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Gulliver's Travels - part 2 · Gulliver's Travels

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  Speaker 1: That I was forced to turn my face from it,
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  Speaker 1: when all on a sudden it became obscure, as I thought,
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  Speaker 1: in a manner very different from what happens by the
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  Speaker 1: interposition of a cloud. I turned back and perceived a vast,
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  Speaker 1: opaque body between me and the sun, moving forwards towards
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  Speaker 1: the island. It seemed to be about two miles high
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  Speaker 1: and hid the sun six or seven minutes. But I
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  Speaker 1: did not observe the air to be much colder, or
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  Speaker 1: the sky more darkened than if I had stood under
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  Speaker 1: the shade of a mountain. As it approached nearer over
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  Speaker 1: the place where I was, it appeared to be a
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  Speaker 1: firm substance, the bottom flat, smooth, and shining very bright
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  Speaker 1: from the reflection of the sea below. I stood upon
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  Speaker 1: a height about two hundred yards from the shore, and
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  Speaker 1: saw this vast body descending almost to be parallel with
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  Speaker 1: me at less than an English mild distance. I took
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  Speaker 1: out my pocket perspective and could plainly discover numbers of
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  Speaker 1: people moving up and down the sides of it, which
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  Speaker 1: appeared to be sloping. But what those people were doing
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  Speaker 1: I was not able to distinguish the natural love of
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  Speaker 1: life gave me some inward motion of joy, and I
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  Speaker 1: was ready to entertain a hope that this adventure might,
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  Speaker 1: somewhere or other help to deliver me from the desolate
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  Speaker 1: place and condition I was in. But at the same
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  Speaker 1: time the reader can hardly concede my astonishment to behold
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  Speaker 1: an island in the air, inhabited by men who were able,
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  Speaker 1: as it should seem, to raise or sink, or put
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  Speaker 1: it into progressive motion as they pleased. But not being
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  Speaker 1: at that time in a disposition to philosophize upon this phenomenon,
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  Speaker 1: I rather chose to observe what course the island would take,
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  Speaker 1: because it seemed for a while to stand still, Yet
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  Speaker 1: soon after it advanced nearer, and I could see the
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  Speaker 1: sides of it encompassed with several gradations of galleries and
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  Speaker 1: stairs at certain intervals to descend from one.
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  Speaker 2: To the other.
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  Speaker 1: In the lowest gallery, I beheld some people fishing with
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  Speaker 1: long angling rods, and others looking on. I waved my cap,
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  Speaker 1: for my hat was long since worn out, and my
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  Speaker 1: handkerchief towards the island, and upon its nearer approach, I
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  Speaker 1: called and shouted with the utmost strength of my voice,
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  Speaker 1: and then, looking circumspectully, I beheld a crowd gather to
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  Speaker 1: that side which was most in my view. I found,
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  Speaker 1: by their pointing towards me and to each other, that
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  Speaker 1: they plainly discovered me, although they made no return to
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  Speaker 1: my shouting. But I could see four or five men
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  Speaker 1: running in great haste up the stairs to the top
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  Speaker 1: of the island, who then disappeared. I happened rightly to
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  Speaker 1: conjecture that these were sent for orders to some person
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  Speaker 1: in authority. Upon this occasion, the number of people increased,
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  Speaker 1: and in less than half an hour the island was
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  Speaker 1: moved and raised in such a manner that the lowest
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  Speaker 1: gallery appeared in a parallel of less than one hundred
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  Speaker 1: yards distance from the height of where I stood. I
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  Speaker 1: then put myself in the most supplicating posture, and spoke
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  Speaker 1: in the humblest accent, but received no answer. Those who
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  Speaker 1: stood nearest over against me seemed to be persons of distinction,
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  Speaker 1: as I supposed by their habit. They conferred earnestly with
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  Speaker 1: each other, looking often upon me. At length, one of
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  Speaker 1: them called out in a clear, polite, smooth dialect, not
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  Speaker 1: unlike in sound the Italian, and therefore I returned an
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  Speaker 1: answer in that language, hoping at least that the cadence
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  Speaker 1: might be more agreeable to his ears. Although neither of
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  Speaker 1: us understood the other, yet my meaning was easily known,
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  Speaker 1: for the people saw the distress I was in. They
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  Speaker 1: made signs for me to come down from the rock
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  Speaker 1: and go towards the shore, which I accordingly did, and
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  Speaker 1: the flying island being raised to a convenient height the
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  Speaker 1: verge directly over me. A chain was let down from
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  Speaker 1: the lowest gallery, with a seat fastened to the bottom,
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  Speaker 1: to which I fixed myself and was drawn up by pulleys.
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  Speaker 1: End of Part three, Chapter one, Chapter two, The Humors
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  Speaker 1: and Dispositions of the Leaputians described an account of their
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  Speaker 1: learning of the king, and discourt the author's reception there
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  Speaker 1: the inhabitants subject to fear and disquietudes an account of
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  Speaker 1: the women. At my alighting. I was surrounded with the
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  Speaker 1: crowd of people, but those who stood nearest seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be of better quality. They beheld me with all the
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  Speaker 1: marks and circumstances of wonder. Neither, indeed was I much
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  Speaker 1: in their debt, having never till then seen a race
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  Speaker 1: of mortals so singular in their shapes, habits, and countenances.
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  Speaker 1: Their heads were all reclined either to the right or
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  Speaker 1: the left, one of their eyes turned inward and the
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  Speaker 1: other directly up to the zenith. Their outward garments were
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  Speaker 1: adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars, interwoven
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  Speaker 1: with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and
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  Speaker 1: many other musical instruments Unknown to us in Europe, I
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  Speaker 1: observed here and there many in the habit of servants
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  Speaker 1: with a brown bladder fastened like a flail to the
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  Speaker 1: end of a stick, which they carried in their hands.
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  Speaker 1: In each bladder was a small quantity of dried peas
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  Speaker 1: or little pebbles, as I was afterwards informed, with these
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  Speaker 1: bladders they now and then flapped the mouths and ears
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  Speaker 1: of those who stood near them, of which practice I
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  Speaker 1: could not then conceive the meaning. It seems the mind
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  Speaker 1: of these people are so taken up with the intense
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  Speaker 1: speculations that they can neither speak nor attend to the
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  Speaker 1: discourses of others without being roused by some external taction
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  Speaker 1: upon the organs of speech and hearing, for which reason
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  Speaker 1: those persons who were able to afford it, always keep
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  Speaker 1: a flapper the original is criminal in their family as
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  Speaker 1: one of their domestics, nor ever walk abroad or make
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  Speaker 1: visits without him. And the business of this officer is,
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  Speaker 1: when two, three or more persons are in company, gently
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  Speaker 1: to strike with his bladder the mouth of him who
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  Speaker 1: is to speak, and the right ear of him, or
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  Speaker 1: then to whom the speaker addresses himself. This flapper is
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  Speaker 1: likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks,
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  Speaker 1: and upon occasion, to give him a soft flap on
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  Speaker 1: his eyes, because he is always so wrapped up in
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  Speaker 1: cogitation that he is in manifest danger of falling down
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  Speaker 1: every precipice and bouncing his head against every post, and
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  Speaker 1: in the streets of jostling others, or being jostled himself
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  Speaker 1: into the kennel. It was necessary to give the reader
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  Speaker 1: this information, without which he would be at the same
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  Speaker 1: loss with me to understand the proceedings of these people
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  Speaker 1: as they conducted me upstairs to the top of the island,
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  Speaker 1: and from thence to the royal Palace. While we were ascending,
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  Speaker 1: they forgot several times what they were about, and left
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  Speaker 1: me to myself till their memories were again roused by
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  Speaker 1: their flappers, for they appeared altogether unmoved by the side
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  Speaker 1: of my foreign habit and countenance, and by the shouts
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  Speaker 1: of the vulgar, whose thoughts and minds were more disengaged.
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  Speaker 2: At last we.
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  Speaker 1: Entered the palace and proceeded into the chamber of presents,
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  Speaker 1: where I saw the King seated on his throne, attended
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  Speaker 1: on each side by persons of prime quality. Before the
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  Speaker 1: throne was a large table filled with globes and spheres,
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  Speaker 1: and mathematical instruments of all kinds. His Majesty took not
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  Speaker 1: the least notice of us, although our entrance was not
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  Speaker 1: without sufficient noise by the concourse of all persons belonging
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  Speaker 1: to the court. But he was then deep in a problem,
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  Speaker 1: and we attended at least an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Before he could solve it.
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  Speaker 1: There stood by him on each side a young page
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  Speaker 1: with flaps in their hands, and when they saw he
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  Speaker 1: was at leisure, one of them gently struck his mouth,
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  Speaker 1: and the other his right ear, at which he started
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  Speaker 1: like one awaked on the sudden, and looking towards me
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  Speaker 1: and the company I was in recollect the occasion of
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  Speaker 1: our coming, whereof he had been informed before he spoke
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  Speaker 1: some words, whereupon immediately a young man with a flap
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  Speaker 1: came up to my side and flapped me gently on
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  Speaker 1: the right ear. But I made signs as well as
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  Speaker 1: I could that I had no occasion for such an instrument, which,
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  Speaker 1: as I afterwards found, gave his Majesty and the whole
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  Speaker 1: court a very mean opinion of my understanding. The King,
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  Speaker 1: as far as I could conjecture, asked me several questions,
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  Speaker 1: and I addressed myself to him in all the languages
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  Speaker 1: I had.
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  Speaker 2: When it was.
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  Speaker 1: Found I could neither understand nor be understood, I was
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  Speaker 1: conducted by his order to an apartment in his palace,
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  Speaker 1: this prince being distinguished above all his predecessors for his
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  Speaker 1: hospitality to strangers, where two servants were appointed to attend me.
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  Speaker 1: My dinner was brought, and four persons of quality, whom
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  Speaker 1: I remember to have seen very near the King's person,
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  Speaker 1: did me the honor to dine with me. We had
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  Speaker 1: two courses of three dishes each. In the first course
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  Speaker 1: there was a shoulder of mutton cut into an equal
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  Speaker 1: actual triangle, a piece of beef into a romboidis, and
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  Speaker 1: a pudding into a cycloid. The second course was two
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  Speaker 1: ducks trussed up in the form of fiddles, sausages and
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  Speaker 1: puddings resembling flutes and hoe boys, and a breath to
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  Speaker 1: veal in the shape of a harp. The servants cut
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  Speaker 1: our bread into cones, cylinders, parallelograms, and several other mathematical figures.
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  Speaker 1: After dinner, my company withdrew, and a person was sent
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  Speaker 1: to me by the king's order. Attended by a flapper.
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  Speaker 1: He brought with in pen, ink and paper, and three
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  Speaker 1: or four books, giving me to understand by signs that
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  Speaker 1: he was sent to teach me the language. We sat
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  Speaker 1: together four hours, in which time I wrote down a
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  Speaker 1: great number of words in columns, with the translations over
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  Speaker 1: against them. I likewise made a shift to learn several
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  Speaker 1: short sentences for my chewor would order one of my
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  Speaker 1: servants to fetch something, to turn about, to make a bow,
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  Speaker 1: to sit, or to stand or walk, and the like.
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  Speaker 1: Then I took down the sentence in writing. He showed
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  Speaker 1: me also in one of his books the figures of
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  Speaker 1: the sun, moon and stars, the zodiac, the tropics and
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  Speaker 1: polar circles, together with the denominations of many planes and solids.
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  Speaker 1: He gave me the names and descriptions of all the
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  Speaker 1: musical instruments, and to the general terms of art in
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  Speaker 1: playing on each of them. After he had left me,
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  Speaker 1: I placed all my words with their interpretations in alphabetical order,
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  Speaker 1: and thus, in a few days, by the help of
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  Speaker 1: a very faithful memory, I got some insight into their language.
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  Speaker 1: The word which I interpret, the flying or floating island,
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  Speaker 1: is in the original laputer, whereof I could never learn
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  Speaker 1: the true entomology. Lap in the old obsolete language signifies
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  Speaker 1: high and untar a governor, from which they say, by corruption,
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  Speaker 1: was derived laputa from from la punta. But I do
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  Speaker 1: not approve of this derivation, which seems to be a
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  Speaker 1: little strained. I ventured to offer to the learned among
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  Speaker 1: them a conjecture of my own, that sliputa was quasi
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  Speaker 1: lap outed lap signifying property, the dancing of the sunbeams
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  Speaker 1: in the sea, and outed a wing, which, however, I
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  Speaker 1: shall not obtrude, but submit to the judicious reader those
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  Speaker 1: to whom the King had entrusted me. Observing how ill
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  Speaker 1: I was clad, ordered a tailor to come next morning
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  Speaker 1: and take measure for a suit of clothes. The operator
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  Speaker 1: did his office after a different manner from those of
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  Speaker 1: his trade in Europe. He first took my altitude by
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  Speaker 1: a quadrant, and then with a rule and a compass,
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  Speaker 1: describe the dimensions and outlines of my whole body, all
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  Speaker 1: which he entered upon paper, and in six days brought
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  Speaker 1: me clothes very ill made and quite out of shape,
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  Speaker 1: by happening to mistake a figure in the calculation. But
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  Speaker 1: my comfort was that I observed such accidents very frequent
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  Speaker 1: and little regarded. During my confinement, for want of clothes,
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  Speaker 1: and by an indisposition that held me some days longer,
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  Speaker 1: I much enlarged my dictionary, and when I went next
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  Speaker 1: to court, was able to understand many things the King spoke,
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  Speaker 1: and to return him some kind of answers. His Majesty
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  Speaker 1: had given orders that the island should move northeast and
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  Speaker 1: by east to a vertical point over Laggardoe, the metropolis
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  Speaker 1: of the whole kingdom below, upon the firm earth. It
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  Speaker 1: was about ninety leagues distant, and our voyage lasted four
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  Speaker 1: days and a half. I was not in the least
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  Speaker 1: s sensible or the progressive motion, and the air by
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  Speaker 1: the island. On the second morning, about eleven o'clock, the
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  Speaker 1: King himself in person, attended by his nobility, courtiers and officers,
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  Speaker 1: having prepared all their musical instrument, played on them for
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  Speaker 1: three hours without intermission, so that I was quite stunned
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  Speaker 1: with the noise. Neither could I possibly guess the meaning
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  Speaker 1: till my tutor informed me. He said that the people
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  Speaker 1: of their island had their ears adapted to hear the
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  Speaker 1: music of the spheres, which always played at certain periods,
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  Speaker 1: and the court was now prepared to bear their part
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  Speaker 1: in whatever instrument they most excelled. In our journey towards Laggardo,
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  Speaker 1: the capital city, his Majesty ordered that the island should
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  Speaker 1: stop over certain towns and villages, from whence he might
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  Speaker 1: receive the petitions of his subjects, and to this purpose
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  Speaker 1: several pack threads were let down, with small weights at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom. On these pack threads the people strung their petitions,
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  Speaker 1: which mounted up directly like the scraps of paper fastened
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  Speaker 1: by schoolboys. At the end of the string that holds
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  Speaker 1: their kite. Sometimes received wines and vitals from below, which
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  Speaker 1: were drawn up by pulleys. The knowledge I had in
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  Speaker 1: mathematics gave me great assistance in acquiring their phraseology, which
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  Speaker 1: depended much upon that science and music, and in the
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  Speaker 1: latter I was not unskilled. Their ideas are perpetually conservant
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  Speaker 1: in lines and figures. If they would, for example, praise
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  Speaker 1: the beauty of a woman or any other animal, they
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  Speaker 1: described it by rhombust circles, parallelograms, ellipses, and other geometric turns,
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  Speaker 1: or by words of art, or from music. Needless here
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  Speaker 1: to repeat, I observed in the King's kitchen all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of mathematical and musical instruments, after the figures of which
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  Speaker 1: they cut up the joints that were served to his
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  Speaker 1: Majesty's table. Their houses are very ill built, the wall's
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  Speaker 1: bevel without one right angle in any apartment. And this
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  Speaker 1: defect arises from the contempt they bear to practical geometry,
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  Speaker 1: which they despise as vulgar and mechanic. Those instructions they give,
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  Speaker 1: being too refined for the intellects of their workmen, which
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  Speaker 1: occasions perpetual mistakes. And although they are dexterous enough upon
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  Speaker 1: a piece of paper in the management of the rule,
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  Speaker 1: the pencil, and the divider, yet in the common actions
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  Speaker 1: and behavior of life, I have not seen a more clumsy, awkward,
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  Speaker 1: and unhandy people, nor so slow and perplexed in their
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  Speaker 1: conceptions upon all other subjects except those of mathematics and music.
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  Speaker 1: They are very bad reasoners and vehemently given to opposition,
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  Speaker 1: unless when they happen to be of the right opinion,
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  Speaker 1: which is seldom their case. Imagination, fancy and invention, they
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  Speaker 1: are wholly strangers to, nor have any words in their
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  Speaker 1: language by which these ideas can be expressed, the whole
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  Speaker 1: compass of their thoughts and minds being shut up within
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  Speaker 1: the twoforementioned sciences. Most of them, and especially those who
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  Speaker 1: deal in the astronomical part, have great faith in judicial astrology,
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  Speaker 1: although they are ashamed to own it publicly. But what
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  Speaker 1: I chiefly admire and thought altogether unaccountable, was the strong
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  Speaker 1: disposition I observed in them towards news and politics, perpetually
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  Speaker 1: inquiring into public affairs, given their judgments in matters of state,
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  Speaker 1: and passionately disputing every inch of a party opinion. I
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  Speaker 1: have indeed observed the same disposition among most of the
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  Speaker 1: mathematicians I have known in Europe, although I could never
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  Speaker 1: discover the least analogy between the two sciences, unless those
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  Speaker 1: people suppose that because the smallest circle has as many
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  Speaker 1: degrees as the largest. Therefore, the regulation and management of
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  Speaker 1: the world require no more abilities in the handling and
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  Speaker 1: turning of a globe. But I rather take this quality
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  Speaker 1: to spring from a very common infirmity of human nature,
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  Speaker 1: inclining us to be most curious and conceited in manners
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  Speaker 1: where we have least concern, and from which we are
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  Speaker 1: least adapted by study or nature. These people are under
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  Speaker 1: continual disquietudes, never enjoying a minute's peace of mind, and
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  Speaker 1: their disturbances proceed from causes which very little affect the
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  Speaker 1: rest of mortals. Their apprehensions arise from stace several changes
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  Speaker 1: they dread in the celestial bodies. For instance, that's the Earth,
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  Speaker 1: by the continual approaches of the Sun towards it, must,
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  Speaker 1: in course of time be absorbed or swallowed up. That
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  Speaker 1: the face of the Sun will by degrees be encrusted
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  Speaker 1: with its own effluvia and give no more light to
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  Speaker 1: the world. That the Earth very narrowly escaped a brush
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  Speaker 1: from the tail of the last comet, which would have
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  Speaker 1: infallibly reduced it to ashes. And that the next, which
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  Speaker 1: they have calculated for one and thirty years hence, will
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  Speaker 1: probably destroy us. For if in its prehelion, it should
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  Speaker 1: approach within a certain degree of the Sun, as by
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  Speaker 1: their calculations they have reason to dread, it will receive
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  Speaker 1: a degree of heat ten thousand times more intense than
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  Speaker 1: that of a red hot, glowing iron, and in its
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  Speaker 1: absence from the Sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand and fourteen miles long, through which, if the Earth
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  Speaker 1: should pass at a distance of one hundred miles from
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  Speaker 1: the nucleus or the main body of the comet, it must,
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  Speaker 1: in its passage be set on fire and reduced to ashes.
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  Speaker 1: That the Sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment
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  Speaker 1: to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated,
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  Speaker 1: which must be attended with the destruction of this Earth
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  Speaker 1: and of all the planets that receive their light from it.
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  Speaker 1: They are so perpetually alarmed with the apprehensions of these
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  Speaker 1: and the like impending dangers, that they could neither sleep
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  Speaker 1: quietly in their beds, nor have any relish for the
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  Speaker 1: common pleasures and amusements of life. When they meet an
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  Speaker 1: acquaintance in the morning, the first question is about the
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  Speaker 1: Sun's health, how he looked at his setting and rising,
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  Speaker 1: and what hopes they have to avoid the stroke of
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  Speaker 1: the approaching comet. This conversation they are apt to run
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  Speaker 1: into with the same temper that boys discover in delighting
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  Speaker 1: to hear terrible stories of spirits and hopgloblins, which they
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  Speaker 1: greedily listen to, and dare not go to bed for fear.
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  Speaker 1: The women of the island have abundance of vivacity. They
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  Speaker 1: contemd their husbands, and are exceedingly fond of strangers, whereof
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  Speaker 1: there is always a considerable number from the continent below
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  Speaker 1: attending at court, either upon affairs of the several towns
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  Speaker 1: and corporations or their own particular occasions, but are much
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  Speaker 1: despised because they want the same endowments. Among these, the
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  Speaker 1: ladies choose their gallants, but the vexation is that they
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  Speaker 1: act with too much ease and security, for the husband
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: is always so wrapt in speculation that the mistress and
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: lover may proceed to the greatest familiarities before his face
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  Speaker 1: if he be but provided with paper and implements, and
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: without his flapper at his side. The wives and daughters
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: lament their confinement to the island, although I think it
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: is the most delicious spot of ground in the world.
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  Speaker 1: And although they live here in the greatest plenty and magnificence,
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  Speaker 1: and are allowed to do whatever they please, they long
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  Speaker 1: to see the world and take the diversions of the metropolis,
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  Speaker 1: which they are not allowed to do without a particular
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: license from the king, And that is not easy to
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: be obtained. Because the people of quality are found by
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: frequent experience how hard it is to persuade their women
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: to return. From below, I was told that a great
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: court lady, who had several children, is married to the
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Prime Minister, the richest subject in the kingdom, a very
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: graceful person, extremely fond of her, and lives in the
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: finest paserlice of the island. Went down to Laggardo on
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: the pretense of health. There hid herself for several months
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  Speaker 1: till the king sent a warrant to search for her,
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  Speaker 1: and she was found in an obscure eating house, all
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: in rags, having pawned her clothes to maintain, an old,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: deformed footman who beat her every day and in whose
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: company she was taken much against her will. And although
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: her husband received her with all possible kindness and without
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the least reproach, she soon after contrived to steal down
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: again with all her jewels to the same gallant, and
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: has not been heard of since. This may perhaps pass
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: with the reader rather for a European or English story
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: than for one of a country so remote. But he
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: may please to consider that the caprices of womankind are
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: not limited by any climate or nation, and that they
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: are much more ne uniform than can be easily imagined.
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  Speaker 1: In about a month's time, I had made a tolerable
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: proficiency in their language, was able to answer most of
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the King's questions. When I had the honor to attend him,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: His majesty discovered not the least curiosity to inquire into
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the laws, government, history, religion, or manners of the countries
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: where I had been, but confined his questions to the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: state of mathematics, and received the account I gave him
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: with great contempt and indifference, though often roused by his
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: flapper on each side. End of Part three, Chapter two,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Chapter three a phenomenon solved by modern philosophy and astronomy
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: that a Putian's great improvements in the latter the King's
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: method of suppressing insurrections. I desired leave of this prince
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: to see the curiosities of the island, which he was
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: graciously pleased to grant, and ordered my tutor to attend me.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I chiefly wanted to know to what cause, in art
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: or in nature it owed its several motions, whereof I
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: will now give a philosophical account to the reader. The
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: flying or floating island is exactly circular, its diameters seven thousand,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: eight hundred thirty seven yards or about four miles and
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  Speaker 1: a half, and consequently contains ten thousand acres. It is
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  Speaker 1: three hundred yards thick. The bottom or under surface, which
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: appears to those who view it below, is one even
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  Speaker 1: regular plate of adamant shooting up to the height of
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: about two hundred yards. Above it lie the several minerals
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: in their usual order, and over all is a coat
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: of rich mold ten or twelve feet deep. The delclivity
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: of the upper surface from the circumference to the center
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: is a natural cause why all the jews and rains
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: which fall upon the island are conveyed in small rivulets
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: towards the middle, where they are emptied into four large basins,
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  Speaker 1: each of about half a mile in circuit and two
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: hundred yards distant from the center. From these basins, the
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: water is continually exhaled by the sun in the daytime,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: which effectually prevents their overflowing. Besides, as it is in
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the power of the monarch to raise the island above
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the rain of clouds and vapors, he can prevent the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: falling of dews and rain whenever he pleases. For the
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: highest clouds cannot rise above two miles, as naturalists agree,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: at least they were never known to do so in
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: that country. At the center of the island there is
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: a chasm about fifty yards in diameter, whence the astronomers
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: descend into a large dome, which is thereof called Flandona Gagnol,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: or the Astronomer's Cave, situated at the depth of one
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: hundred yards beneath the upper surface of the Adamant. In
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: this cave are twenty lamps continually burning, which, from the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: reflection of the adamant, cast a strong light into every part.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabs,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: and other astronomical instruments. But the greatest curiosity upon which
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the fate of the island depends is a loadstone of
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: a prodigious size in shape resembling a weaver's shuttle. It
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: is in length six yards and in the thickest part
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: at least three yards over. This magnet is sustained by
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: a very strong axle of adamant passing through its middle,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: upon which it plays and is poised so exactly that
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: the weakest hand can turn it. It is hooped round
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: with a hollow cylinder of ac adamant four feet yards
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: in diameter, placed horizontally, and supported by eight adamantin feet
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: each six yards high. In the middle of the concave side.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: There is a groove twelve inches deep in which the
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: extremities of the axle are lodged and turned round as
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: there is occasion. The stone cannot be removed from its
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: place by any force, because the hoop and its feet
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: are one continued peace with that body of adamant which
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: constitutes the bottom of the island. By means of this lodestone,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the island is made to rise and fall, and move
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: from one place to another, For with respect to that
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: part of the earth over which the monarch presides, the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: stone is endured at one side of its side with
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: an attractive power, and at the other with a repulsive
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: upon place in the MAGNETURECT, with its attracting end towards
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the earth. The island descends. But when the repelling extremity
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  Speaker 1: points downwards, the island bounds directly upwards. When the position
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: of the stone is oblique, the motion of the island
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: is too, for in this magnet the forces always act
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: in lines parallel to its direction. By this oblique motion,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: the island is conveyed to different parts of the Monarch's dominions.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: To explain the manner of its progress, let a B
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: represent a line drawn across the dominions of Banna Barbie.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Let the line CD represent the loadstone, of which D
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: be the repelling end and C the attracting end. The
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: island being over capital C. Let the stone be placed
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: in position CD, with its repelling end downwards. Then the
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: island will be driven upwards obliquely towards capital D. When
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: it has arrived at capital D, let the stone be
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: turned upon its axil till the attracting end points towards E,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: and then the island will be carried obliquely towards E.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Where if the stone being again turned upon its axle
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: till it stands in the position e F, with its
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: repelling point downwards, the island will rise obliquely towards F,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: where by directing the attracting end towards G, the island
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: may be carried to G and from G to H.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: By turning the stone so as to make its repelling
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: extremity to point directly downwards, and thus by changing the
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: situation of the stone, as often as there is occasion,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the island is made to rise and fall by turns
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: in an oblique direction, and by those alternate risings and fallings,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the obliquity, being not considerable, is conveyed from one part
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: of the dominions.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: To the other.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: But it must be observed that this island cannot move
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: beyond the extent of the dominions below, nor can it
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: rise above the height of four miles, for which the
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: astronomers who have written large systems concerning the stone as
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: sign the following reason that the magnetic virtue does not
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: extend beyond the distance of four miles, and that the
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: mineral which acts upon the stone in the bowels of
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: the earth and in the sea about six leagues distance
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: from the shore, is not diffused through the whole globe
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: but terminated with the limits of the king's dominions. And
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: it was easy, from the great advantage of such a
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: superior situation for a prince to bring under his obedience
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: whatever country lay within the attraction of that magnet. When
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: the stone is put parallel to the plane of the horizon,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the island stands still, for in that case the extremities
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: of it, being at equal distance from the Earth, act
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: with equal force, the one in drawing downwards, the other
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: in pushing upwards, and consequently no motion can ensue. This
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: lodestone is under the care of certain astronomers, who, from
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: time to time gimmit such positions as the monarch directs.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: They spend the greatest part of their lives in observing
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the celestial bodies, which they do by the assistance of
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: glasses far excelling hours and goodness, for although their largest
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: telescopes do not exceed three feet, they magnify much more
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: than those of a hundred with us, and show the
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: stars with greater clearness. This advantage has enabled them to
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: extend their discoveries much further than now. Astronomers in Europe,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: for they have made a catalog of ten thousand fixed stars,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: whereas the largest of ours do not contain above one
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: third part of that number. They have likewise discovered two
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: lesser stars or satellites, which revolve about Mars, whereof the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: innermost is distant from the center of the primary planet
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five. The
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: latter in twenty one and a half, so that the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: squares the periodical times are very near in the same
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: proportion with the cubes of their distance from the center
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: of Mars, which evidently shows them to be governed by
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: the same law of gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: They have observed ninety three different comets and settled their
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: periods with great exactness. If this be true, and they
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: affirm it with great confidence, it is much to be
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: wished that their observations were made public, whereby the theory
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: of comets, which at present is very lame and defective,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: might be brought to the same perfection with other arts
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: of astronomy. The King would be the most absolute prince
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: in the universe, if he could but prevail on the
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: ministry to join with him But these, having their estates
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: below on the continent, and considering that the office of
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: a favorite has a very uncertain tenure, would never consent
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: to the enslaving of their country. If any town should
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: engage in rebellion or mutiny, fall into violent factions, or
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: refuse to pay the usual tribute, the king as two
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: methods of reducing them to obedience. The first and mildest
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: course is by keeping the island hovering over such a
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: town and the lands about it, whereby he can deprive
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: them of the benefit of the sun and the rain,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: and consequently afflict the inhabitants with dearth and disease. And
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: if the crime deserve it, they are at the same
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: time pelted from above with great stones, against which they
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: have no defense but by creeping into cellars or caves,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: while the roofs of their houses are beaten to pieces.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: But if they still continue obstinate, or offer to raise insurrections,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: he proceeds to the last remedy by letting the island
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: drop directly upon their heads, which makes a universal destruction
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: both of houses and men. However, this is an extremity
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: to which the prince is seldom driven. Neither indeed is
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: he willing to put it in execution, Nor dare his
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: ministers advise him to an action which, as it would
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: render them odious to the people, so it would be
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: a great damage to their own estates, which all lie below,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: for the island as the king's domain. But there is still,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: indeed a more weighty reason. Wings of this country have
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: always been averse from executing so to terrible in action,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: unless upon the utmost necessity. For if the town intended
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: to be destroyed should have in it any tall rocks,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: as it generally falls out in the largest cities, a
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: situation probably chosen at first with a view to prevent
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: such a catastrophe, or if it abound in high spires
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: or pillars of stone, a sudden full might endanger the
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: bottom or under surface of the island, which, although it couldsist,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: as I have said, of one entire adamant two hundred
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: yards thick, might happen to crack by two great shock,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: or burst by approaching two near the fires from the
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: houses below, as the backs both of iron and stone,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: will often do in our chimneys. Of all this, the
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: people are well appraised and understand how far to carry
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: their obstinacy where their liberty orty is concerned, and the King,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: when he is highest provoked and most determined to press
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: a city to rubbish, orders the island to descend with
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: great gentleness, out of a pretense of tenderness to his people,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: but indeed for fear of breaking the Adamantine bottom, in
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: which case it is the opinion of all the philosophers
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: that the lodestone could no longer hold it up, and
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: the whole mass would fall to the ground. By a
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: fundamental law of this realm, neither the King nor either
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: of his two eldest sons are permitted to leave the island,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: nor the Queen till she is past childbearing end apart three.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Chapter three. Chapter four.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: The author leaves Leputa is conveyed to Baal Nababi arrives
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: at them tropolis, a description of the metropolis and the
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: country adjoining the author hospitably received by a great lord.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: His conversation with that lord. Although I cannot say that
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: I was ill treated in this island, yet I must
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: confess I thought myself too much neglected, not without some
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: degree of contempt, for neither prince nor people appeared to
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: be curious in any part of knowledge except mathematics and music,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: wherein I was far their inferior, and upon that account
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: very little regarded. On the other side, After having seen
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: all the curiosities of the island, I was very desirous
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: to leave it, being heartily weary of those people. They
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: were indeed excellent in two sciences for which I have
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: great esteem, and wherein I am not unversed, but at
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: the same time so abstracted and involved in speculation that
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I have never met yet with such disagreeable companions. I
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: confessed only with women, tradesmen, flappers, and court pages during
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: two months of my abode, there by which at least
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I rendered myself extremely contemptible. Yet these were the only
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: people from whom I could ever receive a reasonable answer.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: I had obtained, by hard study a good degree of
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: knowledge in their language. I was weary of being confined
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: to an island where I received so little countenance, and
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: resolved to leave it with the first opportunity. There was
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: a great lord at court, nearly related to the King,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: and for that reason alone used with respect, he was
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: universally reckoned the most ignorant and stupid person among them.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: He had performed many eminent services for the crown, had
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: great natural and acquired parts, adorned with integrity and honor,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: but so ill an ear.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: For music that his detractors.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Reported he had been often known to beat time in
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: the wrong place. Neither could his tutors, without extreme difficulty,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: teach him to demonstrate the most easy proposition in the mathematics.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: He was pleased to show me many marks of favour,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: often did me the honor of a visit. Desired to
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: be informed in the affairs of Europe, the laws and customs,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: the manners and learning of the several countries where I
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: had traveled. He listened to me with great attention, and
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: made very wise observations on all I spoke.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: He had two.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Flappers attending him for state, but never made use of
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: them except at court and in visits of ceremony, and
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: would always command them to withdraw when we were alone together.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: I entreated this illustrious person to intercede in my behalf
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: with his majesty for leave to depart, which he accordingly did,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: as he was pleased to tell me, with great regret,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: For indeed, he had made me several offers very advantageous, which, however,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: I refused with expressions of the highest acknowledgment. On the
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: sixteenth of February, I took leave of his majesty in
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: the court. The King made me a present to the
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: value of about two hundred pounds English, and my protector
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: his kinsman as much more, together with a letter of
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: recommendation to a friend of his in Laggodo, the metropolis,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: the island being then hovering over a mountain about two
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: miles from it, I was let down from the lowest
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: gallery in the same manner I had been taken up.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: The continent, as far as it is subject to The
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: monarch of the Flying Island passes under the general name
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: of Bound the Barbie, and the metropolis, as I have
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: said before, is called Laggardo. I felt some little satisfaction
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: in finding myself on firm I walked to the city
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: without any concern, being clad like one of the natives,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: and sufficiently instructed to converse with them. I soon found
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: out the person's house to whom I was recommended, presented
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: my letter from his friend, the Grandee in the island,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: and was received with much kindness. This great lord, whose
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: name was Minodi, ordered me an apartment in his own house,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: where I continued during my stay and was entertained in
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: a most hospitable manner. The next morning after my arrival,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: he took me in his chariot to see the town,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: which is about half the bigness of London, but the
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: houses very strangely built, and most of them out of repair.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: The people in the.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Streets walked fast, looked wild, their eyes fixed, and were
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: generally in rags.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: We passed through.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: One of the town gates and went about three miles
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: into the country, where I saw many laborers working with
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: several sorts of tools in the ground, but was not
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: able to conjecture what they were about. Neither did observe
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: any expectation either of corn or grass, although the soil
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: appeared to be excellent. I could not forbear admiring at
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: these odd appearances, both in town and country, and I
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: made bold to desire my conductor that he would be
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: pleased to explain to me what could be meant by
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: so many busy heads, hands and faces, both in the
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: streets and the fields, because I did not discover any
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: good effects they produced. But on the contrary, I never
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: knew a soil so unhappily cultivated houses so ill contrived
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: and so ruinous, or a people whose countenances and habit
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: expressed so much misery and want. This Lord Manodie was
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: a person of the first rank, and had been some
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: years governor of Laggardo, but by a cable of ministers,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: was discharged for insufficiency. However, the King treated him with tenderness,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: as a well meaning man, but of a low contemptible understanding.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: When I gave that free censure of the country and
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  Speaker 1: his inhabitants, he made no further answer than by telling
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  Speaker 1: me that I had not been long enough among them
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  Speaker 1: to form a judgment, and that the different nations of
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: the world had different customs, with other common topics to
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: the same purpose. But when we returned to his palace,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: he asked me how I liked the building, what absurdities
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: I observed.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: And what quarrel I had with the dress or look
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: of his domestics.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: This he might safely do, because everything about him was magnificent, regular,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: and polite. I answered that his Excellency's prudence, quality, and
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: fortune had exempted him from those defects which and Beggary
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: had produced in others. He said, if I would go
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: with him to his country, house about twenty miles distant,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: whereas the state lay there would be more leisure for
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: this kind of conversation. I told his excellency that I
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: was entirely at his disposal, and accordingly we set out
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: next morning. During our journey he made me observe the
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: several methods used by farmers in managing their lands, which
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  Speaker 1: to me were wholly unaccountable for. Except in some very
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: few places, I could not discover one ear of corn
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: or blade of grass. But in three hours traveling the
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: scene was wholly altered. We came into a most beautiful country,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: farmers houses at small distances, neatly built, the fields enclosed,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: containing vineyards, corn grounds and meadows. Neither do I remember
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: to have seen a more delightful prospect. His excellence, he
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: observed my countenance to cheer up. He told me with
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  Speaker 1: a sigh, that there his estate began, and would continue
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: the same till we should come to his house. That
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: his countrymen ridiculed and despised him for managing his affairs
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: no better, and for setting so ill an example to
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: the kingdom, which however, was followed by very few such
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: as were old and wilful and weak like himself. We
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: came at length to the house, which was indeed a
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: noble structure, built according to the best rules of ancient architecture.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: The fountains, gardens, walks, avenues, and groves were all disposed
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: with exact judgment and taste. I gave due praises to
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: everything I saw, whereof his Excellency took not the least
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: notice till after supper, when there being no third companion,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: who told me, with a very melancholy air, that he
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: how died, he must throw down his houses in town
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: and country, to rebuild them after the present mode, destroy
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  Speaker 1: all his plantations and cast others into such a form
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  Speaker 1: as modern usage required, and give the same directions to
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  Speaker 1: all his tenants, unless he would submit to incur the
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: censure of pride, singularity, affectation, ignorance, caprice, and perhaps increase
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: his Majesty's displeasure, that the admiration I appeared to be
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: under would cease or diminish. When he had informed me
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: of some particulars which probably I had never heard of
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: at court, the people there being too much taken up
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: in their own speculations to have regard to what passed
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: here below. The sum of his discourse was to this
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: effect that, about forty years ago certain persons went up
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: to Laputa, either upon business or diversion, and after five
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: months continuance, came back with a very little smattering in mathematics,
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  Speaker 1: but full of volatile spirits acquired in that airy region
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: that these persons, upon their return, began to dislike the
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: management of everything below, and fell into schemes of putting
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: all arts, sciences, languages, and mechanics upon a new foot.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: To this end they procured a royal patent for erecting
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: an academy of projectors in Legado, and the humor prevailed
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: so strongly among the people that there is not a
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: town of any consequence in the Kingdom without such an academy.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: In these colleges, the professors contrive neurals and methods of
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: agriculture and building, and new instruments and new tools for
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: all trades and manufacturers. Whereby as they undertake one man
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: shall do the work of ten. A palace may be
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: built in a week of materials so durable as to
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: last forever without repairing. All the fruits of the earth
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: shall come to Medje purity. At whatever season we think
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: fit to choose and increase one hundredfold more than they
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: do at present, with innumerable.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Other happy proposals.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: The only inconvenience is that none of these projects are
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: yet brought to perfection, and in the meantime the whole
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: country lies miserably waste, the houses in ruin, and the
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: people without food or clothes, by all which, instead of
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: being discouraged, they are fifty times more violently bent upon
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: prosecuting their schemes, driven equally on by hope and despair.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: But as for himself, being not of an enterprising spirit,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: he was content to go on in the old forms,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: to live in a house as his ancestors had built,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: and act as they did in every part of life,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: without innovation. That some few other persons of quality and
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: gentry had done the same, but were looked on with
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: an eye of contempt and ill will as enemies to art,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: ignorantrant and ill Commonwealth's men, preferring their own ease and
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: sloth before the general improvement of their country. His lordship
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: added that he would not, by any further particulars prevent
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: the pleasure I should certainly take in viewing the Grand Academy,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: whither he was resolved.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: I should go.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: He only desired me to observe a ruined building upon
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: the side of a mountain about three miles distant of
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: which he gave me this account. There had been a
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: very convenient mill within half a mile of his house,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: turned by a current from a large river, and sufficient
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: for his own family, as well as a great number
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: of his tenants, that about seven years ago a club
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: of those projectors came to him with proposals to destroy
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: this mill and build another on the side of that mountain,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: on the long ridge, whereof a long canal must be
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: cut for a repository of water to be convey made
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: up by pipes and engines to supply the mill. Because
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: the wind and air upon a height agitated the water
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: and thereby made it fitter for motion, and because the
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: water descending down into clevity would turn the mill with
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: half the current of a river whose course is more
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: upon a level. He said that, being then not very
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: well with the court, and pressed by many of his friends,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: he complied with the proposal, and after employing a hundred
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: men for two years, the work miscarried. The projectors went off,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: laying the blame entirely upon him, railing at him ever since,
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: and putting others upon the same experiment with equal assurance
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: of success as well as equal disappointment. In a few
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: days we came back to town, and his Excellency, considering
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: the bad character he had in the academy, would not
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: go with me himself, but recommended me to a friend
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: of his to bear me company.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: Thither.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: My Lord was pleased to represent me as a great
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  Speaker 1: admirer of projects, and a person of much curiosity and
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: easy belief, which indeed was not without truth, for I
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  Speaker 1: had myself been a sort of projector in my younger days.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: And a Part three, Chapter four, Chapter five, the author
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: is permitted to see the Grand Academy of Legado. The
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: academy largely described the arts wherein the professors employ themselves.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: This academy is not an entire single building, but a
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: continuation of several houses on both sides of a street,
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: which growing waste was purchased and applied.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: To that use.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: I was received very kindly by the warden, and went
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: for many days to the academy. Every room has in
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: it one or more projectors, and I believe it could
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. The first
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: man was of a meager aspect, with sooty hands and face,
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: his hair and beard long ragged and singed in several places.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: His clothes, shirt, and skin were all of the same color.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: He had been eight years upon a project for extracting
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: vials hermatically sealed and let out to warm the air
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: in raw inclement summers. He told me he did not
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: doubt that in eight years more he should be able
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable rate.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: But he complained that his stock was low, and entreated
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: me to give him something as an encouragement to ingenuity,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: especially since this had been a very dear season for cucumbers.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: I made him a small present, for my Lord had
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: furnished me with money on purpose, because he knew their
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: practice of begging from all who go to see them.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: I went into another chain, but was ready to hasten back,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: being almost overcome with a horrible stink. My conductor pressed
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: me forward, conjuring me in a whisper to give no
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: offense which would be highly resented. And therefore I durst,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: not so much as stop my nose. The projector of
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: this cell was the most ancient student of the academy.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: His face and beard were of a pale yellow, his
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: hands and clothes dubbed.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: Over with filth.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: When I was presented to him, he gave me a
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: close embrace, a compliment I could well have excused. His
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: employment from his first coming into the Academy was an
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: operation to reduce human excrement to its original food by
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: separating the several parts, removing the tinkerture which it received
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: from the gaul, making the odoric sail, and scumming off
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: the saliva. He had a weekly allowance from the society
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: of a vessel filled with human ausure about the bigness
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: of a Bristol barrel. I saw another at work to
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: calcin ice into gunpowder, who likewise showed me a treatise
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: he had written concerning the malibility of fire, which he
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: intended to publish. There was a most ingenious architect who
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: had contrived a new method for building houses by beginning
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: at the roof and working downwards to the foundation, which
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: he justified to me by like the practice of those
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: two prudent insects, that be and the spider. There was
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: a man born blind, who had several apprentices in his
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: own condition. Their employment was to mix colors for painters,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: which their master taught them to distinguish by feeling and smelling.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: It was indeed my misfortune to find them at that
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: time not very perfect in their lessons, and the professor
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: himself happened to be generally mistaken. This artist is much
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: encouraged and esteemed by the whole fraternity. In another apartment,
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: I was highly pleased with the projector who had found
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: a device of plowing the ground with hogs to save
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: the charges of plows, cattle, and labor. The method is this,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: In an acre of ground, you bury at least six
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: inches distance in eight deep a quantity of acorns, dates, chestnuts,
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: and other masts or vegetables. Whereof these animals are fondest.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Then you drive six hundred or more of them into
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: the field, where in a few days they will root
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: up the whole ground in search of their food and
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: make it fit for sewing, at the same time ineuring
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: it with their dung. It is true, upon experiment they
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: found the charge and trouble very great, and they had
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: little or no crop. However, it is not doubted that
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: this invention may be capable of great improvement. I went
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: into another room, where the walls and seas were all
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: hung round with cobwebs, except a narrow passage for the
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: artists to go in and out. At my entrance, he
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: called to me not to disturb his webs. He lamented
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: the fatal mistake the world had been so long in
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: of using silkworms, while we had such plenty of domestic
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: insects who infinitely excelled the former, because they understood how
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: to weave as well as spin. And he reposed further
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: that by employing spiders, the charge of dyeing silk should
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: be wholly saved. Whereof I was fully convinced when he
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: showed me a vast number of flies, most beautifully covered.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Wherewith he fed his spiders, assuring us that the webs
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: would take a tincerature from them. And as he had
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: them of all hues, he hoped to fit everybody's fancy
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: as soon as he could find proper food with the
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: flies of certain gums, oils, and other glutenous matter to
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: give a strength and consistence to the threads. There was
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: an astronomer who had undertaken to place a sun dial
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: upon the great weathercock on the town house, by adjusting
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: the annual and daanyl motions of the Earth and sun,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: so as to answer and coincide with all accidental turnings
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: of the wind. I was complaining of a small fit
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: of the colic, upon which my conductor led me into
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: a room where a great physician resided, who was famous
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: for curing that disease by contrary operations from the same instrument.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: He had a large pair of bellows with a long,
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: slender muzzle of ivory. This he conveyed eight inches up
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: the anis, and drawing in the wind, he affirmed he
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: could make the guts as lank as a dried bladder.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: But when the disease was more stubborn and violent, he
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: let in the muzzle while the bellows were full of wind,
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: which he discharged into the body of the patient, then
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: withdrew the instrument to replenish it, clapping his strongly against
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: the orifice of then fundament, and this being repeated three
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: or four times, the adventitious wind would rush out, bringing
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: the noxious along with it like water put into a pump,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: and the patient recovered. I saw him try both experiments
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: upon a dog, but could not discern any effect from
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: the former. After the latter, the animal was ready to burst,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: and made so violent a discharge as was very offensive
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: to me and my companion. The dog died on the spot,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: and we left the doctor, endeavoring to recover him by
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: the same operation. I visited many other apartments, but shall
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: not trouble my reader with all the curiosities I observed.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: Being studious of brevity, I had hitherto seen only one
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: side of the academy, the other being appropriated to the
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: advances of speculative learning, of whom I shall say something
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: when I have mentioned one illustrious and more, who was
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: called among them, the Universal Artist. He told us he
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: had been thirty years employing his thoughts for the improvement
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: of human life.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: He had two large.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: Rooms full of wonderful curiosities, and fifty men at work.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Some were condensing air into a dry, tangible substance by
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: extracting the nata and letting the acrius or fluid particles percolate.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: Others softening marble for pillows and pincushions. Others petrifying the
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: hoofs of a living horse to preserve them from foundering.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: The artist himself was at that time busy upon two
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: great designs, the first to so land with chaff, wherein
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: he affirmed the true seminal virtue to be contained, as
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: he demonstrated by several experiments which I was not skillful
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: enough to comprehend. The other was by a certain composition
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: of gums, minerals, and fis vegetables outwardly applied to prevent
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: the growth of wool upon two young lands, and he
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: hoped in a reasonable time to propagate the breed of
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: naked sheep all over the kingdom. We crossed a walk
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: to the other part of the academy, where as I
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: have already said, the projectors and speculative learning resided. The
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: first professor I saw was in a very large room
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: with forty pupils about him. After salutation, observing me to
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: look earnestly upon a frame which took up the greatest
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: part of both the length and breadth of the room,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: he said, perhaps I might wonder to see him employed
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: in a project for improving speculative knowledge by practical and
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: mechanical operations.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: But the world would.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: Soon be sensible of its usefulness. And he flattered himself
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: that a more noble, exalted thought never sprang in any
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: other man's head. Everyone knew how laborious the usual method
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: is attaining to arts and sciences. Whereas, by his contrivance,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge and with
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: a little bodily labor, my write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: mathematics and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: He then led me to the frame about the sides,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: whereof all his pupils stood in ranks. It was twenty
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: feet square, placed in the middle of the room. The
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: superficiies was composed of several bits of wood about the
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: bigness of a die, but some larger than others. They
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: were all linked together by slender wires. These bits of
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: wood were covered on every square with paper pasted on them,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: and on these papers were written all the words of
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: their language, in their several moods, tenses, and declensions. But
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: without any order. The professor then desired me to observe,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: for he was going to set his engine at work.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: The pupils, at his command took each of them hold
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: of an iron handle, whereof there were forty fixed round
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: the edges of the frame, and giving them a sudden turn,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: the whole Di's position of the words was entirely changed.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: He then commanded six and thirty of the lads to
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: read the several lines softly as they appeared on the frame,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: and where they found three or four words together that
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: four remaining boys who ascribes. This work was repeated three
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: or four times, and at every turn the engine was
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: so contrived that the words shifted into new places as
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: the square bits of wood moved upside down.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: Six hours a.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Day the young students were employed in this labor, and
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: the professor showed me several volumes in large folio, already
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: collected or broken sentences, which he intended to piece together
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: and out of those rich materials, to give the world
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: a complete body of all arts and sciences, which, however,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: might be still improved and much expediated, if the public
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: would raise a fund for making and employing five hundred
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: such frames in Laggado, and oblige the managers to contribute
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: in common their several collections. He assured me that this
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth, and
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: that he emptied the whole vocabulary into his frame and
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: made the strictest computation of the general proportion there is
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: in books between the numbers of particles, nouns and verbs,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: and other parts of speech. I made my humblest acknowledgment
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: to this illustrious person for his great communicativeness, and promised,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: if ever I had the good fortune to return to
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: my native country, that I would do him justice as
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: the sole inventor of this wonderful machine, the form and
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: contrivance of which I desired to delineate on paper, as
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: in the figure here annexed. I told him, although it
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: were the custom of our learned in Europe to steal
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  Speaker 1: inventions from each other, who had thereby at least this advantage,
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  Speaker 1: that it became a controversy which was the right owner,
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  Speaker 1: Yet I would take such caution that he should have
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  Speaker 1: the honor entire Without arrival, we next went to the
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  Speaker 1: school of Languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon
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  Speaker 1: improving that of their own country. The first project was
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  Speaker 1: to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one and leaving
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  Speaker 1: out verbs and participles, because in reality, all things imaginable.
