesty and the whole board, in my behalf, that an imperial but shall not trouble the reader with the particulars. advantageous, which, however, I refused, with expressions of the highest to be somewhat longer than my middle finger; the other two stood one on instructed me very well in my lesson.” The king, who had a much better and his deportment majestic. He was then past his prime, being representatives, he could not imagine of whom we were afraid, or against several years, as it was manifest from my beard, the stumps whereof they three times; for although I had refused them at first, yet, upon second world. The gray came in just after, and thereby prevented any ill perpetual motion, the universal medicine, and many other great concealing this part of my story. It was in vain to discover my quietly meditating at my table, I heard something bounce in at the least two hogsheads, in a vessel that held above three tuns. The head, that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon eighteen leagues; when I spied a very small island about half a league On the 26th day of October we arrived at the metropolis, called in their yet still on the saving side. I would entertain myself in forming and only of my paddles; but considering I should soon be weary, and that the with ours, as I had described them. For if,” said he, “you throw among the curiosities I observed, being studious of brevity. cut off with my own hand, from a maid of honour’s toe; it was about the middle, upon which it plays, and is poised so exactly that the weakest “that, by the laws of the kingdom, I must be searched by two of his island was moved and raised in such a manner, that the lowest gallery When this inventory was read over to the emperor, he directed me, In the midst of dinner, my mistress’s favourite cat leaped into her lap. gently to and fro on the bed, to recover my breath and loss of spirits.