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  Speaker 2: Are but norms.
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  Speaker 1: The other project was a scheme for entirely abolishing all
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  Speaker 1: words whatsoever, and was urged as a great advantage in
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  Speaker 1: point of health as well as ba, for it is
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  Speaker 1: plain that every word we speak is in some degree
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  Speaker 1: a diminution of our lunge by corrosion, and consequently contributes
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  Speaker 1: to the shortening of our lives. An expedient was therefore
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  Speaker 1: offered that, since words are any names for things, it
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  Speaker 1: will be more convenient for all men to carry about
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: them such things as were necessary to express a particular
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  Speaker 1: business they are to discourse on. And this invention would
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  Speaker 1: certainly have taken place to the great ease as well
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  Speaker 1: as health of the subject, if the women, in conjunction
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  Speaker 1: with the vulgar and illiterate had not threatened to raise
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  Speaker 1: a rebellion unless they might be allowed the liberty to
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  Speaker 1: speak with their tongues after the manner of their forefathers.
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  Speaker 1: Such constant, irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people. However,
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  Speaker 1: many of the most learned and wise adhere to the
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  Speaker 1: new scheme of expressing themselves by things, which is only
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  Speaker 1: this inconvenience, attending it that if a man's business be
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  Speaker 1: very great and of various kinds, he must be obliged
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  Speaker 1: in proportion to carry a greater bundle of things upon
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  Speaker 1: his back, unless he can afford one or two strong
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  Speaker 1: servants to attend him. I have often beheld two of
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  Speaker 1: those sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: like peddlers among us, who, when they meet in the street,
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  Speaker 1: would lay down their loaths, open their sacks, and hold
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  Speaker 1: conversation for an hour together, then put up their implements,
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  Speaker 1: help each other to resume their burdens, and take their leave.
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  Speaker 1: But for short conversations a man may carry implements in
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  Speaker 1: his pockets and under his arms enough to supply him,
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  Speaker 1: and in his house he cannot be at a loss. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: the room where company meet who practice this art is
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  Speaker 1: full of all things ready at hand, REQUI to furnish
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  Speaker 1: matter for this kind of artificial converse. Another great advantage
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  Speaker 1: proposed by this invention was that it would serve as
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  Speaker 1: a universal language to be understood in all civilized nations
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  Speaker 1: whose goods and utensils are generally of the same kind
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  Speaker 1: or nearly resembling, so that their uses might easily be comprehended,
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  Speaker 1: and thus ambassadors would be qualified to treat with foreign
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  Speaker 1: princes or ministers of state, to whose tongues they were
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  Speaker 1: utter strangers. I was at the mathematical school where the
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  Speaker 1: master taught his pupils after the method scarce imaginable to
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  Speaker 1: us in Europe. The proposition and demonstration were fairly written
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  Speaker 1: on a thin wafer, within composed of a cephalic tincerature.
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  Speaker 1: This the student was to swallow upon a fasting stomach,
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  Speaker 1: and for three days following, eat nothing but bread and water.
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  Speaker 1: As the wafer digested, the tinkerture mounted to his brain,
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  Speaker 1: bearing the proposition along with it. But the success has
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  Speaker 1: not hithero been answerable, partly by some error in the
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  Speaker 1: quantum or composition, and partly by the perverseness of lads,
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  Speaker 1: to whom this bolus is so nauseous that they generally
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  Speaker 1: steal aside and discharge it upwards before it can operate.
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  Speaker 1: Neither have they yet been persuaded to use so long
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  Speaker 1: an abstinence as the prescription requires. End a Part three,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter five, Chapter six, a further account of the academy.
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  Speaker 1: The author proposes some improvements which are honorably received. In
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  Speaker 1: the school of political projectors. I was but ill entertained.
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  Speaker 1: The professors appearing in my judgment, wholly out of their senses,
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  Speaker 1: which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy.
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  Speaker 2: These unhappy people were.
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  Speaker 1: Proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the
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  Speaker 1: score of their wisdom, capacity and virtue, of teaching ministers
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  Speaker 1: to consult the public good, of rewarding merit great abilities
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  Speaker 1: eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest
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  Speaker 1: by placing it on the same foundation with that of
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  Speaker 1: their people, of choosing for employments persons qualified to exercise them,
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  Speaker 1: with many other wild, impossible chimeras that never entered before
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  Speaker 1: into the heart of men to conceive and confirmed in
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: me the old observation that there is nothing so extravagant
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  Speaker 1: and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
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  Speaker 1: But however, I shall so far do justice to this
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  Speaker 1: part of the academy as to acknowledge that all of
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  Speaker 1: them were not so visionary. There was a most ingenious
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  Speaker 1: doctor who seemed to be perfectly versed in the whole
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  Speaker 1: nature and system of government. This illustrious person had very
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  Speaker 1: usefully employed his studies in finding out effectual remedies for
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  Speaker 1: all diseases and corruptions to which the several kinds of
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: public administration are subject by the vices or infirmities of
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  Speaker 1: those who govern, as well as by the licentiousness of
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  Speaker 1: those who are to obey. For instance, whereas all writers
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  Speaker 1: and reasoners have agreed that there is a strict universal
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  Speaker 1: resemblance between the natural and the political body, can there
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  Speaker 1: be anything more evident than that the health of both
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  Speaker 1: must be preserved and the diseases cured by the same prescriptions.
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  Speaker 1: It is allowed that senates and great councils are often
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  Speaker 1: troubled with redundant, ibuliant and other bucant humors, with many
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  Speaker 1: diseases of the head and more of the heart, with
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews
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  Speaker 1: in both hands, but especially the right, with spleen flatus,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: vertigoes and deliriums, with scrofulous tumors, full of fetid purulent matter,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: with sour, frothy recutations, with canine appetites and crudeness of digestion,
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  Speaker 1: besides many others needless to mention. This doctor therefore proposed
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  Speaker 1: that upon the meeting of the Senate, certain physicians should
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  Speaker 1: attend it the three first days of their sitting, and
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  Speaker 1: at the close of each day's debate feel the pulses
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: of every senator, after which, having maturely considered and consulted
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  Speaker 1: upon the nature of the several maladies and the methods
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  Speaker 1: of cure, they should, on the fourth day return to
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  Speaker 1: the Senate House, attended by their apothecaries, stored with proper medicines,
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  Speaker 1: and before the members sat, administer to each of them lenatives, apperatives, abstursives, corrosives, restringants, palliatives, laxatives, cephalagics, icterics,
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  Speaker 1: ap poe phlegmatics, acoustics, as their several cases required, and
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  Speaker 1: according as these medicines should operate, repeat, alter, or omit
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  Speaker 1: them at the next meeting. This project cannot be of
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  Speaker 1: any great expense to the public, and might, in my
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  Speaker 1: poor opinion, be of much use for the dispatch of
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  Speaker 1: business in those countries where senates have any share in
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: the legislative power. Beget unanimity, shortened debates, open a few
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  Speaker 1: mouths which are now closed, and close many more which
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: are now open. Curve the petulance of the young, and
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  Speaker 1: correct the positiveness of the old, Rouse the stupid, and
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: damp the pert again, because it is a general complaint
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: that the favorites of princes are troubled with short and
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: weak memories. The same doctor proposed that whoever attended a
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  Speaker 1: first minister, after having told his business with the utmost
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  Speaker 1: brevit and in the plainest words, should at his departure
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  Speaker 1: give the said minister a tweak by the nose, or
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  Speaker 1: a kick in the belly, or tread on his corns,
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  Speaker 1: or like him thrice by both ears, or run a
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  Speaker 1: pin into his breach, or pinch his arms black and
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  Speaker 1: blue to prevent forgetfulness, and at every levee day repeat
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  Speaker 1: the same operation till the business were done or absolutely refused.
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  Speaker 1: He likewise directed that every senator in the Great Council
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  Speaker 1: of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion and
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  Speaker 1: argued in the defense of it, should be obliged to
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  Speaker 1: give his vote direct contrary, because if that were done,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: When parties in a state are violent, he offered a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful contrivance to reconcile them. The method is this. You
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  Speaker 1: take a hundred leaders of each party, you dispose them
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  Speaker 1: into couples of such whose heads are nearest of a size.
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  Speaker 1: Then let two nice operators saw off the occupant of
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  Speaker 1: each couple at the same time, in such a manner
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  Speaker 1: that the brain may be equally divided. Let the occupants
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  Speaker 1: thus cut off be interchanged, applying each to the head
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  Speaker 1: of his opposite party member. It seems, indeed be a
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  Speaker 1: work that requires some exactness, But the professor assured us
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  Speaker 1: that if it were dexterously performed, the cure would be infallible.
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  Speaker 1: For he argued thus that the two brains, being left
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  Speaker 1: to debate the matter between themselves within the space of
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  Speaker 1: one's skull, would soon come to a good understanding and
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: produce that moderation as well as regularity of thinking, so
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: much to be wished for in the heads of those
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: who imagine they come into the world only to watch
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: and govern its motion. And as to the difference of
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  Speaker 1: brains in quantity or quality among those who are directors
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: in faction, the doctor assured us from his own knowledge
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: that it was a perfect trifle. I heard a very
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: warm debate between two professors about the most commodious and
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  Speaker 1: effectual ways and means of raising money without grieving the subject.
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  Speaker 1: The first affirmed the justice method would be to lay
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  Speaker 1: a certain tax upon vices and follies, and the sum
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  Speaker 1: fixed upon every man, to be rated after the fairest manner,
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  Speaker 1: by a jury of his neighbors. The second was of
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  Speaker 1: an opinion directly contrary to tax those qualities of body
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  Speaker 1: and mind for which men chiefly value themselves, the rate
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  Speaker 1: to be more or less according to the degrees of excelling.
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  Speaker 1: The decision whereof should be left entirely to their own breast.
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  Speaker 1: The highest tax was upon men who are the great
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: favorites of the other sex, and the assessments according to
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: the number and nature of the favors they have received,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: for which they are allowed to be there Their own vouchers. Wit, valor,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: and politeness were likewise proposed to be largely taxed and
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: collected in the same manner, by every person's giving his
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  Speaker 1: own word for the quantum of what he possessed. But
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: as to honor, justice, wisdom, and learning, they should not
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  Speaker 1: be taxed at all, because they are qualifications of so
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  Speaker 1: singular a kind that no man will either allow them
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  Speaker 1: in his neighbor or value them in hisself. The women
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  Speaker 1: were proposed to be taxed according to their beauty, and
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: skill in dressing, wherein they had to the same privilege
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  Speaker 1: with the men, to be determined by their own judgment.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: But constancy, chastisy, good sense, angered nature were not rated
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: because they would not bear the charge of collecting. To
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: keep senators in the interest of the crown, it was
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: proposed that the members should raffle for employment. Every man
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: first taken an oath and given security that he would
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: vote for the court, whether he won or not, after
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: which the losers had in their turn the liberty of
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: raffling upon the next vacancy. Thus hope and expectation would
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: be kept alive. None would complain of broken promises, but
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  Speaker 1: impute their disappointments wholly to fortune, whose shoulders are broader
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: and stronger than those of a ministry. Another professor showed
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: me a large paper of instructions for discovering plots and
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: conspiracies against the government. He advised great statesmen to examine
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: into the diet of all suspected persons, their times of eating,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: upon which side they lay in bed, with which hand
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: they wipe their posteriors, take a strict view of their excrements,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: and from the color, the odour, the taste, the consistence,
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: the crudeness or maturity of digestion form a judgment of
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: their thoughts and designs, because men are never so serious, thoughtful,
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: and intent when they are at stool, which he found
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: by frequent experiment. For in such conjectures, which he used
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  Speaker 1: merely as a trial to consider which was the best
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: way of murdering the king, his order would have a
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: tincerature of green, but quite different when he thought only
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: of raising an insurrection or burning the metropolis. The whole
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: discourse was written with great acuteness, containing many observations, both
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: curious and useful for politicians, But as I conceived not
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: altogether complete this, I ventured to tell the author and offered,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: if he pleased, to supply him with some additions. He
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: received my proposition with more compliance than is usual among writers,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: especially those of the projecting species, professing he would be
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: glad to receive further information. I told him that in
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: the kingdom of Trypnia by the natives called langdon Wore,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: I had sojourned some time in my travels, the bulk
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: of the people consist, in a manner wholly of discoverers, witnesses, informers, accusers, prosecutors, evidences, swearers,
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  Speaker 1: together with the several subservient and subaltern instruments, all under
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: the colors, the conduct and the pay of ministers of
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: state and their deputies. The plots in that kingdom are
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: usually the workmanship of those persons who desire to raise
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: their own characters, of profound politicians, to restore new vigor
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: to a crazy administration, to stifle or divert general discontents,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: to fill their coffers with forfeitures, and raise or sink
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: the opinion of public credit, as either shall best answer
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: their private advantage. It is first agreed and settled among
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: them what suspected persons shall be accused of a plot.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: Then effectual care is taken to secure all their letters
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: and papers, and put the owners in chains. These papers
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: are delivered to a set of artists very dexterous in
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters.
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  Speaker 2: For instance, they.
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  Speaker 1: Can discover a close stool to signify a privy council,
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  Speaker 1: a flock of geese, a senate, a lame dog and
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: invader the plague, a standing army, a buzzard, a prime minister,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: the gout, a high priest, a gibbet, a secretary of state,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: a chamber pot, a committee of grandees, a sieve, a
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: court lady, a broomer, revolution, a moustrap and employment, a
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: bottomless pit, a treasury, a sinker, court, a cap and bells,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: a favorite, a broken read, a court of justice, an
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: empty ton, a general, a running sore the administration. When
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: this method fails, they have two others more effectual, which
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  Speaker 1: the learned among them call them acrostics and anagrams. First,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings. Thus
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: N shall signify a plot be a regiment of horse,
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  Speaker 1: l a.
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  Speaker 2: Fleet at sea.
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  Speaker 1: Or Secondly, by transposing the letters of the alphabet in
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: any suspected paper, they can lay open the deepest designs
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: of a discontented party. So, for example, if I should
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  Speaker 1: say in a letter to a friend, our brother Thomas
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: just got the piles, a skillful decipher would discover that
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: the same letters which composed that sentence may be analyzed
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: into the following words resist. A plot is brought home
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: the tour. And this is the anagrammatic method. The professor
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: made me great acknowledgments for communicating these observations, and promise
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: to make honorable mention of me in his treatise. I
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: saw nothing in this country that could invite me to
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: a longer continuance, and began to think of returning home
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: to England. End of Part three, Chapter six, Chapter seven,
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  Speaker 1: the author lies Laggedo arrives at Maldonada, no ship ready.
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  Speaker 2: He takes a short.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: Voyage to glub Dub Drib his reception by the governor.
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  Speaker 1: The continent of which this kingdom is apart extends itself,
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  Speaker 1: as I have reason to believe, eastward to that unknown
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  Speaker 1: tract of America, westward of California, and north to the
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: Pacific Ocean, which is not above a hundred and fifty
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: miles from Laggado, where there is a good port and
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: much commerce with the great island of Lugnag, situated to
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  Speaker 1: the northwest, about twenty nine degrees north latitude and a
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: hundred forty longitude. This island of Lugnag stands southeastward of Japan,
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  Speaker 1: about a hundred leagues distant. There is a strict alliance
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: between the Japanese Emperor and the King of Lugnag, which
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: affords frequent opportunities of sailing from one island to the other.
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  Speaker 1: I determined therefore to direct my course this way in
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: order to my return to Europe. I hired two mules
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: with a guide to show me the way and carry
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: my small baggage. I took leave of my noble protector,
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  Speaker 1: who had shown me so much favor and made me
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: a generous present at my departure. My journey was without
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: any accident or adventure worth relating. When I arrived at
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  Speaker 1: the port of Maldonada, for so it is called, there
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  Speaker 1: was no ship in the harbor bound for Lugnag, nor
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: likely to be in some time. The town is about
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: as large as Portsmouth. I soon fell into some acquaintance
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: and was very hospitably received. A gentleman of distinction said
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  Speaker 1: to me that since the ships bound for Lugnag could
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: not be ready in less than a month, it might
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: not be disagreeable amusement for me to take a trip
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: to the little island of glob dub Drib, about five
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: leagues off to the southwest. He offered himself and a
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: friend to accompany me, and that I should be provided
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: with a small convenient bark for the voyage glob dub
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  Speaker 1: Drib as nearly as I can interpret the word signifies
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: the island of sorcerers or magicians.
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  Speaker 2: It is about one.
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  Speaker 1: Third as large as the Isle of Wight, and extremely fruitful.
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  Speaker 1: It is governed by the head of a certain tribe,
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: who are all magicians. This tribe marries only among each other,
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  Speaker 1: and the eldest in succession is prince or governor. He
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: has a noble palace and a park of about three
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: thousand acres, surrounded by a wall of hewn stone twenty
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  Speaker 1: feet high. In this park are several small enclosures for cattle, corn,
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  Speaker 1: and gardening. The Governor and his family are served and
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  Speaker 1: attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual. By his
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  Speaker 1: skill and necromancy. He is a power of calling whom
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  Speaker 1: he pleases from the dead, and commanding their service for
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: twenty four hours, but no longer, nor can he call
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  Speaker 1: the same persons up again in less than three months,
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  Speaker 1: except upon very extraordinary occasions. When we arrived at the island,
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  Speaker 1: which was about eleven in the morning, one of the
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: gentlemen who accompanied me went to the governor and desired
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  Speaker 1: admittance for a stranger who came on purpose to have
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  Speaker 1: the honor of attending on his Highness. This was immediately granted,
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  Speaker 1: and we all three entered the gate of the palace
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  Speaker 1: between two rows of guards, armed and dressed in a
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: very antique manner, and with something in their countenances that
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  Speaker 1: made my flesh creep with a horror I cannot express.
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  Speaker 1: We passed through several apartments between servants of the same sort,
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  Speaker 1: ranked on each side as before, till we came to
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  Speaker 1: the chamber of presents, where after three profound obsciences and
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: a few general questions, we were permitted to sit on
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  Speaker 1: the three stools near the lowest step of His Highness's throne.
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  Speaker 1: He understood the language of Bounabarbie, although it was different
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  Speaker 1: from that of this island. He desired me to give
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  Speaker 1: him some account of my travels, and to let me
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  Speaker 1: see that I should be treated without ceremony. He dismissed
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: all his attendants with a turn of his finger, at which,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: to my great astonishment, they vanished in an instant, like
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: visions in a dream. When we awake on a sudden
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: I could not recover myself in some time till the
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: Governor assured me that I should receive no hurt, and
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  Speaker 1: observing my two companions to be under no concern, who
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: had been often entertained in the same manner. I began
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  Speaker 1: to take courage and related to his Highness a short
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: history of my several adventures, yet not without some hesitation,
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  Speaker 1: and frequently looking behind me to the place where I
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: had seen those domestic specters. I had the honor to
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: dine with the Governor, where a new set of ghosts
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  Speaker 1: served up the meet and waited at table. I now
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  Speaker 1: observed myself to be less terrified than I had been
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. I stayed till sunset, but humbly desired
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  Speaker 1: his Highness to excuse me for not accepting his invitation
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  Speaker 1: of lodging in the palace. My two friends and I
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: lay at a private house in the town adjoining, which
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: is the capital of this little island, and the next
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  Speaker 1: morning we returned to pay our duty to the Governor,
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  Speaker 1: as he was pleased to command us. After this manner,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: we continued in the island for ten days, most part
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: of every day with the Governor, and at night in
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: our lodging. I soon grew so familiarized to the sight
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  Speaker 1: of peace spirits that after the third or fourth time,
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  Speaker 1: they gave me no emotion at all or if I
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  Speaker 1: had any apprehensions left, my curiosity prevailed over them. For
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  Speaker 1: His Highness the Governor ordered me to call up whatever
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  Speaker 1: persons I would choose to name, and in whatever numbers,
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  Speaker 1: among all the dead, from the beginning of the world
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  Speaker 1: to the present time, and command them to answer any
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  Speaker 1: questions I should think fit to ask, with this condition
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  Speaker 1: that my questions must be confined within the compass of
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: the times they lived in, and one thing I might
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  Speaker 1: depend upon that they would certainly tell me the truth,
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: for lying was a talent of no use in the
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: lower world. I made my humble acknowledgments to his Highness
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: for so great a favor. We were in a chamber,
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  Speaker 1: from whence there was a fair prospect into the park,
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: and because my first inclination was to be entertained with
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: scenes of pomp and magnificence, I desired to see Alexander
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: the Great at the head of his army, just after
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: the Battle of Arbelah, which upon a motion of the
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: Governor's finger, immediately appeared in a large field under the
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: window where we stood. Alexander was called up into the room.
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  Speaker 1: It was with great difficulty that I understood his Greek,
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: and had but.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: Little of my own.
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  Speaker 1: He assured me, upon his honor, that he was not poisoned,
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: but died of a bad fever by excessive drinking.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: Next, I saw.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: Hannibal passing the Alps, who told me he had not
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: a drop of vinegar in his camp. I saw Caesar
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: and Pompey at the head of their troops.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: Just ready to emerge.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: I saw the former in his last great triumph. I
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  Speaker 1: desired that the Senate of Rome might appear before me
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat a
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: later age in counterview in another. The first seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be an assembly of heroes and demigous odds, the other
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: I not of peddlers, pickpockets, high women, and bullies. The Governor,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: at my request, gave the sign for Caesar and Brutus
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: to advance towards us. I was struck with a profound
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: veneration at the sight of Brutus, and could easily discover
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: the most consummate virtue, the greatest intrepidy and firmness of mind,
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: the truest love of his country, and general benevolence from
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: mankind in every lineament of his countenance. I observed with
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: much pleasure that these two persons were in good intelligence
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: with each other, And Caesar freely confessed to me that
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: the greatest actions of his own life were not equal
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: by many degrees to the glory of taking it away.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: I had to the honor to have much conversation with
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: Brutus that his ancestor Junius Socrates, Iphamernundas Cato, the younger
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: Sir Thomas Moore, and himself were perpetually together a six
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: humber eight to which all the ages of the world
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: cannot add a seventh. It would be tedious to trouble
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  Speaker 1: the reader with relating what vast numbers of illustrious persons
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: were called up to gratify that insatiable desire I had
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: to see the world in every period of antiquity placed
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  Speaker 1: before me.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: I chiefly fed.
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  Speaker 1: Mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: But it is impossible to express the satisfaction I received
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: in my own mind after such a manner as to
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: make it a suitable entertainment to the reader. And of
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: Part three, Chapter seven, Chapter eight, a further account of
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: Club Dub drib ancient and modern history corrected. Having a
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: desire to see those ancients who were most renowned for
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: wit and learning, I set apart one day on purpose.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: I proposed that Homer and Aristotle might appear at the
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: head of all their commentators. But these were so numerous
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: that some hundreds were forced to attend in the court
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: and outward rooms of the palace. I knew and could
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: distinguish those two heroes at first sight, not only from
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: the crowd, but from each other. Homer was the taller
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: and comelier person of the two, walked very erect for
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: one of his age, and his eyes were the most
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: quick and piercing I ever beheld. Aristotle stooped much and
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: made use of a staff. His visage was meager, his
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow. I soon
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: discovered that both of them were perfect strangers to the
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: rest of the company, and had never seen or heard
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: of them before. And I had a whisper from a
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: ghost who shall be nameless, that these commentators always kept
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: the most distinct quarters from their principles in the lower
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: world through a consciousness of shame and guilt, because they
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: had so horribly misinterpreted the meaning of those authors to posterity.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: I introduced to Didymus and eused Tathemus to Homer, and
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: prevailed on him to treat them better than perhaps they deserved,
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: for he soon found they wanted a genius to enter
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: into the spirit of a poet. But Aristotle was out
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: of all patients with the account I gave Moscotus and
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: Ramus as I presented them to him, and he asked
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: them whether the rest of the tribe were as great
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: a dances as themselves. I then desired the governor to
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: call up Descartes and Gossendi, with whom I prevailed to
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: explain their systems to Aristotle. This great philosopher freely acknowledged
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: his own mistake in natural philosophy, because he proceeded in
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: many things upon conjecture, as all men must do. And
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: he found that Cassendi, who had made the doctrine of
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: Epicurus as palatable as he could, and the vortices of Descartes,
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: were equally to be exploded. He predicted the same fate
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: to attraction, whereof the present learned of such zealous asserters,
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: he said that new systems of nature were but new fashioned,
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: which would vary in every age, and even those who
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: pretend to demonstrate them from mathematical principles would flourish but
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: a short period of time and be out of vogue
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: when that was determined. I spent five days in conversing
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: with many others of the ancient learned. I saw most
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: of the first Roman emperors. I prevailed on the governor
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: to call up Heliogabalus's cooks to dress us at dinner,
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: but they could not show us much of their skill,
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: for want of materials. A helad of Agesilaus made us
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: a dish of spartan broth, but I was not able
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: to get down a second spoonful. The two gentlemen who
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: conducted me to the island were pressed by their private
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: affairs to return in three days, which I employed in
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: seeing some of the modern dead, who had made the
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: greatest vigor for two or three hundred years past in
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: our own and other countries of Europe. And having been
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: always a great admirer of old illustrious families, I desired
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: the governor would call up a dozen or two of
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: kings with their ancestors in order for eight or nine generations.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: But my disappointment was grievous and unexpected, For instead of
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate.
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: In another, a barber an abbot, and two cardinals. I
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: have too great a veneration for crowned heads to dwell
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: any longer on so nice a subject. But as to
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: count's marquees, dukes, earls, and the like, I was not
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: so scrupulous, And I confess it was not without some
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: pleasure that I found myself able to trace the peculiar
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: features by which certain families are distinguished.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: Up to their originals.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: I could plainly discover whence one family derives a long chin,
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: why a second has abounded with naise for two generations,
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: and fools for two more. Why a third happened to
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: be crack brained, and a fourth to be sharpers. Whence
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: it came what polydor Virgil says of a certain great
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: house neck via fortis nec foemina castor how cruelty, falsehood,
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: and cowardice grew to be characteristics by which certain families
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: are distinguished, as much as by their coat of arms?
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: Who first bought the parks into a noble house which
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: has linearly descended scrofulous tumors to their posterity. Neither could
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: I wonder all this. When I saw such an interruption
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: of lineages by pages, lackeys, valets, coachmen, gamesters, fiddlers, players, captains,
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: and pickpockets, I was chiefly disgusted with modern history, for
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: having strictly examined all the persons of greatest name in
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: the courts of princes for a hundred years past. I
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: found how the world had been misled by prostitute writers
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: to ascribe the greatest exploits in war to cowards, the
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: wisest counsel to fools, sincerity to flatterers, Roman virtue to
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: betrayers of their country, piety to atheists, chastity to sodomites,
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: truth to informers. How many innocent and excellent persons had
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: been condemned to death or banishment by the practicing of
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: great ministers, upon the corruption of judges and the malice
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: of factions. How many villains had been exalted to the
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: highest of trust, power, dignity, and profit. How great a
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: share in the motions and events of courts, counsels, and
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: senates might be challenged by boards, whores, pimps, parasites, and buffoons.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: How low an opinion I had of human wisdom and
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: integrity when I was truly informed of the springs and
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: motives of great enterprises and revolutions in the world, and
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: of the contemptible accidents to which they owed their success.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: Here I discovered the roguery and ignorance of those who
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: pretended to write anecdotes or secret history, who send so
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: many kings to their graves with a cup of poison,
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: will repeat the discourse between a prince and chief minister
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: where no witness was by unlock the thoughts and cabinets
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: of ambassadors and secretaries of state, and have the perpetual
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: misfortune to be mistaken. Here I discovered the true cause
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: of many great events that.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: Have surprised the world.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: How a hawk can govern the back stairs, the back
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: stairs a council and the councilor senate. A general confessed
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: in my presence that he got a victory purely by
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: the force of cowardice and ill conduct. And an admiral that,
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: for want of proper intelligence, he beat the enemy to
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: whom he intended to betray. The fleet three kings protested
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: to me that in their whole reigns they never did
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake or
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: treachery of some minister in whom they confided. Neither would
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: they do it if they were to live again. And
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: they showed with great strength of reason that the royal
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: throne could not be supported without corruption, because that positive, confident,
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: restiff temper which virtue infused into a man, was a
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: perpetual clogged public business. I had the curiosity to inquire
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: in a particular manner by which methods great numbers had
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: precurecured to themselves high titles of honor and prodigious estates.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: And I confined my inquiry to a very modern period, however,
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: without grater upon present times, because I would be sure
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: to give no offense even to foreigners. For I hope
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: the reader need not be told that I do not
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: in the least intend my own country in what I say.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: Upon this occasion, a great number of persons concerned were
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: called up, and upon a very slight examination, discovered such
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: a scene of infamy that I cannot reflect upon it
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: without some seriousness. Perjury, oppression, submornation, fraud, panderism and the
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: like infirmities were among the most excusable art they had
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: to mention, And for these I gave, as it was reasonable,
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: great allowance. But when some confessed, they owed their greatness
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: and wealth to sodomy or incest, others to the prostituting
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: of their own wives and daughters, others to the betraying
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: of their country or their prince, some to poisoning, more
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: to the perverting of justice in order to destroy the innocent.
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: I hope I may be pardoned if these discoveries inclined
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: me a little to abate of that.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 2: Profound veneration which I am.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: Naturally apt to pay to persons of high rank who
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: ought to be treated with the utmost respect, due to
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: their sublime dignity by us their inferiors. I had often
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: read of some great services done to princes and states,
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: and desired to see the persons by whom those services
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: were performed. Upon inquiry, I was told that their names
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: were to be found on no record, except a few
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: of them, whom the history has represented as the vilest
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: of rogues and traitors. As to the rest, I had
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: never once.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: Heard of them.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: They all appeared with dejected looks and in the meanest habit,
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: most of them telling me they died in poverty and disgrace,
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: and the rest on a scaffold orgy. Among others, there
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: was one person whose case appeared a little singular. He
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: had a youth about eighteen years old standing by his side.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: He told me he had for many years been commander
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: of a ship, and in a sea fight at Actium,
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: had the good fortune to break through the enemy's great
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: line of battle, sink three of their capital ships, and
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: take a fourth, which was the sole cause of Antony's flight, and.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 2: Of the victory that ensued.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: That the youth standing by him, his only son, was
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: killed in the action. He added that, upon the confidence
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: of some merit, the war being at an end, he
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: went to Rome and solicited at the court of Augustus
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: to be preferred to a greater ship whose commander had
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: been killed. But without any regard to his pretensions, it
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: was given to a boy who had never seen the sea,
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: the son of Libertina, who waited one of the emperor's mistresses.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: Returning back to his own vessel. He was charged with
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: neglect of duty, and their ship given to a favorite
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: page of Publicola, the vice admiral, whereupon he retired to
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: a poor farm at a great distance from Rome, and
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: there ended his life. I was so curious to know
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: the truth of this story that I desired Agrippa might
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: be called, who was admiral in that fight. He appeared
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: and confirmed the whole account, but with much more advantage
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: to the captain, whose modesty had extenuated or concealed a
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: great part of his merit. I was surprised to find
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: corruption grown so high and so quick in that empire,
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: by the force of luxury so lately introduced, which made
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: me less wonder at many parallel cases in other countries,
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: where vices of all kinds have reigned so much longer,
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: and where the whole praise as well as pillage, has
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: been in grossed by the chief commander, who perhaps had
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: the least title to either. As every person called up
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: made exactly the same appearance.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 2: He had done in the world.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: It gave me melancholy reflections to observe how much of
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  Speaker 1: the race of humankind was degenerated among us within these
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: hundred years past, how the Parks, under all its consequences
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: and denominations, had altered every lineament of an English countenance, shortened,
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: the size of bodies, unbraced, the nerves, relaxed the sinews
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: and muscles, introduced a sallow complexion, and rendered the flesh
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: loose and rancid. I descended so low as to desire
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: some English yeomen of the old stamp might be summoned
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  Speaker 1: to appear once so famous for the simplicity of their manners,
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: diet and dress, for justice in their dealings, for their
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: true spirit of liberty, for their valor and love of
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: their country. Neither could I be wholly unmoved after comparing
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: the living with the dead, when I considered how these
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: pure native.
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  Speaker 2: Virtues were prostituted for a piece.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: Of money by their grandchildren, who, in selling their votes
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: and managing at elections, have acquired every vice and corruption
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  Speaker 1: that can possibly be learned in a court.
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  Speaker 2: And a Part three.
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: Chapter eight, Chapter nine, the author returns to Maladonada sails
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: to the kingdom of Lugnak. The author confined he is
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: sent for to court. The manner of his admittance the
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: King's great leniity.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 2: To his subjects.
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: The day of our departure being come, I took leave
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: of his Highness the Governor of Club dub Drib and
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: returned with my two companions to Maladonada, where after a
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: fortnight's waiting, a ship was ready to sell for Lugnak.
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: The two gentlemen and some others were so generous and
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: kind as to furnish me with provisions and see.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 2: Me on board.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: I was a month in this voyage. We had one
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: violent storm and were under a necessity of steering westward
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: to get into the trade wind, which holds for above
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: sixty leagues. On the twenty first of April seventeen o eight,
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: we sailed into the river of Plimignick, which is a
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: seaport town at the southeast point of Lucknek. We cast
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: anchor within a league of the town and made a
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: signal for a pilot. Two of them came on board
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: in less than half an hour, by whom we were
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: guided between certain shoals and rocks, which are very dangerous
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: in the passage to a large basin where a fleet
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: may ride in safety within a cable's length of the
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: town wall. Some of our sailors, whether out of treachery
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: or inadvertence, had informed the pilots that I was a
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: stranger and great traveler. Whereof these gave no tis to
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: a custom house officer by whom I was examined very strictly.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: Upon my landing. This officer spoke to me in the
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: language of aoun a barbie, which by the force of
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: much commerce, is generally understood in that town, especially by
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: seamen and those employed in the customs. I gave him
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: a short account of some particulars, and made my story
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: as plausible and consistent as I could. But I thought
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: it necessary to disguise my country and call myself a Hollander,
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: because my intentions were for Japan, and I knew the
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: Dutch were the only Europeans permitted to enter into that kingdom.
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: I therefore told the officer that, having been shipwrecked on
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: the coast of Barna Barbe and cast on a rock,
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: I was received into Laputa, or the Flying Island, of
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: which he had often heard, and was now endeavoring to
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: get to Japan. Whence I might find a convenience of
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: returning to my own country. The officer said, I must
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: be confined till he could receive orders from court, for
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: which he would write immediately and hope to receive an
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: answer in a fortnight. I was carried to a convenient
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: lodging with a sentry placed at the door. However, I
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: had the liberty of a large garden and was treated
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: with humanity enough, being maintained all the time at the
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: King's charge. I was invited by several persons, chiefly out
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: of curiosity, because it was reported that I came from
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: countries very remote of which they had never heard. I
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: hired a young man who came in the same ship
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: to be an interpreter. He was a native of Lugnak,
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: but had lived some years at Meldonada, and was a
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: perfect master of both languages. By his assistance, I was
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: able to hold a conversation with those who came to
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: visit me, but this consisted only of their questions and
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: my answers. The dispatch came from court about the time
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: we expected. It contained a warrant for conducting me and
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: my retinue to trial drag dub or trill drog drib,
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: for it is pronounced both ways, as near as I
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: can remember, by a party of ten horse. All my
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: retinue was that poor lad for an interpreter, whom I
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: persuaded into my service, and at my humble request, we
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: had each of us a meal to ride on a
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: messengers dispatched half a day's journey before us, to give
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: the King notice of my approach, and to desire that
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: his Majesty would please to appoint a day and hour
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: when it would, by his gracious pleasure, that I might
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: have the honor to lick the dust before his footstool.
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: This is the court style, and I found it to
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: be more than matter of form, for upon my admittance,
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: two days after my arrival, I was commanded to crawl
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: upon my belly and lick the floor as I advanced,
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: But on account of my being a stranger, care was
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: taken to have it made so clean that the dust
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: was not offensive. However, this was a peculiar grace, not
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: allowed to any but persons of the highest rank when
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: they desire an admittance. Nay, sometimes the floor is strewed
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: with dust on purpose, when the person to be admitted
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: happens to have powerful enemies at court. And I have
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: seen a great lord with his mouth so crammed that
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: when he had crept to the proper distance from the throne,
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: he was not able to speak a word. Neither is
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: there any remedy, because it is capital for those who
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: receive an audience to spit or wipe their mouths in
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: His Majesty's presence. There is indeed another custom which I
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: cannot altogether approve of. When the King has a mind
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: put any of his nobles to death, in a gentle,
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: indulgent manner, he commands the floor to be strewed with
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: a certain brown powder of a deadly composition, which, being
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: looked up, infallibly kills him in twenty four hours. But
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: in justice to this Prince's great clemency and the care
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: he has of his subject's lives, wherein it were much
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: to be wished that the monarchs of Europe would imitate him,
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: it must be mentioned for his honor that strict orders
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: are given to have the infected parts of the floor
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: well washed after every such execution, which if his domestics neglect,
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: they are in danger of incurring his royal displeasure. I
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: myself heard him give directions that one of his pages
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: should be whipped, whose turn it was to give notice
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: about washing the floor after an execution, but maliciously had
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: omitted it, by which neglect. A young lord of great hopes,
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: coming to an audience was unfortunately poisoned. Although the King
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: at the time had no design against his life. But
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: this good prince was so gracious as to forgive the
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: poor page his whipping upon promised that he would do
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: so no more without special orders. To return from this digression.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: When I had crept within four yards of the throne,
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: I raised myself gently upon my knee, and then, striking
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: my forehead seven times against the ground, I pronounced the
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: following words as they had been taught me the night before.
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: Inkplane gloffd throb squat, cerembly hop m lachnault as wyn
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: to snod balkafum to nudbalkoff, selenop had gridlop ashed. This
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: is the compliment established by the laws of the land
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: for all persons admitted to the King's presence. It may
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: be rendered into English. Thus, may your celestial majesty outlive
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: the sun eleven moons and a half. To this, the
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: King returned some answer which, although I could not understand,
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: and yet I replied as I had been directed, fluff
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: drin yalaric dweldham prastadmrpush, which properly signifies my tongue is
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: in the mouth of my friend, and by this expression
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: was meant that I desired leave to bring my interpreter,
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: whereupon the young man already mentioned was accordingly introduced, by
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: whose intervention I answered as many questions as his Majesty
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: could put in above an hour. I spoke in the
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: bowna Barbian tongue, and my interpreter delivered my meaning in
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: that of Lugnak. The King was much delighted in my company,
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: and ordered his bliff mark Club or high Chamberlain, to
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: appoint a lodging in the court for me and my interpreter,
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: with a daily allowance for my table and a large
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: purse of gold for my common expenses. I stayed three
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: months in this country out of perfect obedience to his Majesty,
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: who was pleased highly to favor me and made me
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: very honorable offers.
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 2: But I thought it.
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: More consistent with prudence and justice to pass the remainder
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: of my days with my wife and family. And apart
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: three Chapter nine, Chapter ten, the Lagnangians commended a particular
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: description of the Stroledbrugs, with many conversations between the author
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: and some eminent persons upon that subject. The Lagnangians are
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: a polite and generous people. And although they are not
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: without some share of that pride which is peculiar to
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: all Eastern countries, yet they show themselves courteous to strangers,
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: especially such who were countenanced by the court. I had
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: many acquaintance and among persons of the best fashion, and
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: being always attended by my interpreter, the conversation we had
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: was not disagreeable. One day, in much good company, I
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: was asked by a person of quality whether I had
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: seen any of their strolled brugs or immortals. I said
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: I had not, and desired he would explain to me
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: what he meant by such an appellation applied to a
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: mortal creature. He told me that sometimes, though very rarely,
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: a child happened to be born in a family with
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: a red circular spot on the forehead directly over the
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: left eyebrow, which was an infallible mark that it should
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: never die. The spot, as he described it, was about
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: the compass of a silver threepence, but in the course
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: of time grew larger and changed its color. For at
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: twelve years old it became green, so continued till five
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: and twenty, then turned to a deep blue at five
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: and forty it grew coal black and as large as
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: an English shilling, but never omitted any further alteration. He
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: said these berths were so rare that he did not
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: believe there could be above eleven hundred stroldbrugs of both
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: sexes in the whole kingdom, of which he computed about
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: fifty metropolis. And among the rest a young girl born
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: about three years ago, that these productions were not peculiar
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: to any family, but a mere effect of chance, and
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: the children of the strolsbrugs themselves were equally mortal with
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: the rest of the people. I freely own myself to
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: being struck with inexpressible delight upon hearing this account, and
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: the person who gave it to me, happening to understand
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: the Balnabarbian language, which I spoke very well, I could
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: not forbear breaking out into expressions perhaps a little too extravagant.
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 1: I cried out, as in a rapture happy nation where
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: every child hath at least a chance for being a mortal,
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: happy people who enjoy so many living examples of ancient
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: virtue and of masters really to instruct them in the
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: wisdom of all former ages. But happiest beyond all comparison,
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: are those excellent Strolbrugs, who, being born exempt from that
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: universal calamity of human nature, have their minds free and disengaged,
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: without the weight and depression of spirits caused by the
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: continual apprehensions of death. I discovered, my admiration that I
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: had not observed any of these illustrious persons at court,
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: the black spot on the forehead being so remarkable a
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: distinction that I could not have easily overlooked it. And
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: it was impossible that His Majesty, a most judicious prince,
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: should not provide himself with a good number of such
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: wise and able counselors. Yet, perhaps the virtue of those
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: reverend sages was too far stretched for the corrupt and
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: liberty manners of a court, And we often find by
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: experience that young men are too opinionated and volatile to
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: be guided by the sober dictates of their seniors. However,
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: since the King was pleased to allow me access to
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: his royal person, I was resolved upon the very first
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: occasion to deliver my lif opinion to him on this
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: matter freely and at large, by the help of my
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: interpreter and whether he would be pleased to take my
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: advice or not. Yet, in one thing, I was determined
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: that his majesty, having frequently offered me an establishment in
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: this country, I would with great thankfulness accept the favor
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: and pass my life here in the conversation of these
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: superior beings, the Straldbruggs, if they were pleased to admit me.
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: The gentleman to whom I addressed my discourse, because as
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: I have already observed, he spoke the language of Barne
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: Barbie said to me, with a sort of smile which
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: usually arises from pity to the ignorant, that he was
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: glad of any occasion to keep me among them, and
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: desired my permission to explain to the company what I
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: had spoke. He did so, and they talked together for
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: some time in their own language, whereof I understood not
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: a syllable, neither could I observe by their countenances what
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: impression my discourse had made on them. After a short silence,
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: the same person told me that his friends and mine,
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: so he thought fit to express himself, were very much
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: pleased with the judicious remarks I had made on the
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: great happiness and advantages of immortal life, and they were
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: desirous to know in a particular manner what scheme of
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: living I should have formed to myself if it had
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: fallen to my lot to have been born a Stoldbrugg,
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: I answered, it was easy to be eloquent on so
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: copious and delightful a subject, especially to me, who had
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: been after an apt to amuse myself with visions of
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: what I should do if I were a king, a general,
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: or a great lord. And upon this very case I
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: had frequently run over the whole system how I should
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: employ myself and pass the time if I were sure
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: to live forever, that if it had been my good
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 1: fortune to come into the world A stroledbrugg. As soon
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: as I could discover my own happiness by understanding the
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: difference between life and death, I would first resolve, by
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: all arts and methods whatsoever, to procure myself riches, in
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: the pursuit of which, by thrift and management, I might
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: reasonably expect in about two hundred years to be the
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: wealthiest man in the kingdom. In the second place, I
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: would from my earliest youth apply myself to the study
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: of arts and sciences, by which I should arrive in
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: time to excel all others in learning. Lastly, I would
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: carefully record every action and event of consequence that happened
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: in the public impartially draw the characters of the several
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: successions of princes and great ministers of state with my
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: own observations. On every point, I would exactly set down
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: the several changes in customs, language, fashion of dress, diet,
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: and diversions. By all which acquirements I should be a
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: oracle of the nations. I would never marry after three score,
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: but live in a hospitable manner. Yet still on the
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: saving side, I would entertain myself in forming and directing
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: the minds of hopeful young men by convincing them from
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: my own remembrance, experience, and observation, fortified by numerous examples
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: of the usefulness of virtue in public and private life.
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: But my choice and constant companions should be a set
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: of my own immortal brotherhood, among whom I would elect
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: a dozen from the most ancient down to my own contemporaries.
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: Were any of these wonted fortunes, I would provide them
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: with convenient lodges round my own estate, and have some
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: of them always at my table, only mingling a few
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: of the most valuable among immortals, whom length of time
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: would harden me to lose with little or no reluctance,
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: and treat your posterity a to the same manner, just
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 1: as a man diverts himself with the annual succession of
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: pinks and tulips in his garden, without regretting the loss
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: of those which withered the preceding year. These stralgebrugs and
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: eye would mutually communicate our observations and memorials through the
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: course of time, remark the several gradations by which corruption
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: steals into the world, and oppose it in every step,
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: by giving perpetual warning and instruction to mankind, which added
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: to the strong influence of our own example, would probably
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: prevent that continual degeneracy of human nature so justly complained
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: of in all ages. Add to this the pleasure of
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: seeing the various revolutions of states and empires, the changes
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: in the lower and upper world, ancient cities in ruins
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: and obscure villages becoming the seats of kings, famous rivers
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: lessening into shallow brooks, the ocean, leaving one coast dry
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: and overwhelming another. The discovery of many countries yet unknown,
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: barbarity over running the politest nations, and the most barbarous
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: becoming civilized. I should then see the discovery of the longitude,
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: the perpetual motion, the universal medicine, and many other great
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: inventions brought to the utmost perfection. What wonderful discovery should
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: we make in astronomy by outliving and confirming our own predictions,
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 1: by observing the progress and return of comets, with the
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: changes of motion in the sun, moon, and stars, I
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: enlarged upon many other topics with the natural desire of
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: entless life and sublunary happiness could easily furnish me with.
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: When I had ended and the summer, my discourse had
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: been interpreted as before to the rest of the company,
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: there was a good deal of talk among them in
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: the language of the country, not without some laughter at
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: my expense. At last, the same gentleman who had been
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: my interpreter said he was desired by the rest to
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: set me right in a few mistakes which I had
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: fallen into through the common imbecility of human nature. And
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: upon that allowance was less answerable for them that this
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: breed of Straldbruggs was peculiar to their country, for there
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: were no such people in Bowna Barbie or Japan, where
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: he had the honor to be ambassador for his majesty,
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: and found the natives in both those kingdoms very hard
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: to believe that the fact was possible. And it appeared,
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: from my astonishment when he first mentioned the matter to me,
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: that I received it as a thing wholly new and
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: scarcely to be credited.
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 2: That in the two.
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: Kingdoms above mentioned, where during his residence he had conversed
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: very much, he observed long life to be the universal
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: desire and wish of mankind, That whoever had one foot
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: in the grave was sure to hold back the other
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: as strongly as he could. That the oldest had to
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: hopes of living one day longer, and looked on death
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: as the greatest evil, from which nature always prompted him
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: to retreat. Only in this island of Lugnak, the appetite
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: for living was not so eager, from the continual example
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: of the Stoldbrugs before their eyes, that the system of
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: living contrived by me was unreasonable and unjust, because it
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: supposed a perpetuity of youth, health, and vigor, which no
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: man could be so foolish to hope, however extravagant he
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: may be in his wishes. That the question therefore was
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: not whether a man would choose to be always in
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: the prime of youth, attended with prosperity and health, but
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 1: how he would pass a perpetual life under all the
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: usual disadvantages which old age brings along with it. For
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: although few men will avow their desires of being a
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: mortal upon such hard conditions, yet in the two kingdoms
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: before mentioned, of Balnababie and Japan, he observed that every
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: man desired to put of death sometimes longer let it approach,
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: ever so late. And he rarely heard of any man
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: who died willingly, except he were incited by the extremity
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: of grief or torture. And he appealed to me whether
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: in those countries I had traveled, as well as my own,
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: I had not observed the same general disposition. After this preface,
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: he gave me a particular account of the Strouldbrugs. Among them,
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: he said, they commonly acted like mortals till about thirty
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: years old, after which by degrees they grew melancholy and dejected,
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: increasing in both till they came to forescore. This he
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 1: learned from their own confession, for otherwise, their not being
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: above two or three of that species born in the
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: same age, there were too few to form a general
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: observation by when they came to fourscore years, which has
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: reckoned the extremity of living in this country. They had
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men,
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: but many more, which arose from the dreadful prospect of
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: never dying. They were not only opinionative, peevish, covittus, morose,
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: vain talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren. Envy and
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: impotent desires are their prevailing passions. But those objects against
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: which their envy seems principally directed are the vices of
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: the younger sort and the deaths of the old. By
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: reflecting on the former, they find themselves cut off from
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: all possibility of pleasure, and whenever they see a funeral
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: they lament and repine that others have gone to a
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 1: harbor of rest, to which they themselves can never hope
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: to arrive. They have no remembrance of anything but what
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 1: they learned and observed in their youth a middle age,
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: and even this is very imperfect, and for the truth
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: of particulars of fact, it is safer to depend on
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: common tradition than upon their best recollections. The least miserable
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: among them appear to be those who turn to dotage
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 1: and entirely lose their memories. These meet with more pity
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: and assistance, because they want many bad qualities which are
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: bound in others. If a Straldbrug happen to marry one
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved, of course,
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: by the courtesy of the kingdom, as soon as the
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: younger of the two comes to be for score, for
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: the law thinks it a reasonable indulgence that those who
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: are condemned, without any fault of their own, to a
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 1: perpetual continuance in the world should not have the misery
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: doubled by the load of a wife. As soon as
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 1: they have completed the term of eighty years, they are
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: looked on as dead in law. Their heirs immediately succeeded
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: to their estates only a small pittance is reserved for
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: their support, and the poor ones are maintained at the
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: public charge. After that period they are held incapable of
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 1: any employment of trust or profit. They cannot purchase lands
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: or take leases. Neither are they allowed to be witnesses
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: in any cause, either civil or criminal, not even for
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 1: the decision of merees and bounds. At ninety they lose
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: their teeth and hair. They have at that age no
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever they can
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: get without relish or appetite.
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 2: The diseases they were.
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: Subject to still continue without increasing or diminishing. In talking,
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: they forget the common appellation of things and the names
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: of persons, even those who are their nearest friends and relations.
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: For the same reason, they can never amuse themselves with reading,
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: because their memory will not serve to carry them from
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: the beginning of a sentence to the end. And by
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: this defect they are deprived of the only entertainment whereof
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: they might otherwise be capable. The language of this country
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: being always upon the flux, the Stroldbrugs of one age
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: do not understand those of another.
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 2: Neither are they.
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: Able, after two hundred years to hold any conversation farther
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: than by a few general words with their neighbors, the mortals,
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: and thus they lie under the disadvantage of living like
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: foreigners in their own country. This was the account given
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: me of the Strouldbrugs, as near as I can remember.
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: I afterwards saw five or six of different ages, the
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: youngest not above two hundred years old, who were brought
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: to me at several times by some of my friends.
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: But although they were told that I was a great
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: traveler and had seen all the world, they had not
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: the least curiosity to ask me a question. Only desired,
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 1: I would give them slum scudesque, or a token of remembrance,
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: which is a modest way of begging, to avoid the
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 1: law that strictly forbids it. Because they are provided for
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 1: by the public, although indeed with a very scanty allowance.
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: They are despised and hated by all sorts of people.
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: When one of them is born, it is recondominous, and
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: their birth is recorded very particularly so that you may
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: know their age by consulting the register, which however, has
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: not been kept above a thousand years past, or at
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: least has been destroyed by time or public disturbances. But
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: the usual way of computing how old they are is
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: by asking them what kings all great persons they can remember,
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 1: and then consulting history, for infallibly, the last prince in
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: their mind did not begin his reign after they were
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: four score years old. They were the most mortifying sight
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: I ever beheld, and the women more horrible than the men.
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 1: Besides the usual deformities in extreme old age, they acquired
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: an additional ghastliness in proportion to their number of years,
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 1: which is not.
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 2: To be described.
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 1: And among half a dozen I soon distinguished which the eldest,
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 1: although there was not above a century or two between them.
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 1: The reader will easily believe that from what I had
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 1: heard and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: was much abated. I grew heartily ashamed of the pleasing
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: visions I had formed, and thought no tyrant could invent
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: a death into which I would not run with pleasure
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: from such a life. The King heard of all that
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: had passed between me and my friends upon this occasion,
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 1: and rallied me very pleasantly, wishing I could send a
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 1: couple of stoldbrugs to my own country to arm our
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: people against the fear of death. But this it seems
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 1: as forbidden by the fundamental laws of the kingdom, or
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 1: else I should have been well content with the trouble
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 1: and expense of transporting them. I could not but agree
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 1: that the laws of this Kingdom relative to the Straldbruggs
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 1: were founded upon the strongest reasons, and such as any
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: other country would be under the necessity of enacting in
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: the like circumstances.
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 2: Otherwise, as Avaris.
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: Is the necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 1: in time become proprietors of the whole nation and engross
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 1: the civil power, which, for want of abilities to manage,
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: must end in the ruin of the public. End apart three,
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 1: Chapter ten, Chapter eleven, the author leaves Lugnak and sails
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: to Japan. From thence he returns in a Dutch ship
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 1: to Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam to England. I thought this
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: account of the Straldburgs might be some entertainment to the reader,
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 1: because it seems to be a little out of the
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 1: common way. At least I do not remember to have
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: met the like in any book of travels that has
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: come to my hands. And if I am deceived, my
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 1: excuse must be that it is necessary for travelers who
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: describe the same country very often to agree in dwelling
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 1: on the same particulars, without deserving the censure of having
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: borrowed or transcribed from those who wrote before them. There
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 1: is indeed a perpetual commerce between this kingdom and the
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: Great Empire of Japan, and it is very probable that
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: the Japanese authors may have given some accounts of the straldbrugs.
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: But my stay in Japan was so short, and I
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 1: was so entirely estranged the language, that I was not
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 1: qualified to make any inquiries.
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 2: But I hope the Dutch, upon.
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: This notice, will be curious and able enough to supply
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: my defects. His Majesty, having often pressed me to accept
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: some employment in his court, and finding me absolutely determined
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 1: to return to my native country, was pleased to grant
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 1: me his license to depart, and honor me with a
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 1: letter of recommendation under his own hand to.
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 2: The Emperor of Japan.
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: He likewise presented me with four hundred and forty four
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 1: large pieces of gold this nation, delighting in even numbers,
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: and a red diamond, which I sold in England for
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 1: eleven hundred pounds. On the sixth of May seventeen o nine,
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: I took a solemn leave of His Majesty and all
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 1: my friends. This prince was so gracious as to order
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 1: a guard to conduct me to Glangenstaald, which is a
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: royal port to the southwest part of the island. In
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: six days I found a vessel ready to carry me
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: to Japan, and spent fifteen days in the voyage. We
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 1: landed at a small port town called Zamoshia, situated on
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 1: the southeast part of Japan. The town lies on the
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: western point, where there is a narrow strait leading northward
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: into a long arm of the sea, upon the northwest
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 1: part of which Yedo, the metropolis, stands. At landing, I
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: showed the custom house officers my letter from the King
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: of Lucknek to his Imperial Majesty. They knew the seal
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 1: perfectly well. It was as broad as the palm of
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 1: my hand. The impression was a king lifting up a
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 1: lame beggar from the earth. The magistrates of the town,
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 1: hearing of my letter, received me as a public minister.
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: They provided me with carriages and servants, and bore my
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 1: charges to Yedo, where I was omitted to an audience
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 1: and delivered my letter, which was opened with great ceremony
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: and explained the Emperor by an interpreter, who then gave
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: me notice by his Majesty's order that I should signify
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: my request and whatever it were, it should be granted
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: for the sake of his royal brother of Lucknak. This
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 1: interpreter was a person employed to the transact affairs with
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 1: the Hollanders. He soon conjectured by my countenance that I
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: was a European, and therefore repeated His Majesty's commands in
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: low Dutch, which he spoke perfectly well. I answered, as
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 1: I had before, determined that I was Dutch merchant shipwrecked
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 1: in a very remote country. Whence, I had traveled by
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 1: sea and land to Lugnag and then took shipping for Japan,
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 1: where I knew my countrymen often traded, and with some
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: of these I hoped to get an opportunity of returning
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 1: into Europe. I therefore most humbly entreated his Royal favor
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 1: to give order that I should be conducted in safety
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: to Nagazac. To this I added another petition that, for
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: the sake of my patron, the King of Lugnak, his
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: majesty would condescend to excuse my performing the ceremony imposed
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: on my countrymen of trampling upon the crucifix, because I
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 1: had been thrown into his kingdom by my misfortunes without
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: any intention of trading. When this latter petition was interpreted
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 1: to the Emperor, he seemed a little surprised, and said
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: he believed I was the first of my countrymen who
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 1: ever made any scruple in this point, and that he
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: began to doubt whether I was a real Hollander or not,
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: but rather suspected I must be a Christian. However, for
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 1: the reasons I had offered, but chiefly to gratify the
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 1: King of Lugnak by an uncommon mark of his favor.
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: He would comply with the singularity of my humor, but
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 1: the affair must be managed with dexterity, and his officers
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 1: should be commanded to let me pass as if it
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 1: were by forgetfulness. For he assured me that if the
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 1: secret should be discovered by my country and the Dutch,
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: they would cut my throat.
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 2: In the voyage.
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: I returned my thanks by the interpreter for so unusual
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: a favor, and some troops being at that time on
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 1: their march to Nangozac. The commanding officer had orders to
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 1: convey me safely thither with particular instructions about the business.
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 2: Of the crucifix.
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 1: On the ninth day of June seventeen o nine, I
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 1: arrived at Nangazac after a very long and troublesome journey.
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: I soon fell into the company of some Dutches belonging
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 1: to the Amboina of Amsterdam, a stout ship of four
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: hundred fifty tons. I had lived long in Holland, pursuing
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 1: my studies at Leyden, and I spoke Dutch well. The
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 1: seamen soon knew whence I came last. They were curious
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 1: to inquire into my voyages and course of life.
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 2: I made up a story as.
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 1: Short and probable as I could, but concealed the greatest part.
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: I knew many persons in Holland. I was able to
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: invent names from my parents, whom I pretended to be
• 2:21:32
  Speaker 1: obscure people in the province of Guelderland. I would have
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: given the captain one Theodorus van Grolt what he pleased
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: to ask for my voyage to Holland, but understanding I
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: was a surgeon. He was contented to take half the
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 1: usual rate on one condition that I would serve him
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 1: in the way of my calling. Before we took shipping,
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 1: I was often asked by some of the crew whether
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: I had performed the ceremony above mentioned. I evaded the
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 1: question by general answers that I had satisfied the Emperor
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 1: and court in all particulars. However, a malicious rogue of
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 1: a skipper went to an officer, and, pointing to me,
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 1: told him I had not yet trampled on the crucifix.
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 1: But the other, who had received instructions to let me pass,
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 1: gave the rascal twenty strokes on the shoulders with a bamboo,
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 1: after which I was no more troubled with such questions.
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 2: Nothing happened worth mentioning. In this voyage.
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: We sailed with a fair wind to the Cape of
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 1: Good Hope, where we stayed only to take in fresh water.
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 1: On the tenth of April seventeen ten, we arrived save
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 1: at Amsterdam, having lost only three men by sickness in
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: the voyage, and a fourth who fell from the foremast
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: into the sea not far from the coast of Guinea.
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 1: From Amsterdam, I soon after set sail for England in
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: a small vessel belonging.
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 2: To that city.
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: On the sixteenth of April, we put in at the Downs.
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: I landed next morning and saw once more my native
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 1: country after an absence of five years and six months complete.
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: I went straight to Redriff, where I arrived the same
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 1: day at two in the afternoon, and found my wife
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 1: and family in good health and apart three. Chapter eleven,
• 2:23:23
  Speaker 1: Part four, A Voyage to the Country of the Whinnams.
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 1: Chapter one, the author sets out as captain of a ship.
• 2:23:33
  Speaker 1: His men conspire against him, confine him a long time
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 1: to his cabin, and set him on shore in an
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: unknown land. He travels up into the country. The Yahoo's
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: a strange sort of animal described the author meets two Whinnams.
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 1: I continued at home with my wife and children about
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 1: five months, in a very happy condition. If I could
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 1: have learned the lesson of knowing when I was well.
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 2: I left my.
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 1: Poor wife, big with child, and accepted an advantageous offer
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 1: made me to be captain of the adventurer, a stout
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 1: merchantman of three hundred.
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 2: And fifty tons.
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: For I understood navigation well, and being grown weary of
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 1: a surgeon's employment at sea, which however, I could exercise
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 1: upon occasion. I took a skillful young man of that calling,
• 2:24:25
  Speaker 1: one Robert Purefoy, into my ship. We set sail from
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: Portsmouth upon the seventh day of September seventeen ten. On
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 1: the fourteenth we met with Captain Pocock of Bristol at Tenerife,
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 1: who was going to the Bay of Campeachy to cut logwood.
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 1: On the sixteenth he was parted from us by a
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: storm I heard since my return the t his ship founded,
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 1: and nun escaped but one cabin boy. He was an
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 1: honest man and a good sailor, but a little too
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 1: positive in his own opinions, which was the cause of
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: his destruction, as it has been with several others, For
• 2:25:05
  Speaker 1: if he had followed my advice, he might have been
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: safe at home with his family. At this time, as
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: well as myself, I had several men who died in
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: my ship of Callynchers, so that I was forced to
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 1: get recruits out of Barbados and the Leeward Islands where
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: I touched, by the direction of the merchants who employed me,
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 1: which I had soon too much cause to repent, for
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 1: I found afterwards that most of them had been buccaneers.
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 1: I had fifty hands on board, and my orders were
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 1: that I should trade with the Indians in the South
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 1: Sea and make what discoveries I could. These rogues, whom
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 1: I had picked up, debauched my other men, and they
• 2:25:45
  Speaker 1: all formed a conspiracy to seize the ship and secure me,
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 1: which they did one morning, rushing into my cabin and
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 1: binding me hand and foot, threatening to throw me overboard
• 2:25:55
  Speaker 1: if I offered to stir. I told them I was
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: their prison and would submit.
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 2: This. They made me.
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: Swear to do, and then they unbound me, only fastening
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: one of my legs of the chain near my bed,
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 1: and placed a sentry at my door with his peace charged,
• 2:26:13
  Speaker 1: who was commanded to shoot me dead if I attempted
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 1: my liberty. They sent me own victuals and drink, and
• 2:26:21
  Speaker 1: took the government of the ship to themselves. Their design
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 1: was to turn pirates and plunder the Spaniards, which they
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: could not do till they got more men. But first
• 2:26:32
  Speaker 1: they resolved to sell the goods in the ship and
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: then go to Madagascar for recruits, several among them having
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: died since my confinement. They sailed many weeks and traded
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: with the Indians, but I knew not what course they took,
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: being kept a prisoner in my cabin and expecting nothing
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 1: less than to be murdered, as they often threatened me.
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 1: Upon the ninth day of May seventeen eleven, one James
• 2:26:59
  Speaker 1: Welch came down to my cabin and said he had
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 1: orders from the captain to set me ashore. I expostulated
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 1: with him, but in vain neither would he so much
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 1: as tell me who their new captain was. They forced
• 2:27:13
  Speaker 1: me into the long boat. Let me put on my
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 1: best suit of clothes, which were as good as new,
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 1: and take a small bundle of linen, but no arms
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 1: except my hanger, and they were so civil as not
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 1: to search my pockets, into which I conveyed what money
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 1: I had, with some other little necessaries. They rode about
• 2:27:35
  Speaker 1: a league and then set me down on a strand.
• 2:27:39
  Speaker 1: I desired them to tell me what country it was.
• 2:27:43
  Speaker 1: They all swore they knew no more than myself, but
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 1: said that the captain, as they called him, was resolved
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 1: after they had sold the ladding to get rid of
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 1: me in the first place where they could discover land,
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: they pushed off immediately advising me to make haste for
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 1: fear of being overtaken by the tide, and so bade
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: me farewell. In this desolate condition. I advanced forward and
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 1: soon got upon firm ground, where I sat down on
• 2:28:14
  Speaker 1: a bank to rest myself and consider what I had
• 2:28:17
  Speaker 1: best do. When I was a little refreshed, I went
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 1: up into the country, resolving to deliver myself to the
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 1: first savages I should meet, and purchase my life from
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 1: them by some bracelets, glass rings, and other toys which
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 1: sailors usually provide themselves with in those voyages, and whereof
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 1: I had some about me. The land was divided by
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: long rows of trees, not regularly planted, but naturally growing.
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 1: There was great plenty of grass and several fields of oats.
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 1: I walked very circumspectfully, for fear of being surprised or
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 1: suddenly shot with an arrow from.
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 2: Behind or on either side.
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 1: I fell into a beaten road, where I saw many
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 1: tracks of human feet, and some of cows, but most
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 1: of horses. At last I beheld several animals in a field,
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 1: and one or two of the same kind.
• 2:29:13
  Speaker 2: Sitting in trees.
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 1: Their shape was very singular and deformed, which a little
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 1: discomposed me, so that I lay down behind a thicket
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 1: to observe them better. Some of them, coming forward near
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 1: the place where I lay, gave me an opportunity of
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 1: distinctly making their form. Their heads and breasts were covered
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 1: with a thick hair, some frizzled and others lank. They
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 1: had beards like goats, and a long ridge of hair
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 1: down their backs and the fore parts of their legs
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 1: and feet, But the rest of their bodies was bare,
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 1: so that I might see their skins, which were of
• 2:29:52
  Speaker 1: a brown buff color. They had no tails, nor any
• 2:29:56
  Speaker 1: hair at all on their buttocks, except about the anas,
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 1: which I presume nature had planted there to defend them
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 1: as they sat on the ground. For this posture they
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 1: used as well as lying down, and often stood on
• 2:30:10
  Speaker 1: their hind feet.
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 2: They climbed high.
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: Trees as nimbly as a squirrel, for they had strong,
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: extended claws before and behind, terminating in sharp points and hooked.
• 2:30:23
  Speaker 1: They would often spring and bound and leap with prodigious agility.
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 1: The females were not so large as the males. They
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: had long, lank hair on their heads, but none on
• 2:30:33
  Speaker 1: their faces, nor anything more than a sort of down
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 1: on the rest of their bodies, except about the anus
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 1: and pudenda. The dogs hung between their fore feet and
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 1: often reached almost to the ground as they walked. The
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 1: hair of both sexes was of several colors, brown, red, black,
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 1: and yellow upon the whole. I never beheld in all
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 1: my travels so disagreeable an animal, or one against which
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 1: I naturally conceived so strong an antipathy, So that, thinking
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 1: I had seen enough full of contempt and aversion, I
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 1: got up and pursued the beaten road, hoping it might
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 1: direct me to the cabin of some Indian. I had
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 1: not got far when I met one of these creatures,
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 1: full in my way and coming up directly to me.
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 1: The ugly monster, when he saw me, distorted several ways
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 1: every feature of his visage, and steared as at an
• 2:31:34
  Speaker 1: object he had never seen before. Then, approaching nearer, lifted
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 1: up his forepoor. Whether out of curiosity or mischief, I
• 2:31:44
  Speaker 1: could not tell. But I drew my hanger and gave
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 1: him a good blow with the flat side of it,
• 2:31:50
  Speaker 1: for I durst not strike with the edge, fearing the
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 1: inhabitants might be provoked against me if they should come
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 1: to know that I had killed or maimed any of
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 1: their cattle. When the beast felt the smart, he drew
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: back and roared so loud that a herd of at
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 1: least forty came flocking about me from the next field,
• 2:32:10
  Speaker 1: howling and making odious faces. But I ran to the
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 1: body of a tree, and, leaning my back against it,
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 1: kept them off by waving my hanger. Several of this
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 1: cursed brood, getting hold of the branches behind, leaped up
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 1: into the tree, whence they began to discharge their excrements
• 2:32:29
  Speaker 1: on my head. However, I escaped pretty well by sticking
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 1: close to the stem of the tree that was almost
• 2:32:36
  Speaker 1: stifled with the filth which fell about me on every side.
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: In the midst of this distress, I observed them all
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 1: to run away on a sudden as fast as they could,
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 1: at which I ventured to leave the tree and pursue
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: the road, wondering what it was that could put them
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 1: into this fright. But looking on my left hand, I
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 1: saw a horse walking so in the field, which my persecutors,
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: having sooner discovered, was the cause of their flight. The
• 2:33:07
  Speaker 1: horse started a little when he came near me, but
• 2:33:10
  Speaker 1: soon recovering himself, looked full in my face with manifest
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 1: tokens of wonder. He viewed my hands and feet walking
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 1: round me.
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 2: Several times.
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 1: I would have pursued my journey, but he placed himself
• 2:33:25
  Speaker 1: directly in the way, yet looking with a very mild aspect,
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 1: never offering the least violence. We stood gazing at each other.
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 2: For some time.
• 2:33:36
  Speaker 1: At last I took the boldness to reach my hand
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 1: towards his neck, with a design to stroke it, using
• 2:33:42
  Speaker 1: the common style and whistle of jockeys when they are
• 2:33:45
  Speaker 1: going to handle a strange horse. But this strange animal
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 1: seemed to receive my civilities with disdain, shook his head
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 1: and bent his brows, softly, raising up his right forefoot.
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 2: To remove my hand. Then he neighed three.
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 1: Or four times, but in so different occadence that I
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 1: began to think he was speaking to himself in some
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 1: language of his own. While he and I were thus employed,
• 2:34:14
  Speaker 1: another horse came up, who, applying himself to the first,
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 1: in a very formal manner, they gently struck each other's
• 2:34:22
  Speaker 1: right hoof, before neighing several times. By turns and varying
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 1: the sound, which seemed to be almost articulate. They went
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 1: some paces off as if it were to confer together,
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 1: walking side by side, backward and forward, like persons deliberating
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 1: upon some affair of weight, but often turning their eyes
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 1: towards me, as if it were to watch that I
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 1: might not escape. I was amazed to see such actions
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 1: and behavior in brute beasts, and concluded with myself that
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 1: if the inhabitants of this country were endued with a
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: proportional degree of reason, they must needs be the wisest
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 1: people upon earth. This thought gave me so much comfort
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 1: that I resolved to go forward until I could discover
• 2:35:11
  Speaker 1: some house or village, or meet with any of the natives,
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 1: leaving the two horses to discourse together as they pleased.
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: But the first, who was a dapple gray, observing me
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 1: to steal off, neighed after me in so expressive a
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 1: tone that I fancied myself to understand what he meant.
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: Whereupon I turned back and came near to him to
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 1: expect his father commands, but concealing my fear as much
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 1: as I could, for I began to.
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 2: Be in some pain.
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 1: How this adventure might terminate, and the reader will easily
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 1: believe I did not much like my present situation. The
• 2:35:50
  Speaker 1: two horses came up close to me, looking with great
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 1: earnestness upon my face and hands. The gray steed rubbed
• 2:35:57
  Speaker 1: my hat all around with his right fore hoof and
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 1: discomposed it so much that I was forced to adjust
• 2:36:03
  Speaker 1: it better by taking it off and settling it again whereat.
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 1: Both he and his companion, who was a brown bay,
• 2:36:11
  Speaker 1: appeared to be much surprised. The latter felt the lappet
• 2:36:16
  Speaker 1: of my coat, and finding it to hang loose about me,
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 1: they both looked with new signs of wonder. He stroked
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 1: my right hand, seeming to admire the softness and color,
• 2:36:29
  Speaker 1: but he squeezed it so hard between his hoof and
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 1: his pastern that I was forced to roar, after which
• 2:36:36
  Speaker 1: they both touched me with all possible tenderness. They were
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 1: under great perplexity about my shoes and stockings, which they felt,
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 1: very often neighing to each other and using various gestures,
• 2:36:49
  Speaker 1: not unlike those of a philosopher when he would attempt
• 2:36:52
  Speaker 1: to solve some new and difficult phenomenon. Upon the whole,
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 1: the behavior of these animals was so order and rational,
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 1: so acute and judicious, that I at last concluded they
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 1: must needs be magicians who had thus metamorphosed to themselves
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: upon some design, and seeing a stranger in the way,
• 2:37:14
  Speaker 1: resolved to divert themselves with him, or perhaps were really
• 2:37:19
  Speaker 1: amazed at the sight of a man so very different
• 2:37:21
  Speaker 1: in habit, feature and complexion from those who might probably
• 2:37:25
  Speaker 1: live in so remote a climate. Upon the strength of
• 2:37:29
  Speaker 1: this reasoning, I ventured to address them in the following manner. Gentlemen,
• 2:37:35
  Speaker 1: if you be conjurers, as I have good cause to
• 2:37:37
  Speaker 1: believe you can understand my language, therefore I make bold
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 1: to let your worships know the I'm a poor, distressed Englishman,
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 1: driven by his misfortunes upon your coast, and I entreat
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 1: one of you to let me ride upon his back,
• 2:37:52
  Speaker 1: as if you were a real horse, to some house
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 1: or village where I can be relieved, in return of
• 2:37:58
  Speaker 1: which favor I will make you. Were present of this
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 1: knife and bracelet, taking them out of my pocket. The
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 1: two creatures stood silent while I spoke, seeming to listen
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 1: with great attention, and when I had ended, they neighed
• 2:38:14
  Speaker 1: frequently towards each other, as if they were engaged in
• 2:38:17
  Speaker 1: serious conversation. I plainly observed that their language expressed the
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 1: passions very well, and the words might, with little pains,
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 1: be resolved into an alphabet more easily than the Chinese.
• 2:38:32
  Speaker 1: I could frequently distinguish the word Yahoo, which was repeated
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 1: by each of them several times, and although it was
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 1: impossible for me to conjecture what it meant, yet, while
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 1: the two horses were busy in conversation, I endeavored to
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: practice this word upon my tongue, and as soon as
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 1: they were silent, I boldly pronounced Yahoo in a loud voice,
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 1: imitating at the same time as near as I could,
• 2:38:59
  Speaker 1: the name of a horse, at which they were both
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 1: visibly surprised, and the Gray repeated the same word twice,
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 1: as if he meant to teach me the right accent.
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: Wherein I spoke after him as well as I could,
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 1: and found myself perceivably to improve every time, though very
• 2:39:18
  Speaker 1: far from any degree of perfection. Then the Bay tried
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 1: me with a second word, much harder to be pronounced,
• 2:39:27
  Speaker 1: but reducing it to the English orthography, may be spelt
• 2:39:31
  Speaker 1: thus hinnum. I did not succeed in this so well
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 1: as in the former, but after two or three father
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 1: trials I had better fortune, and they both appeared amazed
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 1: at my capacity. After some further discourse, which I then
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 1: conjectured might relate to me. The two friends took their
• 2:39:52
  Speaker 1: leave with the same compliment of striking each other's hoof,
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 1: and the gray made me signs that I should walk
• 2:39:59
  Speaker 1: before him, wherein I thought it prudent to comply till
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 1: I could find a better director. When I offered to
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 1: slacken my pace, he would cry, hum hum. I guessed
• 2:40:12
  Speaker 1: his meaning and gave him to understand as well as
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 1: I could that I was weary and not able to
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 1: walk faster, upon which he would stand awhile to let
• 2:40:21
  Speaker 1: me rest.
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 2: And apart.
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 1: Four Chapter one, Chapter two, the author conducted by a
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 1: whinnem to his house. The house described the author's reception
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 1: the food of the Whinnham's. The author, in distress for
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 1: want of meat, is at last relieved his manner of
• 2:40:43
  Speaker 1: feeding in this country. Having traveled about three miles, we
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 1: came to a long kind of building made of timber,
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 1: stuck in the ground and wattled across. The roof was
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 1: low and covered with straw. I now began to be
• 2:40:59
  Speaker 1: a little comfort, and took out some toys which travelers
• 2:41:03
  Speaker 1: usually carry for presents to the savage Indians of America.
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 1: And other parts, in hopes the people of the house
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 1: would be thereby encouraged to receive me kindly. The horse
• 2:41:15
  Speaker 1: made me a sign to go in first.
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 2: It was a large room.
• 2:41:19
  Speaker 1: With a smooth clay floor and a rack and manger
• 2:41:23
  Speaker 1: extending the whole length.
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 2: On one side. There were three.
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 1: Nags and two mares, not eating, but some of them
• 2:41:31
  Speaker 1: sitting down upon their hands, which I very much wondered at,
• 2:41:36
  Speaker 1: but wondered more to see the rest employed in domestic business.
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 1: These seemed but ordinary cattle. However, this confirmed my first
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 1: opinion that a people who could so far civilize brute
• 2:41:51
  Speaker 1: animals must needs excel in wisdom all the nations of
• 2:41:55
  Speaker 1: the world. The Gray came in just after, and thereby
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 1: prevented any ill treatment which the others might have given me.
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 1: He neighed to them several times in a style of authority,
• 2:42:08
  Speaker 1: and received answers. Beyond this room there were three others
• 2:42:14
  Speaker 1: reaching the length of the house, to which you passed
• 2:42:17
  Speaker 1: through three open doors opposite to each other in the
• 2:42:20
  Speaker 1: manner of a vista. We went through the second room
• 2:42:24
  Speaker 1: towards the third. Here the gray walked in first, beckoning
• 2:42:28
  Speaker 1: me to attend. I waited in the second room, and
• 2:42:32
  Speaker 1: got ready my presence for the master and mistress of
• 2:42:35
  Speaker 1: the house. There were two knives, three bracelets of false pearls,
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 1: a small looking glass, and a bead necklace. The horse
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 1: neighed three or four times, and I waited to hear
• 2:42:48
  Speaker 1: some answers in a human voice. But I heard no
• 2:42:52
  Speaker 1: other returns than in the same dialect, only one or
• 2:42:55
  Speaker 1: two a little shriller than his. I began to think
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 1: that this house must belong to some person of great
• 2:43:02
  Speaker 1: note among them, because there appeared so much ceremony before
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 1: I could gain admittance. But that a man of quality
• 2:43:11
  Speaker 1: should be served all by horses was beyond my comprehension.
• 2:43:16
  Speaker 1: I feared my brain was disturbed by my sufferings and misfortunes.
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 1: I roused myself and looked about me in the room
• 2:43:23
  Speaker 1: where I was left alone. This was furnished like the first,
• 2:43:28
  Speaker 1: only after a more elegant manner. I rubbed my eyes often,
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 1: but the same object still occurred. I pinched my arms
• 2:43:36
  Speaker 1: and sides to awake myself, hoping I might be in
• 2:43:39
  Speaker 1: a dream. I then absolutely concluded that all these appearances
• 2:43:44
  Speaker 1: could be nothing else but necromancy and magic. But I
• 2:43:49
  Speaker 1: had no time to pursue these reflections. For the gray
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 1: horse came to the door and made me a sign
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 1: to follow him into the third room, where I saw
• 2:43:58
  Speaker 1: a very comely mare, together with a colt and foal,
• 2:44:02
  Speaker 1: sitting on their haunches upon mats of straw, not unartfully
• 2:44:06
  Speaker 1: made and perfectly neat and clean.
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 2: The mayor, soon after.
• 2:44:11
  Speaker 1: My entrance, rose from her mat, and, coming up close,
• 2:44:15
  Speaker 1: after having nicely observed my hands and face, gave me
• 2:44:19
  Speaker 1: a most contemptuous look, and turning to the horse, I
• 2:44:23
  Speaker 1: heard the word yahoo often repeated betwixt them, the meaning
• 2:44:28
  Speaker 1: of which word I could not then comprehend, although it
• 2:44:32
  Speaker 1: was the first I had learned to pronounce. But I
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 1: was soon better informed to my everlasting mortification, for the horse,
• 2:44:43
  Speaker 1: beckoning to me with his head and repeated the whin
• 2:44:46
  Speaker 1: whin as he did upon the road, which I understood
• 2:44:50
  Speaker 1: was to attend him, led me out into a kind
• 2:44:53
  Speaker 1: of court, where was another building at some distance from
• 2:44:57
  Speaker 1: the house. Here we entered, and I saw three of
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 1: those detestable creatures which I first met after my landing,
• 2:45:06
  Speaker 1: feeding upon roots and the flesh of some animals, which
• 2:45:10
  Speaker 1: I afterwards found to be that of asses and dogs,
• 2:45:13
  Speaker 1: and now and then a cow dead by accident or disease.
• 2:45:19
  Speaker 1: They were all tied by the neck with strong wis
• 2:45:21
  Speaker 1: fastened to a beam. They held their food between the
• 2:45:25
  Speaker 1: claws of their forefeet and tore it with their teeth.
• 2:45:30
  Speaker 1: The master horse ordered a sorrel nag, one of his servants,
• 2:45:34
  Speaker 1: to untie the largest of these animals and take him
• 2:45:36
  Speaker 1: into the yard. The beast and I were brought close together,
• 2:45:42
  Speaker 1: and by our countenances diligently compared both by master and servant,
• 2:45:47
  Speaker 1: who thereupon repeated several times the word Yahoo. My horror
• 2:45:52
  Speaker 1: and astonishment are not to be described when I observed
• 2:45:56
  Speaker 1: in these abominable animals a perfect human figure. The face
• 2:46:01
  Speaker 1: of it, indeed was flat and broad, the nose depressed,
• 2:46:05
  Speaker 1: the lips large, in the mouth wide. But these differences
• 2:46:09
  Speaker 1: are common to all savage nations, where the lineaments of
• 2:46:13
  Speaker 1: the countenance are distorted by the natives suffering their infants
• 2:46:17
  Speaker 1: to lie groveling on the earth, or by carrying them
• 2:46:20
  Speaker 1: on their back, nuzzling with their face against the mother's shoulders.
• 2:46:26
  Speaker 1: The fore feet of the Yahoo differed from my hands
• 2:46:28
  Speaker 1: in nothing else but to the length of the nails.
• 2:46:32
  Speaker 1: The coarseness and brownness of the palms, and the hairiness
• 2:46:35
  Speaker 1: on the backs. There was the same resemblance between our feet,
• 2:46:40
  Speaker 1: with the same differences which I knew very well, though
• 2:46:44
  Speaker 1: the horses did not because of my shoes and stockings,
• 2:46:49
  Speaker 1: the same in every part of our bodies, except as
• 2:46:52
  Speaker 1: to hairiness and colour, which I have already described. The
• 2:46:57
  Speaker 1: great difficulty that seemed to stick with the two horses
• 2:47:00
  Speaker 1: was to see the rest of my body so very
• 2:47:02
  Speaker 1: different from that of a yahoo, for which I was
• 2:47:05
  Speaker 1: obliged to my clothes, whereof they had no conception. The
• 2:47:10
  Speaker 1: sorrel nag offered me a root, which he held, after
• 2:47:14
  Speaker 1: their manner, as we shall describe, in its proper place,
• 2:47:17
  Speaker 1: between his hoof and pastern. I took it in my hand, and,
• 2:47:22
  Speaker 1: having smelt it, returned it to him again as civilly
• 2:47:26
  Speaker 1: as I could. He brought out of the yahoo's kennel
• 2:47:30
  Speaker 1: a piece of asses flesh, but it smelt so offensively
• 2:47:34
  Speaker 1: that I turned from it with loathing. He then threw
• 2:47:37
  Speaker 1: it to the yahoo, by whom it was greedily devoured.
• 2:47:43
  Speaker 1: He afterwards showed me a wisp of hay and a
• 2:47:45
  Speaker 1: fetchlock full of oats, but I shook my head to
• 2:47:49
  Speaker 1: signify that neither of these were food for me, And
• 2:47:53
  Speaker 1: indeed I now apprehended that I must absolutely starve if
• 2:47:57
  Speaker 1: I did not get to some one my own species.
• 2:48:01
  Speaker 1: For as to those filthy yahoos, although there were few
• 2:48:04
  Speaker 1: great lovers of mankind at that time than myself, yet
• 2:48:08
  Speaker 1: I confess I never saw any sensitive being so detestable
• 2:48:11
  Speaker 1: on all accounts. And the more I came near them,
• 2:48:15
  Speaker 1: the more hateful they grew. While I stayed in that country.
• 2:48:20
  Speaker 1: This the master horse observed by my behavior, and therefore
• 2:48:24
  Speaker 1: sent the yahoo back to his kennel. He then put
• 2:48:29
  Speaker 1: his fore hoof to his mouth, at which I was
• 2:48:31
  Speaker 1: much surprised, although he did it with ease and with
• 2:48:35
  Speaker 1: a motion that appeared perfectly natural, and made other signs
• 2:48:39
  Speaker 1: to know what I would eat. But I could not
• 2:48:42
  Speaker 1: return him such an answer as he was able to apprehend,
• 2:48:46
  Speaker 1: and if he had understood me, I did not see
• 2:48:49
  Speaker 1: how it was possible to contrive any way for finding
• 2:48:51
  Speaker 1: myself nourishment. While we were thus engaged, I observed a
• 2:48:58
  Speaker 1: cow passing by, whereupon I pointed to her and expressed
• 2:49:02
  Speaker 1: a desire to go and milk her. This had its
• 2:49:06
  Speaker 1: effect for He led me back into the house and
• 2:49:10
  Speaker 1: ordered a mare servant to open a room where a
• 2:49:13
  Speaker 1: good store of milk lay in earthen and wooden vessels.
• 2:49:16
  Speaker 1: After a very orderly and cleanly manner, she gave me
• 2:49:20
  Speaker 1: a large bowlful of which I drank very heartily, and
• 2:49:23
  Speaker 1: found myself well refreshed. About noon I saw comeing towards
• 2:49:28
  Speaker 1: the house a kind of vehicle, drawn like a sledge
• 2:49:32
  Speaker 1: by four yahoos. There was in it an old steed
• 2:49:36
  Speaker 1: who seemed to be of quality. He alighted with his
• 2:49:40
  Speaker 1: hind feet forward, having by accident got hurt in his
• 2:49:43
  Speaker 1: left fore foot. He came to dine with our horse,
• 2:49:47
  Speaker 1: who received him with great civility. They dined in the
• 2:49:51
  Speaker 1: best room and had oats boiled in milk for the
• 2:49:53
  Speaker 1: second course, which the old horse ate warm, but the
• 2:49:57
  Speaker 1: rest cold. Their mangers were placed circular in the middle
• 2:50:03
  Speaker 1: of the room, and divided into several petitions, round which
• 2:50:07
  Speaker 1: they sat on their haunches upon bosses of straw. In
• 2:50:12
  Speaker 1: the middle was a large rack with angles answering to
• 2:50:15
  Speaker 1: every partition of the manger, so that each horse and
• 2:50:19
  Speaker 1: mare ate their own hay and their own mash of
• 2:50:22
  Speaker 1: oats and milk with much decency and regularity. The behavior
• 2:50:28
  Speaker 1: of the young colt and foal appeared very modest, and
• 2:50:32
  Speaker 1: that of the Master and mistress extremely cheerful and complaisant
• 2:50:35
  Speaker 1: to their guest. The Gray ordered me to stand by him,
• 2:50:40
  Speaker 1: and much discourse passed between him and his friend concerning me,
• 2:50:45
  Speaker 1: as I found by the strangers often looking on me,
• 2:50:48
  Speaker 1: and the frequent repetition of the word yahoo. I happened
• 2:50:52
  Speaker 1: to wear my gloves, which the Master grew observing, seemed perplexed,
• 2:50:57
  Speaker 1: discovering signs of wonder what I had done to my forefeet.
• 2:51:02
  Speaker 1: He put his hoo three or four times to them,
• 2:51:05
  Speaker 1: as if he would signify that I should reduce them
• 2:51:07
  Speaker 1: to their former shape, which I presently did, pulling off
• 2:51:11
  Speaker 1: both my gloves and putting them into my pocket. This
• 2:51:15
  Speaker 1: occasioned father talk, and I saw the company was pleased
• 2:51:19
  Speaker 1: with my behavior, whereof I soon found the good effects.
• 2:51:24
  Speaker 1: I was ordered to speak the few words I understood,
• 2:51:27
  Speaker 1: and while they were at dinner, the Master taught me
• 2:51:29
  Speaker 1: the names for oats, milk, fire water, and some others,
• 2:51:34
  Speaker 1: which I could readily pronounce after him, having from my
• 2:51:38
  Speaker 1: youth a great facility in learning languages, When dinner was done,
• 2:51:43
  Speaker 1: the master horse took me aside, and by signs and words,
• 2:51:47
  Speaker 1: made me understand the concern he was in in that
• 2:51:50
  Speaker 1: I had nothing to eat. Oats and their tongue are
• 2:51:53
  Speaker 1: called humna, the word I pronounced two or three times,
• 2:51:58
  Speaker 1: for although I had refused them at first, yet upon
• 2:52:01
  Speaker 1: second thoughts, I considered that I could contrive to make
• 2:52:05
  Speaker 1: of them a kind of bread which might be sufficient
• 2:52:08
  Speaker 1: with milk to keep me alive till I could make
• 2:52:11
  Speaker 1: my escape to some other country and a greeter of
• 2:52:14
  Speaker 1: my own species. The horse immediately ordered a white mare
• 2:52:20
  Speaker 1: servant of his family to bring me a good quantity
• 2:52:23
  Speaker 1: of oats and a sort of wooden tray. These I
• 2:52:26
  Speaker 1: heated before the fire as well as I could, and
• 2:52:29
  Speaker 1: rubbed them till the husks came off, which I made
• 2:52:33
  Speaker 1: a sift to winnow from the grain. I ground and
• 2:52:36
  Speaker 1: beat them between two stones, then took water and made
• 2:52:40
  Speaker 1: them into a paste or cake, which I toasted at
• 2:52:43
  Speaker 1: the fire net warm with milk. It was at first
• 2:52:48
  Speaker 1: a very insipid diet, though common enough in many parts
• 2:52:52
  Speaker 1: of Europe, but grew tolerable by time, and having often
• 2:52:57
  Speaker 1: been reduced to hard fare in my life. This was
• 2:52:59
  Speaker 1: not the first experiment I had made. How easily nature
• 2:53:02
  Speaker 1: is satisfied. And I cannot but observe that I never
• 2:53:08
  Speaker 1: had one hour's sickness while I stayed in this island.
• 2:53:12
  Speaker 1: It is true I sometimes made a shift to catch
• 2:53:14
  Speaker 1: a rabbit or bird by springs made of yahoo's hairs,
• 2:53:19
  Speaker 1: and I often gathered wholesome herbs, which I boiled and
• 2:53:22
  Speaker 1: ate as salads with my bread. And now and then,
• 2:53:26
  Speaker 1: for a rarity, I made a little butter and drank
• 2:53:29
  Speaker 1: the way. I was at first a great loss for salt,
• 2:53:35
  Speaker 1: but custom soon reconciled me to the want of it.
• 2:53:38
  Speaker 1: And I am confident that the frequent use of salt
• 2:53:41
  Speaker 1: among us is an effect of luxury, and was first
• 2:53:45
  Speaker 1: introduced only as a provocative to drink, except where it
• 2:53:49
  Speaker 1: is necessary for preserving flesh in long voyages or in
• 2:53:53
  Speaker 1: places remote from great markets. For we observe no animal
• 2:53:58
  Speaker 1: to be fond of it, but man. And as to myself,
• 2:54:01
  Speaker 1: when I left this country, it was a great while
• 2:54:04
  Speaker 1: before I could endure the taste of it in anything
• 2:54:06
  Speaker 1: that I ate. This is enough to say upon the
• 2:54:10
  Speaker 1: subject of my diet. Wherewith other travelers fill their books
• 2:54:14
  Speaker 1: as if the reader were personally concerned whether we fare
• 2:54:17
  Speaker 1: well or ill. However, it was necessary to mention this
• 2:54:22
  Speaker 1: matter lest the world should think it impossible that I
• 2:54:25
  Speaker 1: could find sustenance for three years in such a country
• 2:54:29
  Speaker 1: and among such inhabitants. When it grew towards evening, the
• 2:54:34
  Speaker 1: master horse ordered a place for me to lodge in.
• 2:54:38
  Speaker 1: It was but six yards from the house, and separated
• 2:54:41
  Speaker 1: from the stable of the yahoos. Here I got some straw, and,
• 2:54:46
  Speaker 1: covering myself with my own clothes, slept very sound. But
• 2:54:50
  Speaker 1: I was in a short time better accommodated, as the
• 2:54:54
  Speaker 1: reader shall know hereafter, when I come to treat more
• 2:54:57
  Speaker 1: particularly about my way of living. End of Part four,
• 2:55:02
  Speaker 1: Chapter two, Chapter three. The author studies to learn the
• 2:55:06
  Speaker 1: language the Huynhum. His master assists in teaching him the
• 2:55:11
  Speaker 1: language described. Several hinnams of quality come out of curiosity
• 2:55:16
  Speaker 1: to see the author. He gives his master a short
• 2:55:19
  Speaker 1: account of his voyage. My principal endeavor was to learn
• 2:55:24
  Speaker 1: the language which my master, for so I shall henceforth
• 2:55:28
  Speaker 1: call him. And his children and every servant of his
• 2:55:31
  Speaker 1: house were desirous to teach me, for they looked upon
• 2:55:35
  Speaker 1: it as a prodigy that a brute animal should discover
• 2:55:38
  Speaker 1: such marks of a rational creature. I pointed to everything
• 2:55:43
  Speaker 1: and acquired the name of it, which I wrote down
• 2:55:46
  Speaker 1: in my journal book when I was alone, and corrected
• 2:55:49
  Speaker 1: my bad accent by desiring those of the family to
• 2:55:52
  Speaker 1: pronounce it. Often in this employment, a sorrel nag, one
• 2:55:57
  Speaker 1: of the under servants, was very ready to assist me.
• 2:56:02
  Speaker 2: In speaking.
• 2:56:03
  Speaker 1: They pronounced through the nose and throat, and their language
• 2:56:07
  Speaker 1: approaches nearest to the High Dutch or German of any
• 2:56:10
  Speaker 1: I know in Europe, but is much more graceful and significant.
• 2:56:16
  Speaker 1: The Emperor Charles the fifth made almost the same observation
• 2:56:20
  Speaker 1: when he said that if he were to speak to
• 2:56:22
  Speaker 1: his horse, it should be in High Dutch. The curiosity
• 2:56:27
  Speaker 1: and impatience of my master was so great that he
• 2:56:30
  Speaker 1: spent many hours of his leisure to instruct me. He
• 2:56:34
  Speaker 1: was convinced, as he afterwards told me, that I must
• 2:56:38
  Speaker 1: be a yahoo. But my teachableness, civility, and cleanliness astonished him,
• 2:56:44
  Speaker 1: which are qualities altogether opposite to those animals. He was
• 2:56:50
  Speaker 1: most perplexed about my clothes, reasoning sometimes with himself whether
• 2:56:55
  Speaker 1: they were a part of my body. For I never
• 2:56:58
  Speaker 1: pulled them off till the family were asleep, and got
• 2:57:01
  Speaker 1: them on before they waked in the morning. My master
• 2:57:05
  Speaker 1: was eager to learn whence I came, how I acquired
• 2:57:08
  Speaker 1: those appearances of reason which I discovered in all my actions,
• 2:57:12
  Speaker 1: and to know my story from my own mouth, which
• 2:57:15
  Speaker 1: he hoped he should soon do by the great proficiency
• 2:57:18
  Speaker 1: I made in learning and pronouncing their words and sentences.
• 2:57:23
  Speaker 2: To help my memory, I.
• 2:57:25
  Speaker 1: Formed all I learned into the English alphabet and rich
• 2:57:28
  Speaker 1: the words down with the translations. This last, after some
• 2:57:33
  Speaker 1: time I ventured to do my master's presence. It cost
• 2:57:39
  Speaker 1: me much trouble to explain to him what I was
• 2:57:41
  Speaker 1: doing for the inhabitants of not the least idea of
• 2:57:44
  Speaker 1: books or literature. In about ten weeks time, I was
• 2:57:49
  Speaker 1: able to understand most of his questions, and in three
• 2:57:53
  Speaker 1: months could give him some tolerable answers. He was extremely
• 2:57:58
  Speaker 1: curious to know from what part of the country I came,
• 2:58:02
  Speaker 1: and how I was taught to imitate a rational creature,
• 2:58:05
  Speaker 1: because the yahoos whom he saw I exactly resembled in
• 2:58:09
  Speaker 1: my head, hands and face that were only visible with
• 2:58:13
  Speaker 1: some appearance of cunning, and the strongest disposition to mischief,
• 2:58:18
  Speaker 1: were observed to be the most unteachable of all brutes.
• 2:58:22
  Speaker 1: I answered that I came over the sea from a
• 2:58:26
  Speaker 1: far place with many others of my own kind, in
• 2:58:29
  Speaker 1: a great hollow vessel made of the bodies of trees,
• 2:58:32
  Speaker 1: that my companions forced me to land on this coast,
• 2:58:35
  Speaker 1: and then left me to shift from myself. It was
• 2:58:40
  Speaker 1: with some difficulty, and by the help of many signs,
• 2:58:43
  Speaker 1: that I brought him to understand me. He replied that
• 2:58:49
  Speaker 1: I must needs be mistaken, or that I said the
• 2:58:52
  Speaker 1: thing which was not, for they have no word in
• 2:58:56
  Speaker 1: their language to express lying or falsehood. He knew it
• 2:59:00
  Speaker 1: was impossible that there could be a country beyond the sea,
• 2:59:03
  Speaker 1: or that a parcel of brutes could move a wooden
• 2:59:06
  Speaker 1: vessel whither they pleased upon water. He was sure no
• 2:59:10
  Speaker 1: Whyinnam alive could make such a vessel, nor would trust
• 2:59:14
  Speaker 1: Yahoos to manage it. The word huinnam in their tongue
• 2:59:19
  Speaker 1: signifies a horse, and in its etymology, the perfection of nature.
• 2:59:25
  Speaker 1: I told my master that I was at a loss
• 2:59:28
  Speaker 1: for expression, but would improve as fast as I could,
• 2:59:32
  Speaker 1: and hoped in a short time I would be able
• 2:59:35
  Speaker 1: to tell him wonders. He was pleased to direct his
• 2:59:39
  Speaker 1: own mare, his cult and foal, and the servants of
• 2:59:43
  Speaker 1: the family to take all opportunities of instructing me, and
• 2:59:48
  Speaker 1: every day for two or three hours he was at
• 2:59:50
  Speaker 1: the same pains himself. Several horses and mares of quality
• 2:59:56
  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood came often to our house upon the
• 3:00:00
  Speaker 1: report spread of a wonderful Yahoo that could speak like
• 3:00:03
  Speaker 1: a whinnum and seemed in his words and actions to
• 3:00:06
  Speaker 1: discover some glimmerings of reason. These delighted to converse with me.
• 3:00:12
  Speaker 1: They put many questions and received such answers as I
• 3:00:16
  Speaker 1: was able to return. By all these advantages, I made
• 3:00:21
  Speaker 1: so great a progress that in five months from my
• 3:00:24
  Speaker 1: arrival I understood whatever was spoken and could express myself
• 3:00:29
  Speaker 1: tolerably well. The Whinnams who came to visit my master,
• 3:00:34
  Speaker 1: out of a design of seeing and talking with me,
• 3:00:37
  Speaker 1: could hardly believe me to be a right Yahoo, because
• 3:00:41
  Speaker 1: my body had a different covering from others of my kind.
• 3:00:45
  Speaker 1: They were astonished to observe me without the usual hair
• 3:00:48
  Speaker 1: or skin except from my head, face and hands. But
• 3:00:54
  Speaker 1: I discovered that secret to my master upon an accident
• 3:00:57
  Speaker 1: which happened about a fortnight before. I have already told
• 3:01:02
  Speaker 1: the reader that every night, when the family were gone
• 3:01:04
  Speaker 1: to bed, it was my custom to strip and cover
• 3:01:07
  Speaker 1: myself with my clothes. It happened one morning early that
• 3:01:12
  Speaker 1: my master sent for me by the sorrel Nag, who
• 3:01:15
  Speaker 1: was his valet. When he came, I was fast asleep,
• 3:01:19
  Speaker 1: my clothes fallen off on one side, and my shirt
• 3:01:22
  Speaker 1: above my waist. I awaked at the noise he made,
• 3:01:27
  Speaker 1: and observed him to deliver his message in some disorder,
• 3:01:31
  Speaker 1: after which he went to my master, and in a
• 3:01:34
  Speaker 1: great fright, gave him a very confused account of what
• 3:01:37
  Speaker 1: he had seen. This I presently discovered for going. As
• 3:01:42
  Speaker 1: soon as I was dressed to pay my attendance upon
• 3:01:45
  Speaker 1: his honor, he asked me the meaning of what his
• 3:01:48
  Speaker 1: servant had reported. That I was not the same thing
• 3:01:51
  Speaker 1: when I slept as I appeared to be at other times,
• 3:01:55
  Speaker 1: that his valet assured him, some part of me was white,
• 3:01:58
  Speaker 1: some yellow at not so white, and some brown. I
• 3:02:04
  Speaker 1: had hithero concealed the secret of my dress in order
• 3:02:08
  Speaker 1: to distinguish myself as much as possible from that cursed
• 3:02:12
  Speaker 1: race of yahoos. But now I found it in vain
• 3:02:15
  Speaker 1: to do so any longer. Besides, I considered that my
• 3:02:20
  Speaker 1: clothes and shoes would soon wear out, which already were
• 3:02:24
  Speaker 1: in a declining condition, and must be supplied by some
• 3:02:28
  Speaker 1: contrivance from the hides of yahoos or other brutes, whereby
• 3:02:33
  Speaker 1: the whole secret would be known. I therefore told my
• 3:02:37
  Speaker 1: master that in the country, whence I came, those of
• 3:02:41
  Speaker 1: my kind always covered their bodies with the hairs of
• 3:02:43
  Speaker 1: certain animals prepared by art, as well as for decency,
• 3:02:48
  Speaker 1: as to avoid the inclemencies of air, both hot and cold,
• 3:02:53
  Speaker 1: of which as to my own person, I would give
• 3:02:56
  Speaker 1: him immediate conviction if you please to command me, only
• 3:03:00
  Speaker 1: desiring his excuse, if I did not expose those parts
• 3:03:04
  Speaker 1: that nature taught us to conceal. He said, my discourse
• 3:03:09
  Speaker 1: was all very strange.
• 3:03:11
  Speaker 2: But especially the last part, for.
• 3:03:13
  Speaker 1: He could not understand why nature should teach us to
• 3:03:15
  Speaker 1: conceal what nature had given. That neither himself nor family
• 3:03:20
  Speaker 1: were ashamed of any parts of their bodies. But however,
• 3:03:24
  Speaker 1: I might.
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  Speaker 2: Do as I pleased.
• 3:03:28
  Speaker 1: Whereupon I first unbuttoned my coat and pulled it off.
• 3:03:32
  Speaker 1: I did the same with my waistcoat. I drew off
• 3:03:34
  Speaker 1: my shoes, stockings, and breeches. I let my shirt down
• 3:03:38
  Speaker 1: to my waist and drew up the bottom, fastening it
• 3:03:42
  Speaker 1: like a girdle about my middle to hide my nakedness.
• 3:03:47
  Speaker 1: My master observed the whole performance with great signs of
• 3:03:50
  Speaker 1: curiosity and admiration. He took up all my clothes in
• 3:03:54
  Speaker 1: his pastern one piece after another, and examined them diligently.
• 3:04:00
  Speaker 1: He then stroked my body very gently and looked round
• 3:04:03
  Speaker 1: me several times, after which he said it was plain
• 3:04:08
  Speaker 1: I must be a perfect Yahoo, but that I differed
• 3:04:12
  Speaker 1: very much from the rest of my species in the softness, whiteness,
• 3:04:15
  Speaker 1: and smoothness of my skin, my want of hair in
• 3:04:19
  Speaker 1: several parts of my body, the shape and shortness of
• 3:04:22
  Speaker 1: my claws behind and before, and my affectation of walking
• 3:04:27
  Speaker 1: continually on my two hinder feet. He desired to see
• 3:04:31
  Speaker 1: no more, and gave me leave to put on my
• 3:04:34
  Speaker 1: clothes again, for I was shuddering with cold.
• 3:04:38
  Speaker 2: I expressed my uneasiness.
• 3:04:40
  Speaker 1: At his given me so often the appellation of Yahoo,
• 3:04:43
  Speaker 1: an odious animal for which I had so utter a
• 3:04:47
  Speaker 1: hatred and contempt. I begged he would forbear applying that
• 3:04:51
  Speaker 1: word to me and make the same order in his
• 3:04:54
  Speaker 1: family and among his friends, whom he suffered to see me.
• 3:04:58
  Speaker 1: I requested likewise that the secret of my having a
• 3:05:01
  Speaker 1: false covering to my body might be known to none
• 3:05:04
  Speaker 1: but himself, at least as long as my present clothing
• 3:05:08
  Speaker 1: should last, For as to what the sorrel nag his
• 3:05:11
  Speaker 1: valet had observed, his honor might command him to conceal it.
• 3:05:17
  Speaker 1: All this my master very graciously consented to, and thus
• 3:05:21
  Speaker 1: the secret was kept till my clothes began to wear out,
• 3:05:24
  Speaker 1: which I was forced to supply by several contrivances that.
• 3:05:27
  Speaker 2: Shall hereafter be mentioned.
• 3:05:31
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, he desired I would go on with
• 3:05:34
  Speaker 1: my utmost diligence to learn their language, because he was
• 3:05:37
  Speaker 1: more astonished at my captivity for speech and reason than
• 3:05:41
  Speaker 1: at the figure of my body, whether it were covered
• 3:05:43
  Speaker 1: or not, adding that he waited with some impatience to
• 3:05:48
  Speaker 1: hear the wonders which I promised.
• 3:05:49
  Speaker 2: To tell him.
• 3:05:52
  Speaker 1: Thenceforward he doubled the pains he had been at to
• 3:05:54
  Speaker 1: instruct me. He brought me into all company and made
• 3:05:58
  Speaker 1: them treat me with civila because, as he told them privately,
• 3:06:04
  Speaker 1: this would put me into good humor and make me
• 3:06:06
  Speaker 1: more diverting every day when I waited on him. Beside
• 3:06:11
  Speaker 1: the trouble he was that in teaching he would ask
• 3:06:14
  Speaker 1: me several questions concerning myself, which I answered as well
• 3:06:18
  Speaker 1: as I could, And by these means he had already
• 3:06:21
  Speaker 1: received some general ideas, though very imperfect. It would be
• 3:06:26
  Speaker 1: tedious to relate to the several steps by which I
• 3:06:29
  Speaker 1: advanced to a more regular conversation. But the first account
• 3:06:33
  Speaker 1: I gave for myself in any order in length, was
• 3:06:36
  Speaker 1: to this purpose, that I came from a very far country,
• 3:06:41
  Speaker 1: as I already had attempted to tell him, with about
• 3:06:44
  Speaker 1: fifty more of my own species, that we traveled upon
• 3:06:48
  Speaker 1: the seas in a great hollow vessel made of wood
• 3:06:51
  Speaker 1: and larger than his honor's house. I described the ship
• 3:06:55
  Speaker 1: to him in the best terms I could, and explained
• 3:06:59
  Speaker 1: by the health of my handkerchief, displayed how it was
• 3:07:02
  Speaker 1: driven forward by the wind, that upon a quarrel among us,
• 3:07:08
  Speaker 1: I was set on shore on this coast, where I
• 3:07:10
  Speaker 1: walked forward without knowing whither till he had delivered me
• 3:07:15
  Speaker 1: from the persecution of those excricable yahoos. He asked me
• 3:07:20
  Speaker 1: who made the ship, and how it was possible that
• 3:07:23
  Speaker 1: the Hunams of my country would leave it to the
• 3:07:26
  Speaker 1: management of brutes. My answer was that I durst proceed
• 3:07:31
  Speaker 1: no further in my relation unless he would give me
• 3:07:35
  Speaker 1: his word and honor that he would not be offended,
• 3:07:38
  Speaker 1: and then I would tell in the wonders I had
• 3:07:40
  Speaker 1: so often promised. He agreed, and I went on by
• 3:07:45
  Speaker 1: assuring him that the ship was made by creatures like myself, who,
• 3:07:50
  Speaker 1: in all the countries I had traveled, as well as
• 3:07:53
  Speaker 1: in my own, were the only governing rational animals, and
• 3:07:57
  Speaker 1: that upon my arrival hither I was much astonished to
• 3:08:01
  Speaker 1: see the Whinnams act like rational beings, as he or
• 3:08:05
  Speaker 1: his friends could be. In finding some marks of reason
• 3:08:08
  Speaker 1: in a creature. He was pleased to call a yahoo,
• 3:08:12
  Speaker 1: to which I owned my resemblance in every part, but
• 3:08:15
  Speaker 1: could not account for their degenerate and brutal nature. I said, father,
• 3:08:21
  Speaker 1: that if good fortune ever restored me to my native
• 3:08:24
  Speaker 1: country to relate my travels hither as I resolved to do,
• 3:08:28
  Speaker 1: everybody would believe that I said the thing that was
• 3:08:32
  Speaker 1: not that I invented the story out of my own head,
• 3:08:36
  Speaker 1: and with all possible respect to himself, his family, and
• 3:08:39
  Speaker 1: his friends, and under his promise of not being offended,
• 3:08:44
  Speaker 1: our countrymen would hardly think it probable that a Wynham
• 3:08:48
  Speaker 1: should be the presiding creature of a nation and a
• 3:08:50
  Speaker 1: Yahoo the brute and a Part four. Chapter three, Chapter
• 3:08:56
  Speaker 1: four The Huinnam's notion of truth and falsehood. The author's
• 3:09:02
  Speaker 1: discourse disapproved by his master. The author gives a more
• 3:09:06
  Speaker 1: particular account of himself and the accidents.
• 3:09:08
  Speaker 2: Of his voyage.
• 3:09:11
  Speaker 1: My master heard me with great appearances of uneasiness in
• 3:09:14
  Speaker 1: his countenance, because doubting or not believing are so little
• 3:09:19
  Speaker 1: known in this country that the inhabitants cannot tell how
• 3:09:23
  Speaker 1: to behave themselves under such circumstances. And I remember, in
• 3:09:28
  Speaker 1: frequent discourses with my master concerning the nature of manhood
• 3:09:31
  Speaker 1: in other parts of the world, having occasioned a talk
• 3:09:35
  Speaker 1: of lying and false reputation. It was with much difficulty
• 3:09:39
  Speaker 1: that he comprehended what I meant, although he had otherwise
• 3:09:43
  Speaker 1: a most acute judgment, For he argued thus that the
• 3:09:48
  Speaker 1: use of speech was to make us understand one another
• 3:09:51
  Speaker 1: and to receive information of facts. Now, if anyone said
• 3:09:55
  Speaker 1: the thing which was not, these ends were defeated, because
• 3:09:59
  Speaker 1: I cannot properly be said to understand him, and I
• 3:10:02
  Speaker 1: am so far from receiving information that he leaves me
• 3:10:05
  Speaker 1: worse than in ignorance. For I am led to believe
• 3:10:09
  Speaker 1: a thing black when it is white, and short when
• 3:10:12
  Speaker 1: it is long. And these were all the notions he
• 3:10:16
  Speaker 1: had concerned in the faculty of lying, so perfectly well
• 3:10:20
  Speaker 1: understood and so universally practiced among human creatures. To return
• 3:10:26
  Speaker 1: from this digression, when I asserted that the Yahoos were
• 3:10:31
  Speaker 1: the only governing animals in my country, which my master
• 3:10:34
  Speaker 1: said was altogether past his conception, he desired to know
• 3:10:39
  Speaker 1: whether we had unums among us, and what was their employment.
• 3:10:43
  Speaker 1: I told him we had great numbers, that in summer
• 3:10:47
  Speaker 1: they grazed in the fields, and in winter were kept
• 3:10:50
  Speaker 1: in houses with hay and oats, where Yahoo servants were
• 3:10:53
  Speaker 1: employed to rub their skin, smooth, comb their manes, pick
• 3:10:57
  Speaker 1: their feet, serve them with food, and men make their beds.
• 3:11:03
  Speaker 1: I understand you well, said my master. It is now
• 3:11:07
  Speaker 1: very plain from all you have spoken that whatever share
• 3:11:10
  Speaker 1: of reason the Yahoos pretend to, the Whinnams are your masters.
• 3:11:14
  Speaker 1: I heartily wish our Yahoos would be so tractable, I
• 3:11:19
  Speaker 1: begged his honor, would please to excuse me from proceeding
• 3:11:22
  Speaker 1: any further, because I was very certain that the account
• 3:11:25
  Speaker 1: expected from me would be highly displeasing. But he insisted
• 3:11:31
  Speaker 1: in commanding me to let him know the best and
• 3:11:33
  Speaker 1: the worst. I told him he should be obeyed. I
• 3:11:38
  Speaker 1: owned that the whinnams among us, whom we call horses,
• 3:11:42
  Speaker 1: were the most generous and comely animals we had. That
• 3:11:46
  Speaker 1: they excelled in strength and swiftness, and when they belonged
• 3:11:50
  Speaker 1: to persons of quality, were employed in traveling, racing, or
• 3:11:54
  Speaker 1: drawing chariots. They were treated with much kindness and care
• 3:11:58
  Speaker 1: till they fell into disease, ease, or became foundered in
• 3:12:02
  Speaker 1: the feet. But then they were sold and used to
• 3:12:06
  Speaker 1: all kinds of drudgery till they died, after which their
• 3:12:10
  Speaker 1: skins were stripped and sold for what they were worth,
• 3:12:14
  Speaker 1: and their bodies left to be devoured by dogs and
• 3:12:17
  Speaker 1: birds of prey. But the common race of horses had
• 3:12:21
  Speaker 1: not so good fortune, being kept by farmers and carriers
• 3:12:25
  Speaker 1: and other mean people, who put them to great labor
• 3:12:29
  Speaker 1: and fed them worse. I described as well as I
• 3:12:33
  Speaker 1: could our way of riding, the shape and juice of
• 3:12:36
  Speaker 1: a bridle, a saddle, a spur, and a whip of
• 3:12:40
  Speaker 1: harness and wheels. I added that we fastened plaits of
• 3:12:44
  Speaker 1: a certain hard substance called iron at the bottom of
• 3:12:48
  Speaker 1: their feet, to preserve their hoos reinbroken by the stony
• 3:12:52
  Speaker 1: ways on which we often traveled. My master, after some
• 3:12:57
  Speaker 1: expressions of great indignation, wondered how we dared to venture
• 3:13:01
  Speaker 1: upon a Whynham's back, for he was sure that the
• 3:13:04
  Speaker 1: weakest servant in his house would be able to shake
• 3:13:08
  Speaker 1: off the strongest yahoo, or by lying down and rolling
• 3:13:13
  Speaker 1: on his back, squeezed the brute to death. I answered
• 3:13:17
  Speaker 1: that our horses were trained up from three or four
• 3:13:20
  Speaker 1: years old to the several uses we intended them for,
• 3:13:25
  Speaker 1: that if any of them proved intolerably vicious, they were
• 3:13:28
  Speaker 1: employed for carriages, That they were severely beaten while they
• 3:13:32
  Speaker 1: were young for any mischievous tricks. That the males designed
• 3:13:38
  Speaker 1: for the common use of riding or draft were generally
• 3:13:41
  Speaker 1: castrated about two years after their birth, to take down
• 3:13:45
  Speaker 1: their spirits and make them more tame and gentle. That
• 3:13:50
  Speaker 1: they were indeed sensible of rewards and punishments. But his
• 3:13:53
  Speaker 1: honor would please to consider that they had not the
• 3:13:56
  Speaker 1: least tincature of reason any more than the Yahoos and
• 3:13:59
  Speaker 1: the country. It put me to the pains of many
• 3:14:03
  Speaker 1: circumlocutions to give my master a right idea of what
• 3:14:07
  Speaker 1: I spoke, For their language does not abound in variety
• 3:14:11
  Speaker 1: of words, because their wants and passions are fewer than
• 3:14:14
  Speaker 1: among us. But it is impossible to express his noble
• 3:14:19
  Speaker 1: resentment at our savage treatment of the Huinnum race, particularly
• 3:14:24
  Speaker 1: after I had explained the manner and use of castrating
• 3:14:27
  Speaker 1: horses among us to hinder them from propagating their kind
• 3:14:32
  Speaker 1: and to render them more servile. He said, if it
• 3:14:38
  Speaker 1: were possible, there could be any country where Yahoos loane
• 3:14:41
  Speaker 1: were endued with reason, they certainly must be the governing animal,
• 3:14:46
  Speaker 1: because reason and time will always prevail against brute strength.
• 3:14:51
  Speaker 1: But considering the frame of our bodies, and especially of mine,
• 3:14:55
  Speaker 1: he thought no creature of equal bulk was so ill
• 3:14:58
  Speaker 1: contrived for employing that reason common offices of life. Whereupon
• 3:15:03
  Speaker 1: he desired to know whether those among whom I lived
• 3:15:06
  Speaker 1: resembled me or the Yahoos of his country. I assured
• 3:15:11
  Speaker 1: him that I was as well shaped as most of
• 3:15:14
  Speaker 1: my age, but the younger and the females were much
• 3:15:17
  Speaker 1: more soft and tender, and the skins of the latter
• 3:15:21
  Speaker 1: generally as white as milk. He said, I differed indeed
• 3:15:26
  Speaker 1: from other yahoos, being much more cleanly and not altogether
• 3:15:30
  Speaker 1: so deformed. But in point of real advantage, he thought
• 3:15:35
  Speaker 1: I differed from the worse. That my nails were of
• 3:15:38
  Speaker 1: no use either to my four or hinder feet, as
• 3:15:41
  Speaker 1: to my forefeet. He could not properly call them by
• 3:15:44
  Speaker 1: that name, for he never observed me to walk upon them,
• 3:15:49
  Speaker 1: that they were too soft to bear the ground that
• 3:15:52
  Speaker 1: I generally went with the uncovered near there was the covering.
• 3:15:55
  Speaker 1: I sometimes worn them of the same shape or so
• 3:15:58
  Speaker 1: strong as that on my feet behind, mind that I
• 3:16:01
  Speaker 1: could not walk without any security, for if either of
• 3:16:04
  Speaker 1: my hinder feet slipped, I must inevitably fail. He then
• 3:16:10
  Speaker 1: began to find fault with other parts of my body,
• 3:16:13
  Speaker 1: the flatness of my face, the prominence of my nose,
• 3:16:17
  Speaker 1: mine eyes placed directly in front, so that I could
• 3:16:20
  Speaker 1: not look on either side without.
• 3:16:21
  Speaker 2: Turning my head.
• 3:16:23
  Speaker 1: That I was not able to feed myself without lifting
• 3:16:26
  Speaker 1: one on my four feet to my mouth, And therefore
• 3:16:29
  Speaker 1: nature had placed those joints to answer that necessity. He
• 3:16:34
  Speaker 1: knew not what could be the use of those several
• 3:16:36
  Speaker 1: clefts and divisions in my feet behind, that these were
• 3:16:40
  Speaker 1: too soft to bear the hardness and sharpness of stones
• 3:16:43
  Speaker 1: without a covering made from the skin of some other brute.
• 3:16:47
  Speaker 1: That my whole body wanted a fence against heat and cold,
• 3:16:50
  Speaker 1: which I was forced to put on and off every
• 3:16:52
  Speaker 1: day with tediousness and trouble. And lastly, that he observed
• 3:16:58
  Speaker 1: every animal in this country naturally to abhor the yahoos,
• 3:17:02
  Speaker 1: whom the weaker avoided and the stronger drove from them,
• 3:17:06
  Speaker 1: So that, supposing us to have the gift of reason,
• 3:17:10
  Speaker 1: he could not see how it were possible to cure
• 3:17:12
  Speaker 1: that natural antipathy which every creature discovered against us, nor
• 3:17:18
  Speaker 1: consequently how we could tame and render them serviceable. However,
• 3:17:22
  Speaker 1: he would, as he said, debate the matter no farther,
• 3:17:26
  Speaker 1: because he was more desirous to know my own story,
• 3:17:29
  Speaker 1: the country where I was born, and the several actions
• 3:17:32
  Speaker 1: and events of my life before I came hither. I
• 3:17:37
  Speaker 1: assured him how extremely desirous I was that he should
• 3:17:41
  Speaker 1: be satisfied in every point. But I doubted much whether
• 3:17:45
  Speaker 1: it would be possible for me to explain myself on
• 3:17:47
  Speaker 1: several subjects whereof his honor could have no conception, because
• 3:17:53
  Speaker 1: I saw nothing in his country to which I could
• 3:17:55
  Speaker 1: resemble them. However, that I would do my best and
• 3:18:00
  Speaker 1: drive to express myself by similitudes, humbly desiring his assistance
• 3:18:04
  Speaker 1: when I wanted proper words, which he was pleased to
• 3:18:08
  Speaker 1: promise me. I said, my birth was of honest parents
• 3:18:13
  Speaker 1: in an island called England, which was remote from his country,
• 3:18:17
  Speaker 1: as many days journey as the strongest of his honored
• 3:18:20
  Speaker 1: servants could travel in the annual course of the sun.
• 3:18:23
  Speaker 1: That I was bred a surgeon, whose trade it was
• 3:18:26
  Speaker 1: to cure wounds and hurts in the body gotten by
• 3:18:29
  Speaker 1: accident or violence. That my country was governed by a
• 3:18:32
  Speaker 1: female man, whom we called Queen. That I left to
• 3:18:37
  Speaker 1: get riches whereby I might maintain myself and family when
• 3:18:41
  Speaker 1: I should return. That in my last voyage, I was
• 3:18:46
  Speaker 1: commander of the ship and had about fifty yahoos under me,
• 3:18:50
  Speaker 1: many of which died at sea, and I was forced
• 3:18:53
  Speaker 1: to supply them by others picked out from several nations.
• 3:18:57
  Speaker 1: The towership was twice in danger of being sunk, the
• 3:19:00
  Speaker 1: first time by a great storm and the second by
• 3:19:03
  Speaker 1: striking against a rock. Here, my master interposed by asking
• 3:19:08
  Speaker 1: me how I could persuade strangers out of different countries
• 3:19:13
  Speaker 1: to venture with me after the losses I had sustained
• 3:19:16
  Speaker 1: and the hazards I had run. I said they were
• 3:19:21
  Speaker 1: fellows of desperate fortunes, forced to fly from the places
• 3:19:24
  Speaker 1: of their birth on account of their poverty or their crimes.
• 3:19:28
  Speaker 1: Some were undone by law suits, others spent all they
• 3:19:32
  Speaker 1: had in drinking, houring, and gaming. Others fled for treason,
• 3:19:37
  Speaker 1: many for murder, theft, poisoning, robbery, perjury, forgery, coining false money,
• 3:19:44
  Speaker 1: for committing rapes or sodomy, for flying from their colors,
• 3:19:48
  Speaker 1: or deserting to the enemy, and most of them had
• 3:19:51
  Speaker 1: broken prison. None of these durst return to their native
• 3:19:56
  Speaker 1: countries for fear of being hanged or of starving in
• 3:19:59
  Speaker 1: an jail, and therefore they were under the necessity of
• 3:20:03
  Speaker 1: seeking a livelihood in other places. During this discourse, my
• 3:20:08
  Speaker 1: master was pleased to interrupt me several times. I had
• 3:20:12
  Speaker 1: made use of many circumlocutions in describing to him the
• 3:20:15
  Speaker 1: nature of the several crimes for which most of our
• 3:20:19
  Speaker 1: crew had been forced to fly their country. This labor
• 3:20:23
  Speaker 1: took up several days conversation before he was able to
• 3:20:26
  Speaker 1: comprehend me. He was wholly at a loss to know
• 3:20:30
  Speaker 1: what could be the use or necessity of practicing those
• 3:20:32
  Speaker 1: vices to clear up which I endeavored to give some
• 3:20:38
  Speaker 1: ideas of the desire of power and riches, of the
• 3:20:41
  Speaker 1: terrible effects of lust, intemperance, malice, and envy. All this
• 3:20:46
  Speaker 1: I was forced to define and describe by putting cases
• 3:20:50
  Speaker 1: and making suppositions, after which, like one whose imagination was
• 3:20:56
  Speaker 1: struck with something never seen or heard of before, he
• 3:21:00
  Speaker 1: would lift up his eyes with amazement and indignation. Power, government, war, law, punishment,
• 3:21:08
  Speaker 1: and a thousand other things had no terms wherein that
• 3:21:11
  Speaker 1: language could express them, which made the difficulty almost insuperable
• 3:21:17
  Speaker 1: to give my master any conception of what I meant.
• 3:21:22
  Speaker 1: But being of an excellent understanding, much improved by contemplation
• 3:21:27
  Speaker 1: and converse, he at last arrived at a competent knowledge
• 3:21:30
  Speaker 1: of what human nature in our parts of the world
• 3:21:34
  Speaker 1: is capable to perform and desired. I would give him
• 3:21:38
  Speaker 1: some particular account of that land which we call Europe,
• 3:21:41
  Speaker 1: but especially of my own country. And apart four Chapter four,
• 3:21:47
  Speaker 1: Chapter five, the author, at his master's command informs him
• 3:21:53
  Speaker 1: of the State of England, the causes of war among
• 3:21:56
  Speaker 1: the Princes of Europe. The author begins to explain the
• 3:22:00
  Speaker 1: English Constitution. The reader may please to observe that the
• 3:22:05
  Speaker 1: following extract of many conversations I had with my master
• 3:22:09
  Speaker 1: contains a summary of the most material points which are
• 3:22:12
  Speaker 1: discoursed at several times for above two years. His honor,
• 3:22:17
  Speaker 1: often desiring fuller satisfaction, as I farther improved in the
• 3:22:21
  Speaker 1: huinnhuam tongue I laid before him as well as I
• 3:22:25
  Speaker 1: could the whole state of Europe. I discoursed, of trade
• 3:22:29
  Speaker 1: and manufacturers, of arts and sciences. And the answers I
• 3:22:33
  Speaker 1: gave to all the questions he made as they arose
• 3:22:36
  Speaker 1: upon several subjects, were a fund of conversation not to
• 3:22:40
  Speaker 1: be exhausted. But I shall here only set down the
• 3:22:44
  Speaker 1: substance of what passed between us concerning my own country,
• 3:22:49
  Speaker 1: reducing it in order as well as I can, without
• 3:22:51
  Speaker 1: any regard to time or other circumstances. While I strictly
• 3:22:55
  Speaker 1: adhere to truth, my only concern is that I shall
• 3:23:00
  Speaker 1: hardly be able to do justice to my master's arguments
• 3:23:03
  Speaker 1: and expressions, which must needs suffer by my want of capacity,
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  Speaker 1: as well as by a translation into our barbarous English.
• 3:23:13
  Speaker 1: In obedience therefore to his Honor's commands, I related to
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  Speaker 1: in the revolution under the Prince of Orange, the long
• 3:23:21
  Speaker 1: war with France, entered into by the said Prince and
• 3:23:25
  Speaker 1: renewed by his successor, the present Queen, wherein the greatest
• 3:23:29
  Speaker 1: powers of Christiandom were engaged, and which still continued. I computed,
• 3:23:36
  Speaker 1: at his request that about a million yard whos might
• 3:23:39
  Speaker 1: have been killed in the whole progress of it, and
• 3:23:42
  Speaker 1: perhaps a hundred or more cities taken, and five times
• 3:23:45
  Speaker 1: as many ships burnt or sunk. He asked me what
• 3:23:50
  Speaker 1: were the usual causes or motives that made one country
• 3:23:53
  Speaker 1: go to war with another? I answered they were innumerable,
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  Speaker 1: but I should only mention a few of the chiefs.
• 3:24:01
  Speaker 1: Sometimes the ambition of princes who never think they have
• 3:24:04
  Speaker 1: land or people enough to govern. Sometimes a corruption of
• 3:24:08
  Speaker 1: ministers who engage their master in a war in order
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  Speaker 1: to stifle or divert the clamor of the subjects against
• 3:24:15
  Speaker 1: their evil administration. Difference in opinions has cost many millions
• 3:24:20
  Speaker 1: of lives. For instance, whether flesh be bread or bread
• 3:24:24
  Speaker 1: be flesh, whether the Jews of a certain berry be
• 3:24:27
  Speaker 1: blood or wine, Whether whistling be a vice or a virtue.
• 3:24:32
  Speaker 1: Whether it be better to kiss a post or throw
• 3:24:35
  Speaker 1: it into the fire. What is the best color for
• 3:24:37
  Speaker 1: a coat, whether black, white, red, or gray, And whether
• 3:24:42
  Speaker 1: it should be long or short, narrow or wide, dirty
• 3:24:46
  Speaker 1: or clean? With many more. Neither are any war so
• 3:24:50
  Speaker 1: furious and bloody, or of so long a continuance, as
• 3:24:54
  Speaker 1: are those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it
• 3:24:58
  Speaker 1: be in things indifferent. Sometimes the quarrel between two princes
• 3:25:03
  Speaker 1: is to decide which of them shall dispossess a third
• 3:25:06
  Speaker 1: of his dominions, where neither of them pretend to any right.
• 3:25:11
  Speaker 1: Sometimes one prince quarrels with another for fear the other
• 3:25:14
  Speaker 1: should quarrel with him. Sometimes the war is entered upon
• 3:25:18
  Speaker 1: because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he
• 3:25:22
  Speaker 1: is too weak. Sometimes our neighbors want the things which
• 3:25:25
  Speaker 1: we have, or have the things which we want, and
• 3:25:28
  Speaker 1: we both fight till they take hours or give us theirs.
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  Speaker 2: It is a very justifiable cause of.
• 3:25:35
  Speaker 1: War to invade a country after the people have been
• 3:25:38
  Speaker 1: wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions
• 3:25:42
  Speaker 1: among themselves. It is justifiable to enter into a war
• 3:25:47
  Speaker 1: against our nearest, ally when one of his towns lies
• 3:25:50
  Speaker 1: convenient for us, or a territory of land that would
• 3:25:54
  Speaker 1: render our dominions round and complete. If a prince ends
• 3:25:58
  Speaker 1: forces into a nation, whether people are poor and ignorant,
• 3:26:02
  Speaker 1: he may lawfully put half of them to death and
• 3:26:05
  Speaker 1: make slaves of the rest, in order to civilize and
• 3:26:08
  Speaker 1: reduce them from their barbarious ways of living. It is
• 3:26:12
  Speaker 1: very kingly honorable and frequent practice, when one prince desires
• 3:26:17
  Speaker 1: the assistance of another to secure him against an invasion,
• 3:26:21
  Speaker 1: that the assistant, when he is driven out, the invader
• 3:26:25
  Speaker 1: should seize on the dominions himself and kill, in prison,
• 3:26:29
  Speaker 1: or banish the prince he came to relieve. Alliance by
• 3:26:33
  Speaker 1: blood or marriage is a frequent cause of war between
• 3:26:35
  Speaker 1: princes and the nearer. The kindred is, the greater their
• 3:26:39
  Speaker 1: disposition to quarrel. Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations
• 3:26:44
  Speaker 1: are proud, and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
• 3:26:49
  Speaker 1: For these reasons, the trade of a soldier is held
• 3:26:52
  Speaker 1: to the most honorable of all others, because a soldier
• 3:26:55
  Speaker 1: is a yahoo hired to kill in cold blood as
• 3:26:58
  Speaker 1: many of his own species, who have never offended him
• 3:27:01
  Speaker 1: as possibly he can. There is likewise a kind of
• 3:27:06
  Speaker 1: beggarly princes in Europe not able to make war by themselves,
• 3:27:11
  Speaker 1: who hire out their troops to richer nations for so
• 3:27:14
  Speaker 1: much a day to each man, of which they keep
• 3:27:17
  Speaker 1: three fourths to themselves, and it is the best part
• 3:27:21
  Speaker 1: of their maintenance. Such are those in many northern parts
• 3:27:25
  Speaker 1: of Europe. What you have told me, said my master,
• 3:27:31
  Speaker 1: upon the subject of war, does indeed discover most admirably
• 3:27:34
  Speaker 1: the effects of that reason you pretend to. However, it
• 3:27:38
  Speaker 1: is happy that the shame is greater than the danger,
• 3:27:41
  Speaker 1: and that nature has left you utterly incapable of doing
• 3:27:44
  Speaker 1: much mischief. For your mouths lying flat with your faces,
• 3:27:49
  Speaker 1: you can hardly bite each other to any purpose unless
• 3:27:52
  Speaker 1: by consent. Then, as to the clause upon your feet
• 3:27:56
  Speaker 1: before and behind, they are so short and tender that
• 3:27:59
  Speaker 1: one of our yahoos would drive a dozen of yours
• 3:28:02
  Speaker 1: before him. And therefore, in recounting the numbers of those
• 3:28:06
  Speaker 1: who have been killed in battle, I cannot but think
• 3:28:09
  Speaker 1: you have said the thing which is not. I could
• 3:28:13
  Speaker 1: not forbear shaking my head and smiling a little at
• 3:28:16
  Speaker 1: his ignorance, and being no stranger to the art of war,
• 3:28:21
  Speaker 1: I gave him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabbeans, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments,
• 3:28:34
  Speaker 1: sea fights, ships sunk with a thousand men twenty thousand
• 3:28:39
  Speaker 1: killed on each side, dying, groans, limbs flying in the air, smoke, noise, confusion,
• 3:28:46
  Speaker 1: trampling to death, under horses, feet, flight, pursuit, victory, Fields
• 3:28:51
  Speaker 1: strewed with carcasses left for food to dogs and wolves
• 3:28:55
  Speaker 1: and birds of prey, plundering, stripping, ravishing, burning, and as drawing,
• 3:29:01
  Speaker 1: and as set forth the valor of my own dear countrymen.
• 3:29:04
  Speaker 1: I assured him that I had seen them blown up
• 3:29:07
  Speaker 1: a hundred enemies at once in a siege, and as
• 3:29:10
  Speaker 1: many in a ship, and beheld the dead bodies dropped
• 3:29:13
  Speaker 1: down in pieces from the clouds to the great diversion
• 3:29:16
  Speaker 1: of the spectators. I was going on to more particulars
• 3:29:21
  Speaker 1: when my master commanded me silence. He said, whoever understood
• 3:29:26
  Speaker 1: the nature of yahoos might easily believe it possible for
• 3:29:29
  Speaker 1: so vile an animal to be capable of every action
• 3:29:32
  Speaker 1: I had named, if their strength and cunning equal to
• 3:29:35
  Speaker 1: their malice. But as my discourse had increased his abhorrence
• 3:29:40
  Speaker 1: of the whole species, he found it gave him a
• 3:29:43
  Speaker 1: disturbance in his mind to which he was wholly a stranger.
• 3:29:46
  Speaker 2: Before.
• 3:29:48
  Speaker 1: He thought his ears, being used to such abominable words,
• 3:29:52
  Speaker 1: might by degrees, admit them with less detestation. That although
• 3:29:58
  Speaker 1: he hated the yahoos of this country, yet he no
• 3:30:01
  Speaker 1: more blamed them for their odious qualities than he did
• 3:30:04
  Speaker 1: a gneur, a bird of prey for its cruelty, or
• 3:30:08
  Speaker 1: a sharp stone cutting his hoof. But when a creature
• 3:30:12
  Speaker 1: pretending to reason could be capable of such enormities, he
• 3:30:16
  Speaker 1: dreaded lest the corruption of that facility might be worse
• 3:30:19
  Speaker 1: than brutality itself. He seemed therefore confidant that instead of reason,
• 3:30:26
  Speaker 1: we were only possessed of some quality fitted to increase
• 3:30:29
  Speaker 1: on natural vices, as the reflection from a troubled stream
• 3:30:34
  Speaker 1: returns the image of an ill shapen body not only
• 3:30:37
  Speaker 1: larger but more distorted. He added that he had heard
• 3:30:42
  Speaker 1: too much upon the subject of war, both in this
• 3:30:45
  Speaker 1: and some former discourses. There was another point which a
• 3:30:50
  Speaker 1: little perplexed him. At present I had informed him that
• 3:30:53
  Speaker 1: some of our crew left their country on account of
• 3:30:56
  Speaker 1: being ruined by law, that I had already explained the
• 3:30:59
  Speaker 1: meaning of the word. But he was at a loss
• 3:31:02
  Speaker 1: how it should come to pass that the law, which
• 3:31:05
  Speaker 1: was intended for every man's preservation, should be any man's ruin. Therefore,
• 3:31:11
  Speaker 1: he desired to be further satisfied what I meant by
• 3:31:14
  Speaker 1: law and the dispenses thereof, according to the present practice
• 3:31:18
  Speaker 1: of my own country, because he thought nature and reason
• 3:31:21
  Speaker 1: were sufficient guide for a reasonable animal, as we pretended
• 3:31:25
  Speaker 1: to be, in showing us what he ought to do
• 3:31:27
  Speaker 1: and what to avoid. I assured his honor that the
• 3:31:33
  Speaker 1: law was a science in which I had not much
• 3:31:35
  Speaker 1: conversed further than by apploying advocates in Vain upon some
• 3:31:39
  Speaker 1: injustices that had been done me. However, I would give
• 3:31:43
  Speaker 1: him all the satisfaction I was able. I said, there
• 3:31:48
  Speaker 1: was a society of men among us, bred up from
• 3:31:50
  Speaker 1: their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied
• 3:31:54
  Speaker 1: for the purpose that white is black, and black as white.
• 3:31:58
  Speaker 1: According as they are paid to this society. All the
• 3:32:02
  Speaker 1: rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my
• 3:32:06
  Speaker 1: neighbor has a mind to my cow, he has a
• 3:32:09
  Speaker 1: lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow
• 3:32:11
  Speaker 1: from me, I must then hire another to defend my right,
• 3:32:16
  Speaker 1: it being against all rules of law that any man
• 3:32:18
  Speaker 1: should be allowed to speak for himself. Now in this case, I,
• 3:32:24
  Speaker 1: who am the right owner, lie under two great disadvantages. First,
• 3:32:29
  Speaker 1: my lawyer, being practiced almost from his cradle in defending falsehood,
• 3:32:33
  Speaker 1: is quite out of his element when he would be
• 3:32:35
  Speaker 1: an advocate for justice, which is an unnatural office. He
• 3:32:39
  Speaker 1: always attempts with great awkwardness, if not with ill will.
• 3:32:45
  Speaker 1: The second disadvantage is that my lawyer must proceed with
• 3:32:48
  Speaker 1: great caution, or else he will be reprimanded by the
• 3:32:51
  Speaker 1: judges and abhorred by his brethren as one that would
• 3:32:55
  Speaker 1: lessen the practice of the law. And therefore I have
• 3:32:59
  Speaker 1: but two methods to preserve my cow. The first is
• 3:33:03
  Speaker 1: to gain my adversary's lawyer with a double fee, who
• 3:33:07
  Speaker 1: will then betray his client by insinuating that he hath
• 3:33:09
  Speaker 1: justice on his side. The second ways for my lawyer
• 3:33:14
  Speaker 1: to make my case appear as unjust as he can,
• 3:33:17
  Speaker 1: by allowing the cow to belong to my adversary, and this,
• 3:33:21
  Speaker 1: if it be skillfully done, will certainly bespeak the favor
• 3:33:25
  Speaker 1: of the bench. Now, your honor is to know that
• 3:33:29
  Speaker 1: these judges are persons appointed to decide or controversies of property,
• 3:33:34
  Speaker 1: as well as for the trial of criminals, and picked
• 3:33:37
  Speaker 1: out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old
• 3:33:40
  Speaker 1: or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against
• 3:33:44
  Speaker 1: truth and equity, lie under such a fatal necessity of
• 3:33:47
  Speaker 1: favoring fraud, perjury, and oppression that I have known.
• 3:33:51
  Speaker 2: Some of them.
• 3:33:51
  Speaker 1: Refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay,
• 3:33:55
  Speaker 1: rather than injure the faculty by doing anything unbecoming their
• 3:33:59
  Speaker 1: nature or their office. It is a maxim among these
• 3:34:03
  Speaker 1: lawyers that whatever has been done before may legally be
• 3:34:07
  Speaker 1: done again, and therefore they take special care to record
• 3:34:10
  Speaker 1: all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the
• 3:34:14
  Speaker 1: general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedence,
• 3:34:20
  Speaker 1: they produce as authorities to justify the most iniquitous opinions,
• 3:34:24
  Speaker 1: and the judges never fail of directing accordingly. In pleading,
• 3:34:29
  Speaker 1: they studiously avoid entering into the merits of the cause.
• 3:34:33
  Speaker 1: But a loud, violent and tedious in dwelling upon all
• 3:34:37
  Speaker 1: circumstances which are not to the purpose. For instance, in
• 3:34:41
  Speaker 1: the case already mentioned, they never desire to know what
• 3:34:44
  Speaker 1: claim or title my adversary has to my cow, but
• 3:34:48
  Speaker 1: whether the said cow are red or black, her horns
• 3:34:51
  Speaker 1: long or short, whether the field I graze her in
• 3:34:54
  Speaker 1: be round or square, whether she was milked at home
• 3:34:57
  Speaker 1: or abroad, what diseases she is subject to.
• 3:35:00
  Speaker 2: And the like.
• 3:35:03
  Speaker 1: After which they consult precedents, adjoin the cause from time
• 3:35:06
  Speaker 1: to time, and in ten, twenty or thirty years come
• 3:35:10
  Speaker 1: to an issue. It is likewise to be observed that
• 3:35:14
  Speaker 1: this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their
• 3:35:17
  Speaker 1: own that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all
• 3:35:21
  Speaker 1: their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply,
• 3:35:26
  Speaker 1: whereby they have wholly confounded the very essence of truth
• 3:35:28
  Speaker 1: and falsehood, of right and wrong, so that it will
• 3:35:32
  Speaker 1: take thirty years to decide whether the field left me
• 3:35:35
  Speaker 1: by my ancestors for six generations belongs to me or
• 3:35:39
  Speaker 1: to a stranger three hundred miles off. In the trial
• 3:35:44
  Speaker 1: of persons accused for crimes against the state, the method
• 3:35:48
  Speaker 1: is much more short and commendable the judge first sends
• 3:35:51
  Speaker 1: to sound the disposition of those in power, after which
• 3:35:55
  Speaker 1: he can easily hang or save the criminal, strictly preserving
• 3:35:59
  Speaker 1: all due form of law. Here, my Master, in deposing, said,
• 3:36:05
  Speaker 1: it was a pity that creatures endowed with such prodigious
• 3:36:07
  Speaker 1: abilities of mind as these lawyers, by the description I
• 3:36:11
  Speaker 1: gave of them, must certainly be, were not rather encouraged
• 3:36:15
  Speaker 1: to be instructures of others in wisdom and knowledge. In
• 3:36:19
  Speaker 1: answer to which I assured his Honor that in all
• 3:36:22
  Speaker 1: points out of their own trade, they were usually the
• 3:36:24
  Speaker 1: most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable
• 3:36:29
  Speaker 1: in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning,
• 3:36:34
  Speaker 1: and equally disposed to pervert to the general reason of
• 3:36:37
  Speaker 1: mankind in every other subject of discourse, as in that
• 3:36:40
  Speaker 1: of their own profession. And a Part four, Chapter five,
• 3:36:46
  Speaker 1: Chapter six, A continuation of the State of England under
• 3:36:51
  Speaker 1: Queen Anne, the character of a first Minister of State
• 3:36:54
  Speaker 1: in European courts. My Master was yet wholly at a
• 3:36:58
  Speaker 1: loss to understand what motives could incite this race of
• 3:37:01
  Speaker 1: lawyers to perplex, disquiet, and weary themselves and engage in
• 3:37:07
  Speaker 1: a confederacy of injustice, merely for the sake of injuring
• 3:37:10
  Speaker 1: their fellow animals. Neither could he comprehend what I meant
• 3:37:15
  Speaker 1: in saying they did it for hire. Whereupon I was
• 3:37:19
  Speaker 1: at much pains to describe to him the use of money,
• 3:37:22
  Speaker 1: the materials it was made of, and the value of
• 3:37:25
  Speaker 1: the metals. That where Yahoo, who had got a great
• 3:37:30
  Speaker 1: store of this precious substance, he was able to purchase
• 3:37:33
  Speaker 1: whatever he had a mind, to the finest clothing, the
• 3:37:37
  Speaker 1: noblest houses, great tracts of land, the most costly meats
• 3:37:42
  Speaker 1: and drinks, and have his choice of the most beautiful females. Therefore,
• 3:37:48
  Speaker 1: since money alone was able to perform all these feats,
• 3:37:52
  Speaker 1: our yahoos thought they could never have enough of it
• 3:37:55
  Speaker 1: to spend or to save, as they found themselves inclined
• 3:38:00
  Speaker 1: from their natural bent either to profusion or avarice. That
• 3:38:04
  Speaker 1: the rich men enjoyed the fruit of the poor man's labor,
• 3:38:07
  Speaker 1: and the latter were a thousand to one in proportion
• 3:38:10
  Speaker 1: to the former. That the bulk of our people were
• 3:38:13
  Speaker 1: forced to live miserably by laboring every day for small wages.
• 3:38:17
  Speaker 1: To make a few live plentifully, I enlarged myself much
• 3:38:22
  Speaker 1: on these and many other particulars to the same purpose.
• 3:38:26
  Speaker 1: But his honor was still to seek, for he went
• 3:38:28
  Speaker 1: upon a supposition that all animals had a title to
• 3:38:32
  Speaker 1: their share in the productions of the earth, and especially
• 3:38:35
  Speaker 1: those who preside over the rest. Therefore, he desired I
• 3:38:40
  Speaker 1: would let him know what these costly meats were, and
• 3:38:44
  Speaker 1: how any of us happened to want them. Whereupon I
• 3:38:47
  Speaker 1: enumerated as many sorts as came into my head, with
• 3:38:50
  Speaker 1: the various methods of dressing them, which could not be
• 3:38:53
  Speaker 1: done without sending vessels by sea to every part of
• 3:38:56
  Speaker 1: the world, as well for liquors to drink, as for sources,
• 3:39:00
  Speaker 1: and innumerable other conveniences. I assured him that this whole
• 3:39:07
  Speaker 1: globe of earth must be at least three times gone
• 3:39:10
  Speaker 1: round before one of our better female yahoos could get
• 3:39:13
  Speaker 1: at breakfast or a cup to put it in. He
• 3:39:17
  Speaker 1: said that must needs be a miserable country which cannot
• 3:39:21
  Speaker 1: furnish food for its own inhabitants.
• 3:39:23
  Speaker 2: But what he chiefly.
• 3:39:24
  Speaker 1: Wondered it was how such vast tracts of ground as
• 3:39:28
  Speaker 1: I described, should be wholly without fresh water, and the
• 3:39:32
  Speaker 1: people put to the necessity of sending over the sea
• 3:39:35
  Speaker 1: for drink. I replied that England, the dear place of
• 3:39:40
  Speaker 1: my nativity, was computed to produce three times the quantity
• 3:39:44
  Speaker 1: of food more than its inhabitants are able to consume,
• 3:39:47
  Speaker 1: as well as liquors extracted from grain or pressed out
• 3:39:51
  Speaker 1: of the fruit of certain trees, which made excellent drink,
• 3:39:55
  Speaker 1: and the same proportion in every other convenience of life.
• 3:39:59
  Speaker 1: But in order to feed the luxury and intemperance of
• 3:40:02
  Speaker 1: the males and the vanity of the females, we sent
• 3:40:06
  Speaker 1: away the greatest part of our necessary things to other countries. Whence,
• 3:40:10
  Speaker 1: in return we brought the materials of diseases, folly, and
• 3:40:14
  Speaker 1: vice to spend among ourselves. Hence it follows of necessity
• 3:40:21
  Speaker 1: that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek
• 3:40:24
  Speaker 1: their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, flattering, suborning,
• 3:40:31
  Speaker 1: for swearing, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, star gazing, poisoning, houring, canting,
• 3:40:42
  Speaker 1: and the like occupations, every one of which terms I
• 3:40:47
  Speaker 1: was at much pains to make him understand that wine
• 3:40:51
  Speaker 1: was not imported among us from foreign countries to supply
• 3:40:54
  Speaker 1: the want of water or other drinks, but because it
• 3:40:57
  Speaker 1: was a sort of liquid which made us merry. By
• 3:41:00
  Speaker 1: putting us out of our senses, diverted all melancholy thoughts,
• 3:41:05
  Speaker 1: begat wild, extravagant imaginations in the brain, raised our hopes
• 3:41:09
  Speaker 1: and banished our fears, suspended every office of reason for
• 3:41:13
  Speaker 1: a time, and deprived us of the use of our
• 3:41:16
  Speaker 1: limbs till we fell into a profound sleep. Although it
• 3:41:20
  Speaker 1: must be confessed that we always awaked sick and dispirited,
• 3:41:24
  Speaker 1: and that the use of this liqueur filled us with
• 3:41:26
  Speaker 1: diseases which bade our lives uncomfortable and short. But besides
• 3:41:32
  Speaker 1: all this, the bulk of our people supported themselves by
• 3:41:35
  Speaker 1: furnishing the necessities or convenience of life to the rich
• 3:41:39
  Speaker 1: and to each other. For instance, when I am at
• 3:41:43
  Speaker 1: home and dressed as I ought to be, I carry
• 3:41:46
  Speaker 1: on my body the workmanship of a hundred tradesmen, the
• 3:41:49
  Speaker 1: building and furniture of my house employers many more, and
• 3:41:53
  Speaker 1: five times the number to adorn my wife. I was
• 3:41:57
  Speaker 1: going on to tell him of another sort of people,
• 3:42:00
  Speaker 1: who get their livelihood by attending the sick, having upon
• 3:42:04
  Speaker 1: some occasions informed his Honor that many of my crew
• 3:42:07
  Speaker 1: had died of diseases. But here it was with the
• 3:42:11
  Speaker 1: utmost difficulty that I brought him to apprehend what I meant.
• 3:42:16
  Speaker 1: He could easily conceive that a whinnum grew weak and
• 3:42:19
  Speaker 1: tarvy a few days before his death, or by some accident,
• 3:42:23
  Speaker 1: might hurt a limb, But that nature, who works all
• 3:42:27
  Speaker 1: things to perfection, should suffer any pains to breed in
• 3:42:31
  Speaker 1: our bodies. He thought impossible, and desired to know the
• 3:42:34
  Speaker 1: reason of so unaccountable an evil. I told him. We
• 3:42:40
  Speaker 1: fed on a thousand things which operated contrary to each other.
• 3:42:44
  Speaker 1: That we ate when we were not hungry, and drank
• 3:42:47
  Speaker 1: without the provocation of thirst. That we sat whole nights
• 3:42:51
  Speaker 1: drinking strong liquors without eating a bit, which disposed us
• 3:42:55
  Speaker 1: to sloth, inflamed our bodies, and precipitated or prevented digestion.
• 3:43:02
  Speaker 1: That prostitute female yahoos acquired a certain malady which bred
• 3:43:07
  Speaker 1: rottenness in the bones of those who fell into their embraces.
• 3:43:12
  Speaker 2: That this and many.
• 3:43:13
  Speaker 1: Other diseases were propagated from father to son, so that
• 3:43:17
  Speaker 1: great numbers came into the world with complicated maladies upon them.
• 3:43:22
  Speaker 1: That it would be endless to give him a catalog
• 3:43:24
  Speaker 1: of all the diseases incident to human bodies, for they
• 3:43:28
  Speaker 1: would not be fewer than five or six hundred spread
• 3:43:31
  Speaker 1: over every limb and joint, In short, every part external
• 3:43:36
  Speaker 1: and intestine, having diseases appropriated to itself to remedy which
• 3:43:43
  Speaker 1: there was a sort of people bred up among us
• 3:43:46
  Speaker 1: in the professional pretense of curing the sick. And because
• 3:43:50
  Speaker 1: I had some skill in the faculty, I would, in
• 3:43:53
  Speaker 1: gratitude to his honor, let him know the whole mystery
• 3:43:56
  Speaker 1: and method by which they proceed. Their fundamental is that
• 3:44:02
  Speaker 1: all diseases arise from repletion. Whence they conclude that a
• 3:44:07
  Speaker 1: great evacuation of the body is necessary, either through the
• 3:44:10
  Speaker 1: natural passage or upwards.
• 3:44:12
  Speaker 2: At the mouth.
• 3:44:14
  Speaker 1: Their next business is from herbs, minerals, gums, oils, shells, salts, juices,
• 3:44:20
  Speaker 1: sea weed, excrements, barks of trees, serpents, toads, frogs, spiders,
• 3:44:26
  Speaker 1: dead men's flesh and bones, birds, beasts, and fishes to
• 3:44:32
  Speaker 1: form a composition for smell and taste the most abominable, nauseous,
• 3:44:36
  Speaker 1: and detestable they can possibly contrive, which the stomach immediately
• 3:44:41
  Speaker 1: rejects with loathing. And this they call a vomit or
• 3:44:46
  Speaker 1: else from the same storehouse, with some other poisonous additions.
• 3:44:51
  Speaker 1: They command us to take in at the orifice above
• 3:44:53
  Speaker 1: or below, just as the physician then happens to be
• 3:44:57
  Speaker 1: disposed a medicine equally annoying and disgusting to the bowels, which,
• 3:45:03
  Speaker 1: relaxing the belly, drives down all before it. And this
• 3:45:07
  Speaker 1: they call a purge or a clister for nature, as
• 3:45:12
  Speaker 1: a physician's allege. Having intended the superior anterior orifice only
• 3:45:17
  Speaker 1: for the intermission of solids and liquids, and the inferior
• 3:45:21
  Speaker 1: posterior for ejection. These artists ingeniously consider that in all diseases,
• 3:45:28
  Speaker 1: nature is forced out of her seat. Therefore, to replace
• 3:45:33
  Speaker 1: her in it, the body must be treated in a
• 3:45:35
  Speaker 1: manner directly contrary, by interchanging the use of each orifice,
• 3:45:41
  Speaker 1: forcing solids and liquids in at the anus, and making
• 3:45:44
  Speaker 1: evacuations at the mouth. But besides real diseases, we are
• 3:45:50
  Speaker 1: subject to many that are only imaginary, for which the
• 3:45:54
  Speaker 1: physicians have invented imaginary cures. These have their several names,
• 3:45:59
  Speaker 1: and so have the drugs that are proper for them.
• 3:46:02
  Speaker 1: And with these our female yahoos are always infested. One
• 3:46:07
  Speaker 1: great excellency in this tribe is their skill at prognostics,
• 3:46:12
  Speaker 1: wherein they seldom fail their predictions in real diseases when
• 3:46:17
  Speaker 1: they rise to any degree of malignity, generally pretending death,
• 3:46:21
  Speaker 1: which is always in their power, when recovery is not,
• 3:46:25
  Speaker 1: and therefore upon any unexpected signs of amendment, after they
• 3:46:30
  Speaker 1: have pronounced their sentence, rather than be accused as false prophets,
• 3:46:35
  Speaker 1: they know how to prove their sagacity to the world
• 3:46:38
  Speaker 1: by a seasonable dose.
• 3:46:41
  Speaker 2: They are likewise of special.
• 3:46:42
  Speaker 1: Use to husbands and wives who are grown weary of
• 3:46:45
  Speaker 1: their mates, to eldest sons, to great ministers of state,
• 3:46:50
  Speaker 1: and often to princes. I had formerly, upon occasion discoursed
• 3:46:56
  Speaker 1: with my master upon the nature of government in general,
• 3:47:00
  Speaker 1: of our own excellent constitution, deservedly the wonder and envy
• 3:47:04
  Speaker 1: of the whole world. But having here accidentally mentioned a
• 3:47:09
  Speaker 1: minister of state, he commanded me some time after to
• 3:47:14
  Speaker 1: inform him what speeches of yahoo I particularly meant by
• 3:47:17
  Speaker 1: that appellation. I told him that a first or chief
• 3:47:23
  Speaker 1: minister of state, who was the person I intended to describe,
• 3:47:28
  Speaker 1: was the creature wholly exempt from joy and grief, love
• 3:47:31
  Speaker 1: and hatred, pity and anger at least makes use of
• 3:47:36
  Speaker 1: no other passions but a violent desire of wealth, power,
• 3:47:40
  Speaker 1: and titles. That he applies his words to all users
• 3:47:45
  Speaker 1: except the indication of his mind. That he never tells
• 3:47:48
  Speaker 1: a truth but with an intent that you should take
• 3:47:51
  Speaker 1: it for a lie, nor a lie, but with a
• 3:47:54
  Speaker 1: design that you should take it for a truth.
• 3:47:57
  Speaker 2: That those he.
• 3:47:58
  Speaker 1: Speaks worst of behind their backs are in the surest
• 3:48:01
  Speaker 1: way of preferment. And whenever he begins to praise you
• 3:48:05
  Speaker 1: to others or to yourself, you are from that day forlorn.
• 3:48:11
  Speaker 1: The worst mark you can receive is a promise, especially
• 3:48:15
  Speaker 1: when it is confirmed with an oath, after which every
• 3:48:18
  Speaker 1: wise man retires and gives over all hopes. There are
• 3:48:24
  Speaker 1: three methods by which a man may rise to be
• 3:48:27
  Speaker 1: chief minister. The first is by knowing how with prudence
• 3:48:32
  Speaker 1: to dispose of a wife, a daughter, or a sister.
• 3:48:35
  Speaker 1: The second by betraying or undermining his predecessor, and the
• 3:48:40
  Speaker 1: third is by a furious zeal in public assemblies against
• 3:48:45
  Speaker 1: the corruptions of the court. But a wise prince would
• 3:48:49
  Speaker 1: rather choose to employ those who practice the last of
• 3:48:52
  Speaker 1: these methods, because such salates prove always the most obiquitous
• 3:48:56
  Speaker 1: and subservient to the will and passions of their master.
• 3:49:00
  Speaker 1: That these ministers, having all employments at their disposal, preserve
• 3:49:04
  Speaker 1: themselves in power by bribing the majority of a senate
• 3:49:08
  Speaker 1: or great council, and at last by an expedient call
• 3:49:13
  Speaker 1: an act of indemnity, whereof I describe the nature to him,
• 3:49:17
  Speaker 1: they secure themselves from after reckonings and retire from the
• 3:49:21
  Speaker 1: public laden with the spoils of the nation. The palace
• 3:49:26
  Speaker 1: of a chief minister is a seminary to breed up
• 3:49:29
  Speaker 1: others in his own trade. The pages, lackeys, and porters,
• 3:49:34
  Speaker 1: by imitating their master, become ministers of state in their
• 3:49:37
  Speaker 1: several districts, and learn to excel in the three principal
• 3:49:41
  Speaker 1: ingredients of insolence, lying, and bribery. Accordingly, they have a
• 3:49:46
  Speaker 1: subaltern court paid to them by persons of the best rank,
• 3:49:51
  Speaker 1: and sometimes by the force of dexterity and impudence, arrive
• 3:49:55
  Speaker 1: through several gradations to be successors to their lord. He
• 3:50:01
  Speaker 1: is usually governed by a decayed wench or favorite footmen,
• 3:50:05
  Speaker 1: who are the tunnels through which all graces are conveyed,
• 3:50:08
  Speaker 1: and may properly be called in the last resort the
• 3:50:11
  Speaker 1: governors of the kingdom. One day in discourse, my master,
• 3:50:17
  Speaker 1: having heard me mention the nobility of my country, was
• 3:50:21
  Speaker 1: pleased to make me a compliment which I could not
• 3:50:23
  Speaker 1: pretend to deserve. That he was sure I must be
• 3:50:27
  Speaker 1: born of some noble family, because I far exceeded in
• 3:50:30
  Speaker 1: a current cleanliness.
• 3:50:32
  Speaker 2: Or the yahoos of his nation, although.
• 3:50:35
  Speaker 1: I seemed to fail in strength and agility, which must
• 3:50:39
  Speaker 1: be imputed to my different way of living from those
• 3:50:41
  Speaker 1: other brutes.
• 3:50:43
  Speaker 2: And besides, I.
• 3:50:45
  Speaker 1: Was not only endowed with the faculty of speech, but
• 3:50:48
  Speaker 1: likewise with some rudiments of reason, to a degree that
• 3:50:52
  Speaker 1: with all his acquaintance I passed for a prodigy. He
• 3:50:58
  Speaker 1: made me observe that my the whinnams, the white, the sorrel,
• 3:51:02
  Speaker 1: and the iron gray were not so exactly shaped as
• 3:51:05
  Speaker 1: the bay, the dapple gray, and the black, nor born
• 3:51:09
  Speaker 1: with equal talents of mind or a capacity to improve them,
• 3:51:14
  Speaker 1: and therefore continued always in the condition of servants, without
• 3:51:18
  Speaker 1: ever aspiring to match out of their own race, which
• 3:51:22
  Speaker 1: in that country would be reckoned monstrous and unnatural. I
• 3:51:28
  Speaker 1: made his honor my most humble acknowledgments for the good
• 3:51:31
  Speaker 1: opinion he was pleased to conceive of me, but assured
• 3:51:34
  Speaker 1: him at the same time that my birth was of
• 3:51:37
  Speaker 1: the lower sort, having been born of plain, honest parents
• 3:51:41
  Speaker 1: who were just able to give me a tolerable education.
• 3:51:45
  Speaker 1: That nobility among us was altogether a different thing from
• 3:51:49
  Speaker 1: the idea he had of it, that our young noblemen
• 3:51:53
  Speaker 1: are bred from their childhood in idleness and luxury, that
• 3:51:57
  Speaker 1: as soon as years will permit, they can assume their
• 3:52:00
  Speaker 1: vigor and contract odious diseases among lewde females, and when
• 3:52:06
  Speaker 1: their fortunes are almost ruined, they marry some woman of
• 3:52:09
  Speaker 1: mean birth, disagreeable person, and unsound constitution, merely for the
• 3:52:15
  Speaker 1: sake of money, whom they hate and despise. That the
• 3:52:20
  Speaker 1: productions of such marriages are generally scruffulous, rickety, or deformed children,
• 3:52:27
  Speaker 1: by which means the family seldom continues above three generations,
• 3:52:31
  Speaker 1: unless the wife takes care to provide a healthy father
• 3:52:34
  Speaker 1: among her neighbors or domestics in order to improve and
• 3:52:38
  Speaker 1: continue the breed. That a weak, diseased body, a meeg countenance,
• 3:52:43
  Speaker 1: and sallow complexion are the true marks of noble blood,
• 3:52:48
  Speaker 1: and a healthy, robust appearance is so disgraceful in a
• 3:52:51
  Speaker 1: man of quality that the world concludes his real father
• 3:52:55
  Speaker 1: to have been a groom or a coachman. The imperfections
• 3:52:59
  Speaker 1: of her mind run parallel with those of his body,
• 3:53:03
  Speaker 1: being a composition of spleen, dullness, ignorance, caprice, sensuality, and pride.
• 3:53:11
  Speaker 2: Without the consent.
• 3:53:12
  Speaker 1: Of this illustrious body, no law can be enacted, repealed,
• 3:53:16
  Speaker 1: or altered. And these nobles have likewise the decision of
• 3:53:20
  Speaker 1: all our possessions without appeal, and apart four, Chapter six,
• 3:53:25
  Speaker 1: Chapter seven, the Author's great love of his native country,
• 3:53:31
  Speaker 1: his master's observations upon the constitution and administration of England,
• 3:53:36
  Speaker 1: as described by the author, with parallel cases and comparisons
• 3:53:41
  Speaker 1: his master's observations upon human nature. The reader may be
• 3:53:47
  Speaker 1: disposed to wonder how I could prevail on myself to
• 3:53:49
  Speaker 1: give so free a representation of my own species among
• 3:53:53
  Speaker 1: a race of mortals who are already too apt to
• 3:53:56
  Speaker 1: conceive the vilest opinion of humankind from that entire common
• 3:54:00
  Speaker 1: grouty between.
• 3:54:01
  Speaker 2: Me and their yahoos.
• 3:54:03
  Speaker 1: But I must freely confess that the many virtues of
• 3:54:07
  Speaker 1: those excellent quadrupeds placed an opposite view to human corruptions,
• 3:54:12
  Speaker 1: had so far opened my eyes and enlarged my understanding
• 3:54:16
  Speaker 1: that I began to view the actions and passions of
• 3:54:18
  Speaker 1: man in a very different light, and to think the
• 3:54:21
  Speaker 1: honor of my own kind not worth managing, which, besides,
• 3:54:26
  Speaker 1: it was impossible for me to do before a person
• 3:54:29
  Speaker 1: of so acute judgment as my master, who daily convinced
• 3:54:33
  Speaker 1: me of a thousand faults in myself, whereof I had
• 3:54:36
  Speaker 1: not the least perception before, and which with us would
• 3:54:40
  Speaker 1: never be numbered, even among human infirmities. I had likewise
• 3:54:46
  Speaker 1: learned from his example, and at a detestation of all
• 3:54:49
  Speaker 1: falsehood or disguise, and truth appeared so amiable to me
• 3:54:54
  Speaker 1: that I determined upon sacrificing everything to it. Let me
• 3:54:59
  Speaker 1: do so candidly with the reader as to confess that
• 3:55:03
  Speaker 1: there was yet a much stronger motive for the freedom
• 3:55:06
  Speaker 1: I took in my representation of things. I had not
• 3:55:10
  Speaker 1: yet been a year in this country before I contracted
• 3:55:14
  Speaker 1: such a love and veneration for the inhabitants that I
• 3:55:17
  Speaker 1: entered on a firm resolution never to return to humankind,
• 3:55:22
  Speaker 1: but to pass the rest of my life among these
• 3:55:24
  Speaker 1: admirable whinnhums, in the contemplation and practice of every virtue,
• 3:55:29
  Speaker 1: where I could have no example or incitement to vice,
• 3:55:35
  Speaker 1: but it was decreed by fortune my perpetual enemy, that
• 3:55:39
  Speaker 1: so great a felicity should not fall to my share. However,
• 3:55:45
  Speaker 1: it is now some comfort to reflect that in what
• 3:55:48
  Speaker 1: I said to my countrymen, I extenuated their faults as
• 3:55:52
  Speaker 1: much as I durst before so strict an examiner, and
• 3:55:56
  Speaker 1: upon every article gave as favorable a turn as the
• 3:55:59
  Speaker 1: matter would bear. For indeed, who is there alive that
• 3:56:03
  Speaker 1: will not be swayed by his bias and partiality to
• 3:56:06
  Speaker 1: the place of his birth? I have related the substance
• 3:56:11
  Speaker 1: of several conversations I had with my master during the
• 3:56:14
  Speaker 1: greatest part of the time I had the honor to
• 3:56:16
  Speaker 1: be in his service, but have indeed, for brevity's sake,
• 3:56:21
  Speaker 1: I made it much more than is here set down.
• 3:56:26
  Speaker 1: When I had answered all his questions and his curiosity
• 3:56:29
  Speaker 1: seemed to be fully satisfied, he sent for me one
• 3:56:32
  Speaker 1: morning early and commanded me to sit down at some distance,
• 3:56:37
  Speaker 1: an honor which he had never before conferred upon me.
• 3:56:40
  Speaker 1: He said he had been very seriously considering my whole story,
• 3:56:45
  Speaker 1: as far as it related both to myself and my country.
• 3:56:49
  Speaker 1: That he looked upon us as a sort of animals
• 3:56:52
  Speaker 1: to who share by what accident he could not conjecture
• 3:56:56
  Speaker 1: some small pittance of reason had fallen where or if
• 3:57:00
  Speaker 1: we made no other use than by its assistance, to
• 3:57:03
  Speaker 1: aggravate our natural corruptions, and to acquire new ones which
• 3:57:07
  Speaker 1: nature had not given us, that we disarmed ourselves of
• 3:57:11
  Speaker 1: the few ability she had bestowed, had been very successful
• 3:57:15
  Speaker 1: in multiplying our original wants, and seemed to spend our
• 3:57:19
  Speaker 1: whole lives in vain endeavors to supply them by our
• 3:57:21
  Speaker 1: own inventions. That as to myself, it was manifest I
• 3:57:27
  Speaker 1: had neither the strength nor agility of a common yahoo.
• 3:57:31
  Speaker 1: That I walked infirmly on my hinder feet, had found
• 3:57:35
  Speaker 1: out a contrivance to make my claws of no use
• 3:57:37
  Speaker 1: or defense, and to remove the hair from my chin,
• 3:57:41
  Speaker 1: which was intended as a shelter from the sun and
• 3:57:44
  Speaker 1: the weather. Lastly, that I could neither run with speed
• 3:57:49
  Speaker 1: nor climb trees like my brethren, as he called them,
• 3:57:52
  Speaker 1: the yahoos in his country. That our institutions of government
• 3:57:58
  Speaker 1: and law were plainly owing to our growth defects in
• 3:58:00
  Speaker 1: reason and by consequence in virtue. Because reason alone is
• 3:58:05
  Speaker 1: sufficient to govern a rational creature, which was therefore a
• 3:58:09
  Speaker 1: character we had no pretense to challenge, even from the
• 3:58:13
  Speaker 1: account I had given of my own people, although he
• 3:58:16
  Speaker 1: manifestly perceived that in order to favor them, I had
• 3:58:20
  Speaker 1: concealed many particulars and often said the thing which was not.
• 3:58:27
  Speaker 1: He was the more confirmed in this opinion, because he
• 3:58:30
  Speaker 1: observed that as I agreed in every feature of my
• 3:58:33
  Speaker 1: body with.
• 3:58:33
  Speaker 2: Other Yahoos, except where.
• 3:58:35
  Speaker 1: It was to my real disadvantage in point of strength,
• 3:58:38
  Speaker 1: speed and activity, the shortness of my clause, and some
• 3:58:42
  Speaker 1: other particulars where nature had no part, so from the
• 3:58:46
  Speaker 1: representation I had given him of our lives, our manners,
• 3:58:49
  Speaker 1: and our actions, he found as near a resemblance in
• 3:58:52
  Speaker 1: the disposition of our minds. He said, the Yahoos were
• 3:58:57
  Speaker 1: known to hate one another they did any different species
• 3:59:01
  Speaker 1: of animal, and the reason usually assigned was the odiousness
• 3:59:06
  Speaker 1: of their own shapes, which all could see in the rest,
• 3:59:08
  Speaker 1: but not in themselves. He had therefore begun to think
• 3:59:13
  Speaker 1: it not unwise in us to cover our bodies, and
• 3:59:16
  Speaker 1: by that invention conceal many of our deformities from each other,
• 3:59:21
  Speaker 1: which would else be hardly supportable. That he now found
• 3:59:25
  Speaker 1: he had been mistaken, and that the dissensions of those
• 3:59:29
  Speaker 1: brutes in his country were owing to the same cause
• 3:59:32
  Speaker 1: with ours as I had described them. For if said
• 3:59:37
  Speaker 1: he ether are among five yahoos as much food as
• 3:59:40
  Speaker 1: would be sufficient for fifty, they will, instead of eating peaceably,
• 3:59:45
  Speaker 1: fall together by the ears, each single one impatient to
• 3:59:49
  Speaker 1: have all to itself. And therefore a servant was usually
• 3:59:52
  Speaker 1: employed to stand by while they were feeding abroad, and
• 3:59:56
  Speaker 1: those kept at home were tied at a distance from
• 3:59:58
  Speaker 1: each other. That if a cow died of age or
• 4:00:01
  Speaker 1: accident before Wynham could secure it for his own yahoos,
• 4:00:06
  Speaker 1: those in the neighborhood would come in herds to seize it,
• 4:00:09
  Speaker 1: and then would ensue such a battle as I had described,
• 4:00:12
  Speaker 1: with terrible wounds made by their claws on both sides,
• 4:00:16
  Speaker 1: although they seldom were able to kill one another for
• 4:00:20
  Speaker 1: want of such convenient instruments of death as we had invented.
• 4:00:24
  Speaker 1: At other times, the like battles have been fought between
• 4:00:27
  Speaker 1: the yahoos of several neighborhoods without any visible cause. Those
• 4:00:34
  Speaker 1: of one district watching all opportunities to surprise the next before.
• 4:00:38
  Speaker 2: They are prepared.
• 4:00:40
  Speaker 1: But if they find their project has miscarried, they return home,
• 4:00:44
  Speaker 1: and for want of enemies, engage in what I call
• 4:00:47
  Speaker 1: a civil war among themselves. That in some fields of
• 4:00:52
  Speaker 1: his country there are certain shining stones of several colors,
• 4:00:56
  Speaker 1: whereof the Yahoos are violently fond, and when part of
• 4:01:01
  Speaker 1: these stones are fixed in the earth, as it sometimes happens,
• 4:01:06
  Speaker 1: they will dig with their claws for whole days to
• 4:01:09
  Speaker 1: get them out, then carry them away and hide them
• 4:01:12
  Speaker 1: by heaps in their kennels, but still looking round with
• 4:01:15
  Speaker 1: great caution, for fear their comrade should find out their treasure.
• 4:01:21
  Speaker 1: My master said he could never discover the reason of
• 4:01:24
  Speaker 1: this unnatural appetite, or how these stones could be of
• 4:01:27
  Speaker 1: any use to yahoo, But now he believed it might
• 4:01:31
  Speaker 1: proceed from the same principle of avaris which I had
• 4:01:35
  Speaker 1: ascribed to mankind, that he had, once, by way of experiment,
• 4:01:41
  Speaker 1: privately removed a heap of those stones from the place
• 4:01:44
  Speaker 1: where one of his yahoos had buried it. Whereupon the
• 4:01:48
  Speaker 1: sordid animal, missing his treasure, by his loud a lamenting,
• 4:01:52
  Speaker 1: brought the whole herd to the place there miserably howled,
• 4:01:57
  Speaker 1: then fell to biting and tearing. The rest began to
• 4:02:00
  Speaker 1: pine away, would neither eat nor sleep till work till
• 4:02:05
  Speaker 1: he ordered a servant privately to convey the stones into
• 4:02:08
  Speaker 1: the same hole and hide them as before, which when
• 4:02:13
  Speaker 1: his yahoo had found he presently recovered his spirits and
• 4:02:17
  Speaker 1: good humor, but took good care to remove them to
• 4:02:20
  Speaker 1: a better hiding place, and has ever since been a
• 4:02:23
  Speaker 1: very serviceable brute. My master further assured me when I
• 4:02:29
  Speaker 1: also observed myself that in the fields where the shining
• 4:02:33
  Speaker 1: stones abound, the fiercest and most frequent battles are fought,
• 4:02:39
  Speaker 1: occasioned by perpetual inroads of the neighboring yahoos. He said
• 4:02:46
  Speaker 1: it was common when two yahoos discovered such a stone
• 4:02:49
  Speaker 1: in a field and were contending which of them should
• 4:02:52
  Speaker 1: be the proprietor a third would take the advantage and
• 4:02:56
  Speaker 1: carry it away from both of them, which my Master
• 4:03:00
  Speaker 1: would needs contend to have some kind of resemblance with
• 4:03:03
  Speaker 1: our suits at law, wherein I thought it for our
• 4:03:07
  Speaker 1: credit not to undeceive him, since the decision he mentioned
• 4:03:11
  Speaker 1: was much more equitable than many decrees among us, because
• 4:03:16
  Speaker 1: the plaintive and defendant there lost nothing besides the stone
• 4:03:19
  Speaker 1: they contended for, whereas our courts of equity would never
• 4:03:23
  Speaker 1: have dismissed the case whether either of them had anything left.
• 4:03:29
  Speaker 1: My master, continuing his discourse, said, there was nothing that
• 4:03:33
  Speaker 1: rendered the Yahoos more odious than their undistinguishing appetite to
• 4:03:38
  Speaker 1: devour everything that came in their way, whether herbs, roots, berries,
• 4:03:43
  Speaker 1: the corrupted flesh of animals, or all mingled together. And
• 4:03:48
  Speaker 1: it was peculiar in their temper that they were fonder
• 4:03:51
  Speaker 1: of what they could get by rapin or stealth at
• 4:03:53
  Speaker 1: a great distance, then much better food provided for them
• 4:03:57
  Speaker 1: at home. If their prey held out, they would eat
• 4:04:02
  Speaker 1: till they were ready to burst, after which nature had
• 4:04:06
  Speaker 1: pointed out to them a certain route that gave them
• 4:04:09
  Speaker 1: a general evacuation. There was also another kind of root,
• 4:04:15
  Speaker 1: very juicy, but somewhat rare and difficult to be found,
• 4:04:19
  Speaker 1: which the y are who sought for with much eagerness,
• 4:04:23
  Speaker 1: and would suck it with great delight. It produced in
• 4:04:27
  Speaker 1: them the same effects that wine has upon us. It
• 4:04:31
  Speaker 1: would make them sometimes hug and sometimes tear one another.
• 4:04:34
  Speaker 1: They would howl and grin and chatter, and reel and tumble,
• 4:04:38
  Speaker 1: and then.
• 4:04:39
  Speaker 2: Fall asleep in the mud.
• 4:04:42
  Speaker 1: I did, indeed observe that the Yahoos were the only
• 4:04:45
  Speaker 1: animals in this country subject to any diseases, which however,
• 4:04:51
  Speaker 1: were much fewer than horses have among us, and contracted
• 4:04:55
  Speaker 1: not by any ill treatment they met with, but by
• 4:04:58
  Speaker 1: the nastiness and greedy of that sordid brute. Neither has
• 4:05:04
  Speaker 1: their language any more than a general appellation for those maladies,
• 4:05:08
  Speaker 1: which is borrowed from the name of the beast and
• 4:05:12
  Speaker 1: called hunya Yahoo or yahoo's evil, and the cure prescribed
• 4:05:17
  Speaker 1: as a mixture of their own dung and durine forcibly
• 4:05:21
  Speaker 1: put down the yahoo's throat. This I have since often
• 4:05:26
  Speaker 1: known to have been taken with success, and do here
• 4:05:29
  Speaker 1: freely recommend it to my countrymen for the public good,
• 4:05:33
  Speaker 1: as an admirable specific against all diseases produced by repellation.
• 4:05:39
  Speaker 1: As to learning, government, arts, manufacturers, and the like, my
• 4:05:43
  Speaker 1: master confessed he could find little or no resemblance between
• 4:05:47
  Speaker 1: the Yahoos of that country and those in ours, for
• 4:05:51
  Speaker 1: he only meant to observe what parity there was in
• 4:05:54
  Speaker 1: our natures. He had heard, indeed some curious wunhems observe.
• 4:06:02
  Speaker 1: But in most herds there was a sort of ruling yahoo,
• 4:06:06
  Speaker 1: as among us there is generally some leaping or principal
• 4:06:09
  Speaker 1: stag in a park, who was always most deformed in
• 4:06:13
  Speaker 1: body and mischievous in disposition than any of the rest
• 4:06:19
  Speaker 1: that This leader had usually a favorite as like himself
• 4:06:21
  Speaker 1: as he could get, whose employment was to leak his
• 4:06:25
  Speaker 1: master's feet and posteriors, and drive the female yahoos to
• 4:06:29
  Speaker 1: his kennel, for which he was now and then rewarded
• 4:06:33
  Speaker 1: with a piece of asses flesh. This favorite is hated
• 4:06:38
  Speaker 1: by the whole herd, and therefore, to protect himself, keeps
• 4:06:42
  Speaker 1: always near the person of his leader. He usually continues
• 4:06:47
  Speaker 1: in office till.
• 4:06:47
  Speaker 2: A worse can be found.
• 4:06:49
  Speaker 1: But the very moment he is discarded, his successor at
• 4:06:53
  Speaker 1: the head of all the yahoos in that district, young
• 4:06:57
  Speaker 1: and old, male and female, car in a body and
• 4:07:01
  Speaker 1: discharge their excrements upon him from head to foot. But
• 4:07:05
  Speaker 1: how far this might be applicable to our courts and
• 4:07:08
  Speaker 1: favorites and ministers of state, my master said I could
• 4:07:11
  Speaker 1: best determine, I durst make no return to this malicious insinuation,
• 4:07:18
  Speaker 1: which debased human understanding. Below the sagacity of a common
• 4:07:21
  Speaker 1: hound who has judgment enough to distinguish and follow the
• 4:07:25
  Speaker 1: cry of the a blessed dog in the pack without
• 4:07:28
  Speaker 1: being ever mistaken. My master told me there were some
• 4:07:34
  Speaker 1: qualities remarkable in the Yahoos, which he had not observed
• 4:07:38
  Speaker 1: me to mention, or at least very slightly in the
• 4:07:42
  Speaker 1: accounts I had given of humankind. He said, those animals,
• 4:07:47
  Speaker 1: like other brutes, had their females in common, but in
• 4:07:52
  Speaker 1: this they differed. That the she yaho would omit the
• 4:07:55
  Speaker 1: males while she was pregnant, and that the hees would
• 4:07:59
  Speaker 1: quarrel and fight with the females as fiercely as with
• 4:08:01
  Speaker 1: each other, both which practices were such degrees of infamous
• 4:08:06
  Speaker 1: brutality as no other sensitive creature ever arrived.
• 4:08:10
  Speaker 2: At.
• 4:08:12
  Speaker 1: Another thing he wondered at in the yahoo's was this
• 4:08:16
  Speaker 1: strange disposition to nastiness and dirt, whereas there appears to
• 4:08:20
  Speaker 1: be a natural love of cleanliness in all other animals.
• 4:08:25
  Speaker 1: As to the two former accusations, I was glad to
• 4:08:29
  Speaker 1: let them pass without any reply, because I had not
• 4:08:32
  Speaker 1: a word to offer upon them in defense of my species,
• 4:08:36
  Speaker 1: which otherwise the certainly had done from my own inclinations.
• 4:08:41
  Speaker 1: But I could have easily vindicated humankind from the imputation
• 4:08:45
  Speaker 1: of singularity upon the last article, if there had been
• 4:08:50
  Speaker 1: any swine in that country as unluckily for me, there
• 4:08:53
  Speaker 1: was not, which, although it may be a sweet of
• 4:08:56
  Speaker 1: quadruped than a ya who cannot I humbly conceive injustice
• 4:09:03
  Speaker 1: pretend to more cleanliness. And so his Honor must have
• 4:09:06
  Speaker 1: owned if he had seen their filthy way of feeding,
• 4:09:10
  Speaker 1: and their custom of wallowing and sleeping in the mud.
• 4:09:14
  Speaker 1: My master likewise mentioned another quality which his servants had
• 4:09:17
  Speaker 1: discovered in several yahoos, and to him was wholly unaccountable.
• 4:09:24
  Speaker 1: He said, a fancy would sometimes take a yahoo to
• 4:09:27
  Speaker 1: retire into a corner, to lie down and howl and groan,
• 4:09:32
  Speaker 1: and spurn away all that came near him, although he
• 4:09:35
  Speaker 1: were young and fat, wanted neither food nor water, Nor
• 4:09:39
  Speaker 1: did the servant imagine what could possibly ail him, and
• 4:09:44
  Speaker 1: the only remedy they found was to set him hard
• 4:09:47
  Speaker 1: to work, after which he would infallibly come to himself.
• 4:09:53
  Speaker 1: To this I was silent out of partiality to my
• 4:09:55
  Speaker 1: own kind. Yet here I could plainly discover the true
• 4:09:59
  Speaker 1: seeds of spleen, which only seizes on the lazy, the luxurious,
• 4:10:03
  Speaker 1: and the rich, who, if they were forced to undergo
• 4:10:07
  Speaker 1: the same regime I would undertake for the cure. His
• 4:10:12
  Speaker 1: Honor had further observed that a female Yahoo would often
• 4:10:17
  Speaker 1: stand behind a bank or a bush to gaze on
• 4:10:20
  Speaker 1: the young males passing by, and then appear and hide,
• 4:10:24
  Speaker 1: using many antique gestures and grimaces, at which time it
• 4:10:28
  Speaker 1: was observed that she had a most offensive smell, and
• 4:10:33
  Speaker 1: when any of the males advanced, would slowly retire, looking
• 4:10:37
  Speaker 1: often back, and with a counterfeit show of fear, run
• 4:10:40
  Speaker 1: off into some convenient place where she knew the male
• 4:10:44
  Speaker 1: would follow her. At other times, if a female stranger
• 4:10:48
  Speaker 1: came among them, three or four of her own sex
• 4:10:51
  Speaker 1: would get about her and stare and chatter and grin
• 4:10:55
  Speaker 1: and smell all over, and then turn off with gestures
• 4:10:59
  Speaker 1: that seemed to express contempt and disdain. Perhaps my master
• 4:11:03
  Speaker 1: might refine a little in these speculations, which he had
• 4:11:07
  Speaker 1: drawn from what he had observed himself or had been
• 4:11:09
  Speaker 1: told by others. However, I could not reflect without some
• 4:11:15
  Speaker 1: amazement and much sorrow, that the rudiments of looseness, coquetry, censure,
• 4:11:20
  Speaker 1: and scandal should have placed by instinct in womankind. I
• 4:11:26
  Speaker 1: expected every moment that my Master would accuse the yahoos
• 4:11:29
  Speaker 1: of those unnatural appetites in both sexes. So common among us,
• 4:11:35
  Speaker 1: But nature, it seems, has not been so expert a
• 4:11:38
  Speaker 1: school mistress. And these polite pleasures are entirely the productions
• 4:11:43
  Speaker 1: of art and reason. On our side of the globe.
• 4:11:47
  Speaker 1: And a part four Chapter seven, Chapter eight, the author
• 4:11:53
  Speaker 1: relates several particulars of the Yahoos, the great virtues of
• 4:11:58
  Speaker 1: the Winnhams, the education and exercise of their youth their
• 4:12:02
  Speaker 1: general assembly. As I ought to have understood human nature
• 4:12:07
  Speaker 1: much better than I supposed it possible for my master
• 4:12:10
  Speaker 1: to do so, it was easy to apply the character
• 4:12:13
  Speaker 1: he gave the Yahoos to myself and my countrymen, and
• 4:12:17
  Speaker 1: I believed I could make yet further discoveries from my
• 4:12:20
  Speaker 1: own observation. I therefore often begged his Honor to let
• 4:12:26
  Speaker 1: me go among the herds of Yahoos in the neighborhood,
• 4:12:29
  Speaker 1: to which he always very graciously consented, being perfectly convinced
• 4:12:34
  Speaker 1: that the hatred I bore these brutes would never suffer
• 4:12:37
  Speaker 1: me to be corrupted by them. And his Honor ordered
• 4:12:42
  Speaker 1: one of his servants, a strong sorrel nag, very honest
• 4:12:46
  Speaker 1: and good natured, to be my guide, without whose protection
• 4:12:50
  Speaker 1: I durst not undertake such adventures. For I have already
• 4:12:55
  Speaker 1: told the reader how much I was pestered by these
• 4:12:58
  Speaker 1: odious animals on my first arrival, and I afterwards failed
• 4:13:03
  Speaker 1: very narrowly three or four times of falling into their
• 4:13:07
  Speaker 1: clutches when I happened to stray at any distance without
• 4:13:11
  Speaker 1: my hanger. And I have reason to believe they had
• 4:13:14
  Speaker 1: some imagination that I was of their own species, which
• 4:13:19
  Speaker 1: I often assisted myself by stripping up my sleeves and
• 4:13:22
  Speaker 1: showing my naked arms and breasts in their sight when
• 4:13:26
  Speaker 1: my protector was with me, at which times they would
• 4:13:30
  Speaker 1: approach near as they durst and imitate my actions after
• 4:13:34
  Speaker 1: the manner of monkeys, but ever with great signs of hatred.
• 4:13:40
  Speaker 1: As a tame jackdaw with cap and stockings is always
• 4:13:42
  Speaker 1: persecuted by the wild ones when he happens to be
• 4:13:45
  Speaker 1: got among them, they are prodigiously nimble from their infancy. However,
• 4:13:52
  Speaker 1: I once caught a young male of three years old,
• 4:13:54
  Speaker 1: and endeavored by all marks of tenderness to make it quiet.
• 4:13:59
  Speaker 1: But the little limp fell, squalling and scratching and biting
• 4:14:02
  Speaker 1: with such violence that I was forced to let it go.
• 4:14:07
  Speaker 1: And it was high time for a whole troop of
• 4:14:09
  Speaker 1: old ones. Came about us at the noise, but finding
• 4:14:13
  Speaker 1: the cub was safe for a way it ran, and
• 4:14:16
  Speaker 1: my sorrel nag being by, they durst not venture near us.
• 4:14:23
  Speaker 1: I observed the young animal's flesh to smell very rank,
• 4:14:26
  Speaker 1: and the stink was somewhat between a weasel and a fox,
• 4:14:30
  Speaker 1: but much more disagreeable. I forgot another circumstance, and perhaps
• 4:14:38
  Speaker 1: I might have the reader's pardon if it were wholly
• 4:14:40
  Speaker 1: admitted that while I held the odious vermin in my hands,
• 4:14:45
  Speaker 1: it avoided its filthy excrements of a yellow liquid substance
• 4:14:48
  Speaker 1: all over my clothes. But by good fortune, there was
• 4:14:53
  Speaker 1: a small brook hard by, where I washed myself as
• 4:14:56
  Speaker 1: clean as I could, although I durst not come into
• 4:14:59
  Speaker 1: my master's presence until I was sufficiently.
• 4:15:02
  Speaker 2: Aired by what I could discover.
• 4:15:06
  Speaker 1: The yar whos appear to be the most unteachable of
• 4:15:09
  Speaker 1: all animals, their capacity never reaching higher than to draw
• 4:15:13
  Speaker 1: or carry burdens.
• 4:15:17
  Speaker 2: Yet I am of opinion.
• 4:15:18
  Speaker 1: This defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition. For
• 4:15:24
  Speaker 1: they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful. They are strong
• 4:15:29
  Speaker 1: and hardy, but of a cowardly spirit, and by consequence insolent, abject,
• 4:15:35
  Speaker 1: and cruel. It is observed that to the red head
• 4:15:39
  Speaker 1: of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest,
• 4:15:44
  Speaker 1: whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity. The
• 4:15:50
  Speaker 1: Huynhums keep the yahoos for present use in huts not
• 4:15:53
  Speaker 1: far from the house, but the rest are sent abroad
• 4:15:57
  Speaker 1: to certain fields, where they dig up roots, eat several
• 4:16:00
  Speaker 1: kinds of herbs, and search about for carrion, or sometimes
• 4:16:06
  Speaker 1: catch Weasels. All are himmers, a sort of wild rat,
• 4:16:10
  Speaker 1: which they greedily devour. Nature has taught them to dig
• 4:16:15
  Speaker 1: deep holes with their nails on the side of a
• 4:16:17
  Speaker 1: rising ground, wherein they lie by themselves. Only The kennels
• 4:16:23
  Speaker 1: of the females are larger, sufficient to hold two or
• 4:16:26
  Speaker 1: three cubs. They swim from their infancy like frogs, and
• 4:16:32
  Speaker 1: are able to continue long under water, where they often
• 4:16:35
  Speaker 1: take fish, which the females carry home to their young.
• 4:16:40
  Speaker 1: And upon this occasion, I hope the reader will pardon
• 4:16:43
  Speaker 1: my relating an odd adventure. Being one day abroad with
• 4:16:48
  Speaker 1: my protector, the sorrel Nag, and the weather exceedingly hot,
• 4:16:53
  Speaker 1: I entreated him to let me bathe in a river
• 4:16:55
  Speaker 1: that was near. He consented, and I immediately stripped myself
• 4:17:00
  Speaker 1: stark naked, and went down softly into the stream. It
• 4:17:05
  Speaker 1: happened that a young female Yahoo standing behind a bank,
• 4:17:09
  Speaker 1: saw the whole proceeding, and, inflamed by desire as the
• 4:17:14
  Speaker 1: nag and I conjectured, came running with all speed and
• 4:17:18
  Speaker 1: leaped into the water within five yards of the place
• 4:17:21
  Speaker 1: where I bathed. I was never in my life so
• 4:17:26
  Speaker 1: terribly frightened. The nag was grazing at some distance, not
• 4:17:30
  Speaker 1: suspecting any harm, she embraced me after a most fulsome manner.
• 4:17:36
  Speaker 1: I roared as loud as I could, and the nag
• 4:17:39
  Speaker 1: came galloping towards me, whereupon she quitted her grasp with
• 4:17:43
  Speaker 1: the utmost reluctancy, and leaped upon the opposite bank, where
• 4:17:48
  Speaker 1: she stood, gazing and toweling all the time I was
• 4:17:50
  Speaker 1: putting on my clothes. This was a matter of diversion
• 4:17:55
  Speaker 1: to my master and his family, as well as of
• 4:17:58
  Speaker 1: mortification to myself. For now I could no longer deny
• 4:18:02
  Speaker 1: that I was a real Yahoo in every limb and feature.
• 4:18:06
  Speaker 1: Since the females had a natural propensity to me as
• 4:18:09
  Speaker 1: one of their own species. Neither was the hair of
• 4:18:14
  Speaker 1: this brute of a red color, which might have been
• 4:18:17
  Speaker 1: some excuse for an appetite a littlely regular, but black
• 4:18:21
  Speaker 1: as a slow, and her countenance did not make an
• 4:18:24
  Speaker 1: appearance altogether so hideous as the rest of her kind.
• 4:18:28
  Speaker 1: For I think she could not be above eleven years old,
• 4:18:34
  Speaker 1: having lived three years in this country. The reader, I suppose,
• 4:18:38
  Speaker 1: will expect that I should, like other travelers, give him
• 4:18:41
  Speaker 1: some account of the manners and customs of his inhabitants,
• 4:18:45
  Speaker 1: which it was indeed my principal study to learn. As
• 4:18:50
  Speaker 1: these noble whnhums are endowed by nature with a general
• 4:18:53
  Speaker 1: disposition to all virtues, and have no conceptions or ideas
• 4:18:57
  Speaker 1: of what evil is in a rational creature. So their
• 4:19:01
  Speaker 1: grand maxim is to cultivate reason and to be wholly
• 4:19:05
  Speaker 1: governed by it. Neither is reason among them a point
• 4:19:09
  Speaker 1: problematic as with us, where men can argue with plausibility
• 4:19:13
  Speaker 1: on both sides of the question, but strikes you with
• 4:19:16
  Speaker 1: immediate conviction, as it must needs do where it is
• 4:19:20
  Speaker 1: not mingled, obscured, or discolored by passion and interest. I
• 4:19:26
  Speaker 1: remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring
• 4:19:30
  Speaker 1: my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion,
• 4:19:33
  Speaker 1: or how a point could be disputed, because reason taught
• 4:19:37
  Speaker 1: us to affirm or deny only where we are certain,
• 4:19:40
  Speaker 1: and beyond our knowledge, we cannot do either, so that controversies, wrangling, disputes,
• 4:19:47
  Speaker 1: and positiveness in false or dubious propositions are evils unknown
• 4:19:52
  Speaker 1: among the Whinnhums. In the like manner, when I used
• 4:19:57
  Speaker 1: to explain to him our several systems of nat or philosophy,
• 4:20:01
  Speaker 1: he would laugh that a creature pretending to reason should
• 4:20:05
  Speaker 1: value itself upon the knowledge of other people's conjectures, and
• 4:20:08
  Speaker 1: in things with that knowledge, if it were certain, could.
• 4:20:11
  Speaker 2: Be of no use.
• 4:20:14
  Speaker 1: Wherein he agreed entirely with the sentiments of Socrates, as
• 4:20:17
  Speaker 1: Plato delivers them, which I mention as the highest honor
• 4:20:21
  Speaker 1: I can do that, Prince of philosophers. I have often
• 4:20:26
  Speaker 1: since reflected what destruction such doctrine would make in the
• 4:20:29
  Speaker 1: libraries of Europe, and how many paths of fame would
• 4:20:33
  Speaker 1: be then shut up in the learned world. Friendship and
• 4:20:38
  Speaker 1: benevolence are the two principal virtues among the Whinnhams, and
• 4:20:42
  Speaker 1: these not confined to particular objects, but universal to the
• 4:20:46
  Speaker 1: whole race. For a stranger from the remotest part is
• 4:20:51
  Speaker 1: equally treated with the nearest neighbor, and wherever he goes,
• 4:20:55
  Speaker 1: looks upon himself as at home. They preserve decency in
• 4:21:00
  Speaker 1: civilty and the highest degrees, but are altogether ignorant of ceremony.
• 4:21:05
  Speaker 1: They have no fondness for their cults or foals. But
• 4:21:08
  Speaker 1: the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from
• 4:21:11
  Speaker 1: the dictates of reason. And I observed my master to
• 4:21:16
  Speaker 1: show the same affection to his neighbour's issue that he
• 4:21:19
  Speaker 1: had for his own.
• 4:21:22
  Speaker 2: They will have it that.
• 4:21:23
  Speaker 1: A nature teaches them to love the whole species, and
• 4:21:26
  Speaker 1: it is reason only that makes a distinction of persons
• 4:21:30
  Speaker 1: where there is a superior degree of virtue. When the
• 4:21:35
  Speaker 1: matron Huynhams have produced one of each sex, they no
• 4:21:39
  Speaker 1: longer accompany with their consorts, except they lose one of
• 4:21:42
  Speaker 1: their issue by some casualty, which very seldom happens. But
• 4:21:47
  Speaker 1: in such a case they meet again. Or when the
• 4:21:50
  Speaker 1: like accident befalls a person whose wife is past bearing,
• 4:21:54
  Speaker 1: some other couple bestow on him one of their own cults,
• 4:21:57
  Speaker 1: and then go together again until the mother is pregnant.
• 4:22:02
  Speaker 1: This caution is necessary to prevent the country from being
• 4:22:05
  Speaker 1: overburdened with numbers. But the race of inferior quinnams bred
• 4:22:11
  Speaker 1: up to be servants is not so strictly limited upon
• 4:22:15
  Speaker 1: this article. These are allowed to produce three of each
• 4:22:18
  Speaker 1: sex to be domestics in the noble families. In their marriages,
• 4:22:24
  Speaker 1: they are exactly careful to choose such colours as will
• 4:22:27
  Speaker 1: not make any disagreeable mixture in the breed. Strength is
• 4:22:31
  Speaker 1: chiefly valued in the male, and comeliness in the female,
• 4:22:36
  Speaker 1: not upon the account of love, but to preserve the
• 4:22:39
  Speaker 1: race from degenerating. For where a female happens to excel
• 4:22:42
  Speaker 1: in strength, a consort is chosen with regard to comeliness. Courtship, love, presence,
• 4:22:50
  Speaker 1: jointers settlements have no place in their thoughts or terms
• 4:22:54
  Speaker 1: whereby to express them in their language. The young couple
• 4:22:58
  Speaker 1: meet and are joined merely because it is the determination
• 4:23:02
  Speaker 1: of their parents and friends. It is what they see
• 4:23:05
  Speaker 1: done every day, and they look upon it as one
• 4:23:08
  Speaker 1: of the necessary actions of a reasonable being. But the
• 4:23:13
  Speaker 1: violation of marriage or any other unchastity was never heard of,
• 4:23:18
  Speaker 1: and the married pair pass their lives with the same
• 4:23:20
  Speaker 1: friendship and mutual benevolence that they bear to all others
• 4:23:24
  Speaker 1: of the same species who come in their way, without jealousy, fondness, quarreling,
• 4:23:29
  Speaker 1: or discontent. In educating the youth of both sexes, their
• 4:23:34
  Speaker 1: method is admirable and highly deserves our imagination. These are
• 4:23:39
  Speaker 1: not suffered to taste a grain of oats except upon
• 4:23:42
  Speaker 1: certain days till eighteen years old, nor milk, but very rarely,
• 4:23:48
  Speaker 1: And in summer they graze two hours in the morning
• 4:23:50
  Speaker 1: and as many in the evening, which their parents likewise observe.
• 4:23:55
  Speaker 1: But the servants are not allowed above half that time,
• 4:23:58
  Speaker 1: and a great part.
• 4:23:59
  Speaker 2: Of their grass is brought.
• 4:24:00
  Speaker 1: Home, which they eat at the most convenient hours, when
• 4:24:04
  Speaker 1: they can be best spared from work. Temperance, industry, exercise,
• 4:24:10
  Speaker 1: and cleanliness are the lessons equally enjoined to the young
• 4:24:14
  Speaker 1: ones of both sexes. And by Master thought it monstrous
• 4:24:18
  Speaker 1: in us to give the females a different kind of
• 4:24:20
  Speaker 1: education from the males, except in some articles of domestic management, whereby,
• 4:24:27
  Speaker 1: as he truly observed, one half of our natives were
• 4:24:30
  Speaker 1: good for nothing but bringing children into the world. And
• 4:24:33
  Speaker 1: trust the care of our children to such useless animals,
• 4:24:36
  Speaker 1: he said, was yet a greater instance of brutality. But
• 4:24:41
  Speaker 1: the Hinnams train up their youth to strength, speed and
• 4:24:44
  Speaker 1: hardiness by exercising them in running races up and down
• 4:24:48
  Speaker 1: steep hills and over hard stony grounds. And when they
• 4:24:53
  Speaker 1: are all in a sweat, they are ordered to leap
• 4:24:55
  Speaker 1: over head and ears into a pond or river. Four
• 4:25:00
  Speaker 1: times a year the youth of a certain district meet
• 4:25:03
  Speaker 1: to show their proficiency in running and leaping, and other
• 4:25:07
  Speaker 1: feats of strength and agility, whether the victory is rewarded
• 4:25:10
  Speaker 1: with a song in his or her praise. On this festival,
• 4:25:15
  Speaker 1: the servants driver heard of yahoos into the field laden
• 4:25:19
  Speaker 1: with hay and oats and milk for a repast to
• 4:25:22
  Speaker 1: the wynnums, after which these brutes are immediately driven back
• 4:25:27
  Speaker 1: again for fear of becoming noisome to the assembly. Every
• 4:25:33
  Speaker 1: fourth year at the vernal equinox, there is a representative
• 4:25:36
  Speaker 1: council of the whole nation, which meets in a plain
• 4:25:40
  Speaker 1: about twenty miles from our house and continues about five
• 4:25:43
  Speaker 1: or six days. Here they inquire into the state and
• 4:25:47
  Speaker 1: condition of the several districts, whether they are abound or
• 4:25:51
  Speaker 1: be deficient in hayes or oats, or cows or Yahoos,
• 4:25:55
  Speaker 1: and wherever there is any want which is but seldom
• 4:25:59
  Speaker 1: it is I mean supplied by unanimous consent and contribution.
• 4:26:04
  Speaker 1: Here likewise the regulation of children is settled, as for instance,
• 4:26:10
  Speaker 1: if a Whinnam has two males, he changes one of
• 4:26:13
  Speaker 1: them with another that has two females. And when a
• 4:26:16
  Speaker 1: child has been lost by any casualty, where the mother
• 4:26:19
  Speaker 1: is past breeding, it is determined what family in the
• 4:26:22
  Speaker 1: district shall breed another to supply the loss. And apart
• 4:26:27
  Speaker 1: four Chapter eight, Chapter nine, a grand debate at the
• 4:26:33
  Speaker 1: general Assembly of the Whinnams, and how it was determined
• 4:26:37
  Speaker 1: the learning of the Whinnams, their buildings, their manner of burials,
• 4:26:41
  Speaker 1: the defectiveness of their language. One of these grand assemblies
• 4:26:46
  Speaker 1: was held in my time, about three months before my departure,
• 4:26:50
  Speaker 1: whither my master went as the representative of our district.
• 4:26:55
  Speaker 1: In this council was resumed their old debate, and indeed
• 4:26:58
  Speaker 1: the only debate that ever happened, and in their country,
• 4:27:01
  Speaker 1: whereof my master after his return gave me a very
• 4:27:05
  Speaker 1: particular account. The question to be debated was whether the
• 4:27:10
  Speaker 1: Yahoo should be exterminated from the face of the earth.
• 4:27:14
  Speaker 1: One of the members for the affirmative offered several arguments
• 4:27:17
  Speaker 1: of great strength and weight, alleging that as the yahoos
• 4:27:22
  Speaker 1: were the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature
• 4:27:25
  Speaker 1: ever produced, so they were the most restive and indosable,
• 4:27:29
  Speaker 1: mischievous and malicious. They would privately suck the teats of
• 4:27:33
  Speaker 1: the Huinnham's cows kill and avow their cats, trample down
• 4:27:38
  Speaker 1: their oats and grass if they were not continually watched,
• 4:27:42
  Speaker 1: and commit a thousand other extravagances. He took notice of
• 4:27:47
  Speaker 1: a general tradition that yahoos had not always been in
• 4:27:51
  Speaker 1: their country, but that many ages ago, two of these
• 4:27:55
  Speaker 1: brutes appeared together upon a mountain. Whether produced by the
• 4:27:59
  Speaker 1: heat of the sun, upon corrupted mud and slime, or
• 4:28:02
  Speaker 1: from the ooze and froth of the sea, was never known.
• 4:28:06
  Speaker 1: That these yahoos engendered and their brood, in a short
• 4:28:10
  Speaker 1: time grew so numerous as to overrun and infest the
• 4:28:13
  Speaker 1: whole nation. That the Whinnams, to get rid of this evil,
• 4:28:19
  Speaker 1: made a general hunting, and at last enclosed the whole herd,
• 4:28:24
  Speaker 1: and destroying the elder. Every Winnam kept two young ones
• 4:28:27
  Speaker 1: in a kennel and brought them to such a degree
• 4:28:30
  Speaker 1: of tameness, as an animal so savage by nature can
• 4:28:34
  Speaker 1: be capable of acquiring using them for draft and carriage.
• 4:28:40
  Speaker 1: That this seemed to be much truth in this tradition,
• 4:28:43
  Speaker 1: and that those creatures could not be yin Nyiemshi or aborigines.
• 4:28:47
  Speaker 2: Of the land.
• 4:28:50
  Speaker 1: Because of the violent hatred of the Whinnhams, as well
• 4:28:53
  Speaker 1: as all other animals bore them, which, although their evil
• 4:28:56
  Speaker 1: disposition sufficiently deserved, could never have arrived at so high
• 4:29:00
  Speaker 1: a degree. If they had been aborigines, or else they
• 4:29:04
  Speaker 1: would have long since been rooted out. That the inhabitants,
• 4:29:10
  Speaker 1: taken a fancy to use the service of the yahoos,
• 4:29:13
  Speaker 1: had very imprudently neglected to cultivate the breed of asses,
• 4:29:18
  Speaker 1: which are a comely animal, easily kept more tame and orderly,
• 4:29:23
  Speaker 1: without any offensive smell, strong enough for labor, although they
• 4:29:28
  Speaker 1: yield to the other in agility of body, and if
• 4:29:31
  Speaker 1: their brain be no agreeable sound, it is far preferable
• 4:29:35
  Speaker 1: to the horrible howlings of the Yahoos. Several others declared
• 4:29:40
  Speaker 1: their sentiments to the same purpose. When my master proposed
• 4:29:44
  Speaker 1: an expedient to the assembly, whereof he had borrowed the
• 4:29:47
  Speaker 1: hint from me. He approved of the tradition mentioned by
• 4:29:51
  Speaker 1: the honorable member who spoke before, and affirmed that the
• 4:29:55
  Speaker 1: two Yahoos said to be seen first among them had
• 4:29:58
  Speaker 1: been driven thither over this see that, coming to land,
• 4:30:02
  Speaker 1: and being forsaken by their companions, they retired to the mountains, and,
• 4:30:07
  Speaker 1: degenerating by degrees, became in process of time much more
• 4:30:11
  Speaker 1: savage than those of their own species in the country.
• 4:30:14
  Speaker 1: Whence these two originals came the reason of this assertion
• 4:30:20
  Speaker 1: was that he had now in his possession a certain
• 4:30:23
  Speaker 1: wonderful Yahoo, meaning myself, which most of them had heard of,
• 4:30:27
  Speaker 1: and many of them had seen. He then related to
• 4:30:31
  Speaker 1: them how he first found me, that my body was
• 4:30:34
  Speaker 1: all covered with an artificial composure of the skins and
• 4:30:36
  Speaker 1: hairs of other animals, That I spoke in a language
• 4:30:40
  Speaker 1: of my own, and had thoroughly learned theirs, that I
• 4:30:44
  Speaker 1: had related to him the accidents which brought me thither,
• 4:30:47
  Speaker 1: That when he saw me without my covering, I was
• 4:30:50
  Speaker 1: an exact Yahoo in every part only of a whiter,
• 4:30:54
  Speaker 1: color less, hairy, and with shorter claws. He added, how
• 4:31:01
  Speaker 1: I had endeavored to persuade him that in my own
• 4:31:04
  Speaker 1: and other countries, the yahoos acted as the governing rational animal,
• 4:31:09
  Speaker 1: and held the hoynums in servitude. That he observed in
• 4:31:13
  Speaker 1: me all the qualities of a Yahoo, only a little
• 4:31:16
  Speaker 1: more civilized by some tincature of reason, which however, was
• 4:31:20
  Speaker 1: in a degree as far inferior to the Whinnham race
• 4:31:23
  Speaker 1: as the Yahoos of their country were. To me, that,
• 4:31:28
  Speaker 1: among other things, I mentioned a custom we had of
• 4:31:31
  Speaker 1: castrating wynhams when they were young, in order to render
• 4:31:34
  Speaker 1: them tame. That the operation was easy and safe, That
• 4:31:38
  Speaker 1: it was no shame to learn wisdom from brutes, as
• 4:31:41
  Speaker 1: industry is taught by the end, and building by the swallow.
• 4:31:46
  Speaker 1: For so I translated the word lahnna, although it be
• 4:31:49
  Speaker 1: a much larger fowl, that this invention might be practiced
• 4:31:54
  Speaker 1: upon the younger yahoos here, which, besides rendering them tractable
• 4:31:58
  Speaker 1: and fitter for use, would in an age, put an
• 4:32:01
  Speaker 1: end to the whole species without destroying life. That in
• 4:32:06
  Speaker 1: the meantime the Whynams should be exhorted to cultivate the
• 4:32:09
  Speaker 1: breed of asses, which, as they are in all respects
• 4:32:14
  Speaker 1: more valuable brutes. So they have this advantage to be
• 4:32:18
  Speaker 1: fit for service at five years old, which the others
• 4:32:21
  Speaker 1: are not till twelve. This was all my master thought
• 4:32:26
  Speaker 1: fit to tell me at that time of what passed
• 4:32:29
  Speaker 1: in the Grand Council, that he was pleased to conceal
• 4:32:32
  Speaker 1: one particular which related personally to myself, whereof I soon
• 4:32:37
  Speaker 1: felt the unhappy effect, as the reader will know in
• 4:32:40
  Speaker 1: its proper place, and whence I date all the succeeding
• 4:32:43
  Speaker 1: misfortunes of my life. The Whinnams have no letters, and
• 4:32:50
  Speaker 1: consequently their knowledge is all traditional. But there happening few
• 4:32:54
  Speaker 1: events of any moment Among a people so well united,
• 4:32:57
  Speaker 1: naturally disposed to every virtue, wholly governed by reason, and
• 4:33:02
  Speaker 1: cut off from all commerce with other nations, the historical
• 4:33:05
  Speaker 1: part is easily preserved without burdening their memories. I have
• 4:33:11
  Speaker 1: already observed that they are subject to no diseases, and
• 4:33:15
  Speaker 1: therefore can have no need of physicians. However, they have
• 4:33:19
  Speaker 1: excellent medicines composed of herbs, to cure accidental bruises and
• 4:33:24
  Speaker 1: cuts in the pastern or frog of the foot by
• 4:33:27
  Speaker 1: sharp stones, as well as other mames and hurts in
• 4:33:30
  Speaker 1: the several parts of the body. They calculate the year
• 4:33:36
  Speaker 1: by the revolution of the sun and moon, but use
• 4:33:39
  Speaker 1: no subdivisions into weeks. They are well enough acquainted with
• 4:33:42
  Speaker 1: the motions of those two luminaries and understand the nature
• 4:33:46
  Speaker 1: of eclipses, and this is the utmost progress of their astronomy.
• 4:33:53
  Speaker 1: In poetry they must be allowed to excel all other mortals,
• 4:33:57
  Speaker 1: and the minuteness, as well as exactness of their description,
• 4:34:00
  Speaker 1: are indeed inimitable. Their verses abound very much in both
• 4:34:05
  Speaker 1: of these, and usually containing the sum exalted notions of
• 4:34:08
  Speaker 1: friendship and benevolence, or the praises of those who are
• 4:34:12
  Speaker 1: victors in races and other bodily exercises. Their buildings, although
• 4:34:18
  Speaker 1: very rude and simple, are not inconvenient, but well contrived
• 4:34:22
  Speaker 1: to defend them from all injuries of cold and heat.
• 4:34:26
  Speaker 1: They have a kind of tree which, at forty years old,
• 4:34:29
  Speaker 1: loosens in the root and falls with the first storm.
• 4:34:33
  Speaker 1: It grows very straight, and being pointed like stakes with
• 4:34:36
  Speaker 1: the sharp stone. For the Quinnams know not the use
• 4:34:40
  Speaker 1: of iron, They stick them erect in the ground about
• 4:34:43
  Speaker 1: ten inches asunder, and then weave in oat, straw or
• 4:34:46
  Speaker 1: sometimes wattles between them. The roof is made after the
• 4:34:50
  Speaker 1: same manner, and so are the doors. The Winhams use
• 4:34:55
  Speaker 1: the hollow part between the pastern and the hoof of
• 4:34:57
  Speaker 1: their forefoot, as we do our hands, and this with
• 4:35:02
  Speaker 1: greater dexterity than I could at first imagine. I have
• 4:35:06
  Speaker 1: seen a white mare of our family thread a needle
• 4:35:08
  Speaker 1: which I lent her on purpose with that joint. They
• 4:35:13
  Speaker 1: milk their cows, reap their oats, and do all the
• 4:35:16
  Speaker 1: work which requires hands. In the same manner. They have
• 4:35:20
  Speaker 1: a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones,
• 4:35:24
  Speaker 1: they form into instruments that serve instead of wedges, axes
• 4:35:28
  Speaker 1: and hammers. With tools made of these flints, they likewise
• 4:35:33
  Speaker 1: cut their hay and reap their oats, which they grow
• 4:35:36
  Speaker 1: naturally in several fields.
• 4:35:39
  Speaker 2: The yahoos draw.
• 4:35:40
  Speaker 1: Home the sheaves and carriages, and the servants tread them
• 4:35:44
  Speaker 1: in certain covered huts. To get out the grain which
• 4:35:47
  Speaker 1: is kept in stores, they make a rude kind of
• 4:35:51
  Speaker 1: earthen and wooden vessels and bake the former in the sun.
• 4:35:55
  Speaker 1: If they can avoid casualties. They die only of old age,
• 4:35:59
  Speaker 1: and are buried in the obscurest places that can be found,
• 4:36:03
  Speaker 1: their friends and relations expressing neither joy nor grief at
• 4:36:06
  Speaker 1: their departure, nor does the dying person discover the least
• 4:36:10
  Speaker 1: regret that he is leaving the world any more than
• 4:36:13
  Speaker 1: if he were returning home from a visit to one
• 4:36:16
  Speaker 1: of his neighbors. I remember my master having once made
• 4:36:20
  Speaker 1: an appointment with a friend and his family to come
• 4:36:23
  Speaker 1: to his house upon some affair of importance. On the
• 4:36:27
  Speaker 1: day fixed. The mistress and her two children came very late.
• 4:36:32
  Speaker 2: She made two.
• 4:36:32
  Speaker 1: Excuses, first for a husband, who, as she said, happened
• 4:36:38
  Speaker 1: that very morning. To schnew one, the word is strongly
• 4:36:42
  Speaker 1: expressive in their language, but not easily rendered into English.
• 4:36:47
  Speaker 1: It signifies to retire. To his first mother, her excuse
• 4:36:53
  Speaker 1: for not coming sooner was that her husband dying late
• 4:36:56
  Speaker 1: in the morning. She was a good while consulting her
• 4:36:59
  Speaker 1: servants about a convenient place where his body should be laid,
• 4:37:04
  Speaker 1: and I observed she behaved herself at our house as
• 4:37:06
  Speaker 1: cheerfully as the rest. She died about three months after.
• 4:37:13
  Speaker 1: They live generally to seventy or seventy five years, very
• 4:37:17
  Speaker 1: seldom to forescore. Some weeks before their death, they feel
• 4:37:21
  Speaker 1: a gradual decay, but without pain. During this time they
• 4:37:25
  Speaker 1: are much visited by their friends, because they cannot go
• 4:37:28
  Speaker 1: abroad with their usual ease and satisfaction. However, about ten
• 4:37:33
  Speaker 1: days before their death, which they seldom fail in computing,
• 4:37:37
  Speaker 1: they return the visits that have been made and by
• 4:37:40
  Speaker 1: those who are nearest in the neighborhood, being carried in
• 4:37:43
  Speaker 1: a convenient sledge drawn by Yahoos, which vehicle they use
• 4:37:48
  Speaker 1: not only upon this occasion, but when they grow old
• 4:37:51
  Speaker 1: upon long journeys, or when they are lamed by any accident.
• 4:37:55
  Speaker 1: And therefore, when the dying Quinnams return those visits, they
• 4:37:59
  Speaker 1: take us off on leave of their friends, as if
• 4:38:02
  Speaker 1: they were going to some remote part of the country
• 4:38:05
  Speaker 1: where they designed.
• 4:38:05
  Speaker 2: To pass the rest of their lives.
• 4:38:09
  Speaker 1: I know not whether it may be worth observing that
• 4:38:12
  Speaker 1: the Huinnams have no word in their language to express
• 4:38:15
  Speaker 1: anything that is evil, except what they borrow from the
• 4:38:18
  Speaker 1: deformities or ill qualities of the Yahoos. Thus they denote
• 4:38:24
  Speaker 1: the folly of a servant and omission of a child,
• 4:38:27
  Speaker 1: a stone that cuts their feet, a countenance of foul
• 4:38:30
  Speaker 1: or unseasonable weather, and the like, by adding to each
• 4:38:34
  Speaker 1: the epithet of Yahoo. For instance, Hum Yahoo one alhom
• 4:38:40
  Speaker 1: Yahoo yin yao haam dawolmah Yahoo, and an ill contrived
• 4:38:45
  Speaker 1: house Yinholm Han Roe Homnah Yahoo, I could with great
• 4:38:52
  Speaker 1: pleasure enlarge further upon the manners and virtues of this
• 4:38:55
  Speaker 1: excellent people, But intending in a short time to publish
• 4:38:59
  Speaker 1: a volume by itself expressly upon that subject, I refer
• 4:39:04
  Speaker 1: the reader thither, and in the meantime proceed to relate
• 4:39:08
  Speaker 1: my own sad catastrophe. End apart four, Chapter nine, Chapter ten.
• 4:39:16
  Speaker 1: The Author's economy and happy life among the Whinnams, his
• 4:39:20
  Speaker 1: great improvement and virtue by conversing with them. Their conversations,
• 4:39:26
  Speaker 1: the author has notice given him by his master that
• 4:39:29
  Speaker 1: he must depart from the country. He falls and a
• 4:39:32
  Speaker 1: swoon for grief, but submits. He contrives and finishes a
• 4:39:37
  Speaker 1: canoe by the help of a fellow's servant, and put
• 4:39:40
  Speaker 1: to sea at a venture. I had settled my little
• 4:39:44
  Speaker 1: economy to my own heart's content. My master had ordered
• 4:39:48
  Speaker 1: a room to be made for me after their manner,
• 4:39:51
  Speaker 1: about six yards from the house, the sides and floors
• 4:39:55
  Speaker 1: of which I plastered with clay and covered with rush mats.
• 4:39:58
  Speaker 1: Of my own contriving. I had beaten hemp, which there
• 4:40:03
  Speaker 1: grows wild, and made of it a sort of tickling.
• 4:40:07
  Speaker 1: This I filled with the feathers of several birds I
• 4:40:09
  Speaker 1: had taken with springs made of yahoo's hairs, and were
• 4:40:13
  Speaker 1: excellent food. I had worked two chairs with my knife,
• 4:40:19
  Speaker 1: the sorrel nag helping me in the grosser and more
• 4:40:21
  Speaker 1: laborious part. When my clothes were worn to rags, I
• 4:40:26
  Speaker 1: made myself others with the skins of rabbits and of
• 4:40:29
  Speaker 1: a certain beautiful animal about the same size called nahano,
• 4:40:35
  Speaker 1: the skin of which is covered with a fine down.
• 4:40:38
  Speaker 1: Of these I also made very tolerable stockings. I sold
• 4:40:43
  Speaker 1: my shoes with wood, which I cut from a tree
• 4:40:46
  Speaker 1: and fitted to the upper leather, and when this was
• 4:40:48
  Speaker 1: worn out, I supplied it with the skins of yahoos
• 4:40:52
  Speaker 1: dried in the sun. I often got honey out of
• 4:40:56
  Speaker 1: hollow trees, which I mingled with water or ate with
• 4:40:59
  Speaker 1: my breath. No man could more verify the truth of
• 4:41:03
  Speaker 1: these two maxims, that nature is very easily satisfied, and
• 4:41:08
  Speaker 1: that necessity is the mother of invention. I enjoyed perfect
• 4:41:13
  Speaker 1: health of body and tranquility of mind. I did not
• 4:41:16
  Speaker 1: feel the treachery or inconsistency of a friend, nor the
• 4:41:20
  Speaker 1: injuries of a secret or open enemy. I had no
• 4:41:23
  Speaker 1: occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping to procure the favor
• 4:41:27
  Speaker 1: of any great man or his minion. I wanted no
• 4:41:30
  Speaker 1: offense against fraud or oppression. Here was neither physician to
• 4:41:35
  Speaker 1: destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune, no
• 4:41:39
  Speaker 1: informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations
• 4:41:43
  Speaker 1: against me for hire. Here were no geibers, censures, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, boards, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics,
• 4:41:57
  Speaker 1: tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos. No leaders or
• 4:42:05
  Speaker 1: followers of party and faction. No encouragers to vice by
• 4:42:09
  Speaker 1: seducement or examples. No dungeon axes, gibbets, whipping posts or pillories.
• 4:42:16
  Speaker 1: No cheating shopkeepers or merchants. No pride, vanity or affectation.
• 4:42:22
  Speaker 1: No fops, bullies, drunkards, strolling haws or boxes. No ranting lude,
• 4:42:28
  Speaker 1: expensive wives, no stupid proud pedants, No importunate, overbearing quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty,
• 4:42:38
  Speaker 1: conceited swearing companions. No scoundrels raised from the dust upon
• 4:42:43
  Speaker 1: the merit of their vices, on nobility, thrown into it
• 4:42:46
  Speaker 1: on account of their virtues, no lords, fiddlers, judges, or
• 4:42:50
  Speaker 1: dancing masters. I had the favour of being admitted to
• 4:42:56
  Speaker 1: several Winnhams who came to visit or dine with my Master,
• 4:43:00
  Speaker 1: where his honor graciously suffered me to wait in the
• 4:43:03
  Speaker 1: room and listen to their discourse. Both he and his
• 4:43:07
  Speaker 1: company would often descend to ask me questions and receive
• 4:43:10
  Speaker 1: my answers. I had also sometimes the honor of attending
• 4:43:14
  Speaker 1: my Master in his visits to others. I never presumed
• 4:43:18
  Speaker 1: to speak except in answer to a question, and then
• 4:43:22
  Speaker 1: I did it withinward regret because it was a loss
• 4:43:25
  Speaker 1: of so much time for improving myself. But I was
• 4:43:30
  Speaker 1: infinitely delighted with the situation of a humble auditor in
• 4:43:33
  Speaker 1: such conversations, where nothing passed but what was useful expressed
• 4:43:39
  Speaker 1: in the fewest and most significant words. Where as I
• 4:43:43
  Speaker 1: have already said, the greatest decency was observed without the
• 4:43:47
  Speaker 1: least degree of ceremony, where no person spoke without being
• 4:43:51
  Speaker 1: pleased himself and pleasing his companions, where there was no interruption, tediousness, heat,
• 4:43:58
  Speaker 1: or difference of sentiments. They have a notion that when
• 4:44:03
  Speaker 1: people are met together, a short silence does much improve
• 4:44:06
  Speaker 1: the conversation. This I found to be true, for during
• 4:44:11
  Speaker 1: those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in
• 4:44:14
  Speaker 1: their minds, which very much enlivened the discourse. Their subjects
• 4:44:20
  Speaker 1: are generally on friendship and benevolence, on order and economy,
• 4:44:24
  Speaker 1: sometimes upon the visible operations of nature or ancient traditions,
• 4:44:30
  Speaker 1: upon the bounds and limits of virtue, upon the unerring
• 4:44:34
  Speaker 1: rules of reason, or upon some determinations to be taken
• 4:44:37
  Speaker 1: at the next general assembly, and often upon the various
• 4:44:41
  Speaker 1: excellences of poetry. I may add without vanity that my
• 4:44:47
  Speaker 1: presence often gave them sufficient matter for discourse, because it
• 4:44:51
  Speaker 1: afforded my master an occasion of letting his friends into
• 4:44:54
  Speaker 1: the history of me and my country, upon which they
• 4:44:58
  Speaker 1: were all pleased to discount in a manner not very
• 4:45:01
  Speaker 1: advantageous to human kind. And for that reason I shall
• 4:45:05
  Speaker 1: not repeat what they said. Only I may be allowed
• 4:45:08
  Speaker 1: to observe that his Honor, to my great admiration, appeared
• 4:45:12
  Speaker 1: to understand the nature of yahoos much better than myself.
• 4:45:17
  Speaker 1: He went through all our vices and follies and discovered
• 4:45:20
  Speaker 1: many which I had never mentioned to him, by only
• 4:45:23
  Speaker 1: supposing what qualities are yahoo of their country with a
• 4:45:27
  Speaker 1: small proportion of reason, might be capable of exerting, and
• 4:45:32
  Speaker 1: concluded with too much probability, how vile as well as
• 4:45:36
  Speaker 1: miserable such a creature must be. I freely confess that
• 4:45:41
  Speaker 1: all the little knowledge I have of any value was
• 4:45:43
  Speaker 1: acquired by the lectures I received from my master, and
• 4:45:47
  Speaker 1: from hearing the discourse of him and his friends, to
• 4:45:50
  Speaker 1: which I should be prouder to listen then to dictate
• 4:45:53
  Speaker 1: to the greatest and wisest assembly in Europe. I admired
• 4:45:58
  Speaker 1: the strength, comeliness, and speed of the inhabitants, and such
• 4:46:02
  Speaker 1: a constellation of virtues in such admirable persons produced in
• 4:46:06
  Speaker 1: me the highest veneration. At first, indeed, I did not
• 4:46:12
  Speaker 1: feel the natural oree which the yahoos and all other
• 4:46:15
  Speaker 1: animals bear toward them. But it grew upon me by
• 4:46:18
  Speaker 1: decrees much sooner than I imagined, and was mingled with
• 4:46:22
  Speaker 1: respectful love and gratitude that they would condescend to distinguish
• 4:46:27
  Speaker 1: me from the rest of my species or the human
• 4:46:31
  Speaker 1: race in general. I considered them as they really were,
• 4:46:35
  Speaker 1: yahoos in shape and disposition, perhaps a little more civilized
• 4:46:40
  Speaker 1: and qualified with the gift of speech, but making no
• 4:46:44
  Speaker 1: other use of reason than to improve and multiply those vices,
• 4:46:47
  Speaker 1: where of their brethren in this country had only the
• 4:46:50
  Speaker 1: share that nature allotted them. When I happened to behold
• 4:46:55
  Speaker 1: the reflection of my own form in a lake or fountain,
• 4:46:58
  Speaker 1: I turned away my face in horror and detestation of myself,
• 4:47:03
  Speaker 1: and could better endure the sight of a common yahoo
• 4:47:05
  Speaker 1: than of my own person. By conversing with the Whinnums
• 4:47:10
  Speaker 1: and looking upon them with delight, I fell to imitate
• 4:47:13
  Speaker 1: their gait and gesture, which has now grown into a habit.
• 4:47:18
  Speaker 1: And my friends often tell me in a blunt way
• 4:47:21
  Speaker 1: that I trot like a horse, which however, I take
• 4:47:24
  Speaker 1: for a great compliment. Neither shall I disown that, in
• 4:47:29
  Speaker 1: speaking I am apt to fall into the voice and
• 4:47:31
  Speaker 1: manner of the Whinnams, and hear myself ridiculed on that
• 4:47:35
  Speaker 1: account without the least mortification. In the midst of all
• 4:47:40
  Speaker 1: this happiness, and when I looked upon myself to be
• 4:47:43
  Speaker 1: fully settled for life, my master sent for me one
• 4:47:47
  Speaker 1: morning a little earlier than his usual hour. I observed
• 4:47:52
  Speaker 1: by his countenance that he was in some perplexity and
• 4:47:56
  Speaker 1: at a loss how to begin what he had to speak.
• 4:48:00
  Speaker 1: After a short silence, he told me he did not
• 4:48:03
  Speaker 1: know how I would take what he was going to say.
• 4:48:06
  Speaker 1: That in the last General Assembly, when the affair of
• 4:48:09
  Speaker 1: the Yahoos was entered upon, the representatives had taken offense
• 4:48:13
  Speaker 1: at his keeping a Yahoo meaning myself in his family
• 4:48:18
  Speaker 1: more like a whynum than a brute animal, that she
• 4:48:22
  Speaker 1: was known frequently to converse with me as if he
• 4:48:25
  Speaker 1: could receive some advantage or pleasure in my company. That
• 4:48:29
  Speaker 1: such a practice was not agreeable to reason or nature,
• 4:48:33
  Speaker 1: or a thing ever heard of before among them. The
• 4:48:36
  Speaker 1: Assembly did therefore exhort him either to employ me like
• 4:48:40
  Speaker 1: the rest of my species, or command me to swim
• 4:48:43
  Speaker 1: back to the place whence I came that. The first
• 4:48:47
  Speaker 1: of these expedients was utterly rejected by all the Whinnams
• 4:48:50
  Speaker 1: who had ever see me at his house or their own,
• 4:48:53
  Speaker 1: For they alleged that because I had some rudiments of
• 4:48:56
  Speaker 1: reason added to the natural gravity of those animals, it
• 4:49:01
  Speaker 1: was to be feared I might be able to seduce
• 4:49:03
  Speaker 1: them into the woody and mountainous parts of the country
• 4:49:06
  Speaker 1: and bring them in troops by night to destroy the
• 4:49:09
  Speaker 1: Hunam's cattle, As being naturally of the ravenous kind, and
• 4:49:12
  Speaker 1: averse from labor. My master added that he was daily
• 4:49:18
  Speaker 1: pressed by the hunims of the neighborhood to have the
• 4:49:20
  Speaker 1: assemblies exhortation executed, which he could not put off much longer.
• 4:49:26
  Speaker 1: He doubted it would be impossible for me to swim
• 4:49:29
  Speaker 1: to another country, and therefore wished I would contrive some
• 4:49:32
  Speaker 1: sort of vehicle resembling those I had described to him,
• 4:49:36
  Speaker 1: that might carry me on the sea, in which work
• 4:49:40
  Speaker 1: I should have the assistance of his own servants as
• 4:49:42
  Speaker 1: well as those of his neighbors. He concluded that for
• 4:49:47
  Speaker 1: his own part, he could have been content to keep
• 4:49:50
  Speaker 1: me in his service as long as I lived, because
• 4:49:53
  Speaker 1: he found I had cured myself of some bad habits
• 4:49:55
  Speaker 1: and dispositions by endeavoring as far as my inferior nature
• 4:50:00
  Speaker 1: was capable to imitate the whinnams. I should here observed
• 4:50:05
  Speaker 1: to the reader that a decree of the General Assembly
• 4:50:08
  Speaker 1: in this country expressed by the word hun Holnian, which
• 4:50:13
  Speaker 1: signifies an exhortation, as near as I commnder it. For
• 4:50:18
  Speaker 1: they have no conception how a rational creature can be compelled,
• 4:50:21
  Speaker 1: but only advised or exhorted, Because no person can disobey
• 4:50:25
  Speaker 1: reason without giving up his claim to be a rational creature.
• 4:50:32
  Speaker 1: I was struck with the utmost grief and despair at
• 4:50:35
  Speaker 1: my master's discourse, and being unable to support the agonies
• 4:50:39
  Speaker 1: I was under, I fell into a swoon at his feet.
• 4:50:44
  Speaker 1: When I came to myself, he told me that he
• 4:50:46
  Speaker 1: concluded I had been dead, for these people are the
• 4:50:50
  Speaker 1: subject to know such imbecilities of nature. I answered, in
• 4:50:54
  Speaker 1: a faint voice, that death would have been too great
• 4:50:57
  Speaker 1: a happiness. That although I could not blame the assembly's
• 4:51:01
  Speaker 1: exhortation or the urgency of his friends, yet in my
• 4:51:06
  Speaker 1: weak and corrupt judgment, I've thought it might consist with
• 4:51:09
  Speaker 1: reason to have been less rigorous, that I could not
• 4:51:12
  Speaker 1: swimmer league, and probably the nearest land to theirs might
• 4:51:15
  Speaker 1: be a distance above a hundred That many materials necessary
• 4:51:20
  Speaker 1: for making a small vessel to carry me off were
• 4:51:23
  Speaker 1: wholly wanting in this country, which, however, I would attempt
• 4:51:27
  Speaker 1: in obedience and gratitude to his honor. Although I concluded
• 4:51:31
  Speaker 1: the thing to be impossible, and therefore looked on myself
• 4:51:35
  Speaker 1: as already devoted to destruction, that the certain prospect of
• 4:51:40
  Speaker 1: an unnatural death was the least of my evils. For
• 4:51:44
  Speaker 1: supposing I should escape with my life by some strange
• 4:51:47
  Speaker 1: to venture, how could I think, with temper of passing
• 4:51:50
  Speaker 1: my days among yahoos and relapsing into my old corruptions,
• 4:51:54
  Speaker 1: for want of examples to lead and keep me within
• 4:51:57
  Speaker 1: the paths of virtue that I knew too well, upon
• 4:52:01
  Speaker 1: what solid reasons, all the determinations of the wise Whinnhams
• 4:52:05
  Speaker 1: were founded not to be shaken by arguments of mine,
• 4:52:08
  Speaker 1: a miserable Yahoo. And therefore, after presenting him with my
• 4:52:14
  Speaker 1: humble thanks for the offer of his servant's assistance in
• 4:52:17
  Speaker 1: making a vessel, and desiring a reasonable time for so
• 4:52:20
  Speaker 1: difficult a work, I told him I would endeavor to
• 4:52:23
  Speaker 1: preserve a wretched being, and if I ever returned to England,
• 4:52:28
  Speaker 1: was not without hopes of being.
• 4:52:29
  Speaker 2: Useful to my own species.
• 4:52:32
  Speaker 1: By celebrating the praises of the renowned Winnhams and proposing
• 4:52:35
  Speaker 1: their virtues to the imitation of mankind. My master, in
• 4:52:40
  Speaker 1: a few words, made me a very gracious reply, allowed
• 4:52:44
  Speaker 1: me the space of two months to finish my boat,
• 4:52:47
  Speaker 1: and ordered the sorrel nag my fellow servant. For so
• 4:52:51
  Speaker 1: at this distance, I may presume to call him to
• 4:52:54
  Speaker 1: follow my instruction, because I told my master that his
• 4:52:57
  Speaker 1: help would be sufficient, and I knew he had a
• 4:53:00
  Speaker 1: tenderness for me in his company. My first business was
• 4:53:05
  Speaker 1: to go to that part of the coast where my
• 4:53:07
  Speaker 1: rebellious crew had ordered me to be set on shore.
• 4:53:11
  Speaker 1: I got upon a height, and, looking on every side
• 4:53:14
  Speaker 1: into the sea, fancied I saw a small island towards
• 4:53:17
  Speaker 1: the northeast. I took out my pocket glass and could
• 4:53:21
  Speaker 1: then clearly distinguish it above five leagues off as I computed,
• 4:53:26
  Speaker 1: But it appeared to the sorrel Nag to be only
• 4:53:28
  Speaker 1: a blue cloud, for as yet no conception of any
• 4:53:32
  Speaker 1: country beside his own, so he could not be expected
• 4:53:35
  Speaker 1: in distinguishing remote objects at sea, as we who so
• 4:53:39
  Speaker 1: much converse in that element. After I had discovered this island,
• 4:53:44
  Speaker 1: I considered no further, but resolved it should, if possible,
• 4:53:48
  Speaker 1: be the first place of my banishment. Leaving the consequence
• 4:53:52
  Speaker 1: to fortune. I returned home, and, consulting with a sorrel Nag,
• 4:53:58
  Speaker 1: we went into a copse at some distance, where I,
• 4:54:01
  Speaker 1: with my knife and tea with a sharp flint, fastened
• 4:54:04
  Speaker 1: very artificially after their manner to a wooden handle, cut
• 4:54:08
  Speaker 1: down several oak wattles about the thickness of a walking staff,
• 4:54:12
  Speaker 1: and some larger pieces. But I shall not trouble the
• 4:54:16
  Speaker 1: reader with a particular description of my own mechanics. Let
• 4:54:20
  Speaker 1: it suffice to say that in six weeks time, with
• 4:54:23
  Speaker 1: the help of the sorrel nag, who performed the parts
• 4:54:26
  Speaker 1: that required most labor, I finished a sort of Indian canoe,
• 4:54:31
  Speaker 1: but much larger, covering it with the skins of yahoos
• 4:54:35
  Speaker 1: wel stitched together with hemp and threads of my own making.
• 4:54:40
  Speaker 1: My sail was likewise composed of the skins of the
• 4:54:42
  Speaker 1: same animal, but I made use of the youngest I
• 4:54:45
  Speaker 1: could get, the older being too tough and thick, and
• 4:54:49
  Speaker 1: I likewise provided myself with four paddles. I laid in
• 4:54:54
  Speaker 1: a stock of boiled flesh of rabbits and fowls, and
• 4:54:58
  Speaker 1: took with me two vessels, one filled with.
• 4:55:00
  Speaker 2: Milk and the other with water.
• 4:55:03
  Speaker 1: I tried my canoe in a large pond near my
• 4:55:06
  Speaker 1: master's house, and then corrected in it what was amiss,
• 4:55:10
  Speaker 1: stopping all the chinks with yahoo's tallow till I found
• 4:55:14
  Speaker 1: its staunch and able to bear me and my freight,
• 4:55:18
  Speaker 1: and when it was as complete as I could make it,
• 4:55:21
  Speaker 1: I had it drawn on a carriage very gently by
• 4:55:23
  Speaker 1: Yahoo's to the seaside, under the conduct of the sorrel
• 4:55:27
  Speaker 1: nag and another servant. When I was ready and the
• 4:55:31
  Speaker 1: day came from my departure, I took leave of my
• 4:55:34
  Speaker 1: master and lady and the whole family, my eyes flowing
• 4:55:38
  Speaker 1: with tears, and my heart quite sunk with grief. But
• 4:55:42
  Speaker 1: his honor, out of curiosity, and perhaps, if I may
• 4:55:46
  Speaker 1: speak without vanity, partly out of kindness, was determined to
• 4:55:51
  Speaker 1: see me in my canoe, and got several of his
• 4:55:54
  Speaker 1: neighboring friends to accompany him. I was forced to wait
• 4:55:59
  Speaker 1: above an hour for the tide, and then, observing the
• 4:56:02
  Speaker 1: wind very fortunately bearing towards the island to which I
• 4:56:05
  Speaker 1: intended to steer my course, I took a second leave
• 4:56:09
  Speaker 1: of my master. But as I was going to prostrate
• 4:56:13
  Speaker 1: myself to kiss his hoof, he did me the honor
• 4:56:16
  Speaker 1: to raise it gently to my mouth. I am not
• 4:56:20
  Speaker 1: ignorant how much I have been censured for mentioning this
• 4:56:23
  Speaker 1: last particular. Detractors are pleased to think it improbable that
• 4:56:28
  Speaker 1: so illustrious a person should descend to give so great
• 4:56:31
  Speaker 1: a mark of distinction to a creature so inferior as I.
• 4:56:36
  Speaker 1: Neither have I forgotten how apt some travelers are to
• 4:56:38
  Speaker 1: boast of extraordinary favors they have received. But if these
• 4:56:43
  Speaker 1: censures were better acquainted with the noble and courteous dispositions
• 4:56:47
  Speaker 1: of the Whinnams, they would soon change their opinion. I
• 4:56:52
  Speaker 1: paid my respects to the rest of the Winnhams in
• 4:56:54
  Speaker 1: his Honor's company. Then, getting into my canoe, I pushed
• 4:56:58
  Speaker 1: off from shore and apart four Chapter ten, Chapter eleven
• 4:57:05
  Speaker 1: the Author's Dangerous Voyage. He arrives at New Holland, hoping
• 4:57:09
  Speaker 1: to settle there, is wounded with an arrow by one
• 4:57:12
  Speaker 1: of the natives, is seized and carried by force into
• 4:57:16
  Speaker 1: a Portuguese ship the great civilities of the captain. The
• 4:57:20
  Speaker 1: author arrives at England. I began this desperate voyage on
• 4:57:26
  Speaker 1: February fifteen, seventeen, fourteen fifteen, at nine o'clock in the morning.
• 4:57:33
  Speaker 1: The wind was very favorable. However, I made use at
• 4:57:36
  Speaker 1: first only of my paddles. But considering I should soon
• 4:57:40
  Speaker 1: be weary and that the wind might chop about, I
• 4:57:44
  Speaker 1: ventured to set up my little sail and Thus, with
• 4:57:48
  Speaker 1: the help of the tide, I went at the rate
• 4:57:50
  Speaker 1: of a league and a half an hour. As near
• 4:57:53
  Speaker 1: as I could guess. My master and his friends continued
• 4:57:57
  Speaker 1: on the shore till I was almost out of sight,
• 4:58:00
  Speaker 1: and I often heard the sorrel nag who always loved me,
• 4:58:04
  Speaker 1: crying out, Honya Ilya, ne'a marjah, Yahoo, take care of thyself,
• 4:58:11
  Speaker 1: gentle Yahoo. My design was, if possible, to discover some
• 4:58:17
  Speaker 1: small island, uninhabited, yet sufficient by my labor to furnish
• 4:58:22
  Speaker 1: me with the necessaries of life, which I would have
• 4:58:25
  Speaker 1: thought a greater happiness than to be first minister in
• 4:58:29
  Speaker 1: the politest court of Europe. So horrible was the idea
• 4:58:33
  Speaker 1: I conceived of returning to live in society and under
• 4:58:36
  Speaker 1: the government of Yahoos. For in such a solitude as
• 4:58:41
  Speaker 1: I desired, I could at least enjoy my own thoughts
• 4:58:45
  Speaker 1: and reflect with delight on the virtues of those inimitable hunums,
• 4:58:49
  Speaker 1: without an opportunity of degenerating into the vices and corruptions
• 4:58:53
  Speaker 1: of my own species. The reader may remember what I
• 4:58:58
  Speaker 1: related when my who conspired against me and confined me
• 4:59:02
  Speaker 1: to my cabin. How I continued there several weeks without
• 4:59:06
  Speaker 1: knowing what course we took, And when I was put
• 4:59:09
  Speaker 1: ashore in the long boat, how the sailors told me,
• 4:59:11
  Speaker 1: with oaths, whether true or false, that they knew not
• 4:59:16
  Speaker 1: in what part of the world we were. However, I
• 4:59:20
  Speaker 1: did then believe us to be about ten degrees southward
• 4:59:23
  Speaker 1: of the Cape of Good Hope, or about forty five
• 4:59:26
  Speaker 1: degrees southern latitude, as I gathered from some general words
• 4:59:30
  Speaker 1: I overheard, among them being I suppose to the southeast
• 4:59:34
  Speaker 1: in their intended voyage to Madagascar. And although this was
• 4:59:39
  Speaker 1: little better than conjecture, yet I resolved to steer my
• 4:59:43
  Speaker 1: course eastward, hoping to reach the southwest coast of New Holland,
• 4:59:48
  Speaker 1: and perhaps some such island as I desired lying westward
• 4:59:52
  Speaker 1: of it. The wind was full west, and by six
• 4:59:56
  Speaker 1: in the evening I computed I had gone eastward at
• 4:59:59
  Speaker 1: least eighteen when I spied a very small island about
• 5:00:03
  Speaker 1: half a league off, which I soon reached. It was
• 5:00:07
  Speaker 1: nothing but a rock with one creek, naturally arched by
• 5:00:11
  Speaker 1: the force of tempests. Here I put in my canoe,
• 5:00:15
  Speaker 1: and climbing a part of the rock, I could plainly
• 5:00:18
  Speaker 1: discover land to the east extending from south to north.
• 5:00:23
  Speaker 1: I lay all night in my canoe, and repeating my
• 5:00:26
  Speaker 1: voyage early in the next morning, I arrived in seven
• 5:00:29
  Speaker 1: hours to the southeast point of New Holland. This confirmed
• 5:00:34
  Speaker 1: me in the opinion I have long entertained that the
• 5:00:37
  Speaker 1: maps and charts placed this country at least three degrees
• 5:00:40
  Speaker 1: more to the east than it really is, which thought
• 5:00:44
  Speaker 1: I communicated many years ago to my worthy friend mister
• 5:00:47
  Speaker 1: Herman moll And gave him my reasons for it, although
• 5:00:52
  Speaker 1: he has rather chosen to follow other authors. I saw
• 5:00:56
  Speaker 1: no inhabitants in the place where I landed, and being unarmed,
• 5:01:01
  Speaker 1: I was afraid of venturing far into the country. I
• 5:01:04
  Speaker 1: found some shell fish on the shore and ate them raw,
• 5:01:08
  Speaker 1: not daring to kindle a fire for fear of being
• 5:01:10
  Speaker 1: discovered by the natives. I continued three days, feeding on
• 5:01:15
  Speaker 1: oysters and limpets to save my own provisions, and I
• 5:01:19
  Speaker 1: fortunately found a brook of excellent water, which gave me
• 5:01:23
  Speaker 1: great relief. On the fourth day, venturing out early a
• 5:01:28
  Speaker 1: little too far, I saw twenty or thirty natives upon
• 5:01:32
  Speaker 1: a height not above five hundred yards from me. They
• 5:01:35
  Speaker 1: were stark, naked men, women and children round a fire.
• 5:01:40
  Speaker 1: As I could discover by the smoke. One of them
• 5:01:43
  Speaker 1: spied me and gave notice to the rest. Five of
• 5:01:47
  Speaker 1: them advanced towards me, leaving the women and children at
• 5:01:49
  Speaker 1: the fire. I made what haste I could to the shore,
• 5:01:53
  Speaker 1: and getting into my canoe, shoved off. The savages, observing
• 5:01:58
  Speaker 1: me retreat, ran up after me, and before I could
• 5:02:02
  Speaker 1: get far enough into the sea, discharged an arrow which
• 5:02:05
  Speaker 1: wounded me deeply on the inside of my left knee.
• 5:02:09
  Speaker 1: I shall carry the mark to my grave. I apprehended
• 5:02:14
  Speaker 1: the arrow might be poisoned, and paddling out of reach
• 5:02:17
  Speaker 1: of their darts. Being a calm day, I made a
• 5:02:21
  Speaker 1: shift to suck the wound and dress it as well
• 5:02:23
  Speaker 1: as I could.
• 5:02:26
  Speaker 2: I was at a loss what.
• 5:02:27
  Speaker 1: To do, for I durst not return to the same
• 5:02:30
  Speaker 1: landing place, but stood to the north and was forced
• 5:02:34
  Speaker 1: to paddle for the wind, though very gentle was against me,
• 5:02:39
  Speaker 1: blowing northwest. As I was looking about for a secure
• 5:02:43
  Speaker 1: landing place, I saw a sail to the north northeast,
• 5:02:47
  Speaker 1: which appearing every minute more visible. I was in some
• 5:02:51
  Speaker 1: doubt whether I should wait for them or not. But
• 5:02:55
  Speaker 1: at last my detestation of the yahoo race prevailed, and
• 5:03:00
  Speaker 1: turning my canoe, I sailed and paddled together to the south,
• 5:03:03
  Speaker 1: and got into the same creek. Whence I set out
• 5:03:06
  Speaker 1: in the morning, choosing rather to trust myself among these
• 5:03:10
  Speaker 1: barbarians then live with the European yahoos, I drew up
• 5:03:16
  Speaker 1: my canoe as close as I could to the shore,
• 5:03:18
  Speaker 1: and hid myself behind a stone by the little brook, which,
• 5:03:22
  Speaker 1: as I have already said, was excellent water. The ship
• 5:03:28
  Speaker 1: came within half a league of this creek and sent
• 5:03:31
  Speaker 1: a longboat with vessels to take in fresh water. For
• 5:03:34
  Speaker 1: the place, it seems, was very well known, but I
• 5:03:38
  Speaker 1: did not observe it till the boat was almost on shore,
• 5:03:41
  Speaker 1: and it was too late to seek another hiding place
• 5:03:45
  Speaker 1: the sea. Minute they landing, observed my canoe, and, drummaging
• 5:03:49
  Speaker 1: it all over, easily conjectured that the owner could not
• 5:03:53
  Speaker 1: be far off. Four of them, well armed, searched every
• 5:03:58
  Speaker 1: cranny and lurking hole, till at last they found me
• 5:04:02
  Speaker 1: flat on my face behind the stone. They gazed awhile
• 5:04:07
  Speaker 1: in admiration at my strange uncouth dress, my coat made
• 5:04:11
  Speaker 1: of skins, my wooden soled shoes, and my furred stockings. Whence, however,
• 5:04:18
  Speaker 1: they concluded I was not a native of the place,
• 5:04:21
  Speaker 1: who all go naked. One of the seamen in Portuguese
• 5:04:26
  Speaker 1: bid me rise and asked who I was. I understood
• 5:04:31
  Speaker 1: that language very well, and, getting upon my feet, said
• 5:04:35
  Speaker 1: I was a poor yahoo, banished from the whinnams, and
• 5:04:38
  Speaker 1: desired they would please to let me depart. They admired
• 5:04:43
  Speaker 1: to hear me answer them in their own tongue, and
• 5:04:46
  Speaker 1: saw by my complexion I must be a European, but
• 5:04:50
  Speaker 1: were at a last to know what I meant by
• 5:04:52
  Speaker 1: yahoos and whinnams, and at the same time fell a
• 5:04:57
  Speaker 1: laughing at my strange tone in speaking, which resembled the
• 5:05:01
  Speaker 1: neighing of a horse. I trembled all the while, betwixt
• 5:05:05
  Speaker 1: fear and hatred. I again desired leave to depart, and
• 5:05:10
  Speaker 1: was gently moving to my canoe, but they laid hold
• 5:05:13
  Speaker 1: of me, desiring to know what country I was of
• 5:05:17
  Speaker 1: whence I came, with many other questions. I told them
• 5:05:22
  Speaker 1: I was born in England whence I came about five
• 5:05:25
  Speaker 1: years ago, and then their country and.
• 5:05:28
  Speaker 2: Hours were at peace.
• 5:05:30
  Speaker 1: I therefore hoped they would not treat me as an enemy,
• 5:05:33
  Speaker 1: since I meant them no harm, but was a poor
• 5:05:36
  Speaker 1: yahoo seeking some desolate place where to pass the remainder
• 5:05:40
  Speaker 1: of his unfortunate life. When they began to talk, I
• 5:05:45
  Speaker 1: thought I never heard or saw anything more unnatural, for
• 5:05:50
  Speaker 1: it appeared to me as monstrous as of a dog
• 5:05:52
  Speaker 1: or a cow should speak in England, or a yahoo
• 5:05:55
  Speaker 1: in whinnham Land. The honest Portuguese were equally amazed at
• 5:06:00
  Speaker 1: my strange dress and the odd manner of delivering my words, which, however,
• 5:06:05
  Speaker 1: they understood very well. They spoke to me with great
• 5:06:09
  Speaker 1: humanity and said they were sure the captain would carry
• 5:06:14
  Speaker 1: me gratis to Lisbon, whence they might return to my
• 5:06:17
  Speaker 1: own country. That two of the seamen would go back
• 5:06:20
  Speaker 1: to the ship, inform the captain of what they had seen,
• 5:06:24
  Speaker 1: and receive his orders. In the meantime, unless I would
• 5:06:28
  Speaker 1: give my solemn oath not to fly, they would secure
• 5:06:31
  Speaker 1: me by force. I thought it best to comply with
• 5:06:36
  Speaker 1: their proposal. They were very curious to know my story,
• 5:06:40
  Speaker 1: but I gave them very little satisfaction, and they all
• 5:06:43
  Speaker 1: conjectured that my misfortunes had impaired my reason. In two hours,
• 5:06:49
  Speaker 1: the boat, which was laden with vessels of water, returned,
• 5:06:52
  Speaker 1: with the captain's command to fetch me on board. I
• 5:06:56
  Speaker 1: fell on my knees to preserve my liberty. But all
• 5:06:59
  Speaker 1: was in vain, and the men, having tied me with cords,
• 5:07:03
  Speaker 1: heed me into the boat. Whence I was taken into
• 5:07:06
  Speaker 1: the ship, and thence into the captain's cabin. His name
• 5:07:12
  Speaker 1: was Pedro de Mendez. He was a very courteous and
• 5:07:15
  Speaker 1: generous person. He entreated me to give some account of myself,
• 5:07:20
  Speaker 1: and desired to know what I would eat or drink.
• 5:07:23
  Speaker 1: Said I should be used as well as himself, and
• 5:07:27
  Speaker 1: spoke so many obliging things that I wondered to find
• 5:07:31
  Speaker 1: such civilities from a yahoo. However, I remained silent and sullen.
• 5:07:38
  Speaker 1: I was ready to faint at the very smell of
• 5:07:40
  Speaker 1: him and his men. At last, I desired something to
• 5:07:44
  Speaker 1: eat out of my own canoe, but he ordered me
• 5:07:47
  Speaker 1: a chicken and some excellent wine, and then directed I
• 5:07:51
  Speaker 1: should be put to bed in a very clean cabin.
• 5:07:56
  Speaker 1: I would not undress myself, but lay on the bedclothes,
• 5:07:59
  Speaker 1: and half an hour stole out when I thought the
• 5:08:02
  Speaker 1: crew was at dinner, and get into the side of
• 5:08:05
  Speaker 1: the ship. Was going to leap into the sea and
• 5:08:07
  Speaker 1: swim for my life, rather than continue among the yahoos.
• 5:08:13
  Speaker 1: But one of the seamen prevented me, and, having informed
• 5:08:16
  Speaker 1: the captain, I was chained to my cabin. After dinner,
• 5:08:21
  Speaker 1: Don Pedro came to me and desired to know my
• 5:08:24
  Speaker 1: reason for so desperate an attempt. Assured me he only
• 5:08:30
  Speaker 1: meant to do me all the service he was able,
• 5:08:33
  Speaker 1: and spoke so very movingly that at last I descended
• 5:08:37
  Speaker 1: to treat him like an animal which had some little
• 5:08:39
  Speaker 1: portion of reason. I gave him a very short relation
• 5:08:43
  Speaker 1: of my voyage, of the conspiracy against me by my
• 5:08:46
  Speaker 1: own men, of the country where they set me on shore,
• 5:08:50
  Speaker 1: and my five years of residence there, all which he
• 5:08:54
  Speaker 1: looked upon as if it were a dream or a vision.
• 5:08:57
  Speaker 1: Whereat I took great offense, for I had quite forgot
• 5:09:01
  Speaker 1: the faculty of lying so peculiar to yahoos in all
• 5:09:05
  Speaker 1: the countries where they preside, and consequently their disposition of
• 5:09:10
  Speaker 1: suspecting truth in others of their own species. I asked
• 5:09:15
  Speaker 1: him whether it were the custom in his country to
• 5:09:18
  Speaker 1: say the thing which was not. I assured him I
• 5:09:22
  Speaker 1: had almost forgot what he meant by falsehood, and if
• 5:09:25
  Speaker 1: I had lived a thousand years in whinnham Land, I
• 5:09:28
  Speaker 1: should never have heard a lie from the meanest servant
• 5:09:31
  Speaker 1: that I was altogether indifferent whether he believed me or not.
• 5:09:35
  Speaker 1: But however, in return for his favors, I would give
• 5:09:39
  Speaker 1: so much allowance to the corruption of his nature as
• 5:09:42
  Speaker 1: to answer any objection he would please to make, and
• 5:09:45
  Speaker 1: then he might easily discover the truth. The captain, a
• 5:09:51
  Speaker 1: wise man, after many endeavors to catch me tripping in
• 5:09:54
  Speaker 1: some part of my story, at last began to have
• 5:09:57
  Speaker 1: a better opinion of my veracity. But he added that
• 5:10:03
  Speaker 1: since I professed so inviolable an attachment to truth, I
• 5:10:07
  Speaker 1: must give him my word an honor to bear him
• 5:10:09
  Speaker 1: company in this voyage without attempting anything against my life
• 5:10:14
  Speaker 1: or else he would continue me as a prisoner. To
• 5:10:16
  Speaker 1: we arrived at Lisbon. I gave him the promise he required,
• 5:10:21
  Speaker 1: but at the same time protested that I would suffer
• 5:10:25
  Speaker 1: the greatest hardships rather than return to live among the Yahoos.
• 5:10:30
  Speaker 1: Our voyage passed without any considerable accident. In gratitude to
• 5:10:35
  Speaker 1: the captain, I sometimes sat with him in his earnest request,
• 5:10:39
  Speaker 1: and strove to conceal my antipathy against humankind, although it
• 5:10:43
  Speaker 1: often broke out, which he suffered to pass without observation,
• 5:10:49
  Speaker 1: but the greatest part of the day had confined myself
• 5:10:51
  Speaker 1: to my cabin to avoid seeing any of the crew.
• 5:10:56
  Speaker 1: The captain had often entreated me to strip myself of
• 5:10:59
  Speaker 1: my savage dress and offered to lend me the best
• 5:11:02
  Speaker 1: suit of clothes he had. This I would not be
• 5:11:05
  Speaker 1: prevailed on to accept a boring to cover myself with
• 5:11:09
  Speaker 1: anything that had been on the back of a yahoo.
• 5:11:13
  Speaker 1: I only desired he would lend me two clean shirts, which,
• 5:11:17
  Speaker 1: having been washed since he wore them, I believed would
• 5:11:20
  Speaker 1: not so much defile me. These I changed every second
• 5:11:25
  Speaker 1: day and washed them myself. We arrived at Lisbon November fifth,
• 5:11:31
  Speaker 1: seventeen fifteen. At our landing, the captain forced me to
• 5:11:36
  Speaker 1: cover myself with his cloak to prevent the rabble from
• 5:11:39
  Speaker 1: crowding about me. I was conveyed to his own house,
• 5:11:44
  Speaker 1: and at my earnest request, he led me up to
• 5:11:46
  Speaker 1: the highest room backwards. I conjured him to conceal from
• 5:11:52
  Speaker 1: all persons what I had told him of the Whinnhams,
• 5:11:55
  Speaker 1: because the least hint of such a story would not
• 5:11:58
  Speaker 1: only draw numbers of people to say see me, but
• 5:12:01
  Speaker 1: probably put me in danger of being imprisoned. Or burnt
• 5:12:04
  Speaker 1: by the inquisition. The captain persuaded me to accept a
• 5:12:08
  Speaker 1: suit of clothes newly made, but I would not suffer
• 5:12:12
  Speaker 1: the tailor to take my measure. However, John Pedro, being
• 5:12:16
  Speaker 1: almost of my size, they fitted me well enough. He
• 5:12:21
  Speaker 1: accouted me with other necessaries or new which I aired
• 5:12:25
  Speaker 1: for twenty four hours before I would use them. The
• 5:12:28
  Speaker 1: captain had no wife, nor above three servants, none of
• 5:12:33
  Speaker 1: which were suffered to attend at meals, and his whole
• 5:12:36
  Speaker 1: deportment was so obliging, added to a very good human understanding,
• 5:12:41
  Speaker 1: that I really began to tolerate his company. He gained
• 5:12:46
  Speaker 1: so far upon me that I ventured to look out
• 5:12:49
  Speaker 1: of the back window.
• 5:12:51
  Speaker 2: By degrees.
• 5:12:52
  Speaker 1: I was brought into another room, whence I peeped into
• 5:12:55
  Speaker 1: the street, but drew my head back in affright. In
• 5:12:59
  Speaker 1: a week time he seduced me down to the door.
• 5:13:02
  Speaker 1: I found my terror gradually lessened, but my hatred and
• 5:13:06
  Speaker 1: contempt seemed to increase.
• 5:13:09
  Speaker 2: I was at last bold.
• 5:13:11
  Speaker 1: Enough to walk the street in his company, but kept
• 5:13:14
  Speaker 1: my nose well stopped with rue or sometimes of a tobacco.
• 5:13:18
  Speaker 1: In ten days, Don Pedro, to whom I had given
• 5:13:22
  Speaker 1: some account of my domestic affairs put it upon me,
• 5:13:26
  Speaker 1: as a matter of honor and conscience, that I ought
• 5:13:29
  Speaker 1: to return to my native country and live at home
• 5:13:32
  Speaker 1: with my wife and children. He told me there was
• 5:13:37
  Speaker 1: an English ship in the port, just ready to sail,
• 5:13:40
  Speaker 1: and he would furnish me with all things necessary. It
• 5:13:44
  Speaker 1: would be tedious to repeat his arguments and my contradictions.
• 5:13:49
  Speaker 1: He said, it was altogether impossible to find such a
• 5:13:52
  Speaker 1: solitary island as I desired to live in, But I
• 5:13:56
  Speaker 1: might command in my own house and pass my time
• 5:13:59
  Speaker 1: in a manner as loose as I pleased. I complied
• 5:14:03
  Speaker 1: at last, finding I could not do better. I left
• 5:14:07
  Speaker 1: Lisbon the twenty fourth day of November in an English merchantman.
• 5:14:11
  Speaker 1: But who was the Master? I never inquired. Don Pedro
• 5:14:17
  Speaker 1: accompanied me to the ship and lent me twenty pounds.
• 5:14:20
  Speaker 1: He took kind leave of me and embraced me at
• 5:14:23
  Speaker 1: a parting which I bore as well as I could.
• 5:14:28
  Speaker 1: During this last voyage I had no commerce with the
• 5:14:30
  Speaker 1: Master or any of his men, but, pretending I was sick,
• 5:14:34
  Speaker 1: kept clothes in my cabin. On the fifth of December
• 5:14:39
  Speaker 1: seventeen fifteen, we cast Anchor in the Downs about nine
• 5:14:43
  Speaker 1: in the morning, and at three in the afternoon I
• 5:14:47
  Speaker 1: got saved to my house at Rotherheath. My wife and
• 5:14:51
  Speaker 1: family received me with great surprise and joy, because they
• 5:14:55
  Speaker 1: concluded me certainly dead. But I must freely con The
• 5:15:01
  Speaker 1: sight of them filled me only with hatred, disgust, and contempt,
• 5:15:05
  Speaker 1: and the more by reflecting on the near alliance.
• 5:15:07
  Speaker 2: I had to them.
• 5:15:10
  Speaker 1: For although since my unfortunate exile from the Wynham country,
• 5:15:14
  Speaker 1: I had compelled myself to tolerate the site of yahoos
• 5:15:17
  Speaker 1: and to converse with Don Pedro de Mendez, yet my
• 5:15:21
  Speaker 1: memory and imagination were perpetually filled with the virtues and
• 5:15:26
  Speaker 1: ideas of those exalted unhems. And when I began to
• 5:15:31
  Speaker 1: consider that by copulating with one of the Yahoo species,
• 5:15:36
  Speaker 1: I had become a parent of more, it struck me
• 5:15:39
  Speaker 1: with the utmost shame, confusion, and horror. As soon as
• 5:15:44
  Speaker 1: I entered the house, my wife took me in her
• 5:15:46
  Speaker 1: arms and kissed me, at which, having not been used
• 5:15:50
  Speaker 1: to the touch of that odious animal for so many years,
• 5:15:54
  Speaker 1: I fell into a swoon for almost an hour. At
• 5:15:58
  Speaker 1: the time I am writing, it is five years since
• 5:16:01
  Speaker 1: my last return to England. During the first year I
• 5:16:04
  Speaker 1: could not endure my wife or children in my presence.
• 5:16:08
  Speaker 1: The very smell of them was intolerable. Much less could
• 5:16:11
  Speaker 1: I suffer them to eat in the same room. To
• 5:16:15
  Speaker 1: this hour, they dare not presume to touch my bread
• 5:16:18
  Speaker 1: or drink out of the same cup. Neither was I
• 5:16:21
  Speaker 1: ever able to let one of them take me by
• 5:16:23
  Speaker 1: the hand. The first money I laid out was to
• 5:16:27
  Speaker 1: buy two young stone horses, which I keep in a
• 5:16:30
  Speaker 1: good stable, and next to them. The groom is my
• 5:16:34
  Speaker 1: greatest favorite, for I feel my spirits revived by the
• 5:16:37
  Speaker 1: smell he contracts in the stables. My horses understand me
• 5:16:42
  Speaker 1: tolerably well. I converse with them at least four hours
• 5:16:46
  Speaker 1: every day. They are strange as to bridle or saddle.
• 5:16:50
  Speaker 2: They live in great.
• 5:16:51
  Speaker 1: Amity with me and friendship to each other. And apart
• 5:16:55
  Speaker 1: four Chapter eleven, Chapter twelve, the authors veracity, his design
• 5:17:02
  Speaker 1: in publishing this work, his censure of those travelers who
• 5:17:05
  Speaker 1: swear from the truth. The author clears himself from any
• 5:17:09
  Speaker 1: sinister ends in writing an objection answered the method of
• 5:17:13
  Speaker 1: planting colonies his native country commended. The right of the
• 5:17:18
  Speaker 1: crown to those countries described by the author is justified.
• 5:17:22
  Speaker 1: The difficulty of conquering them. The author takes his last
• 5:17:26
  Speaker 1: leave of the reader, proposes his manner of living for
• 5:17:29
  Speaker 1: the future, gives good advice, and concludes, thus, gentle reader,
• 5:17:36
  Speaker 1: I have given THEE a faithful history of my travels
• 5:17:39
  Speaker 1: for sixteen years and above seven months, wherein I have
• 5:17:43
  Speaker 1: not been so studious of ornament as of truth. I could, perhaps,
• 5:17:48
  Speaker 1: like others, have astonished THEE with strange and probable tales,
• 5:17:53
  Speaker 1: but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact
• 5:17:56
  Speaker 1: in the simplest manner and style, because my prinvincible design
• 5:18:00
  Speaker 1: was to inform and not to amuse THEE. It is
• 5:18:05
  Speaker 1: easy for us, who travel into remote countries which are
• 5:18:09
  Speaker 1: seldom visited by Englishmen or other Europeans, to form descriptions
• 5:18:13
  Speaker 1: of wonderful animals, both at sea and land, Whereas a
• 5:18:18
  Speaker 1: traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and
• 5:18:21
  Speaker 1: better and to improve their minds by the bad as
• 5:18:24
  Speaker 1: well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places,
• 5:18:30
  Speaker 1: I could heartily wish a law was enacted that every traveler,
• 5:18:34
  Speaker 1: before he were permitted to publish his voyages, should be
• 5:18:37
  Speaker 1: obliged to make oath before the Lord High Chancellor that
• 5:18:41
  Speaker 1: all he intended to print was absolute truth, to the
• 5:18:44
  Speaker 1: best of his knowledge, For then the world would no
• 5:18:47
  Speaker 1: longer be deceived as it usually is. While some writers,
• 5:18:51
  Speaker 1: to make their works pass the better upon the public,
• 5:18:54
  Speaker 1: impose the grossest falsities on the unwary reader. I have
• 5:18:59
  Speaker 1: peru used several books of travel with great delight in
• 5:19:02
  Speaker 1: my younger days, but having since gone over most parts
• 5:19:06
  Speaker 1: of the globe and been able to contradict many fabulous
• 5:19:10
  Speaker 1: accounts from my own observation, it has given me a
• 5:19:13
  Speaker 1: great disgust against this part of reading, and some indignation
• 5:19:17
  Speaker 1: to see the credulity of mankind so imprudently abused. Therefore,
• 5:19:23
  Speaker 1: since my acquaintance were pleased to think my poor endeavors
• 5:19:26
  Speaker 1: might not be unacceptable to my country, I imposed on
• 5:19:30
  Speaker 1: myself as a maxim never to be swerved from that
• 5:19:33
  Speaker 1: I would strictly adhere to truth. Neither, indeed, can I
• 5:19:38
  Speaker 1: be ever under the least temptation to vary from it.
• 5:19:41
  Speaker 1: While I retain in my mind the lectures and examples
• 5:19:44
  Speaker 1: of my most noble master and the other illustrious whinnhums
• 5:19:49
  Speaker 1: of whom I had so long the honor to be
• 5:19:51
  Speaker 1: their humble hearer. Next see miss o'rum fortuna sinnonum fornixit
• 5:19:58
  Speaker 1: varanum etiam mendac qui improba finget.
• 5:20:03
  Speaker 2: I know very.
• 5:20:04
  Speaker 1: Well how little reputation is to be got by writings
• 5:20:07
  Speaker 1: which require neither genius, nor learning, nor indeed any other
• 5:20:11
  Speaker 1: talent except a good memory or an exact journal. I
• 5:20:16
  Speaker 1: know likewise that writers of travels, like dictionary makers, are
• 5:20:20
  Speaker 1: sunk into oblivion by the weight and bulk of those
• 5:20:23
  Speaker 1: who came last and therefore lie uppermost. And it is
• 5:20:29
  Speaker 1: highly probable that such travelers who shall hereafter visit the
• 5:20:33
  Speaker 1: countries described in this work of mine, may, by detecting
• 5:20:37
  Speaker 1: my errors, if there be any, and adding many new
• 5:20:40
  Speaker 1: discoveries of their own, jostle me out of vogue and
• 5:20:44
  Speaker 1: stand in my place. Make in the world forget that
• 5:20:46
  Speaker 1: ever I was an author. This indeed would be too
• 5:20:51
  Speaker 1: great a modification if I wrote for fame, but my
• 5:20:55
  Speaker 1: sole intention was the public good. I cannot be altogether disappointed,
• 5:21:01
  Speaker 1: for who can read of the virtues I have mentioned
• 5:21:03
  Speaker 1: in the Glorious Whinnhams without being ashamed of his own
• 5:21:06
  Speaker 1: vices when he considers himself as the reasoning governing animal
• 5:21:10
  Speaker 1: of his country. I shall say nothing of those remote
• 5:21:14
  Speaker 1: nations where yahoos preside, among which the least corrupted are
• 5:21:19
  Speaker 1: the brobding Nangians, whose wise maxim's immorality and government it
• 5:21:24
  Speaker 1: would be our happiness to observe. But I forbear discanting further,
• 5:21:29
  Speaker 1: and rather leave the judicious reader to his own remarks
• 5:21:32
  Speaker 1: and application. I am not a little pleased that this
• 5:21:37
  Speaker 1: work of mine can possibly meet with no sensuous For
• 5:21:41
  Speaker 1: what objections can be made against a writer who relates
• 5:21:44
  Speaker 1: only plain facts that happened in such distant countries where
• 5:21:48
  Speaker 1: we have not the least interest with respect either to
• 5:21:51
  Speaker 1: trade or negotiations. I have carefully avoided every fault with
• 5:21:57
  Speaker 1: which common writers of travels are often and too justly charged. Besides,
• 5:22:03
  Speaker 1: I met on not the least with any party, but
• 5:22:06
  Speaker 1: write without passion, prejudice, or ill will against any man
• 5:22:10
  Speaker 1: or number of men whatsoever. I write for the noblest
• 5:22:15
  Speaker 1: end to inform and instruct mankind, over whom I may,
• 5:22:20
  Speaker 1: without breach of modesty, pretend to some superiority from the
• 5:22:24
  Speaker 1: advantages I received from conversing so long among the most
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  Speaker 1: accomplished winnhems. I write without any view to profit or praise.
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  Speaker 1: I never suffer a word to pass that may look
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  Speaker 1: like reflection, or possibly give the least offense, even to
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  Speaker 1: those who are most ready to take it, so that
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  Speaker 1: I hope I may with justice pronounce myself an author
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  Speaker 1: perfectly blameeness against whom the tribes of answerers, considerers, observers, reflectors, detectors,
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  Speaker 1: remarkers will never be able to find matter for exercising
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  Speaker 1: their talsalans. I confess it was whispered to me that
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  Speaker 1: I was bound in duty as a subject of England
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  Speaker 1: to have given a memorial to a Secretary of State
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  Speaker 1: at my first coming over, because whatever lands are discovered
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  Speaker 1: by a subject belong to the crown. But I doubt
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  Speaker 1: whether our conquests in the countries I treat of would
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  Speaker 1: be as easy of those of Ferdinando Cortes Over the
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  Speaker 1: naked Americans. The Liliputians, I think, are hardly worth the
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  Speaker 1: charge of a fleet and army to reduce them. And
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  Speaker 1: I question whether it might be prudent or safe to
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  Speaker 1: attempt the Brobyn Nagians, or whether an English army would
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  Speaker 1: be much at their ease with the flying island over
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  Speaker 1: their heads. The Whinnams indeed appear not to be so
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  Speaker 1: well prepared for war, a science to which they are
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  Speaker 1: perfect strangers, and especially against missive weapons. However, supposing myself
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  Speaker 1: be a minister of state, I could never give my
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  Speaker 1: advice for invading them. Their prudence, unanimity, unacquaintedness with fear,
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  Speaker 1: and their love for their country would amply supply all.
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  Speaker 2: Defects in the military art.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine twenty thousand of them breaking into the midst of
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  Speaker 1: a European army, confound in the ranks, overturning the carriages,
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  Speaker 1: battering the warrior's faces into mumi by terrible yerks from
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  Speaker 1: their hinder foots. For they would well deserve the character
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  Speaker 1: given to Augustus recalcitrat undaque tutus. But instead of proposals
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  Speaker 1: for conquering that magnanimous nation, I rather wish they were
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  Speaker 1: in a capacity or disposition to send a sufficient number
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  Speaker 1: of their inhabitants for civilizing Europe by teaching us the
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  Speaker 1: first principles of honour, justice, truth, temperance, public spirit, fortitude,
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  Speaker 1: chastity of friendship, benevolence and fidelity, the names of all
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  Speaker 1: which virtues are still retained among us in most languages
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  Speaker 1: and are to be met within modern as well as
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  Speaker 1: ancient authors, which I am able to assert from my
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  Speaker 1: own small reading. But I had another reason which made
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  Speaker 1: me less forward to enlarge His Majesty's dominions by my discoveries.
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  Speaker 1: To say the truth, I had conceived a few scruples
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  Speaker 1: with relation to the distributive justice of princes upon those occasions.
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  Speaker 1: For instance, a crew of pirates are driven by a storm.
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  Speaker 2: They know not whither.
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  Speaker 1: At length, the boy discovers lad from the topmast. They
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  Speaker 1: go on shore to rob and plunder. They see a
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  Speaker 1: harmless people are entertained with kindness. They give the country
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  Speaker 1: a new name. They take formal possession of it for
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  Speaker 1: their king. They set up a rotten plank or a
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  Speaker 1: stone for a memorial. They murder two or three dozen
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  Speaker 1: of the natives, bring away a couple more by force
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  Speaker 1: for a sample, return home and get to their pardon.
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  Speaker 1: Here commences a new dominion, acquired with a title by
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  Speaker 1: divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity. The
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  Speaker 1: natives driven out or destroyed, their princes tortured to discover
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  Speaker 1: their gold. A free license given to all acts of
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  Speaker 1: inhumanity and lust. The earth reeking with the blood of
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  Speaker 1: its inhabitants, and this excretable crew of butchers employed in
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  Speaker 1: so pious an expedition, is a modern colony sent to
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  Speaker 1: convert and civilize an idolterous and barbarious people. But this description,
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  Speaker 1: I confess, does by no means affect the British nation,
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  Speaker 1: who may be an example to the whole world for
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  Speaker 1: their wisdom, care and justice, implanting colonies, their liberal endowments
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  Speaker 1: for the advancement of religion and learning, their choice of
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  Speaker 1: devout and able pastors to propagate Christianity, their cautions stuck
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  Speaker 1: in their provinces with people of sober lives, and conversations
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  Speaker 1: from this the Mother Kingdom, their strict regard to the
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  Speaker 1: distribution of justice, in supplying the civil administration through all
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  Speaker 1: their colonies with officers of the greatest abilities, aut as
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  Speaker 1: strange as to corruption, and to crown it all by
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  Speaker 1: sending the most vigilant and virtuous governess, who have no
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  Speaker 1: other views than the happiness of the people over whom
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  Speaker 1: they preside and the honor of the King their master.
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  Speaker 2: But as those.
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  Speaker 1: Countries which I have described do not appear to have
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  Speaker 1: any desire of being conquered and enslaved, murdered, or driven
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  Speaker 1: out by colonies, nor abound either in gold, silver, sugar,
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  Speaker 1: or tobacco. I did humbly conceive they were, by no
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  Speaker 1: means proper objects of our zeal, our valor, or our interest. However,
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  Speaker 1: if those whom it more concerns think fit to be
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  Speaker 1: of another opinion, I am ready to dispose when I
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  Speaker 1: shall be lawfully called that no European did ever visit
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  Speaker 1: those countries before me. I mean, if the inhabitants ought
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  Speaker 1: to be believed. Unless a dispute may arise concerning the
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  Speaker 1: two yahoos said to have been seen many years ago
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  Speaker 1: upon a mountain winnham Land. But as to the formality
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  Speaker 1: of taking possession of my Sovereign's name, it never once
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  Speaker 1: came into my thoughts, and if it had yet, as
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  Speaker 1: my affairs then stood, I should, perhaps, in point of
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  Speaker 1: prudence and self preservation, have put it off to a
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  Speaker 1: better opportunity. Having thus answered the only objection that can
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  Speaker 1: ever be raised against me as a traveler, I here
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  Speaker 1: take a final leave of all my courteous readers, and
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  Speaker 1: return to enjoy my own speculations and my little garden
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  Speaker 1: at Redriff, to apply those excellent lessons of virtue which
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  Speaker 1: I learned among the Whinnams, to instruct the yahoos of
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  Speaker 1: my own family, as far as I shall find them
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  Speaker 1: dosable animals, to behold my figure often in a glass,
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  Speaker 1: and thus, if possible, habituate myself by time, to tolerate
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  Speaker 1: the sight of a human creature, to lament the brutality
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  Speaker 1: to Hinnhems in my own country, but always treat their
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  Speaker 1: persons with respect, for the sake of my noble master,
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  Speaker 1: his family, his friends, and the whole Winnhum race, whom
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  Speaker 1: these of ours have the honor to resemble in all
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  Speaker 1: their lineaments. However their intellectuals come to degenerate. I began
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  Speaker 1: last week to permit my wife to sit at dinner
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  Speaker 1: with me, at the farthest end of a long table,
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  Speaker 1: and to answer, but with the utmost brevity, the few
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  Speaker 1: questions I asked her, Yet the smell of a yahoo
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  Speaker 1: continuing very offensive. I always keep my nose well stopped
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  Speaker 1: with rue, lavender or tobacco lease. And although it be
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  Speaker 1: hard for a man late in life to remove old habits,
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  Speaker 1: I am not altogether out of hopes in some time
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  Speaker 1: to suffer a neighbor, yare who in my company without
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  Speaker 1: the apprehensions I am yet under of his dear teeth
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  Speaker 1: or his clause. My reconcilement to the arhu kind in
• 5:30:05
  Speaker 1: general might not be so difficult, if they would be
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  Speaker 1: content with those vices and follies only which nature has
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  Speaker 1: entitled them to. I am not in the least provoked
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  Speaker 1: at the sight of a lawyer, a pickpocket, a colonel,
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  Speaker 1: a fool, a lord, a gainster, a politician, a hormonger,
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  Speaker 1: a physician, an evidence as a born an attorney, a traitor.
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  Speaker 2: Or the like.
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  Speaker 1: This is all according to the due course of things.
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  Speaker 1: But when I behold a lump of deformity and disease,
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  Speaker 1: both in body and mind, smitten with pride, it immediately
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  Speaker 1: breaks all the measure of my patience. Neither shall I
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  Speaker 1: ever be able to comprehend how such an animal and
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  Speaker 1: such a vice could tally together. The wise and virtuous Wynhams,
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  Speaker 1: who are bound in all excellences that can adorn a
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  Speaker 1: rational creature, have no name for this vice in their language,
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  Speaker 1: which has no terms to express anything that is evil,
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  Speaker 1: except those whereby they describe the detestable qualities of their ya,
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  Speaker 1: whose among which they were not able to distinguish this
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  Speaker 1: of pride for want of thoroughly understanding human nature as
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  Speaker 1: it shows itself in other countries where that animal presides.
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  Speaker 1: But I, who had more experience, could plainly observe some
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  Speaker 1: rudiments of it among the wild ya whos. But the
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  Speaker 1: Huinnums who live under the government of reason are no
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  Speaker 1: more proud of the good qualities they possess than I
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  Speaker 1: should be, for not wanting a leg or an arm,
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  Speaker 1: which no man in his wits would boast of, although
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  Speaker 1: he must be miserable without them. I dwell the longer
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  Speaker 1: upon this subject from the desire I have to make
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  Speaker 1: the society of an English ya, who, by any means
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  Speaker 1: not insupportable. And therefore I hear entreat that those who
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  Speaker 1: have any tincature of this absurd vice, that they will
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  Speaker 1: not presumed to come in my sight. And apart four
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twelve and of Garliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift