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Gulliver's Travels Part 2 - Jonathan Swift · Classic Children's Stories Collection

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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: some way or other help to deliver me from the
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  Speaker 1: desolate place and condition I was in. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, the reader can hardly concede my astonishment to
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  Speaker 1: behold an island in the air, inhabited by men who
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  Speaker 1: were able, as it should seem, to raise or sink,
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  Speaker 1: or put it into progressive motion as they pleased. But
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  Speaker 1: not being at that time in a disposition to philosophize
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  Speaker 1: upon this phenomenon, I rather chose to observe what course
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  Speaker 1: the island would take, because it seemed for a while
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  Speaker 1: to stand still, Yet soon after it advanced nearer, and
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  Speaker 1: I could see the sides of it encompassed with several
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  Speaker 1: gradations of galleries and stairs at certain intervals to descend
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  Speaker 1: 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.
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  Speaker 2: Others looking on.
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  Speaker 1: I waved my cap, for my hat was long since
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  Speaker 1: worn out, and my handkerchief towards the island, and upon
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  Speaker 1: its nearer approach, I called and shouted with the utmost
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  Speaker 1: strength of my voice, and then, looking circumspectully, I beheld
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  Speaker 1: a crowd gather to that side which was most in
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  Speaker 1: my view. I found, by their pointing towards me and
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  Speaker 1: to each other, that they plainly discovered me, although they
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  Speaker 1: made no return to my shouting. But I could see
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  Speaker 1: four or five men running in great haste up the
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  Speaker 1: stairs to the top of the island, who then disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: I happened rightly to conjecture that these were sent for
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  Speaker 1: orders to some person in authority. Upon this occasion, the
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  Speaker 1: number of people increased, and in less than half an
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  Speaker 1: hour the island was moved and raised in such a
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  Speaker 1: manner that the lowest gallery appeared in a parallel of
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  Speaker 1: less than one hundred yards distance from the height of
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  Speaker 1: where I stood. I then put myself in the most
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  Speaker 1: supplicating posture, and spoke in the humblest accent, but received
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  Speaker 1: no answer. Those who stood nearest over against me seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be persons of distinction, as I supposed by their habit.
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  Speaker 1: They conferred earnestly with each other, looking often upon me.
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  Speaker 1: At length, one of them called out in a clear, polite,
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  Speaker 1: smooth dialect, not unlike in sound the Italian, and therefore
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  Speaker 1: I returned an answer in that language, hoping at least
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  Speaker 1: that the cadence might be more agreeable to his ears.
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  Speaker 1: Although neither of us understood the other, yet my meaning
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  Speaker 1: was easily known, for the people saw the distress I
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  Speaker 1: was in. They made signs for me to come down
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  Speaker 1: from the rock and go towards the shore, which I
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  Speaker 1: accordingly did, and the flying island being raised to a
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  Speaker 1: convenient height the verge directly over me. A chain was
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  Speaker 1: let down from the lowest gallery, with a seat fastened
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  Speaker 1: to the bottom, to which I fixed myself and was
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  Speaker 1: drawn up by pulleys. End of Part three, Chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two, The Humors and Dispositions of the Leaputians described
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  Speaker 1: an account of their learning of the king, and discourt
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  Speaker 1: the author's reception there the inhabitants subject to fear and
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  Speaker 1: disquietudes an account of the women. At my alighting. I
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  Speaker 1: was surrounded with the crowd of people, but those who
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  Speaker 1: stood nearest seemed to be of better quality. They beheld
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  Speaker 1: me with all the marks and circumstances of wonder. Neither,
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  Speaker 1: indeed was I much in their debt, having never till
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  Speaker 1: then seen a race of mortals so singular in their shapes, habits,
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  Speaker 1: and countenances. Their heads were all reclined either to the
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  Speaker 1: right or the left, one of their eyes turned inward
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  Speaker 1: and the other directly up to the zenith. Their outward
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  Speaker 1: garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars,
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  Speaker 1: interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords,
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  Speaker 1: and many other musical instruments Unknown to us in Europe,
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  Speaker 1: I observed here and there many in the habit of
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  Speaker 1: servants with a brown bladder fastened like a flail to
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  Speaker 1: the 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.
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  Speaker 2: The speaker addresses himself.
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  Speaker 1: This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master
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  Speaker 1: in his walks, and upon occasion, to give him a
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  Speaker 1: soft flap on his eyes, because he is always so
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  Speaker 1: wrapped up in cogitation that he is in manifest danger
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  Speaker 1: of falling down every precipice and bouncing his head against
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  Speaker 1: every post, and in the streets of jostling others, or
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  Speaker 1: being jostled himself into the kennel. It was necessary to
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  Speaker 1: give the reader this information, without which he would be
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  Speaker 1: at the same loss with me to understand the proceedings
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  Speaker 1: of these people as they conducted me upstairs to the
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  Speaker 1: top of the island, and from thence to the royal Palace.
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  Speaker 1: While we were ascending, they forgot several times what they
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  Speaker 1: were about, and left me to myself till their memories
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  Speaker 1: were again roused by their flappers, for they appeared altogether
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  Speaker 1: unmoved by the side of my foreign habit and countenance,
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  Speaker 1: and by the shouts of the vulgar, whose thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: 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 who was then deep in a problem,
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  Speaker 1: and we attended at least an hour before he could
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  Speaker 1: solve it. There stood by him on each side a
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  Speaker 1: young page with flaps in their hands, and when they
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  Speaker 1: saw he was at leisure, one of them gently struck
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  Speaker 1: his mouth, and the other his right ear, at which
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  Speaker 1: he started like one awaked on the sudden, and looking
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  Speaker 1: towards me and the company I was in recollect the
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  Speaker 1: occasion of our coming, whereof he had been informed before
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  Speaker 1: he spoke some words, whereupon immediately a young man with
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  Speaker 1: a flap came up to my side and flapped me
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  Speaker 1: gently on the right ear. But I made signs as
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  Speaker 1: well as I could that I had no occasion for
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  Speaker 1: such an instrument, which, as I afterwards found, gave his
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  Speaker 1: Majesty and the whole court a very mean opinion of
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  Speaker 1: my understanding. The King, as far as I could conjecture,
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  Speaker 1: asked me several questions, and I addressed myself to him
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  Speaker 1: in all the languages I had. When it was found
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  Speaker 1: I could neither understand nor be understood, I was conducted
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  Speaker 1: by his order to an apartment in his palace, this
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  Speaker 1: prince being distinguished above all his predecessors for his hospitality
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  Speaker 1: 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 and 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: sensible or the progressive motion, and the air by the island.
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  Speaker 1: On the second morning, about eleven o'clock, the King himself
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  Speaker 1: in person attended by his nobility, courtiers and officers, having
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  Speaker 1: prepared all their musical instrument, played on them for three
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  Speaker 1: hours without intermission, so that I was quite stunned with
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  Speaker 1: the noise. Neither could I possibly guess the meaning till
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  Speaker 1: my tutor informed me. He said that the people of
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  Speaker 1: their island had their ears adapted to hear the music
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  Speaker 1: of the spheres, which always played at certain periods, and
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  Speaker 1: the court was now prepared to bear their part in
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  Speaker 1: 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.
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  Speaker 2: On these pack.
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  Speaker 1: Threads the people strung their petitions, which mounted up directly
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  Speaker 1: like the scraps of paper fastened by schoolboys. At the
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  Speaker 1: end of the string that holds their kite. Sometimes received
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  Speaker 1: wines and vitals from below, which were drawn up by pulleys.
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  Speaker 1: The knowledge I had in mathematics gave me great assistance
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  Speaker 1: in acquiring their phraseology, which depended much upon that science
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  Speaker 1: and music, and in the latter I was not unskilled.
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  Speaker 1: Their ideas are perpetually conservant in lines and figures. If
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  Speaker 1: they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman
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  Speaker 1: or any other animal, they described it by rhombust circles, parallelograms, ellipses,
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  Speaker 1: and other geometric terns, or by words of art, or
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  Speaker 1: from music. Needless here to repeat, I observed in the
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  Speaker 1: King's kitchen all sorts of mathematical and musical instruments, after
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  Speaker 1: the figures of which they cut up the joints that
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  Speaker 1: were served to his Majesty's table. Their houses are very
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  Speaker 1: ill built, the wall's bevel without one right angle in
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  Speaker 1: any apartment. And this defect arises from the contempt they
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  Speaker 1: bear to practical geometry, which they despise as vulgar and mechanic.
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  Speaker 1: Those instructions they give, being too refined for the intellects
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  Speaker 1: of their workmen, which occasions perpetual mistakes. And although they
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  Speaker 1: are dexterous enough upon a piece of paper in the
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  Speaker 1: management of the rule, the pencil, and the divider, yet
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  Speaker 1: in the common actions and behavior of life, I have
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  Speaker 1: not seen a more clumsy, awkward, and unhandy people, nor
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  Speaker 1: so slow and perplexed in their conceptions upon all other
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  Speaker 1: subjects except those of mathematics and music. They are very
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  Speaker 1: bad reasoners and vehemently given to opposition, unless when they
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  Speaker 1: happen to be of the right opinion, which is seldom
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  Speaker 1: their case. Imagination, fancy and invention, they are wholly strangers to,
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  Speaker 1: nor have any words in their language by which these
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  Speaker 1: ideas can be expressed, the whole compass of their thoughts
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  Speaker 1: and minds being shut up within the twoforementioned sciences. Most
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  Speaker 1: of them, and especially those who deal in the astronomical part,
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  Speaker 1: have great faith in judicial astrology, although they are ashamed
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  Speaker 1: to own it publicly. But what I chiefly admire and
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  Speaker 1: thought altogether unaccountable, was the strong disposition I observed in
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  Speaker 1: them towards news and politics, perpetually inquiring into public affairs
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  Speaker 1: given their judgments and matters of state, and passionately disputing
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  Speaker 1: every inch of a party opinion. I have indeed observed
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  Speaker 1: the same disposition among most of the mathematicians I have
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  Speaker 1: known in Europe, although I could never discover the least
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  Speaker 1: analogy between the two sciences, unless those people suppose that
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  Speaker 1: because the smallest circle has as many degrees as the largest. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: the regulation and management of the world require no more
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  Speaker 1: abilities in the handling and turning of a globe. But
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  Speaker 1: I rather take this quality to spring from a very
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  Speaker 1: common infirmity of human nature, inclining us to be most
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  Speaker 1: curious and conceited in manners where we have least concern,
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  Speaker 1: and from which we are least adapted by study or nature.
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  Speaker 1: These people are under continual disquietudes, never enjoying a minute's
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  Speaker 1: peace of mind, and their disturbances proceed from causes which
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  Speaker 1: very little affect the rest of mortals. Their apprehensions arise
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  Speaker 1: from stace several changes they dread in the celestial bodies.
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  Speaker 1: For instance, that's the Earth, by the continual approaches of
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  Speaker 1: the Sun towards it, must, in course of time be
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  Speaker 1: absorbed or swallowed up. That the face of the Sun
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  Speaker 1: will by degrees be encrusted with its own effluvia and
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  Speaker 1: give no more light to the world. That the Earth
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  Speaker 1: very narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the
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  Speaker 1: last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes.
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  Speaker 1: And that the next, which they have calculated for one
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  Speaker 1: and thirty years hence, will probably destroy us. For if
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  Speaker 1: in its preohelion, it should approach within a certain degree
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  Speaker 1: of the Sun, as by their calculations they have reason
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  Speaker 1: to dread, it will receive a degree of heat ten
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  Speaker 1: thousand times more intense than that of a red hot,
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  Speaker 1: glowing iron, and in its absence from the Sun, carry
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  Speaker 1: a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen miles long,
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  Speaker 1: through which, if the Earth should pass at.
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  Speaker 2: A distance of one hundred miles.
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  Speaker 1: From the nucleus or the main body of the comet,
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  Speaker 1: it must, in its passage be set on fire and
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  Speaker 1: reduced to ashes. That the Sun, daily spending its rays
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  Speaker 1: without any nutriment to supply them, will at last be
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  Speaker 1: wholly consumed and annihilated, which must be attended with the
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  Speaker 1: destruction of this Earth and of all the planets that
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  Speaker 1: receive their light from it. They are so perpetually alarmed
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  Speaker 1: with the apprehensions of these and the like impending dangers,
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  Speaker 1: that they could neither sleep quietly in their beds, nor
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  Speaker 1: have any relish for the common pleasures and amusements of life.
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  Speaker 1: When they meet an acquaintance in the morning, the first
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  Speaker 1: question is about the Sun's health, how he looked at
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  Speaker 1: his setting and rising, and what hopes they have to
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  Speaker 1: avoid the stroke of the approaching comet. This conversation they
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  Speaker 1: are apt to run into with the same temper that
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  Speaker 1: boys discover in delighting to hear terrible stories of spirits
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  Speaker 1: and hoggloblins, which they greedily listen to, and dare not
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  Speaker 1: go to bed for fear. The women of the island
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  Speaker 1: have abundance of vivacity. They contemn their husbands, and are
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  Speaker 1: exceedingly fond of strangers, whereof there is always a considerable
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  Speaker 1: number from the continent below attending at court, either upon
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  Speaker 1: affairs to the several towns and corporations, or their own
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  Speaker 1: particular occasions, but are much despised because they want the
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: same endowments. Among these, the ladies choose their gallants, but
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the vexation is that they act with too much ease
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and security, for the husband is always so wrapt in
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: speculation that the mistress and lover may proceed to the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: greatest familiarities before his face if he be but provided
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: with paper and implements, and without his flapper at his side.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: The wives and daughters lament their confinement to the island,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: although I think it is the most delicious spot of
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: ground in the world. And although they live here in
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the greatest plenty and magnificence, and are allowed to do
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: whatever they please, they long to see the world and
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: take the diversions of the metropolis, which they are not
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: allowed to do without a particular license.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: From the king. And that is not easy to be obtained.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Because the people of quality are found by frequent experience,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: how hard it is to persuade their women to return.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: From below, I was told that a great court lady,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: who had several children, is married to the Prime Minister,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the richest subject in the kingdom, a very graceful person,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: extremely fond of her, and lives in the finest paser
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Elice of the island. Went down to Laggardo on the
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: pretense of health. There hid herself for several months till
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the king sent a warrant to search for her, and
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: she was found in an obscure eating house, all in rags,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: having pawned her clothes to maintain, an old deformed footman
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: who beat her every day and in whose company she
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: was taken much against her will. And although her husband
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: received her with all possible kindness and without the least reproach,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: she soon after contrived to steal down again with all
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: her jewels to the same gallant, and has not been
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: heard of since. This may perhaps pass with the reader
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: rather for a European or English story than for one
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: of a country so remote. But he may please to
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: consider that the caprices of womankind are not limited by
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: any climate or nation, and that they are much more
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: ne uniform than can be easily imagined. In about a
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: month's time, I had made a tolerable proficiency in their language,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: was able to answer most of the King's questions. When
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I had the honor to attend him, His majesty discovered
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: not the least curiosity to inquire into the laws, government, history, religion,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: or manners of the countries where I had been, but
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: confined his questions to the state of mathematics, and received
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the account I gave him with great contempt and indifference,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: though often roused by his flapper on each side. End
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: of Part three, Chapter two, Chapter three a phenomenon solved
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: by modern philosophy and astronomy that a Putian's great improvements
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: in the latter the King's method of suppressing insurrections.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I desired to.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Leave of this prince to see the curiosities of the island,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: which he was graciously pleased to grant, and ordered my
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: tutor to attend me. I chiefly wanted to know to
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: what cause, in art or in nature it owed its
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: several motions, whereof I will now give a philosophical account
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: to the reader. The flying off Floating island is exactly circular,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: its diameters seven thousand, eight hundred thirty seven yards or
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: about four miles and a half, and consequently contains ten
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: thousand acres. It is three hundred yards thick. The bottom
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: or under surface, which appears to those who view it below,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: is one even regular plate of adamant shooting up to
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: the height of about two hundred yards. Above it lie
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the several minerals in their usual order, and over all
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: is a coat of rich mold ten or twelve feet deep.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: The delclivity of the upper surface from the circumference to
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the center is a natural cause why all the jews
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and rains which fall upon the island are conveyed in
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: small rivulets towards the middle, where they are emptied into
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: four large basins, each of about half a mile in
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: circuit and two hundred yards distant from the center. From
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: these basins, the water is continually exhaled by the sun
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: in the daytime, which effectually prevents their overflowing. Besides, as
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: it is in the power of the monarch to raise
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the island above the rain of clouds and vapors, he
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: can prevent the falling of dews and rain whenever he pleases.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: For the highest clouds cannot rise above two miles, as
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: naturalists agree, at least they were never known to do
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: so in that country. At the center of the island
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: there is a chasm about fifty yards in diameter, whence
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the astronomers descend into a large dome, which is thereof
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: called Flandona Gagnol, or the Astronomer's Cave, situated at the
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: depth of one hundred yards beneath the upper surface of
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: the Adamant. In this cave are twenty lamps continually burning, which,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: from the reflection of the adamant, cast a strong light
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: into every part. The place is stored with great variety
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabs, and other astronomical instruments. But
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the greatest curiosity upon which the fate of the island
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: depends is the lodestone of a prodigious size in shape
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: resembling a weaver's shuttle. It is in length six yards
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: and in the thickest part at least three yards over.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: This magnet is sustained by a very strong axle of
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: adamant passing through its middle, upon which it plays and
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: is poised so exactly that the weakest hand can turn it.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: It is hooped round with a hollow cylinder of ac
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: adamant four feet yards in diameter, placed horizontally, and supported
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: by eight adamantin feet each six yards high. In the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: middle of the concave side. There is a groove twelve
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: inches deep in which the extremities of the axle are
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: lodged and turned round as there is occasion. The stone
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: cannot be removed from its place by any force, because
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the hoop and its feet are one continued peace with
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: that body of adamant which constitutes the bottom of the island.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: By means of this lodestone, the island is made to
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: rise and fall, and move from one place to another,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: For with respect to that part of the earth over
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: which the monarch presides, the stone is endured at one
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: side of its side with an attractive power and at
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the other with a repulsive upon place in the MAGNETURECT,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: with its attracting end towards the earth. The island descends.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: But when the repelling extremity points downwards, the island bounces
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: directly upwards. When the position of the stone is oblique,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the motion of the island is too, for in this
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: magnet the forces always act in lines parallel to its direction.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: By this oblique motion, the island is conveyed to different
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: parts of the monarch's dominions. To explain the manner of
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: its progress, let a B represent a line drawn across
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the dominions of Banna Barbie. Let the line CD represent
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the loadstone, of which D be the repelling end and
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: C the attracting end. The island being over capital C.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Let the stone be placed in position CD, with its
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: repelling end downwards. Then the island will be driven upwards
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: obliquely towards capital D. When it has arrived at capital D,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: let the stone be turned upon its axil till the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: attracting end points towards E, and then the island will
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: be carried obliquely towards E. Where if the stone being
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: again turned upon its axle till it stands in the
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: position e F, with its repelling point downwards, the island
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: will rise obliquely towards F, where by directing the attracting
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: end towards G, the island may be carried to G
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: and from G to H. By turning the stone so
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: as to make its repelling extremity to point directly downwards,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and thus by changing the situation of the stone, as
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: often as there is occasion, the island is made to
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: rise and fall by turns in an oblique direction, and
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: by those alternate risings and fallings, the obliquity, being not considerable,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: is conveyed from one part 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 consist,
• 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.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: 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 bal Nababi, arrives
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: at them Ttropolis, 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.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Ear 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 favor,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: often did.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Me the honor of a visit.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Desired to be informed in the affairs of Europe, the
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: laws and customs, the manners and learning of the several
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: countries where I had traveled. He listened to me with
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: great attention, and made very wise observations on all I spoke.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: He had two flappers attending him for state, but never
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: made use of them except at court and in visits
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: of ceremony, and would always command them to withdraw when
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: we were alone together. I entreated this illustrious person to
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: intercede in my behalf with his majesty for leave to depart,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: which he accordingly did, as he was pleased to tell me,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: with great regret, For indeed, he had made me several
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: offers very advantageous, which, however, I refused. With expressions of
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: the highest acknowledgment. On the sixteenth of February, I took
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: leave of his majesty in the court. The King made
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: me a present to the value of about two hundred
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: pounds English, and my protector his kinsman as much more,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: together with a letter of recommendation to a friend of
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: his in Laggodo, the metropolis, the island being then hovering
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: over a mountain about two miles from it, I was
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: let down from the lowest gallery in the same manner
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: I had been taken up. The continent, as far as
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: it is subject to The monarch of the flying island
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: passes under the general name of Bound the Barbie, and
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: the metropolis, as I have said before, is called Laggardo.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: I felt some little satisfaction in finding myself on firm
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: I walked to the city without any concern, being clad
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: like one of the natives, and sufficiently instructed to converse
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: with them. I soon found out the person's house to
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: whom I was recommended, presented my letter from his friend,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: the grandee in the island, and was received with much kindness.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: This great lord, whose name was Minodi, ordered me an
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: apartment in his own house, where I continued during my
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: stay and was entertained in a most hospitable manner. The
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: next morning after my arrival, he took me in his
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: chariot to see the town, which is about half the
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: bigness of London, but the houses very strangely built, and
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: 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
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: as inhabitants, he made no further answer than by telling
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: me that I had not been long enough among them
• 45:23
  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
• 46:28
  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
• 47:04
  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 notice.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Till after supper, when there being no third companion, he
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: told me, with a very melancholy air, that he how died,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: he must throw down his houses in town and country,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: to rebuild them after the present mode, destroy all his
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: plantations and cast others into such a form as modern
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: usage required, and give the same directions to all his tenants,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: unless he would submit to incur the censure of pride, singularity, affectation, ignorance, caprice,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: and perhaps increase His Majesty's displeasure, that the admiration I
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: appeared to be under would cease or diminish. When he
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: had informed me of some particulars which probably I had
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: never heard of at court, the people there being too
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: much taken up in their own speculations to have regard
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: to what passed here below. The sum of his discourse
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: was to this effect that about forty years ago certain
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: persons went up to Laputa, either upon business or diversion,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: and after five months continuance, came back with a very
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: little smattering in mathematics, but full of volatile spirits acquired
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: in that airy region that these persons, upon their return
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: began to dislike the management of everything below, and fell
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: into schemes of putting all arts, sciences, languages, and mechanics
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: upon a new foot. To this end they procured a
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: royal patent for erecting an academy of projectors in Lagado,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: and the humor prevailed so strongly among the people that
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: there is not a town of any consequence in the
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: Kingdom without such an academy. In these colleges, the professors
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: contrive neurals and methods of agriculture and building, and new
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: instruments and new tools for all trades and manufacturers. Whereby
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: as they undertake one man shall do the work of ten.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: A palace may be built in a week of materials
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: so durable as to last forever without repairing. All the
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: fruits of the earth shall come to Medje purity at
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: whatever season we think fit to choose, and increase one
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: hundredfold more than they 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, I should go. He only desired
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: me to observe a ruined building upon the side of
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: a mountain about three miles distant of which he gave
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: me this account. There had been a very convenient mill
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: within half a mile of his house, turned by a
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: current from a large river, and sufficient for his own family,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: as well as a great number of his tenants, that
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: about seven years ago a club of those projectors came
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: to him with proposals to destroy this mill and build
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: another on the side of that mountain, on the long ridge,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: whereof a long canal must be cut for a repository
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: of water to be convey made up by pipes and
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: engines to supply the mill. Because the wind and air
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: upon a height agitated the water and thereby made it
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: fitter for motion, and because the water descending down into
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: clevity would turn the mill with half the current of
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: a river whose course is more upon a level. He
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: said that, being then not very well with the court,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: and pressed by many of his friends, he complied with
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: the proposal, and after employing a hundred men for two years,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: the work miscarried. The projectors went off, laying the blame
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: entirely upon him, railing at him. Ever, since and putting
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: others upon the same experiment with equal assurance of success
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: as well as equal disappointment. In a few days we
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: came back to town, and his Excellency, considering the bad
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: character he had in the academy, would not go with
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: me himself, but recommended me to a friend of his
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: to bear me company.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: Thither.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: My Lord was pleased to represent me as a great
• 53:01
  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
• 53:10
  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 employed 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 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 I saw was of a meager aspect, with sooty
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: hands and face. His hair and beard long ragged and
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: singed in several places. His clothes, shirt, and skin were
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: all of the same color. He had been eight years
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: were to be put in vials hermatically sealed and let
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. He
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: told me he did not doubt that in eight years
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: more he should be able to supply the governor's gardens
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: with sunshine at a reasonable rate. But he complained that
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: his stock was low, and entreated me to give him
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: something as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially since this had
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: been a very dear season for cucumbers. I made him
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: a small present, for my Lord had furnished me with
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: money on purpose, because he knew their practice of begging
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: from all who go to see them. I went into
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: another chamb but was ready to hasten back, being almost
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: overcome with a horrible stink. My conductor pressed me forward,
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: conjuring me in a whisper to give no offense which
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: would be highly resented. And therefore I durst, not so
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: much as stop my nose. The projector of this cell
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: was the most ancient student of the Academy. His face
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: and beard were of a pale yellow, his hands and
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: 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 ausua 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 inneuring
• 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 insects,
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: who infinitely excelled the former, because they understood how to
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: weave as well as spin. And he reposed further that
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: by employing spiders, the charge of dyeing silk should.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: Be wholly saved.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Whereof I was fully convinced when he showed me a
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: vast number of flies, most beautifully covered, wherewith he fed
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: his spiders, assuring us that the webs would take a
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: tincerature from them. And as he had them of all hues,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: he hoped to fit everybody's fancy as soon as he
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: could find proper food with the flies of certain gums, oils,
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: and other glutenous matter to give a strength and consistence
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: to the threads. There was an astronomer who had undertaken
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: to place a sun dial upon the great weathercock on
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: the town house, by adjusting the annual and daanyl motions
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: of the Earth and Sun, so as to answer and
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: coincide with all accidental turnings of the wind. I was
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: complaining of a small fit of the colic, upon which
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: my conductor led me into a room where a great
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: physician resided, who was famous for curing that disease by
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: contrary operations from the same instrument. He had a large
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: pair of bellows with a long, slender muzzle of ivory.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: This he conveyed eight inches up the anis, and drawing
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: in the wind, he affirmed he could make the guts
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: as lank as a dried bladder, But when the disease
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: was more stubborn and violent, he let in the muzzle
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: while the bellows were full of wind, which he discharged
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: into the body of the patient, then withdrew the instrument
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: to replenish it, clapping his strongly against the orifice of
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: then fundament, and this being repeated three or four times,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: the adventitious wind would rush out, bringing the noxious along
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: with it like water put into a pump, and the
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: patient recovered. I saw him try both experiments upon a dog,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: but could not discern any effect from the former. After
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: the latter, the animal was ready to burst and made
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: so violent a discharge as was very offensive to me
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: and my companion. The dog died on the spot, and
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: we left the doctor, endeavoring to recover him by the
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: same operation. I visited many other apartments, but shall not
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: trouble my reader with all the curiosities I observed. Being
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: studious of brevity, I had hitherto seen only one side
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: of the academy, the other being appropriated to the advances
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: of speculative learning, of whom I shall say something when
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: I have mentioned one illustrious and more, who was called
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: among them, the Universal Artist. He told us he had
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: been thirty years employing his thoughts for the improvement of
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: 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 vegetables outwardly applied to prevent the
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: growth of wool upon two young lands, and he hoped
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: in a reasonable time to propagate the breed of naked
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: sheep all over the kingdom. We crossed a walk to
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: the other part of the academy, where as I have
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: already said, the projectors and speculative learning resided. The first
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: professor I saw was in a very large room with
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: forty pupils about him. After salutation, observing me to look
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: earnestly upon a frame which took up the greatest part
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: of both the length and breadth of the room, he said,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: perhaps I might wonder to see him employed in a
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: project for improving speculative knowledge by practical and 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 tried 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
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: turn the whole Dier'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. Six hours
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: a day the young students were employed in this labor,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: and the professor showed me several volumes in large folio,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: already collected or broken sentences, which he intended to piece
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: together and out of those rich materials, to give the
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: world 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 Laggardo, 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
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  Speaker 1: in the figure here annexed. I told him, although it
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  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,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: Yet I would take such.
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  Speaker 2: Caution that he should have.
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  Speaker 1: The honor entire Without arrival, we next went to the
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: school of Languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon
• 1:06:32
  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
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: are but norms. The other project was a scheme for
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: entirely abolishing all words whatsoever, and was urged as a
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  Speaker 1: great advantage in point of health as well as ba,
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  Speaker 1: for it is plain that every word we speak is
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: in some degree a diminution of our lunge by corrosion,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: and consequently contributes to the shortening of our lives. An
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: expedient was therefore offered that, since words are any names
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  Speaker 1: for things, it will be more convenient for all men
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  Speaker 1: to carry about them such things as were necessary to
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: express a particular business they are to discourse on. And
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: this invention would certainly have taken place to the great
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: ease as well as health of the subject, if the women,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: in conjunction with the vulgar and illiterate had not threatened
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  Speaker 1: to raise a rebellion unless they might be allowed the
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: liberty to speak with their tongues after the manner of
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: their forefathers. Such constant, irreconcilable enemies to science are the
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: common people. However, many of the most learned and wise
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: which is only this inconvenience, attending it that if a
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: man's business be very great, and of various kinds. He
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: must be obliged in proportion to carry a greater bundle
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  Speaker 1: of things upon his back, unless he can afford one
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  Speaker 1: or two strong servants to attend him. I have often
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: beheld two of those sages almost sinking under the weight
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: of their packs, like peddlers among us, who, when they
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: meet in the street, would lay down their loaths, open
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  Speaker 1: their sacks, and hold conversation for an hour together, then
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: put up their implements, help each other to resume their burdens,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: and take their leave. But for short conversations. A man
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: may carry implements in his pockets and under his arms
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: enough to supply him, and in his house he cannot
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  Speaker 1: be at a loss. Therefore, the room where company meet
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  Speaker 1: who practice this art is full of all things ready
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  Speaker 1: at hand, REQUI to furnish matter for this kind of
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: artificial converse. Another great advantage proposed by this invention was
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: that it would serve as a universal language to be
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  Speaker 1: understood in all civilized nations whose goods and utensils are
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: generally of the same kind or nearly resembling, so that
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  Speaker 1: their uses might easily be comprehended, and thus ambassadors would
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: be qualified to treat with foreign princes or ministers of state,
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  Speaker 1: to whose tongues they were utter strangers. I was at
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  Speaker 1: the mathematical school where the master taught his pupils after
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: the method scarce.
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  Speaker 2: Imaginable to us in Europe.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: The proposition and demonstration were fairly written on a thin wafer,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: within composed of a cephalic tincerature. This the student was
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: to swallow upon a fasting stomach, and for three days following,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: eat nothing but bread and water. As the wafer digested,
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: the tinkerchure mounted to his brain, bearing the proposition along
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: with it. But the success has not hithero been answerable,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: partly by some error in the quantum or composition, and
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: partly by the perverseness of lads, to whom this bolus
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: is so nauseous that they generally steal aside and discharge
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  Speaker 1: it upwards before it can operate. Neither have they yet
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  Speaker 1: been persuaded to use so long an abstinence as the
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  Speaker 1: prescription requires. End a Part three, Chapter five, Chapter six,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: a further account of the academy. The author proposes some
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: improvements which are honorably received in the school of political projectors.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: I was but ill entertained the professors appearing, in my judgment,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: wholly out of their senses, which is a scene that
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: never fails to make me melancholy.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: These unhappy people were.
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  Speaker 1: Proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the
• 1:11:05
  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
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: their people, of choosing for employments persons qualified to exercise them,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: with many other wild, impossible chimeras that never entered before
• 1:11:31
  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
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: But however, I shall so far do justice to this
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: part of the academy as to acknowledge that all of
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: them were not so visionary. There was a most ingenious
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: doctor who seemed to be perfectly versed in the whole
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: nature and system of government. This illustrious person had very
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: usefully employed his studies in finding out effectual remedies for
• 1:12:06
  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
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: those who govern, as well as by the licentiousness of
• 1:12:17
  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
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: resemblance between the natural and the political body, can there
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: be anything more evident than that the health of both
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: must be preserved and the diseases cured by the same prescriptions.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: It is allowed that senates and great councils are often
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: troubled with redundant, ibuliant and other bucant humors, with many
• 1:12:47
  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
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: in both hands, but especially the right, with spleen flatus,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: vertigoes and deliriums, with scrupulous 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 that,
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  Speaker 1: upon the meeting of the Senate, certain physicians should attend
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: it the three first days of their sitting, and at
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: the close of each day's debate feel the pulses of
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: every senator, after which, having maturely considered and consulted upon
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: the nature of the several maladies and the methods of cure,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: they should, on the fourth day return to the Senate House,
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  Speaker 1: attended by their apothecaries, stored with proper medicines, and before
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: the members sat, administer to each of them lenatives, apperatives, abstursives, corrosives, restringants, palliatives, laxatives, cephalagics, icterics,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: ap poe phlegmatics, acoustics, as their several cases required, and
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: according as these medicines should operate, repeat, alter, or omit
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: them at the next meeting. This project cannot be of
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: any great expense to the public, and might, in my
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: poor opinion, be of much use for the dispatch of
• 1:14:21
  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
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: mouths which are now closed, and close many more which
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: are now open. Curb the petulance of the young, and
• 1:14:38
  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
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: first minister, after having told his business with the utmost
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: brevit and in the plainest words, should at his departure
• 1:15:04
  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,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: or luck in thrice by both ears, or run a
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: pin into his breach, or pinch his arms black and
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: blue to prevent forgetfulness, and at every levee day repeat
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: the same operation till the business were done or absolutely refused.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: He likewise directed that every senator in the Great Council
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion and
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: argued in the defense of it, should be obliged to
• 1:15:39
  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
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: wonderful contrivance.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: To reconcile them. The method is this.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: You take a hundred leaders of each party, you dispose
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  Speaker 1: them into couples of such whose heads are nearest of
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: her size. Then let two nice operators saw of the
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: occupant of each couple at the same time, in such
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: a manner that the brain may be equally divided. Let
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: the occupants thus cut off be interchanged, applying each to
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: the head of his opposite party member. It seems, indeed
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: be a work that requires some exactness, But the professor
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: assured us that if it were dexterously performed, the cure
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: would be infallible. For he argued thus that the two brains,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: being left to debate the matter between themselves within the
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: space of one's skull, would soon come to a good
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: understanding and produce that moderation as well as regularity of thinking,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: so much to be wished for in the heads of
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: those who imagine they come into the world only to
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: watch and govern its motion. And as to the difference
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: of brains in quantity or quality among those who are
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: directors in faction, the doctor assured us from his own
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: knowledge that it was a perfect trifle. I heard a
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: very warm debate between two professors about the most commodious
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: and effectual ways and means of raising money without grieving
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: the subject. The first affirmed the justice method would be
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: to lay a certain tax upon vices and follies, and
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  Speaker 1: the sum fixed upon every man, to be rated after
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: the fairest manner, by a jury of his neighbors. The
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: second was of an opinion directly contrary to tax those
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: qualities of body and mind for which men chiefly value themselves,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: the rate to be more or less according to the
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: degrees of excelling. The decision whereof should be left entirely
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  Speaker 1: to their own breast. The highest tax was upon men
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: who are the great favorites of the other sex, and
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: the assessments according to the number and nature of the
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: favors they have received, for which they are allowed to
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: be there their own vouchers. Wit, valor, and politeness were
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: likewise proposed to be largely taxed and collected in the
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: same manner, by every person's giving his own word for
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: the quantum of what he possessed. But as to honor, justice, wisdom,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: and learning, they should not be taxed at all, because
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: they are qualifications of so singular a kind that no
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: man will either allow them in his neighbor or value
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: them in hisself. The women were proposed to be taxed
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: according to their beauty and skill in dressing, wherein they
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: had the same privilege with the men to be determined
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: by their own judgment. But constancy, chastisy, good sense, angered
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: nature were not rated because they would not bear the
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: charge of collecting. To keep senators in the interest of
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: the crown, it was proposed that the members should raffle
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: for employment. Every man first taken an oath and given
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: security that he would vote for the court, whether he
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: won or not, after which the losers had in their
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: turn the liberty of raffling upon the next vacancy. Thus
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: hope and expectation would be kept alive. None would complain
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: of broken promises, but impute their disappointments wholly to fortune,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: whose shoulders are broader and stronger than those of a ministry.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: Another professor showed me a large paper of instructions for
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: discovering plots and conspiracies against the government. He advised great
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: statesmen to examine into the diet of all suspected persons,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: their times of eating, upon which side they lay in bed,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: with which hand they wipe their posteriors, take a strict
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: view of their excrements, and from the color, the odour,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: the taste the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: form a judgment of their thoughts and designs, because men
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent when they are
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: at stool, which he found by frequent experiment. For in
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: such conjectures, which he used merely as a trial to
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: consider which was the best way of murdering the king,
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: his order would have a tincerature of green, but quite
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: different when he thought only of raising an insurrection or
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: burning the metropolis. The whole discourse was written with great acuteness,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: containing many observations, both curious and useful for politicians, But
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: as I conceived not altogether complete this, I ventured to
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: tell the author and offered, if he pleased, to supply
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: him with some additions. He received my proposition with more
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: compliance than is usual among writers, especially those of the
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: projecting species, professing he would be glad to receive further information.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: I told him that in the kingdom of Trypnia by
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: the natives called langdon Wore, I had sojourned some time
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: in my travels, the bulk of the people consist, in
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: a manner wholly of discoverers, witnesses, informers, accusers, prosecutors, evidences, swearers,
• 1:21:16
  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 usually
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: the workmanship of those persons who desire to raise their
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: own characters, of profound politicians, to restore new vigor to
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: a crazy administration, to stifle or divert general discontents, to
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: fill their coffers with forfeitures, and raise or sink the
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: opinion of public credit, as either shall best answer their
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: private advantage. It is first agreed and settled among them
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: what suspected persons shall be accused of a plot. Then
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: effectual care is taken to secure all their letters and papers,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: and put the owners in chains. These papers are delivered
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: to a set of artists very dexterous in finding out
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: For instance, they.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: Can discover a close stool to signify a privy council,
• 1:22:21
  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 mousetrap 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
• 1:22:58
  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,
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: l a fleet at sea. Or Secondly, by transposing the
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: letters of the alphabet in any suspected paper, they can
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: lay open the deepest designs of a discontented party. So,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: for example, if I should say in a letter to
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: a friend, our brother Thomas just got the piles, a
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: skillful decipher would discover that the same letters which composed
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: that sentence may be analyzed into the following words resist.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: A plot is brought home the tour. And this is
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: the anagrammatic method. The professor made me great acknowledgments for
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: communicating these observations, and promise to make honorable mention of
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: me in his treatise. I saw nothing in this country
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: that could invite me to a longer continuance, and began
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: to think of returning home to England. End of Part three,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: Chapter six, Chapter seven, the authories. Laggedo arrives at Maldonada,
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: no ship ready. He takes a short voyage to glub
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: Dub Drib his reception by the governor. The continent of
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: which this kingdom is apart extends itself, as I have
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: reason to believe, eastward to that unknown tract of America,
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: westward of California, and north to the Pacific Ocean, which
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: is not above a hundred and fifty miles from Laggado,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: where there is a good port and much commerce with
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: the great island of Lugnag, situated to the northwest, about
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: twenty nine degrees north latitude and one hundred forty longitude.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: This island of Lugnag stands southeastward of Japan, about a
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: hundred leagues distant. There is a strict alliance between the
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: Japanese Emperor and the King of Lugnag, which affords frequent
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: opportunities of sailing from one island.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: To the other.
• 1:25:10
  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
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: the port of Maldonada, for so it is called, there
• 1:25:41
  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
• 1:25:56
  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.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: For the voyage glob dub Drib.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: As nearly as I can interpret the word signifies the
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: 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.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: It is governed by the head of a certain tribe,
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  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
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  Speaker 1: has a noble palace and a park of about three
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
• 1:28:25
  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
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  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
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: observing my two companions to be under no concern, who
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  Speaker 1: had been often entertained in the same manner. I began
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  Speaker 1: to take cour bridge and related to his Highness a
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  Speaker 1: short 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
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  Speaker 1: had seen those domestic specters. I had the honor to
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  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
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  Speaker 1: lay at a private house in the town adjoining, which
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  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
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  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
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  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,
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  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
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  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
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  Speaker 1: Governor's finger, immediately appeared in a large field under the
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  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,
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  Speaker 1: and had but.
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  Speaker 2: Little of my own.
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  Speaker 1: He assured me, upon his honor, that he was not poisoned,
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  Speaker 1: but died of a bad fever by excessive drinking.
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  Speaker 2: Next, I saw.
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  Speaker 1: Hannibal passing the Alps, who told me he had not
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  Speaker 1: a drop of vinegar in his camp. I saw Caesar
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  Speaker 1: and Pompey at the head of their troops.
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  Speaker 2: Just ready to emerge.
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  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
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  Speaker 1: in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat a
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  Speaker 1: later age in counterview in another. The first seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be an assembly of heroes and demigogs odds, the other
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  Speaker 1: I not of peddlers, pickpockets, high women, and bullies. The Governor,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: at my request, gave a sign for Caesar and Brutus
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  Speaker 1: to advance towards us. I was struck with a profound
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  Speaker 1: veneration at the sight of Brutus, and could easily discover
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  Speaker 1: the most consummate virtue, the greatest intrepidy and firmness of mind,
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  Speaker 1: the truest love of his country, and general benevolence from
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  Speaker 1: mankind in every lineament of his countenance. I observed with
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  Speaker 1: much pleasure that these two persons were in good intelligence
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  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 sixth
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  Speaker 1: humber eight to which all the ages of the world
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  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
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  Speaker 1: to see the world in every period of antiquity placed
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  Speaker 1: before me.
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  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.
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  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
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  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
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  Speaker 1: desire to see those ancients who were most renowned for
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  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
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  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
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  Speaker 1: and outward rooms of the palace. I knew and could
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  Speaker 1: distinguish those two heroes at first sight, not only from
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  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
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  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
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  Speaker 1: made use of a staff. His visage was meager, his
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  Speaker 1: hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow. I soon
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  Speaker 1: discovered that both of them were perfect strangers to the
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  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
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  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.
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  Speaker 1: I introduced to Didymus and used 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
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  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
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  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,
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  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
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  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
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  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.
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  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.
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  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 far 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 brought 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 have surprised the world. How
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: a haw can govern the back stairs, the backstairs a
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: council and the councilor senate. A general confessed in my
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: presence that he got a victory purely by the force
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: of cowardice and ill conduct, and an admiral that for
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: one of proper intelligence he beat the enemy to whom
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: he intended to betray. The fleet three kings protested to
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  Speaker 1: me that in their whole reigns they never did once
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake or treachery
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: of some minister in whom they confided. Neither would they
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: do it if they were to live again. And they
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: showed with great strength of reason that the royal throne
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: 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 or
• 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 profound veneration which
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: I am naturally apt to pay to persons of high
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: rank who ought to be treated with the utmost respect,
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: due to their sublime dignity by us their inferiors. I
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: had often read of some great services done to princes
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: and states, and desired to see the persons by whom
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: those services were performed.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 2: Upon inquiry, I was told.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: That their names were to be found on no record,
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: except a few of them, whom the history has represented
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: as the vilest of rogues and traitors. As to the rest,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: I had 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 he had done in the world.
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  Speaker 1: It gave me melancholy reflections to observe how much of
• 1:46:13
  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
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  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 Maldonada 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 to his subjects. The day of our
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: departure being come, I took leave of his Highness the
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: Governor of Club dub Drib and returned with my two
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: companions to Maladonada, where after a fortnight's waiting, a ship
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: was ready to sell for Lugnak. The two gentlemen and
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: some others were so generous and kind as to furnish
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: 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 Bouna 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 or 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.
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 2: There is indeed.
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: Another custom which I cannot altogether approve of. When the
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: King has a mind put any of his nobles to death,
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: in a gentle, indulgent manner, he commands the floor to
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: be strewed with a certain brown powder of a deadly composition, which,
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: being looked up, infallibly kills him in twenty four hours.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: But in justice to this Prince's great clemency and the
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: care he has of his subject's lives, wherein it were
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: much to be wished that the monarchs of Europe would
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: imitate him.
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 2: It must be.
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: Mentioned for his honor that strict orders are given to
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: have the infected parts of the floor well washed after
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: every such execution, which if his domestics neglect, they are
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: in danger of incurring his royal displeasure. I myself heard
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: him give directions that one of his pages should be whipped,
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: whose turn it was to give notice about washing the
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: floor after an execution, but maliciously had omitted it, by
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: which neglect. A young lord of great hopes, coming to
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: an audience, was unfortunately poisoned. Although the King at the
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: time had no design against his life. But this good
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: prince was so gracious as to forgive the poor page
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: his whipping upon promised that he would do so no
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: more without special orders. To return from this digression. When
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: I had crept within four yards of the throne, I
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: raised myself gently upon my knee, and then, striking my
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: forehead seven times against the ground, I pronounced the following
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: words as they had been taught me the night before.
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: Inkplane gloffd throb squat, cerembly hop m lachnault as wynn
• 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 barbie and tongue, and my interpreter delivered my meaning
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: and that of Lugnak. The King was much delighted in
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: my company, and ordered his bliff mark Club or high Chamberlain,
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: to appoint a lodging in the court for me and
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: my interpreter, with a daily allowance for my table, and
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: a large purse of gold for my common expenses. I
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: stayed three months in this country out of perfect obedience
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: to his Majesty, who was pleased highly to favor me
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: and made me very honorable offers. 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 depart three.
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: Chapter nine, Chapter ten. The Lagnangians commended a particular description
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: of the Stroledbrugs, with many conversations between the author and
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: some eminent persons upon that subject. The Lagnangians are a
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: polite and generous people. And although they are not without
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: some share of that pride which is peculiar to all
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: Eastern countries, yet they show themselves courteous to strangers, especially
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: such who were countenanced by the court. I had many
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: acquaintance and among persons of the best fashion, and being
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: always attended by my interpreter, the conversation we had was
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: not disagreeable. One day, in much good company, I was
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: asked by a person of quality whether I had seen
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: any of their strolled brugs or immortals. I said I
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: had not, and desired he would explain to me what
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: he meant by such an appellation applied to a mortal creature.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: He told me that sometimes, though very rarely, a child
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: happened to be born in a family with a red
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: circular spot on the forehead directly over the left eyebrow,
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: which was an infallible mark that it should never die.
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: The spot, as he described it, was about the compass
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: of a silver threepence, but in the course of time
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: grew larger and changed its color. For at twelve years
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: old it became green, so continued till five and twenty,
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: then turned to a deep blue at five and forty
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: it grew coal black and as large as an English shilling,
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: but never omitted any further alteration. He said these berths
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: were so rare that he did not believe there could
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: be above eleven hundred stroldbrugs of both sexes in the
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: whole kingdom, of which he computed about fifty metropolis. And
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: among the rest a young girl born about three years
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: ago that these productions were not peculiar to any family,
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: but a mere effect of chance, and the children of
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: the stroldbrugs themselves were equally mortal with the rest of
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: the people. I freely own myself to being struck with
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: inexpressible delight upon hearing this account, and the person who
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: gave it to me, happening to understand the Balnabarbian language,
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: which I spoke very well, I could not forbear breaking
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: out into expressions perhaps a little too extravagant. I cried out,
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: as in a rapture happy nation where every child hath
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: at least a chance for being a mortal, happy people
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: who enjoy so many living examples of ancient virtue and
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: of masters really to instruct them in the wisdom of
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: all former ages. But happiest beyond all comparison, are those
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: excellent Strolbrugs, who, being born exempt from that universal calamity
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: of human nature, had their minds free and disengaged, without
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: the weight and depression of spirits caused by the continual
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: apprehensions of death. I discovered, my admiration that I had
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: not observed any of these illustrious persons at court, the
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: black spot on the forehead being so remarkable a distinction
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: that I could not have easily overlooked it. And it
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: was impossible that His Majesty, a most judicious prince, should
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: not provide himself with a good number of such wise
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: and able counselors. Yet perhaps the virtue of those reverend
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: sages was too far stretched for the corrupt and liberty
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: manners of a court, And we often find by experience
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: that young men are too opinionated and volatile to be
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: guided by the sober dictates of their seniors. However, since
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: the King was pleased to allow me access to his
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: royal person, I was resolved upon the very first occasion,
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: to deliver my lif opinion to him on this matter
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: freely and at large, by the help of my interpreter
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: and whether he would be pleased to take my advice
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: or not. Yet, in one thing, I was determined that
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: his majesty, having frequently offered me an establishment in this country,
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: I would with great thankfulness accept the favor and pass
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: my life here in the conversation of these superior beings.
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: The straldbrugs if they were pleased to admit me. The
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: gentleman to whom I addressed my discourse, because as I
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: have already observed, he spoke the language of Barne Barbie
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: said to me, with a sort of smile which usually
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: arises from pity to the ignorant, that he was glad
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: of any occasion to keep me among them, and desired
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: my permission to explain to the company what I had spoke.
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: He did so, and they talked together for some time
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: in their own language, whereof I understood not a syllable,
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: neither could I observe by their countenances what impression my
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: discourse had made on them. After a short silence, the
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: same person told me that his friends and mine, so
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: he thought fit to express himself, were very much pleased
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: with the judicious remarks I had made on the great
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: happiness and advantages of immortal life, and they were desirous
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: to know in a particular manner what scheme of living
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: I should have formed to myself if it had fallen
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: to my lot to have been born a Stoldbrugg. I answered,
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: it was easy to be eloquent on so copious and
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: delightful a subject, especially to me, who had been after
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: an apt to amuse myself with visions of what I
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: should do if I were a king, a general, or
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: a great lord. And upon this very case I had
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: frequently run over the whole system how I should employ
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: myself and pass the time if I were sure to
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: live forever, that if it had been my good fortune
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: to come into the world a Stroldbrugg. As soon as
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: I could discover my own happiness by understanding the difference
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: between life and death, I would first resolve, by all
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: arts and methods whatsoever, to procure myself riches, in the
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: pursuit of which, by thrift and management I might reasonably
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: expect in about two hundred years to be the wealthiest
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: man in the kingdom. In the second place, I would
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: from my earliest youth apply myself to the study of
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: arts and sciences, by which I should arrive in time
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: to excel all others in learning. Lastly, I would carefully
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: record every action and event of consequence that happened in
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: the public impartially draw the characters of the several successions
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: of princes and great ministers of state with my own observations.
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: On every point, I would exactly set down the several
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: changes in customs, language, fashion of dress, diet, and diversions.
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: By all which acquirements I should be a living treasure
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: the nations. I would never marry after three score, but
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: live in a hospitable manner. Yet still on the saving side,
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: I would entertain myself in forming and directing the minds
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: of hopeful young men by convincing them from my own remembrance, experience,
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: and observation, fortified by numerous examples of the usefulness of
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: virtue in public and private life. But my choice and
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: constant companions should be a set of my own immortal brotherhood,
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: among whom I would elect a dozen from the most
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 1: ancient down to my own contemporaries. Were any of these
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: wonted fortunes, I would provide them with convenient lodges round
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: my own estate, and have some of them always at
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: my table, only mingling a few of the most valuable
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: among you, im mortals, whom length of time would harden
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: me to lose with little or no reluctance, and treat
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: your posterity a to the same manner, just as a
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 1: man diverts himself with the annual succession of pinks and
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: tulips in his garden, without regretting the loss of those
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: which withered the preceding year. These stralgebrugs and eye would
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: mutually communicate our observations and memorials through the course of time,
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: remark the several gradations by which corruption steals into the world,
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: and oppose it in every step, by giving perpetual warning
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: and instruction to mankind, which added to the strong influence
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: of our own example, would probably prevent that continual degeneracy
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: of human nature so justly complained of in all ages.
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: Add to this the pleasure of seeing the various revolutions
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: of states and empires, the changes in the lower and
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: upper worlds, ancient cities in ruins and obscure villages becoming
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: the seats of kings, famous rivers, lessening into shallow brooks,
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: the ocean, leaving one coast dry and overwhelming another. The
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: discovery of many countries yet unknown, barbarity over running the
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: politest nations, and the most barbarous becoming civilized. I should
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 1: then see the discovery of the longitude, the perpetual motion,
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: the universal medicine, and many other great inventions brought to
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: the utmost perfection. What wonderful discovery should we make in
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: astronomy by outliving and confirming our own predictions, by observing
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 1: the progress and return of comets, with the changes of
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: motion in the sun, moon, and stars, I enlarged upon
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: many other topics with the natural desire of entless life
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: and sublunary happiness could easily furnish me with. When I
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: had ended and the summer my discourse had been interpreted
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: as before to the rest of the company, there was
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: a good deal of talk among them in the language
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: of the country, not without some laughter at my expense.
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: At last, the same gentleman who had been my interpreter
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: said he was desired by the rest to set me
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: right in a few mistakes which I had fallen into
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: through the common imbecility of human nature. And upon that
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: allowance was less answerable for them that this breed of
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: Straldbruggs was peculiar to their country, for there were no
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: such people in Bowna Barbie or Japan, where he had
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: the honor to be ambassador for his majesty, and found
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: the natives in both those kingdoms very hard to believe
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: that the fact was possible. And it appeared, from my
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: astonishment when he first mentioned the matter to me, that
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: I received it as a thing wholly new and scarcely
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: 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 a long life to be the
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: universal desire and wish of mankind. That whoever had one
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: foot in the grave was sure to hold back the
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: other as strongly as he could. That the oldest had
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 1: to hopes of living one day longer, and looked on
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: death as the greatest evil, from which nature always prompted
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: him to retreat. Only in this island of Lugnak, the
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: appetite for living was not so eager, from the continual
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: example of the Stoldbrugs before their eyes, that the system
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: of living contrived by me was unreasonable and unjust, because
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: it supposed a perpetuity of youth, health, and vigor, which
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: no man could be so foolish to hope, however extravagant
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: he may be in his wishes. That the question therefore
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: was not whether a man would choose to be always
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: in the prime of youth, attended with prosperity and health,
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: but how he would pass a perpetual life under all
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: the usual disadvantages which old age brings along with it.
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: For although few men will avow their desires of being
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: a mortal upon such hard conditions, yet in the two
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: kingdoms before mentioned, of Balnababie and Japan, he observed that
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 1: every man desired to put of death, sometimes longer let
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: it approach, ever so late. And he rarely heard of
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: any man who died willingly, except he were incited by
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: the extremity of grief or torture. And he appealed to
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: me whether in those countries I had traveled, as well
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: as my own, I had not observed the same general disposition.
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: After this preface, he gave me a particular account of
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: the Strouldbrugs. Among them, he said, they commonly acted like
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: mortals till about thirty years old, after which by degrees
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: they grew melancholy and dejected, increasing in both till they
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: came to forescore. This he learned from their own confession,
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: for otherwise, their not being above two or three of
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: that species born in the same age, there were too
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: few to form a general observation by when they came
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: to fourscore years, which has reckoned the extremity of living
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: in this country. They had not only all the follies
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: and infirmities of other old men, but many more, which
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying. They were
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: not only opinionative, peevish, covittus, morose, vain talkative, but incapable
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: descended below their grandchildren. Envy and impotent desires are their
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: prevailing passions. But those objects against which their envy seems
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: principally directed are the vices of the younger sort and
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: the deaths of the old. By reflecting on the former,
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: they find themselves cut off from all possibility of pleasure,
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: and whenever they see a funeral they lament and repine
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: that others have gone to a harbor of rest, to
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: which they themselves can never hope to arrive. They have
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: no remembrance of anything but what they learned and observed
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: in their youth and middle age, And even this is
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: very imperfect, and for the truth of particulars of fact,
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 1: it is safer to depend on common tradition than upon
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: their best recollections. The least miserable among them appear to
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: be those who turn to dotage and entirely lose their memories.
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: These meet with more pity and assistance, because they want
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: many bad qualities which are bound in others. If a
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: Straldbrug happen to marry one of his own kind, the
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: marriage is dissolved, of course, by the courtesy of the kingdom,
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: as soon as the younger of the two comes to
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: be for score, for the law thinks it a reasonable
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: indulgence that those who are condemned, without any fault of
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world should
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 1: not have the misery doubled by the load of a wife.
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 1: As soon as they have completed the term of eighty years,
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: they are looked on as dead in law. Their heirs
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: immediately succeeded to their estates only a small pittance is
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: reserved for their support, and the poor ones are maintained
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: at the public charge. After that period they are held
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 1: incapable of any employment of trust or profit. They cannot
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 1: purchase lands or take leases. Neither are they allowed to
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: be witnesses in any cause, either civil or criminal, not
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: even for the decision of merees and bounds. At ninety
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: they lose their teeth and hair. They have at that
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: they can get without relish or appetite. The diseases they
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: were 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 she 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 2: The reader will easily.
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 1: Believe that from what I had heard and seen, my
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 1: keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated. I
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 1: grew heartily ashamed of the pleasing visions I had formed,
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 1: and thought no tyrant could invent a death into which
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: I would not run with pleasure from such a life.
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 1: The King heard of all that had passed between me
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: and my friends upon this occasion, and rallied me very pleasantly,
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: wishing I could send a couple of stoldbrugs to my
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: own country to arm our people against the fear of death.
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: But this it seems as forbidden by the fundamental laws
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: of the kingdom, or else I should have been well
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: content with the trouble and expense of transporting them. I
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: could not but agree that the laws of this kingdom
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: relative to the Stoldbruggs were founded upon the strongest reasons,
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: and such as any other country would be under the
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 1: necessity of enacting in the like circumstances.
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 2: Otherwise, as Avaris is.
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: The necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would in
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 1: time become proprietors of the whole nation and engross the
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 1: civil power, which, for want of abilities to manage, must
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 1: end in the ruin of the public. End apart three,
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 1: Chapter ten, Chapter eleven, the author leads 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. But I hope the Dutch,
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: upon this notice, will be curious and able enough to
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: supply my defects. His Majesty, having often pressed me to
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: accept some employment in his court, and finding me absolutely
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 1: determined to return to my native country, was pleased to
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 1: grant me his license to depart, and honor me with
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 1: a 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 Lugnak. 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 Lugnak, 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 the Nagazac. To this I added another petition that
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: for the sake of my patron, the King of Lugnak,
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: his majesty would condescend to excuse my performing the ceremony
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: imposed on my countrymen of trampling upon the crucifix, because
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 1: I had been thrown into his kingdom by my misfortunes
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 1: without any intention of trading. When this latter petition was
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 1: interpreted to the Emperor, he seemed a little surprised, and
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 1: said he believed I was the first of my countrymen
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 1: who ever made any scruple in this point, and that
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: he began to doubt whether I was a real Hollander
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 1: or not, but rather suspected I must be a Christian. However,
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 1: for the reasons I had offered, but chiefly to gratify
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 1: the King of Lugnek 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 Nangozak, 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.
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 1: I soon fell into the company of some Dutch 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. I
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 1: made up a story as short and probable as I could,
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 1: but concealed the greatest part. I knew many persons in Holland.
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 1: I was able to invent names from my parents, whom
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 1: I pretended to be obscure people in the province of Guelderland.
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 1: I would have given the captain one Theodorus van Grolt
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: what he pleased to ask for my voyage to Holland,
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 1: but understanding I was a surgeon, he was contented to
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 1: take half the usual rate on one condition that I
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: would serve him in the way of my calling. Before
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: we took shipping, I was often asked by some of
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 1: the crew whether I had performed the ceremony above mentioned.
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 1: I evaded the question by general answers that I had
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: satisfied the Emperor and court in all particulars. However, a
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 1: malicious rogue of a skipper went to an officer, and,
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 1: pointing to me, told him I had not yet trampled.
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 2: 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 the 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.
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 2: In good health.
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: Earned apart three, Chapter eleven, Part four A Voyage to
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 1: the Country of the Whinnams. Chapter one, the author sets
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: out as captain of a ship. His men conspire against him,
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 1: confine him a long time to his cabin, and set
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 1: him on shore in an unknown land. He travels up
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: into the country. The Yahoo's a strange sort of animal
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 1: described the author meets two Whinnams. I continued at home
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 1: with my wife and children about five months, in a
• 2:23:55
  Speaker 1: very happy condition. If I could have learned the lesson
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: 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 storm.
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 1: 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.
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 1: They made me swear to do, and then they unbound me,
• 2:26:06
  Speaker 1: only fastening one of my legs of the chain near
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 1: my bed, and placed a sentry at my door with
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 1: his peace charged, who was commanded to shoot me dead
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: if I attempted my liberty. They sent me own victuals
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 1: and drink, and took the government of the ship to themselves.
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 1: Their design was to turn pirates and plunder the Spaniards,
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: which they could not do till they got more men.
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: But first they resolved to sell the goods in the
• 2:26:34
  Speaker 1: ship and then go to Madagascar for recruits, several among
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: them having died since my confinement. They sailed many weeks
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: and traded with the Indians, but I knew not what
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: course they took, being kept a prisoner in my cabin
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 1: and expecting nothing less than to be murdered, as they
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 1: often threatened me. Upon the ninth day of May seventeen eleven,
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: one James Welch came down to my cabin and said
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 1: he had orders from the captain to set me ashore.
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 1: I expostulated with him, but in vain neither would he
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 1: so much as tell me who their new captain was.
• 2:27:13
  Speaker 1: They forced me into the long boat. Let me put
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 1: on my best suit of clothes, which were as good
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: as new, and take a small bundle of linen, but
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 1: no arms except my hanger. And they were so civil
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 1: as not to search my pockets, into which I conveyed
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 1: what money I had, with some other little necessaries. They
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 1: rowed about a league and then set me down on
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: a strand. I desired them to tell me what country
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 1: it was. They all swore they knew no more than myself,
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 1: but said that the captain, as they called him, was
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 1: resolved after they had sold the ladding to get rid
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 1: of me in the first place where they could discover land,
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: they pushed off immediately, and advising me to make haste
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 1: for fear of being overtaken by the tide, and so
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: bade me farewell. In this desolate condition, I advanced forward
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 1: and soon got upon firm ground, where I sat down
• 2:28:14
  Speaker 1: on a bank to rest myself and consider what I
• 2:28:17
  Speaker 1: had best do. When I was a little refreshed, I
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 1: went up into the country, resolving to deliver myself to
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 1: the first savages I should meet, and purchase my life
• 2:28:28
  Speaker 1: from them by some bracelets, glass rings, and other toys
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 1: which sailors usually provide themselves with in those voyages, and
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 1: whereof I had some about me. The land was divided
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: by 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 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. They climbed high trees as nimbly as
• 2:30:15
  Speaker 1: a squirrel, for they had strong, extended claws before and behind,
• 2:30:20
  Speaker 1: terminating in sharp points and hooked. They would often spring
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 1: and bound and leap with prodigious agility. The females were
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 1: not so large as the males. They had long, lank
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 1: hair on their heads, but none on their faces, nor
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 1: anything more than a sort of down on the rest
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 1: of their bodies, except about the anus and pudenda. The
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 1: dogs hung between their fore feet and often reached.
• 2:30:46
  Speaker 2: Almost to the ground as they walked.
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 1: The hair of both sexes was as 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 stead 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 I heard 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.
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 2: 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.
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 2: Cause of their flight.
• 2:33:07
  Speaker 1: The horse started a little when he came near me,
• 2:33:10
  Speaker 1: but soon recovering himself, looked full in my face with
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 1: manifest tokens of wonder. He viewed my hands and feet
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 1: walking 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 to.
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 2: Remove my hand.
• 2:34:02
  Speaker 1: Then he neighed three or four times, but in so
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 1: different occadence that I began to think he was speaking
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 1: to himself in some language of his own. While he
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 1: and I were thus employed, another horse came up, who,
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 1: applying himself to the first, in a very formal manner,
• 2:34:20
  Speaker 1: they gently struck each other's right hoof, before neighing several times.
• 2:34:25
  Speaker 1: By turns and varying the sound, which seemed to be
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 1: almost articulate. They went some paces off as if it
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 1: were to confer together, walking side by side, backward and forward,
• 2:34:39
  Speaker 1: like persons deliberating upon some affair of weight, but often
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 1: turning their eyes towards me, as if it were to
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 1: watch that I might not escape. I was amazed to
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 1: see such actions and behavior in brute beasts, and concluded
• 2:34:55
  Speaker 1: with myself that if the inhabitants of this country were
• 2:34:58
  Speaker 1: endued with a proportional degree of reason, they must needs
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 1: be the wisest people upon earth. This thought gave me
• 2:35:06
  Speaker 1: so much comfort that I resolved to go forward until
• 2:35:10
  Speaker 1: I could discover some house or village, or meet with
• 2:35:13
  Speaker 1: any of the natives, leaving the two horses to discourse
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 1: together as they pleased. But the first, who was a
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 1: dapple gray, observing me to steal off, neighed after me
• 2:35:25
  Speaker 1: in so expressive a tone that I fancied myself to
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 1: understand what he meant. Whereupon I turned back and came
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 1: near to him to expect his father commands, but concealing
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 1: my fear as much as I could, for I began
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 1: to be in some pain. How this adventure might terminate,
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 1: and the reader will easily believe I did not much
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 1: like my present situation. The two horses came up close
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 1: to me, looking with great earnestness upon my face and hands.
• 2:35:56
  Speaker 1: The gray steed rubbed my hat all around with his
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 1: right fore hoof and discomposed it so much that I
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 1: was forced to adjust it better by taking it off
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 1: and settling it again whereat. Both he and his companion,
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 1: who was a brown bay, appeared to be much surprised.
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 1: The latter felt the lappet of my coat, and finding
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 1: it to hang loose about me, they both looked with
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 1: new signs of wonder. He stroked my right hand, seeming
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 1: to admire the softness and color, but he squeezed it
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 1: so hard between his hoof and his pastern that I
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 1: was forced to roar, after which they both touched me
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 1: with all possible tenderness. They were under great perplexity about
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 1: my shoes and stockings, which they felt, very often neighing
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 1: to each other and using various gestures, not unlike those
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 1: of a philosopher when he would attempt to solve some
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 1: new and difficult phenomenon. Upon the whole, the behavior of
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 1: these animals was so order and rational, so acute and judicious,
• 2:37:03
  Speaker 1: that I at last concluded they must needs be magicians
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 1: who had thus metamorphosed to themselves upon some design, and
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 1: seeing a stranger in the way, resolved to divert themselves
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 1: with him, or perhaps were really amazed at the sight
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 1: of a man so very different in habit, feature and
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 1: complexion from those who might probably live in so remote
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 1: a climate. Upon the strength of this reasoning, I ventured
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 1: to address them in the following manner. Gentlemen, if you
• 2:37:35
  Speaker 1: be conjurers, as I have good cause to believe you
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 1: can understand my language, therefore I make bold to let
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 1: your worships know that I'm a poor, distressed Englishman, driven
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 1: by his misfortunes upon your coast, and I entreat one
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 1: of you to let me ride upon his back, as
• 2:37:52
  Speaker 1: if you were a real horse, to some house or
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 1: village where I can be relieved, in return of which
• 2:37:58
  Speaker 1: favor I will make you. Were present of this knife
• 2:38:01
  Speaker 1: and bracelet, taking them out of my pocket. The two
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 1: greatiors stood silent while I spoke, seeming to listen with
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 1: great attention, and when I had ended, they neighed frequently
• 2:38:14
  Speaker 1: towards each other, as if they were engaged in serious conversation.
• 2:38:20
  Speaker 1: I plainly observed that their language.
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 2: Expressed the passions very.
• 2:38:24
  Speaker 1: Well, and the words might, with little pains, be resolved
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 1: into an alphabet more easily than the Chinese. I could
• 2:38:33
  Speaker 1: frequently distinguish the word Yahoo, which was repeated by each
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 1: of them several times, and although it was impossible for
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 1: me to conjecture what it meant, yet, while the two
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 1: horses were busy in conversation, I endeavored to practice this
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: word upon my tongue, and as soon as they were silent,
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 1: I boldly pronounced Yahoo in a loud voice, imitating at
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 1: the same time as near as I could, the name
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 1: of a horse, at which they were both visibly surprised,
• 2:39:05
  Speaker 1: and the Gray repeated the same word twice, as if
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 1: he meant to teach me the right accent. Wherein I
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: spoke after him as well as I could, and found
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 1: myself perceivably to improve every time, though very far from
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 1: any degree of perfection. Then the Bay tried me with
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 1: a second word, much harder to be pronounced, but reducing
• 2:39:28
  Speaker 1: it to the English orthography, may be spelt thus hinnum.
• 2:39:34
  Speaker 1: I did not succeed in this so well as in
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 1: the former, but after two or three father trials I
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 1: had better fortune, and they both appeared amazed at my capacity.
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 1: After some further discourse, which I then conjectured might relate
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 1: to me. The two friends took their leave with the
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 1: same compliment of striking each other's hoof, and the gray
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 1: made me signs that I should walk before him, wherein
• 2:40:01
  Speaker 1: I thought it prudent to comply till I could find
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 1: a better director. When I offered to slacken my pace,
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 1: he would cry.
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 2: Hum hum.
• 2:40:11
  Speaker 1: I guessed his meaning and gave him to understand as
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 1: well as I could that I was weary and not
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 1: able to walk faster, upon which he would stand awhile
• 2:40:21
  Speaker 1: to let 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.
• 2:40:52
  Speaker 2: And wattled across.
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 1: The roof was low and covered with straw. I now
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 1: began to be a little comfort, and took out some
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 1: toys which travelers usually carry for presents to the savage
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 1: Indians of America. And other parts, in hopes the people
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 1: of the house would be thereby encouraged to receive me kindly.
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 1: The horse made me a sign to go in first.
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 1: It was a large room with a smooth clay floor
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 1: and a rack and manger 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 he 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. 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: emotion that appeared perfectly natural, and made other signs to
• 2:48:40
  Speaker 1: know what I would eat. But I could not return
• 2:48:43
  Speaker 1: 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.
• 2:48:55
  Speaker 2: While we were.
• 2:48:56
  Speaker 1: Thus engaged, I observed a cow passing by, whereupon I
• 2:49:00
  Speaker 1: pointed to her and expressed a desire to go and
• 2:49:03
  Speaker 1: milk her. This had its effect for He led me
• 2:49:08
  Speaker 1: back into the house and ordered a mare servant to
• 2:49:11
  Speaker 1: open a room where a good store of milk lay
• 2:49:14
  Speaker 1: in earthen and wooden vessels. After a very orderly and
• 2:49:17
  Speaker 1: cleanly manner, she gave me a large bowlful of which
• 2:49:21
  Speaker 1: I drank very heartily, and found myself well refreshed. About
• 2:49:27
  Speaker 1: noon I saw comeing towards the house a kind of vehicle,
• 2:49:31
  Speaker 1: drawn like a sledge by four yahoos. There was in
• 2:49:35
  Speaker 1: it an old steed who seemed to be of quality.
• 2:49:39
  Speaker 1: He alighted with his hind feet forward, having by accident
• 2:49:42
  Speaker 1: got hurt in his left fore foot. He came to
• 2:49:46
  Speaker 1: dine with our horse, who received him with great civility.
• 2:49:50
  Speaker 1: They dined in the best room and had oats boiled
• 2:49:53
  Speaker 1: in milk for the second horse, which the old horse
• 2:49:56
  Speaker 1: ate warm, but the rest cold. Their mangers were placed
• 2:50:02
  Speaker 1: circular in the middle of the room, and divided into
• 2:50:04
  Speaker 1: several petitions, round which they sat on their haunches upon
• 2:50:09
  Speaker 1: bosses of straw. In the middle was a large rack
• 2:50:14
  Speaker 1: with angles answering to every partition of the manger, so
• 2:50:17
  Speaker 1: that each horse and mare ate their own hay and
• 2:50:21
  Speaker 1: their own mash of oats and milk with much decency
• 2:50:24
  Speaker 1: and regularity. The behavior of the young colt and foal
• 2:50:29
  Speaker 1: appeared very modest, and that of the Master and mistress
• 2:50:33
  Speaker 1: extremely cheerful and complaisant to their guest. The Gray ordered
• 2:50:38
  Speaker 1: me to stand by him, and much discourse passed between
• 2:50:42
  Speaker 1: him and his friend concerning me, as I found by
• 2:50:46
  Speaker 1: the strangers often looking on me, and the frequent repetition
• 2:50:49
  Speaker 1: of the word yahoo. I happened to wear my gloves,
• 2:50:54
  Speaker 1: which the Master grew observing, seemed perplexed, discovering signs of
• 2:50:58
  Speaker 1: wonder what I had done to my forefeet. He put
• 2:51:02
  Speaker 1: his hoo three or four times to them, as if
• 2:51:05
  Speaker 1: he would signify that I should reduce them to their
• 2:51:08
  Speaker 1: former shape, which I presently did, pulling off both my
• 2:51:12
  Speaker 1: gloves and putting them into my pocket. This occasioned father talk,
• 2:51:17
  Speaker 1: and I saw the company was pleased with my behavior,
• 2:51:20
  Speaker 1: whereof I soon found the good effects. I was ordered
• 2:51:24
  Speaker 1: to speak the few words I understood, and while they
• 2:51:27
  Speaker 1: were at dinner, the Master taught me the names for oats, milk,
• 2:51:32
  Speaker 1: fire water, and some others, which I could readily pronounce
• 2:51:36
  Speaker 1: after him, having from my youth a great facility in
• 2:51:39
  Speaker 1: learning languages, When dinner was done, the master horse took
• 2:51:44
  Speaker 1: me aside, and by signs and words, made me understand
• 2:51:48
  Speaker 1: the concern he was in in that I had nothing
• 2:51:50
  Speaker 1: to eat. Oats and their tongue are called humna, the
• 2:51:55
  Speaker 1: word I pronounced two or three times, for although I
• 2:51:59
  Speaker 1: had refused them at first, yet upon second thoughts, I
• 2:52:03
  Speaker 1: considered that I could contrive to make of them a
• 2:52:05
  Speaker 1: kind of bread which might be sufficient with milk to
• 2:52:09
  Speaker 1: keep me alive till I could make my escape to
• 2:52:12
  Speaker 1: some other country and a greeter of my own species.
• 2:52:18
  Speaker 1: The horse immediately ordered a white mare servant of his
• 2:52:20
  Speaker 1: family to bring me a good quantity of oats and
• 2:52:23
  Speaker 1: a sort of wooden tray. These I heated before the
• 2:52:27
  Speaker 1: fire as well as I could, and rubbed them till
• 2:52:30
  Speaker 1: the husks came off, which I made a sift to
• 2:52:33
  Speaker 1: winnow from the grain. I ground and beat them between
• 2:52:37
  Speaker 1: two stones, then took water and made them into a
• 2:52:41
  Speaker 1: paste or cake, which I toasted at the fire net
• 2:52:44
  Speaker 1: warm with milk. It was at first a very insipid diet,
• 2:52:50
  Speaker 1: though common enough in many parts of Europe, but grew
• 2:52:54
  Speaker 1: tolerable by time, and having often been reduced to hard
• 2:52:58
  Speaker 1: fare in my life. This was not the first experiment
• 2:53:01
  Speaker 1: I had made. How easily nature is satisfied. And I
• 2:53:05
  Speaker 1: cannot but observe that I never had one hour's sickness
• 2:53:09
  Speaker 1: while I stayed in this island. It is true I
• 2:53:13
  Speaker 1: sometimes made a shift to catch a rabbit or bird
• 2:53:16
  Speaker 1: by springs made of yahoo's hairs, and I often gathered
• 2:53:20
  Speaker 1: wholesome herbs, which I boiled and ate as salads with
• 2:53:23
  Speaker 1: my bread. And now and then, for a rarity, I
• 2:53:27
  Speaker 1: made a little butter and drank the way. I was
• 2:53:32
  Speaker 1: at first a great loss for salt, but custom soon
• 2:53:36
  Speaker 1: reconciled me to the want of it. And I am
• 2:53:39
  Speaker 1: confident that the frequent use of salt among us is
• 2:53:41
  Speaker 1: an effect of luxury, and was first introduced only as
• 2:53:46
  Speaker 1: a provocative to drink, except where it is necessary for
• 2:53:50
  Speaker 1: preserving flesh in long voyages or in places remote from
• 2:53:54
  Speaker 1: great markets. For we observe no animal to be fond
• 2:53:58
  Speaker 1: of it, but man. And as to myself, when I
• 2:54:02
  Speaker 1: left this country, it was a great while before I
• 2:54:04
  Speaker 1: could endure the taste of it in anything that I ate.
• 2:54:08
  Speaker 1: This is enough to say upon the subject of my diet.
• 2:54:12
  Speaker 1: Wherewith other travelers fill their books as if the reader
• 2:54:15
  Speaker 1: were personally concerned whether we fare well or ill. However,
• 2:54:20
  Speaker 1: it was necessary to mention this matter lest the world
• 2:54:24
  Speaker 1: should think it impossible that I could find sustenance for
• 2:54:27
  Speaker 1: three years in such a country and among such inhabitants.
• 2:54:32
  Speaker 1: When it grew towards evening, the master horse ordered a
• 2:54:35
  Speaker 1: place for me to lodge in. It was but six
• 2:54:39
  Speaker 1: yards from the house, and separated from.
• 2:54:41
  Speaker 2: The stable of the yahoos.
• 2:54:44
  Speaker 1: Here I got some straw, and, covering myself with my
• 2:54:47
  Speaker 1: own clothes, slept very sound. But I was in a
• 2:54:51
  Speaker 1: short time better accommodated, as the reader shall know hereafter,
• 2:54:56
  Speaker 1: when I come to treat more particularly about my way
• 2:54:59
  Speaker 1: of living. End of Part four, Chapter two, Chapter three.
• 2:55:05
  Speaker 1: The author studies to learn the language the Huynum. His
• 2:55:09
  Speaker 1: master assists in teaching him the language described. Several hinnams
• 2:55:14
  Speaker 1: of quality come out of curiosity to see the author.
• 2:55:18
  Speaker 1: He gives his master a short account of his voyage.
• 2:55:22
  Speaker 1: My principal endeavor was to learn the language which my master,
• 2:55:26
  Speaker 1: for so I shall henceforth call him. And his children
• 2:55:29
  Speaker 1: and every servant of his house were desirous to teach me,
• 2:55:34
  Speaker 1: for they looked upon it as a prodigy that a
• 2:55:37
  Speaker 1: brute animal should discover such marks of a rational creature.
• 2:55:42
  Speaker 1: I pointed to everything and acquired the name of it,
• 2:55:45
  Speaker 1: which I wrote down in my journal book when I
• 2:55:47
  Speaker 1: was alone, and corrected my bad accent by desiring those
• 2:55:51
  Speaker 1: of the family to pronounce it. Often in this employment,
• 2:55:56
  Speaker 1: a sorrel nag, one of the under servants, was very
• 2:55:59
  Speaker 1: 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 colt 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 pleased 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 do as I pleased. Whereupon I first unbuttoned
• 3:03:29
  Speaker 1: my coat and pulled it off. I did the same
• 3:03:32
  Speaker 1: with my waistcoat. I drew off my shoes, stockings, and breeches.
• 3:03:37
  Speaker 1: I let my shirt down to my waist and drew
• 3:03:39
  Speaker 1: up the bottom, fastening it like a girdle about my
• 3:03:43
  Speaker 1: middle to hide my nakedness. My master observed the whole
• 3:03:48
  Speaker 1: performance with great signs of curiosity and admiration. He took
• 3:03:53
  Speaker 1: up all my clothes in his pastern one piece after another,
• 3:03:57
  Speaker 1: and examined them diligently. He then stroked my body very
• 3:04:01
  Speaker 1: gently and looked round me several times, after which he said,
• 3:04:07
  Speaker 1: it was plain I must be a perfect Yahoo, but
• 3:04:11
  Speaker 1: that I differed very much from the rest of my
• 3:04:13
  Speaker 1: species in the softness, whiteness, and smoothness of my skin,
• 3:04:18
  Speaker 1: my want of hair in several parts of my body,
• 3:04:21
  Speaker 1: the shape and shortness of my claws behind and before,
• 3:04:25
  Speaker 1: and my affectation of walking continually on my two hinder feet.
• 3:04:30
  Speaker 1: He desired to see no more, and gave me leave
• 3:04:33
  Speaker 1: to put on my clothes again, for I was shuddering
• 3:04:36
  Speaker 1: 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.
• 3:05:27
  Speaker 2: That 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 to tell him. Thenceforward
• 3:05:53
  Speaker 1: he doubled the pains he had been at to instruct me.
• 3:05:56
  Speaker 1: He brought me into all company and made them treat
• 3:05:59
  Speaker 1: me with civila because, as he told them privately, this
• 3:06:04
  Speaker 1: would put me into good humor. And make me more
• 3:06:06
  Speaker 1: diverting every day when I waited on him. Beside the
• 3:06:12
  Speaker 1: trouble he was that in teaching he would ask me
• 3:06:15
  Speaker 1: several questions concerning myself, which I answered as well as
• 3:06:18
  Speaker 1: I could, and by these means he had already received
• 3:06:22
  Speaker 1: some general ideas, though very imperfect. It would be tedious
• 3:06:27
  Speaker 1: to relate to the several steps by which I advanced
• 3:06:29
  Speaker 1: to a more regular conversation. But the first account I
• 3:06:33
  Speaker 1: gave for myself in any order in length was to
• 3:06:36
  Speaker 1: 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.
• 3:07:29
  Speaker 2: My answer was that.
• 3:07:30
  Speaker 1: I durst proceed no further in my relation unless you
• 3:07:34
  Speaker 1: would give me his word and honor that he would
• 3:07:36
  Speaker 1: not be offended, and then I would tell in the
• 3:07:39
  Speaker 1: wonders I had so often promised. He agreed, and I
• 3:07:45
  Speaker 1: went on by assuring him that the ship was made
• 3:07:48
  Speaker 1: by creatures like myself, who, in all the countries I
• 3:07:51
  Speaker 1: had traveled, as well as in my own, were the
• 3:07:54
  Speaker 1: only governing rational animals, and that upon my arrival hither
• 3:07:59
  Speaker 1: I was much astonished to see the Whinnams act like
• 3:08:02
  Speaker 1: rational beings as he or his friends could be. In
• 3:08:06
  Speaker 1: finding some marks of reason and a creature, he was
• 3:08:09
  Speaker 1: pleased to call a yahoo, to which I owned my
• 3:08:13
  Speaker 1: resemblance in every part, but could not account for their
• 3:08:16
  Speaker 1: degenerate and brutal nature. I said, father, that if good
• 3:08:22
  Speaker 1: fortune ever restored me to my native country to relate
• 3:08:25
  Speaker 1: my travels hither as I resolved to do, everybody would
• 3:08:29
  Speaker 1: believe that I said the thing that was not that
• 3:08:33
  Speaker 1: I invented the story out of my own head, and
• 3:08:37
  Speaker 1: with all possible respect to himself, his family, and his friends,
• 3:08:41
  Speaker 1: and under his promise of not being offended, our countrymen
• 3:08:45
  Speaker 1: would hardly think it probable that a Wynham should be
• 3:08:48
  Speaker 1: the presiding creature of a nation and a Yahoo the
• 3:08:51
  Speaker 1: brute and a Part four.
• 3:08:54
  Speaker 2: Chapter three.
• 3:08:56
  Speaker 1: Chapter four The Huinnam's notion of Truth and falsehood. The
• 3:09:01
  Speaker 1: author's discourse disapproved by his master. The author gives a
• 3:09:06
  Speaker 1: more 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
• 3:09:42
  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 masters
• 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, squeeze 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 alone
• 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.
• 3:15:49
  Speaker 2: Were too soft to bear.
• 3:15:50
  Speaker 1: The ground that I generally went with the uncovered near
• 3:15:54
  Speaker 1: the was the covering. I sometimes worn them of the
• 3:15:56
  Speaker 1: same shape, or so strong as that on my feet behind,
• 3:16:00
  Speaker 1: mind that I could not walk without any security, for
• 3:16:04
  Speaker 1: if either of my hinder feet slipped, I must inevitably fail.
• 3:16:09
  Speaker 1: He then began to find fault with other parts of
• 3:16:11
  Speaker 1: my body, the flatness of my face, the prominence of
• 3:16:16
  Speaker 1: my nose, mine eyes placed directly in front, so that
• 3:16:19
  Speaker 1: I could not look on either side without 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.
• 3:16:31
  Speaker 2: Answer that necessity.
• 3:16:34
  Speaker 1: He knew not what could be the use of those
• 3:16:35
  Speaker 1: several clefts and divisions in my feet behind, That these
• 3:16:39
  Speaker 1: were too soft to bear the hardness and sharpness of
• 3:16:42
  Speaker 1: stones without a covering made from the skin of some
• 3:16:45
  Speaker 1: other brute, That my whole body wanted a fence against
• 3:16:49
  Speaker 1: heat and cold, which I was forced to put on
• 3:16:52
  Speaker 1: and off every day with tediousness and trouble. And lastly,
• 3:16:57
  Speaker 1: that he observed every animal in this country naturally to
• 3:17:00
  Speaker 1: abhor the yahoos, whom the weaker avoided and the stronger
• 3:17:04
  Speaker 1: drove from them, So that, supposing us to have the
• 3:17:08
  Speaker 1: gift of reason, he could not see how it were
• 3:17:11
  Speaker 1: possible to cure that natural antipathy which every creature discovered
• 3:17:16
  Speaker 1: against us, nor consequently how we could tame and render
• 3:17:20
  Speaker 1: them serviceable. However, he would, as he said, debate the
• 3:17:25
  Speaker 1: matter no farther, because he was more desirous to know
• 3:17:28
  Speaker 1: my own story, the country where I was born, and
• 3:17:31
  Speaker 1: the several actions and events of my life before I
• 3:17:34
  Speaker 1: came hither. I assured him how extremely desirous I was
• 3:17:40
  Speaker 1: that he should be satisfied in every point. But I
• 3:17:43
  Speaker 1: doubted much whether it would be possible for me to
• 3:17:46
  Speaker 1: explain myself on several subjects, whereof his honor could have
• 3:17:51
  Speaker 1: no conception, because I saw nothing in his country to
• 3:17:54
  Speaker 1: which I could resemble them. However, that I would do
• 3:17:58
  Speaker 1: my best and drive to express myself by similitudes, humbly
• 3:18:03
  Speaker 1: desiring his assistance when I wanted proper words, which he
• 3:18:08
  Speaker 1: was pleased to promise me. I said, my birth was
• 3:18:12
  Speaker 1: of honest parents in an island called England, which was
• 3:18:16
  Speaker 1: remote from his country, as many days journey as the
• 3:18:19
  Speaker 1: strongest of his honored servants could travel in the annual
• 3:18:21
  Speaker 1: course of the sun. That I was bred a surgeon,
• 3:18:25
  Speaker 1: whose trade it was to cure wounds and hurts in
• 3:18:27
  Speaker 1: the body gotten by accident or violence. That my country
• 3:18:32
  Speaker 1: was governed by a female man, whom we called Queen.
• 3:18:36
  Speaker 1: That I left to get riches whereby I might maintain
• 3:18:39
  Speaker 1: myself and family when I should return. That in my
• 3:18:44
  Speaker 1: last voyage, I was commander of the ship and had
• 3:18:48
  Speaker 1: about fifty yahoos under me, many of which died at sea,
• 3:18:52
  Speaker 1: and I was forced to supply them by others picked
• 3:18:54
  Speaker 1: out from several nations. The towership was twice in danger
• 3:18:58
  Speaker 1: of being sunk, the first time by a great storm
• 3:19:02
  Speaker 1: and the second by striking against a rock. Here my
• 3:19:07
  Speaker 1: master interposed by asking me how I could persuade strangers
• 3:19:12
  Speaker 1: out of different countries to venture with me after the
• 3:19:15
  Speaker 1: losses I had sustained and the hazards I had run.
• 3:19:19
  Speaker 1: I said they were fellows of desperate fortunes, forced to
• 3:19:23
  Speaker 1: fly from the places of their birth on account of
• 3:19:26
  Speaker 1: their poverty or their crimes. Some were undone by law suits,
• 3:19:31
  Speaker 1: others spent all they had in drinking, houring, and gaming.
• 3:19:35
  Speaker 1: Others fled for treason, many for murder, theft, poisoning, robbery, perjury, forgery,
• 3:19:42
  Speaker 1: coining false money, for committing rapes or sodomy, for flying
• 3:19:47
  Speaker 1: from their colors, or deserting to the enemy, and most
• 3:19:50
  Speaker 1: of them had broken prison. None of these durst return
• 3:19:55
  Speaker 1: to their native countries for fear of being hanged or
• 3:19:59
  Speaker 1: of starving in an jail, and therefore they were under
• 3:20:02
  Speaker 1: the necessity of seeking a livelihood in other places. During
• 3:20:07
  Speaker 1: this discourse, my master was pleased to interrupt me several times.
• 3:20:12
  Speaker 1: I had made use of many circumlocutions in describing to
• 3:20:15
  Speaker 1: him the nature of the several crimes for which most
• 3:20:18
  Speaker 1: of our crew had been forced to fly their country.
• 3:20:22
  Speaker 1: This labor took up several days conversation before he was
• 3:20:25
  Speaker 1: able to comprehend me. He was wholly at a loss
• 3:20:29
  Speaker 1: to know what could be the use or necessity of
• 3:20:32
  Speaker 1: practicing those vices to clear up which I endeavored to
• 3:20:37
  Speaker 1: give some ideas of the desire of power and riches,
• 3:20:41
  Speaker 1: of the terrible effects of lust, intemperance, malice, and envy.
• 3:20:46
  Speaker 1: All this I was forced to define and describe by
• 3:20:49
  Speaker 1: putting cases and making suppositions, after which, like one whose
• 3:20:56
  Speaker 1: imagination was struck with something never seen or heard of before,
• 3:21:00
  Speaker 1: he 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 father improved in the
• 3:22:21
  Speaker 1: Huinnhum 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 answer 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
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  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,
• 3:23:09
  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?
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  Speaker 2: With many more.
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  Speaker 1: Neither are any war so furious and bloody, or of
• 3:24:52
  Speaker 1: so long a continuance, as are those occasioned by difference
• 3:24:55
  Speaker 1: in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent. Sometimes
• 3:25:02
  Speaker 1: the quarrel between two princes is to decide which of
• 3:25:04
  Speaker 1: them shall dispossess a third of his dominions, where neither
• 3:25:08
  Speaker 1: of them pretend to any right. Sometimes one prince quarrels
• 3:25:13
  Speaker 1: with another for fear the other should quarrel with him.
• 3:25:17
  Speaker 1: Sometimes the war is entered upon because the enemy is
• 3:25:19
  Speaker 1: too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak. Sometimes
• 3:25:24
  Speaker 1: our neighbors want the things which we have, or have
• 3:25:27
  Speaker 1: the things which we want, and we both fight till
• 3:25:30
  Speaker 1: they take hours or give us theirs. It is a
• 3:25:33
  Speaker 1: very justifiable cause of war to invade a country after
• 3:25:37
  Speaker 1: the people have been wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence,
• 3:25:41
  Speaker 1: or embroiled by factions among themselves. It is justifiable to
• 3:25:46
  Speaker 1: enter into a war against our nearest, ally when one
• 3:25:49
  Speaker 1: of his towns lies convenient for us, or a territory
• 3:25:52
  Speaker 1: of land that would render our dominions round and complete.
• 3:25:57
  Speaker 1: If a prince ends forces into a nation, whether people
• 3:26:00
  Speaker 1: are poor and ignorant, he may lawfully put half of
• 3:26:03
  Speaker 1: them to death and make slaves of the rest, in
• 3:26:07
  Speaker 1: order to civilize and reduce them from their barbarious ways
• 3:26:09
  Speaker 1: of living. It is very kingly honorable and frequent practice
• 3:26:15
  Speaker 1: when one prince desires the assistance of another to secure
• 3:26:19
  Speaker 1: him against an invasion, that the assistant, when he is
• 3:26:23
  Speaker 1: driven out, the invader should seize on the dominions himself
• 3:26:27
  Speaker 1: and kill, in prison or banish the prince he came
• 3:26:30
  Speaker 1: to relieve. Alliance by blood or marriage is a frequent
• 3:26:34
  Speaker 1: cause of war between princes and the nearer. The kindred
• 3:26:38
  Speaker 1: is the greater their disposition to quarrel. Poor nations are hungry,
• 3:26:43
  Speaker 1: and rich nations are proud, and pride and hunger will
• 3:26:46
  Speaker 1: ever be at variance. For these reasons, the trade of
• 3:26:51
  Speaker 1: a soldier is held to the most honorable of all others,
• 3:26:54
  Speaker 1: because a soldier is a yahoo hired to kill in
• 3:26:57
  Speaker 1: cold blood, as many of his own species, who have
• 3:27:00
  Speaker 1: never offended him as possibly he can. There is likewise
• 3:27:05
  Speaker 1: a kind of beggarly princes in Europe, not able to
• 3:27:09
  Speaker 1: make war by themselves, who hire out their troops to
• 3:27:12
  Speaker 1: richer nations for so much a day to each man,
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  Speaker 1: of which they keep three fourths to themselves, and it
• 3:27:20
  Speaker 1: is the best part of their maintenance. Such are those
• 3:27:24
  Speaker 1: in many northern parts of Europe. What you have told me,
• 3:27:29
  Speaker 1: said my master, upon the subject of war, does indeed
• 3:27:33
  Speaker 1: discover most admirably the effects of that reason you pretend to. However,
• 3:27:38
  Speaker 1: it 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 astrawing.
• 3:29:01
  Speaker 1: And to 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. He thought his ears, being used.
• 3:29:50
  Speaker 1: To such abominable words, might by degrees admit them with
• 3:29:54
  Speaker 1: less detestation. That although he hated the yahoos of this country,
• 3:30:01
  Speaker 1: yet he no more blamed them for their odious qualities
• 3:30:04
  Speaker 1: than he did a guneur, a bird of prey for
• 3:30:07
  Speaker 1: its cruelty, or a sharp stone cutting his hoof. But
• 3:30:12
  Speaker 1: when a creature pretending to reason could be capable of
• 3:30:14
  Speaker 1: such enormities, he dreaded lest the corruption of that facility
• 3:30:18
  Speaker 1: might be worse than brutality itself. He seemed, therefore confidant
• 3:30:25
  Speaker 1: that instead of reason, we were only possessed of some
• 3:30:28
  Speaker 1: quality fitted to increase our natural vices. As the reflection
• 3:30:33
  Speaker 1: from a troubled stream returns the image of an ill
• 3:30:35
  Speaker 1: shapen body not only larger but more distorted. He added
• 3:30:41
  Speaker 1: that he had heard too much upon the subject of war,
• 3:30:44
  Speaker 1: both in this and some former discourses. There was another
• 3:30:48
  Speaker 1: point which a little perplexed him. At present I had
• 3:30:52
  Speaker 1: informed him that some of our crew left their country
• 3:30:55
  Speaker 1: on account of being ruined by law, that I had
• 3:30:58
  Speaker 1: already explained the meaning of the word. But he was
• 3:31:01
  Speaker 1: at a loss how it should come to pass that
• 3:31:04
  Speaker 1: the law, which was intended for every man's preservation, should
• 3:31:08
  Speaker 1: be any man's ruin. Therefore, he desired to be further
• 3:31:12
  Speaker 1: satisfied what I meant by law and the dispenses thereof,
• 3:31:16
  Speaker 1: according to the present practice of my own country, because
• 3:31:20
  Speaker 1: he thought nature and reason were sufficient guide for a
• 3:31:22
  Speaker 1: reasonable animal, as we pretended to be, in showing us
• 3:31:26
  Speaker 1: what he ought to do and what to avoid. I
• 3:31:31
  Speaker 1: assured his honor that the law was a science in
• 3:31:34
  Speaker 1: which I had not much conversed further than by apploying
• 3:31:37
  Speaker 1: advocates in Vain upon some injustices that had been done me. However,
• 3:31:42
  Speaker 1: I would give him all the satisfaction I was able.
• 3:31:47
  Speaker 1: I said, there was a society of men among us,
• 3:31:50
  Speaker 1: bred up from their youth in the art of proving
• 3:31:53
  Speaker 1: by words multiplied for the purpose that white is black,
• 3:31:56
  Speaker 1: and black as white. According as they are paid to
• 3:32:00
  Speaker 1: this society. All the rest of the people are slaves.
• 3:32:04
  Speaker 1: For example, if my neighbor has a mind to my cow,
• 3:32:08
  Speaker 1: he has a lawyer to prove that he ought to
• 3:32:10
  Speaker 1: have my cow from me. I must then hire another
• 3:32:14
  Speaker 1: to defend my right, it being against all rules of
• 3:32:17
  Speaker 1: law that any man should be allowed to speak for himself.
• 3:32:22
  Speaker 1: Now in this case, I, who am the right owner,
• 3:32:26
  Speaker 1: lie under two great disadvantages. First, my lawyer, being practiced
• 3:32:31
  Speaker 1: almost from his cradle in defending falsehood, is quite out
• 3:32:34
  Speaker 1: of his element when he would be an advocate for justice,
• 3:32:38
  Speaker 1: which is an unnatural office. He always attempts with great awkwardness,
• 3:32:41
  Speaker 1: if not with ill will. The second disadvantage is that
• 3:32:47
  Speaker 1: my lawyer must proceed with great caution, or else he
• 3:32:50
  Speaker 1: will be reprimanded by the judges and abhorred by his
• 3:32:53
  Speaker 1: brethren as one that would lessen the practice of the law.
• 3:32:58
  Speaker 1: And therefore I have but two methods to preserve my cow.
• 3:33:02
  Speaker 1: The first is to gain my adversary's lawyer with a
• 3:33:05
  Speaker 1: double fee, who will then betray his client by insinuating
• 3:33:09
  Speaker 1: that he hath justice on his side. The second ways
• 3:33:13
  Speaker 1: for my lawyer to make my case appear as unjust
• 3:33:15
  Speaker 1: as he can, by allowing the cow to belong to
• 3:33:18
  Speaker 1: my adversary, and this, if it be skillfully done, will
• 3:33:23
  Speaker 1: certainly bespeak the favor of the bench. Now, your honor
• 3:33:28
  Speaker 1: is to know that these judges are persons appointed to
• 3:33:32
  Speaker 1: decide or controversies of property, as well as for the
• 3:33:35
  Speaker 1: trial of criminals, and picked out from the most dexterous lawyers,
• 3:33:39
  Speaker 1: who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased
• 3:33:43
  Speaker 1: all their lives against truth and equity, lie under such
• 3:33:46
  Speaker 1: a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury, and oppression that
• 3:33:50
  Speaker 1: I have known. Some of them refuse a large bribe
• 3:33:52
  Speaker 1: from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the
• 3:33:56
  Speaker 1: faculty by doing anything unbecoming their nature or their office.
• 3:34:02
  Speaker 1: It is a maxim among these lawyers that whatever has
• 3:34:05
  Speaker 1: been done before may legally be done again, And therefore
• 3:34:09
  Speaker 1: they take special care to record all the decisions formerly
• 3:34:11
  Speaker 1: made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These,
• 3:34:18
  Speaker 1: under the name of precedence they produce as authorities to
• 3:34:21
  Speaker 1: justify the most iniquitous opinions, And the judges never fail
• 3:34:25
  Speaker 1: of directing accordingly. In pleading, they studiously avoid entering into
• 3:34:31
  Speaker 1: the merits of the cause, but alloud violent and tedious
• 3:34:36
  Speaker 1: in dwelling upon all circumstances which are not to the purpose.
• 3:34:40
  Speaker 1: For instance, in the case already mentioned, they never desire
• 3:34:44
  Speaker 1: to know what claim or title my adversary has to
• 3:34:46
  Speaker 1: my cow, but whether the said cow are red or black,
• 3:34:50
  Speaker 1: her horns long or short, whether the field I graze
• 3:34:54
  Speaker 1: her in be round or square, whether she was milked
• 3:34:56
  Speaker 1: at home 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 canton jargon of their own
• 3:35:18
  Speaker 1: that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their
• 3:35:21
  Speaker 1: 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 a criminal, strictly preserving
• 3:35:59
  Speaker 1: all due forulm 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 in structures of others in wisdom and knowledge.
• 3:36:19
  Speaker 1: In answer to which I assured his Honor that in
• 3:36:22
  Speaker 1: all points out of their own trade, they were usually
• 3:36:24
  Speaker 1: the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most
• 3:36:29
  Speaker 1: despicable 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 earned 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.
• 3:39:05
  Speaker 2: I assured him.
• 3:39:06
  Speaker 1: That this whole globe of earth must be at least
• 3:39:09
  Speaker 1: three times gone round before one of our better female
• 3:39:12
  Speaker 1: yahoos could get at breakfast or a cup to put
• 3:39:15
  Speaker 1: it in. He said that must needs be a miserable
• 3:39:20
  Speaker 1: country which cannot 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, stargazing, 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: beget 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.
• 3:42:38
  Speaker 2: I told him.
• 3:42:40
  Speaker 1: We fed on a thousand things which operated contrary to
• 3:42:43
  Speaker 1: each other. That we ate when we were not hungry,
• 3:42:46
  Speaker 1: and drank without the provocation of thirst. That we sat
• 3:42:50
  Speaker 1: whole night drinking strong liquors without eating a bit, which
• 3:42:54
  Speaker 1: disposed us to sloth, inflamed our bodies, and precipitated or
• 3:42:59
  Speaker 1: prevented digestion. That prostitute female yahoos acquired a certain malady
• 3:43:07
  Speaker 1: which bred rottenness in the bones of those who fell
• 3:43:09
  Speaker 1: 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 at the mouth. Their next business
• 3:44:15
  Speaker 1: is from herbs, minerals, gums, oils, shells, salts, juices, seaweed, excrements,
• 3:44:22
  Speaker 1: barks of trees, serpents, toads, frogs, spiders, dead men's flesh
• 3:44:27
  Speaker 1: and bones, birds, beasts, and fishes, to form a composition
• 3:44:33
  Speaker 1: for smell and taste the most abominable, nauseous, and detestable
• 3:44:37
  Speaker 1: they can possibly contrive, which the stomach immediately rejects with loathing,
• 3:44:43
  Speaker 1: and this they call a vomit or else from the
• 3:44:47
  Speaker 1: same storehouse, with some other poisonous additions. They command us
• 3:44:51
  Speaker 1: to take in at the orifice above or below, just
• 3:44:55
  Speaker 1: as the physician then happens to be disposed a medicine
• 3:44:59
  Speaker 1: equally annoying and disgusting to the bowels, which, relaxing the belly,
• 3:45:04
  Speaker 1: drives down all before it. And this they call a
• 3:45:07
  Speaker 1: purge or a clister for nature, as the physician's allege,
• 3:45:13
  Speaker 1: having intended the superior anterior orifice only for the intermission
• 3:45:18
  Speaker 1: of solids and liquids, and the inferior posterior for ejection.
• 3:45:24
  Speaker 1: These artists ingeniously consider that in all diseases, nature is
• 3:45:28
  Speaker 1: forced out of her seat. Therefore, to replace her in it,
• 3:45:34
  Speaker 1: the body must be treated in a manner directly contrary,
• 3:45:37
  Speaker 1: by interchanging the use of each orifice, forcing solids and
• 3:45:42
  Speaker 1: liquids in at the anus, and making evacuations at the mouth.
• 3:45:48
  Speaker 1: But besides real diseases, we are subject to many that
• 3:45:51
  Speaker 1: are only imaginary, for which the physicians have invented imaginary cures.
• 3:45:57
  Speaker 1: These have their several names, and so have the.
• 3:46:00
  Speaker 2: 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 generalicularly
• 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. That
• 3:47:57
  Speaker 1: those he speaks worst of behind their backs are in
• 3:48:01
  Speaker 1: the surest way of preferment. And whenever he begins to
• 3:48:04
  Speaker 1: praise you to others or to yourself, you are from
• 3:48:08
  Speaker 1: that day forlorn. The worst mark you can receive is
• 3:48:13
  Speaker 1: a promise, especially when it is confirmed with an oath,
• 3:48:17
  Speaker 1: after which every wise man retires and.
• 3:48:20
  Speaker 2: Gives over all hopes.
• 3:48:24
  Speaker 1: There are three methods by which a man may rise
• 3:48:26
  Speaker 1: to be chief minister. The first is by knowing how
• 3:48:31
  Speaker 1: with prudence to dispose of a wife, a daughter, or
• 3:48:34
  Speaker 1: a sister. The second by betraying or undermining his predecessor,
• 3:48:40
  Speaker 1: and the third is by a furious zeal in public
• 3:48:43
  Speaker 1: assemblies against the corruptions of the court. But a wise
• 3:48:49
  Speaker 1: prince would rather choose to employ those who practice the
• 3:48:51
  Speaker 1: last of these methods, because such salates prove always the
• 3:48:55
  Speaker 1: most obiquitous and subservient to the will and passions of
• 3:48:58
  Speaker 1: their master. That these ministers, having all employments at their disposal,
• 3:49:04
  Speaker 1: preserve themselves in power by bribing the majority of a
• 3:49:07
  Speaker 1: senate or great council, and at last by an expedient
• 3:49:12
  Speaker 1: call an act of indemnity, whereof I describe the nature
• 3:49:16
  Speaker 1: to him, they secure themselves from after reckonings and retire
• 3:49:20
  Speaker 1: from the public laden with the spoils of the nation.
• 3:49:26
  Speaker 1: The palace of a chief minister is a seminary to
• 3:49:29
  Speaker 1: breed up others in his own trade. The pages, lackeys,
• 3:49:32
  Speaker 1: and porters, by imitating their master, become ministers of state
• 3:49:37
  Speaker 1: in their several districts, and learn to excel in the
• 3:49:40
  Speaker 1: three principal ingredients of insolence, lying, and bribery. Accordingly, they
• 3:49:46
  Speaker 1: have a subaltern court paid to them by persons of
• 3:49:49
  Speaker 1: the best rank, and sometimes by the force of dexterity
• 3:49:53
  Speaker 1: and impudence, arrive through several gradations to be successors to
• 3:49:58
  Speaker 1: their lord. He is usually governed by a decayed wench
• 3:50:03
  Speaker 1: or favorite footmen, who are the tunnels through which all
• 3:50:07
  Speaker 1: graces are conveyed, and may properly be called in the
• 3:50:10
  Speaker 1: last resort, the governors of the kingdom. One day in discourse,
• 3:50:16
  Speaker 1: my master, having heard me mention the nobility of my country,
• 3:50:21
  Speaker 1: was pleased to make me a compliment which I could
• 3:50:23
  Speaker 1: not pretend to deserve. That he was sure I must
• 3:50:27
  Speaker 1: be born of some noble family, because I far exceeded
• 3:50:30
  Speaker 1: in 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 on my the whinnams, the white,
• 3:51:02
  Speaker 1: the sorrel, and the iron gray were not so exactly
• 3:51:05
  Speaker 1: shaped as the bay, the apple gray, and the black,
• 3:51:08
  Speaker 1: nor born with equal talents of mind or a capacity
• 3:51:12
  Speaker 1: to improve them, and therefore continued always in the condition
• 3:51:16
  Speaker 1: of servants, without ever aspiring to match out of their
• 3:51:19
  Speaker 1: own race, which in that country would be reckoned monstrous
• 3:51:24
  Speaker 1: and unnatural. I made his honor my most humble acknowledgments
• 3:51:30
  Speaker 1: for the good opinion he was pleased to conceive of me,
• 3:51:33
  Speaker 1: but assured him at the same time that my birth
• 3:51:37
  Speaker 1: was of the lower sort, having been born of plain,
• 3:51:40
  Speaker 1: honest parents who were just able to give me a
• 3:51:43
  Speaker 1: tolerable education. That nobility among us was altogether a different
• 3:51:49
  Speaker 1: thing from the idea he had of it, that our
• 3:51:52
  Speaker 1: young noblemen are bred from their childhood in idleness and luxury,
• 3:51:57
  Speaker 1: that as soon as years will permit, they can assume
• 3:52:00
  Speaker 1: their vigor and contract odious diseases among lewde females, and
• 3:52:06
  Speaker 1: when their fortunes are almost ruined, they marry some woman
• 3:52:09
  Speaker 1: of mean birth, disagreeable person, and unsound constitution, merely for
• 3:52:15
  Speaker 1: the sake of money, whom they hate and despise. That
• 3:52:20
  Speaker 1: the productions of such marriages are generally scruffulous, rickety, or
• 3:52:24
  Speaker 1: deformed children, by which means the family seldom continues above
• 3:52:29
  Speaker 1: three generations, unless the wife takes care to provide a
• 3:52:33
  Speaker 1: healthy father among her neighbors or domestics in order to
• 3:52:37
  Speaker 1: improve and continue the breed. That a weak, diseased body,
• 3:52:42
  Speaker 1: a meeg countenance, and sallow complexion are the true marks
• 3:52:46
  Speaker 1: of noble blood, and a healthy, robust appearance is so
• 3:52:50
  Speaker 1: disgraceful in a man of quality that the world concludes
• 3:52:54
  Speaker 1: his real father to have been a groom or a coachman.
• 3:52:59
  Speaker 1: The imperfections of her mind run parallel with those of
• 3:53:01
  Speaker 1: his body, being a composition of spleen, dullness, ignorance, caprice, sensuality,
• 3:53:08
  Speaker 1: 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 a part 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 they yahoos.
• 3:54:03
  Speaker 1: But I must really 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 mouldiplying 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.
• 3:57:51
  Speaker 2: He called them, the yahoos in.
• 3:57:53
  Speaker 1: His country, That our institutions of government and law were
• 3:57:58
  Speaker 1: plainly owing to our growth defects in reason and by consequence,
• 3:58:02
  Speaker 1: in virtue. Because reason alone is sufficient to govern a
• 3:58:06
  Speaker 1: rational creature, which was therefore a character we had no
• 3:58:10
  Speaker 1: pretense to challenge, even from the account I had given
• 3:58:13
  Speaker 1: of my own people. Although he manifestly perceived that in
• 3:58:19
  Speaker 1: order to favor them, I had concealed many particulars and
• 3:58:23
  Speaker 1: often said the thing which was not. He was the
• 3:58:27
  Speaker 1: more confirmed in this opinion, because he observed that as
• 3:58:31
  Speaker 1: I agreed in every feature of my body with other Yahoos,
• 3:58:35
  Speaker 1: except where it was to my real disadvantage in point
• 3:58:37
  Speaker 1: of strength, speed and activity, the shortness of my clause,
• 3:58:42
  Speaker 1: and some other particulars where nature had no part, so
• 3:58:46
  Speaker 1: from the representation I had given him of our lives,
• 3:58:48
  Speaker 1: our manners, and our actions, he found as near a
• 3:58:52
  Speaker 1: resemblance in the disposition of our minds. He said, the
• 3:58:57
  Speaker 1: Yahoos were known to hate one another they did any
• 3:59:00
  Speaker 1: different species of animal, and the reason usually assigned was
• 3:59:05
  Speaker 1: the odiousness of their own shapes, which all could see
• 3:59:08
  Speaker 1: in the rest, but not in themselves. He had therefore
• 3:59:12
  Speaker 1: begun to think it not unwise in us to cover
• 3:59:15
  Speaker 1: our bodies, and by that invention conceal many of our
• 3:59:18
  Speaker 1: deformities from each other, which would else be hardly supportable.
• 3:59:24
  Speaker 1: That he now found he had been mistaken and that
• 3:59:28
  Speaker 1: the dissensions of those brutes in his country were owing
• 3:59:31
  Speaker 1: to the same cause with ours as I had described them.
• 3:59:36
  Speaker 1: For if said he ether are among five yahoos as
• 3:59:40
  Speaker 1: much food as would be sufficient for fifty, they will,
• 3:59:43
  Speaker 1: instead of eating peaceably, fall together by the ears, each
• 3:59:47
  Speaker 1: single one impatient to have all to itself. And therefore
• 3:59:51
  Speaker 1: a servant was usually employed to stand by while they
• 3:59:53
  Speaker 1: were feeding abroad, and those kept at home were tied
• 3:59:57
  Speaker 1: at a distance from each other. That if a cow
• 4:00:01
  Speaker 1: died of age or accident before Wynham could secure it
• 4:00:04
  Speaker 1: for his own yahoos, those in the neighborhood would come
• 4:00:07
  Speaker 1: in herds to seize it, and then would ensue such
• 4:00:10
  Speaker 1: a battle as I had described, with terrible wounds made
• 4:00:14
  Speaker 1: by their claws on both sides, although they seldom were
• 4:00:18
  Speaker 1: able to kill one another for want of such convenient
• 4:00:21
  Speaker 1: instruments of death as we had invented. At other times,
• 4:00:25
  Speaker 1: the like battles had been fought between the yahoos of
• 4:00:28
  Speaker 1: several neighborhoods without any visible cause. Those of one district
• 4:00:35
  Speaker 1: watching all opportunities to surprise the next.
• 4:00:38
  Speaker 2: Before they are prepared.
• 4:00:40
  Speaker 1: But if they find their project has miscarried, they return
• 4:00:43
  Speaker 1: home and for want of enemies engage in what I
• 4:00:47
  Speaker 1: call a civil war among themselves. That in some fields
• 4:00:52
  Speaker 1: of 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 as 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. My master would
• 4:03:01
  Speaker 1: needs contend to have some kind of resemblance with our
• 4:03:04
  Speaker 1: suits at law, wherein I thought it for our credit
• 4:03:07
  Speaker 1: not to undeceive him, since the decision he mentioned was
• 4:03:11
  Speaker 1: much more equitable than many decrees among us, because the
• 4:03:16
  Speaker 1: plaintive and defendant there lost nothing besides the stone they
• 4:03:19
  Speaker 1: contended for, Whereas our courts of equity would never have
• 4:03:23
  Speaker 1: 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 whos sought for with much eagerness,
• 4:04:23
  Speaker 1: and would suck it.
• 4:04:23
  Speaker 2: With great delight.
• 4:04:26
  Speaker 1: It produced in them the same effects that wine has
• 4:04:28
  Speaker 1: upon us. It would make them sometimes hug and sometimes
• 4:04:33
  Speaker 1: tear one another. They would howl and grin, and chatter,
• 4:04:37
  Speaker 1: and reel and tumble, and then 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 unhems 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 a worse can be found. But the
• 4:06:50
  Speaker 1: very moment he is discarded, his successor at the head
• 4:06:54
  Speaker 1: of all the yahoos in that district, young and old,
• 4:06:58
  Speaker 1: male and female, car in a body, and discharge their
• 4:07:02
  Speaker 1: excrements upon him from head to foot. But how far
• 4:07:06
  Speaker 1: this might be applicable to our courts and favorites and
• 4:07:08
  Speaker 1: ministers of state, my master said I could best determine,
• 4:07:14
  Speaker 1: I durst make no return to this malicious insinuation, which
• 4:07:18
  Speaker 1: debased human understanding below the sagacity of a common hound
• 4:07:23
  Speaker 1: who had judgment enough to distinguish and follow the cry
• 4:07:26
  Speaker 1: of the a blessed dog in the pack, without being
• 4:07:28
  Speaker 1: ever mistaken. My master told me there were some qualities
• 4:07:35
  Speaker 1: remarkable in the Yahoos, which he had not observed me
• 4:07:38
  Speaker 1: to mention, or at least very slightly in the accounts
• 4:07:42
  Speaker 1: I had given of humankind. He said, those animals, like
• 4:07:47
  Speaker 1: other brutes, had their females in common, but in this
• 4:07:52
  Speaker 1: they differed, that the she ya who 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 for 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 her all over, and then turn off with
• 4:10:58
  Speaker 1: gestures that seemed to express contempt and disdain. Perhaps my
• 4:11:03
  Speaker 1: master might refine a little in these speculations, which he
• 4:11:06
  Speaker 1: had drawn from what he had observed himself or had
• 4:11:09
  Speaker 1: been told by others. However, I could not reflect without
• 4:11:14
  Speaker 1: some 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.
• 4:13:10
  Speaker 2: Without my hanger.
• 4:13:13
  Speaker 1: And I have reason to believe they had some imagination
• 4:13:15
  Speaker 1: that I was of their own species, which I often
• 4:13:19
  Speaker 1: assisted myself by stripping up my sleeves and showing my
• 4:13:23
  Speaker 1: naked arms and breasts in their sight when my protector
• 4:13:26
  Speaker 1: was with me, at which times they would approach near
• 4:13:31
  Speaker 1: as they durst and imitate my actions after the manner
• 4:13:34
  Speaker 1: of monkeys. But ever, with great signs of hatred. As
• 4:13:40
  Speaker 1: a tame jackdaw with cap and stockings is always persecuted
• 4:13:43
  Speaker 1: by the wild ones when he happens to be got
• 4:13:45
  Speaker 1: 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 imp 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 aired.
• 4:15:05
  Speaker 2: 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
• 4:15:34
  Speaker 1: insolent abject and cruel. It is observed that to the
• 4:15:39
  Speaker 1: red head of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous
• 4:15:43
  Speaker 1: than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength
• 4:15:46
  Speaker 1: and activity. The Huynhums keep the yahoos for present use
• 4:15:52
  Speaker 1: in huts not far from the house, but the rest
• 4:15:56
  Speaker 1: are sent abroad to certain fields, where they dig up roots,
• 4:16:00
  Speaker 1: eat several kinds of herbs, and search about for carrion,
• 4:16:05
  Speaker 1: or sometimes catch Weasels. All are himmers, a sort of
• 4:16:09
  Speaker 1: wild rat, which they greedily devour. Nature has taught them
• 4:16:15
  Speaker 1: to dig deep holes with their nails on the side
• 4:16:17
  Speaker 1: of a rising ground, wherein they lie by themselves. Only
• 4:16:22
  Speaker 1: The kennels of the females are larger, sufficient to hold
• 4:16:26
  Speaker 1: two or three cubs. They swim from their infancy like frogs,
• 4:16:32
  Speaker 1: and are able to continue long under water, where they
• 4:16:35
  Speaker 1: often 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 vennums 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,
• 4:19:46
  Speaker 1: wrangling disputes, and positiveness in false or dubious propositions are
• 4:19:52
  Speaker 1: evils unknown among the Whinnhums. In the like manner, when
• 4:19:57
  Speaker 1: I used to explain to him our several systems of
• 4:19:59
  Speaker 1: nat or philosophy, he would laugh that a creature pretending
• 4:20:04
  Speaker 1: to reason should value itself upon the knowledge of other
• 4:20:06
  Speaker 1: people's conjectures, and in things with that knowledge, if it
• 4:20:10
  Speaker 1: 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 particular objects, but universal to the whole race.
• 4:20:48
  Speaker 1: For a stranger from the remotest part is equally treated
• 4:20:52
  Speaker 1: with the nearest neighbor, and wherever he goes, looks upon
• 4:20:55
  Speaker 1: himself as at home. They preserve decency in civilty and
• 4:21:00
  Speaker 1: the highest degrees, but are altogether ignorant of ceremony. They
• 4:21:05
  Speaker 1: have no fondness for their cults or foals. But the
• 4:21:09
  Speaker 1: care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the
• 4:21:12
  Speaker 1: dictates of reason. And I observed my master to show
• 4:21:16
  Speaker 1: the same affection to his neighbour's issue that he had
• 4:21:19
  Speaker 1: 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.
• 4:23:58
  Speaker 2: Part 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
• 4:24:34
  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 Wynhams, 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 Winnams, 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 Yiemshi or
• 4:28:47
  Speaker 1: aborigines of.
• 4:28:47
  Speaker 2: 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
• 4:31:08
  Speaker 1: animal and held the hoynums in servitude, that he observed
• 4:31:13
  Speaker 1: in me all the qualities of a Yahoo, only a
• 4:31:16
  Speaker 1: little more civilized by some tincature of reason, which however,
• 4:31:20
  Speaker 1: was in a degree as far inferior to the Whinham
• 4:31:23
  Speaker 1: race 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 lahanna, 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
• 4:34:29
  Speaker 1: old 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.
• 4:34:49
  Speaker 2: The roof is.
• 4:34:50
  Speaker 1: Made after the same manner, and so are the doors.
• 4:34:54
  Speaker 1: The Winhams use the hollow part between the pastern and
• 4:34:57
  Speaker 1: the hoof of their forefoot as we do our hands,
• 4:35:01
  Speaker 1: and this with greater dexterity than I could at first imagine.
• 4:35:05
  Speaker 1: I have seen a white mare of our family thread
• 4:35:07
  Speaker 1: a needle which I lent her on purpose. With that joint,
• 4:35:12
  Speaker 1: they milk their cows, reap their oats, and do all
• 4:35:16
  Speaker 1: the work which requires hands. In the same manner. They
• 4:35:20
  Speaker 1: have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against
• 4:35:23
  Speaker 1: other stones, they form into instruments that serve instead of wedges,
• 4:35:28
  Speaker 1: axes and hammers. With tools made of these flints, they
• 4:35:33
  Speaker 1: likewise cut their hay and reap their oats, which they
• 4:35:36
  Speaker 1: grow 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.
• 4:36:39
  Speaker 2: To schnew one.
• 4:36:41
  Speaker 1: The word is strongly expressive in their language, but not
• 4:36:45
  Speaker 1: easily rendered into English. It signifies to retire. To his
• 4:36:50
  Speaker 1: first mother, her excuse for not coming sooner was that
• 4:36:55
  Speaker 1: her husband dying late in the morning. She was a
• 4:36:58
  Speaker 1: good while consulting her servants about a convenient place where
• 4:37:02
  Speaker 1: his body should be laid, and I observed she behaved
• 4:37:05
  Speaker 1: herself at our house as cheerfully as the rest. She
• 4:37:09
  Speaker 1: died about three months after. They live generally to seventy
• 4:37:15
  Speaker 1: or seventy five years, very seldom to forescore. Some weeks
• 4:37:20
  Speaker 1: before their death, they feel a gradual decay, but without pain.
• 4:37:24
  Speaker 1: During this time they are much visited by their friends,
• 4:37:27
  Speaker 1: because they cannot go abroad with their usual ease and satisfaction. However,
• 4:37:33
  Speaker 1: about ten days before their death, which they seldom fail
• 4:37:36
  Speaker 1: in computing. They return the visits that have been made
• 4:37:39
  Speaker 1: and by those who are nearest in the neighborhood, being
• 4:37:43
  Speaker 1: carried in a convenient sledge drawn by Yahoos, which vehicle
• 4:37:47
  Speaker 1: they use not only upon this occasion, but when they
• 4:37:51
  Speaker 1: grow old upon long journeys, or when they are lamed
• 4:37:54
  Speaker 1: by any accident. And therefore, when the dying Quinnums return
• 4:37:58
  Speaker 1: those visits, they take us off on leave of their friends,
• 4:38:02
  Speaker 1: as if they were going to some remote part of
• 4:38:04
  Speaker 1: the country 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 haamdawolma Yahoo, and an ill contrived house
• 4:38:46
  Speaker 1: yinholm han ro homnah Yahoo I could with great pleasure
• 4:38:52
  Speaker 1: enlarge further upon the manners and virtues of this excellent people,
• 4:38:57
  Speaker 1: but intending in a short time to publish a volume
• 4:39:00
  Speaker 1: by itself expressly upon that subject. I refer the reader thither,
• 4:39:05
  Speaker 1: and in the meantime proceed to relate my own sad catastrophe.
• 4:39:11
  Speaker 1: End apart four, Chapter nine, Chapter ten. The Author's economy
• 4:39:17
  Speaker 1: and happy life among the Whinnams, his great improvement and
• 4:39:21
  Speaker 1: virtue by conversing with them. Their conversations, the author has
• 4:39:27
  Speaker 1: notice given him by his master that he must depart
• 4:39:30
  Speaker 1: from the country. He falls and a swoon for grief,
• 4:39:33
  Speaker 1: but submits. He contrives and finishes a canoe by the
• 4:39:37
  Speaker 1: help of a fellow's servant, and puts to sea at
• 4:39:40
  Speaker 1: a venture. I had settled my little economy to my
• 4:39:45
  Speaker 1: own heart's content. My master had ordered a room to
• 4:39:48
  Speaker 1: be made for me after their manner, about six yards
• 4:39:52
  Speaker 1: from the house, the sides and floors of which I
• 4:39:55
  Speaker 1: plastered with clay and covered with rush mats of my
• 4:39:58
  Speaker 1: own contriving. I had beaten hemp, which there grows wild,
• 4:40:04
  Speaker 1: and made of it a sort of tickling. This I
• 4:40:07
  Speaker 1: filled with the feathers of several birds. I had taken
• 4:40:10
  Speaker 1: with springs made of yahoo's hairs and were excellent food.
• 4:40:16
  Speaker 1: I had worked two chairs with my knife, the sorrel
• 4:40:19
  Speaker 1: nag helping me in the grosser and more laborious part.
• 4:40:24
  Speaker 1: When my clothes were worn to rags, I made myself
• 4:40:26
  Speaker 1: others with the skins of rabbits and of a certain
• 4:40:29
  Speaker 1: beautiful animal about the same size, called nahano, the skin
• 4:40:35
  Speaker 1: of which is covered with a fine down. Of these
• 4:40:39
  Speaker 1: I also made very tolerable stockings. I sold my shoes
• 4:40:43
  Speaker 1: with wood, which I cut from a tree and fitted
• 4:40:46
  Speaker 1: to the upper leather, And when this was worn out,
• 4:40:49
  Speaker 1: I supplied it with the skins of yahoos dried in
• 4:40:52
  Speaker 1: the sun. I often got honey out of hollow trees,
• 4:40:57
  Speaker 1: which I mingled with water or ate with my breath.
• 4:41:01
  Speaker 1: No man could more verify the truth of these two maxims,
• 4:41:05
  Speaker 1: that nature is very easily satisfied, and that necessity is
• 4:41:09
  Speaker 1: the mother of invention. I enjoyed perfect health of body
• 4:41:13
  Speaker 1: and tranquility of mind. I did not feel the treachery
• 4:41:17
  Speaker 1: or inconsistency of a friend, nor the injuries of a
• 4:41:20
  Speaker 1: secret or open enemy. I had no occasion of bribing, flattering,
• 4:41:25
  Speaker 1: or pimping to procure the favor of any great man
• 4:41:28
  Speaker 1: or his minion. I wanted no offense against fraud or oppression.
• 4:41:33
  Speaker 1: Here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer
• 4:41:37
  Speaker 1: to ruin my fortune, no informer to watch my words
• 4:41:41
  Speaker 1: and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire. Here
• 4:41:46
  Speaker 1: 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
• 4:42:28
  Speaker 1: lude expensive wives, No stupid proud pedants. No importunate, overbearing
• 4:42:35
  Speaker 1: quarrelsome noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions. No scoundrels raised
• 4:42:42
  Speaker 1: from the dust upon the merit of their vices, on
• 4:42:45
  Speaker 1: nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues. No lords, fiddlers, judges,
• 4:42:50
  Speaker 1: or dancing masters. I had the favour of being admitted
• 4:42:56
  Speaker 1: to several Winnhams who came to visit or dine with
• 4:42:59
  Speaker 1: my Master, where his honor graciously suffered me to wait
• 4:43:02
  Speaker 1: in the room and listen to their discourse. Both he
• 4:43:06
  Speaker 1: and his company would often descend to ask me questions
• 4:43:09
  Speaker 1: and receive my answers. I had also sometimes the honor
• 4:43:14
  Speaker 1: of attending my Master in his visits to others. I
• 4:43:18
  Speaker 1: never presumed to speak except in answer to a question,
• 4:43:22
  Speaker 1: and then I did it withinward regret because it was
• 4:43:25
  Speaker 1: a loss of so much time for improving myself. But
• 4:43:29
  Speaker 1: I was infinitely delighted with the situation of a humble
• 4:43:32
  Speaker 1: auditor in such conversations, where nothing passed but what was
• 4:43:37
  Speaker 1: useful expressed in the fewest and most significant words. Where
• 4:43:43
  Speaker 1: As I have already said, the greatest decency was observed
• 4:43:46
  Speaker 1: without the least degree of ceremony, where no person spoke
• 4:43:51
  Speaker 1: without being pleased himself and pleasing his companions, where there
• 4:43:55
  Speaker 1: was no interruption, tediousness, heat, or difference of sentiments. They
• 4:44:01
  Speaker 1: have a notion that when people are met together, a
• 4:44:04
  Speaker 1: short silence does much improve the conversation. This I found
• 4:44:09
  Speaker 1: to be true, for during those little intermissions of talk,
• 4:44:13
  Speaker 1: new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much
• 4:44:16
  Speaker 1: enlivened the discourse. Their subjects are generally un friendship and benevolence,
• 4:44:23
  Speaker 1: on order and economy, sometimes upon the visible operations of
• 4:44:27
  Speaker 1: nature or ancient traditions, upon the bounds and limits of virtue,
• 4:44:33
  Speaker 1: upon the unerring rules of reason, or upon some determinations
• 4:44:37
  Speaker 1: to be taken at the next general assembly, and often
• 4:44:40
  Speaker 1: upon the various excellences of poetry. I may add without
• 4:44:45
  Speaker 1: vanity that my presence often gave them sufficient matter for discourse,
• 4:44:50
  Speaker 1: because it afforded my master an occasion of letting his
• 4:44:53
  Speaker 1: friends into the history of me and my country, upon
• 4:44:58
  Speaker 1: which they were all pleased to discount in a manner
• 4:45:01
  Speaker 1: not very advantageous to human kind. And for that reason
• 4:45:05
  Speaker 1: I shall not repeat what they said. Only I may
• 4:45:08
  Speaker 1: be allowed to observe that his Honor, to my great admiration,
• 4:45:12
  Speaker 1: appeared 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 mangled with
• 4:46:22
  Speaker 1: a respectful love and gratitude that they would condescend to
• 4:46:26
  Speaker 1: distinguish me from the rest of my species or the
• 4:46:31
  Speaker 1: human 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 fel 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.
• 4:48:46
  Speaker 2: That.
• 4:48:46
  Speaker 1: The first of these expedients was utterly rejected by all
• 4:48:50
  Speaker 1: the Whinnams who had ever seen me at his house
• 4:48:52
  Speaker 1: or their own, For they alleged that because I had
• 4:48:55
  Speaker 1: some rudiments of reason added to the natural gravity of
• 4:48:59
  Speaker 1: those animals, it was to be feared I might be
• 4:49:02
  Speaker 1: able to seduce them into the woody and mountainous parts
• 4:49:05
  Speaker 1: of the country, and bring them in troops by night
• 4:49:08
  Speaker 1: to destroy the Huynam's cattle. As being naturally of the
• 4:49:11
  Speaker 1: ravenous kind and averse from labor, my master added that
• 4:49:17
  Speaker 1: he was daily pressed by the hunims of the neighborhood
• 4:49:20
  Speaker 1: to have the assemblies exhortation executed, which he could not
• 4:49:24
  Speaker 1: put off much longer. He doubted it would be impossible
• 4:49:28
  Speaker 1: for me to swim to another country, and therefore wished
• 4:49:31
  Speaker 1: I would contrive some sort of vehicle resembling those I
• 4:49:35
  Speaker 1: had described to him, that might carry me on the sea,
• 4:49:39
  Speaker 1: in which work I should have the assistance of his
• 4:49:41
  Speaker 1: own servants as well as those of his neighbors. He
• 4:49:45
  Speaker 1: concluded that for his own part, he could have been
• 4:49:49
  Speaker 1: content to keep me in his service as long as
• 4:49:51
  Speaker 1: I lived, because he found I had cured myself of
• 4:49:54
  Speaker 1: some bad habits and dispositions by endeavoring as far as
• 4:49:59
  Speaker 1: my inferior nature was capable to imitate the whinnams. I
• 4:50:04
  Speaker 1: should here observed to the reader that a decree of
• 4:50:07
  Speaker 1: the General Assembly in this country expressed by the word
• 4:50:11
  Speaker 1: hun holnayan, which signifies an exhortation, as near as I
• 4:50:16
  Speaker 1: commnder it. For they have no conception how a rational
• 4:50:20
  Speaker 1: creature can be compelled, but only advised or exhorted, because
• 4:50:24
  Speaker 1: no person can disobey reason without giving up his claim
• 4:50:28
  Speaker 1: to be a rational creature. I was struck with the
• 4:50:33
  Speaker 1: utmost grief and despair at my master's discourse, and being
• 4:50:38
  Speaker 1: unable to support the agonies I was under, I fell
• 4:50:40
  Speaker 1: into a swoon at his feet. When I came to myself,
• 4:50:45
  Speaker 1: he told me that he concluded I had been dead,
• 4:50:49
  Speaker 1: for these people are a subject to know such imbecilities
• 4:50:52
  Speaker 1: of nature. I answered, in a faint voice, that death
• 4:50:56
  Speaker 1: would have been too great a happiness. That although I
• 4:51:00
  Speaker 1: could not blame the assembly's exhortation or the urgency of
• 4:51:03
  Speaker 1: his friends, yet in my weak and corrupt judgment, I've
• 4:51:08
  Speaker 1: thought it might consist with reason to have been less rigorous,
• 4:51:12
  Speaker 1: that I could not swimmer league, and probably the nearest
• 4:51:14
  Speaker 1: land to theirs might be a distance above a hundred
• 4:51:18
  Speaker 1: That many materials necessary for making a small vessel to
• 4:51:21
  Speaker 1: carry me off were wholly wanting in this country, which, however,
• 4:51:26
  Speaker 1: I would attempt in obedience and gratitude to his honor.
• 4:51:30
  Speaker 1: Although I concluded the thing to be impossible, and therefore
• 4:51:34
  Speaker 1: looked on myself as already devoted to destruction, that the
• 4:51:39
  Speaker 1: certain prospect of an unnatural death was the least of
• 4:51:42
  Speaker 1: my evils. For supposing I should escape with my life
• 4:51:46
  Speaker 1: by some strange to venture, How could I think, with
• 4:51:49
  Speaker 1: temper of passing my days among yahoos and relapsing into
• 4:51:53
  Speaker 1: my old corruptions for want of examples to lead and
• 4:51:56
  Speaker 1: keep me within the paths of virtue that I knew
• 4:52:00
  Speaker 1: too well, upon what solid reasons, all the determinations of
• 4:52:04
  Speaker 1: the wise Whinnhams were founded not to be shaken by
• 4:52:07
  Speaker 1: arguments of mine, a miserable yahoo. And therefore, after presenting
• 4:52:14
  Speaker 1: him with my humble thanks for the offer of his
• 4:52:15
  Speaker 1: servant's assistance in making a vessel, and desiring a reasonable
• 4:52:19
  Speaker 1: time for so difficult a work, I told him I
• 4:52:22
  Speaker 1: would endeavor to preserve a wretched being, and if I
• 4:52:26
  Speaker 1: ever returned to England, 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
• 4:54:11
  Speaker 1: staff and some larger pieces. But I shall not trouble
• 4:54:16
  Speaker 1: the reader with a particular description of my own mechanics.
• 4:54:20
  Speaker 1: Let it suffice to say that in six weeks time,
• 4:54:23
  Speaker 1: with the help of the sorrel Nag, who performed the
• 4:54:26
  Speaker 1: parts that required most labor, I finished a sort of
• 4:54:30
  Speaker 1: Indian canoe, but much larger, covering it with the skins
• 4:54:34
  Speaker 1: of yahoos wel stitched together with hemp and threads of
• 4:54:37
  Speaker 1: my own making. My sail was likewise composed of the
• 4:54:42
  Speaker 1: skins of the same animal, but I made use of
• 4:54:44
  Speaker 1: the youngest I could get, the older being too tough
• 4:54:47
  Speaker 1: and thick, and I likewise provided myself with four paddles.
• 4:54:53
  Speaker 1: I laid in a stock of boiled flesh of rabbits
• 4:54:56
  Speaker 1: and fowls, and took with me two vessels, one filled
• 4:55:00
  Speaker 1: with milk and the other with water. I tried my
• 4:55:04
  Speaker 1: canoe in a large pond near my master's house, and
• 4:55:07
  Speaker 1: then corrected in it what was amiss, stopping all the
• 4:55:11
  Speaker 1: chinks with yahoo's tallow till I found its staunch and
• 4:55:15
  Speaker 1: able to bear me and my freight. And when it
• 4:55:19
  Speaker 1: was as complete as I could make it, I had
• 4:55:21
  Speaker 1: it drawn on a carriage very gently by yahoos to
• 4:55:24
  Speaker 1: the seaside, under the conduct of the sorrel Nag and
• 4:55:27
  Speaker 1: another servant. When I was ready and the day came
• 4:55:31
  Speaker 1: from my departure, I took leave of my master and
• 4:55:34
  Speaker 1: lady and the whole family, my eyes flowing with tears,
• 4:55:38
  Speaker 1: and my heart quite sunk with grief.
• 4:55:42
  Speaker 2: But his honor, out of.
• 4:55:43
  Speaker 1: Curiosity, and perhaps, if I may speak without vanity, partly
• 4:55:48
  Speaker 1: out of kindness, was determined to see me in my canoe,
• 4:55:53
  Speaker 1: and got several of his neighboring friends to accompany him.
• 4:55:58
  Speaker 1: I was forced to wait above an hour for the tide,
• 4:56:01
  Speaker 1: and then, observing the wind very fortunately bearing towards the
• 4:56:04
  Speaker 1: island to which I intended to steer my course, I
• 4:56:08
  Speaker 1: took a second leaf of my master, But as I
• 4:56:12
  Speaker 1: was going to prostrate myself to kiss his hoof, he
• 4:56:15
  Speaker 1: did me the honor to raise it gently to my mouth.
• 4:56:20
  Speaker 1: I am not ignorant how much I have been censured
• 4:56:22
  Speaker 1: for mentioning this last particular detractors are pleased to think
• 4:56:27
  Speaker 1: it improbable that so illustrious a person should descend to
• 4:56:30
  Speaker 1: give so great a mark of distinction to a creature
• 4:56:33
  Speaker 1: so inferior as I neither have I forgotten how apt
• 4:56:37
  Speaker 1: some travelers are to boast of extraordinary favors they have received.
• 4:56:42
  Speaker 1: But if these censures were better acquainted with the noble
• 4:56:45
  Speaker 1: and courteous dispositions of the Whinnams, they would soon change
• 4:56:49
  Speaker 1: their opinion. I paid my respects to the rest of
• 4:56:53
  Speaker 1: the Winhams in his Honor's company. Then, getting into my canoe,
• 4:56:57
  Speaker 1: I pushed off from shore and apart four Chapter ten,
• 4:57:03
  Speaker 1: Chapter eleven the Author's dangerous voyage. He arrives at New Holland,
• 4:57:09
  Speaker 1: hoping to settle there, is wounded with an arrow by
• 4:57:12
  Speaker 1: one of the natives, is seized and carried by force
• 4:57:15
  Speaker 1: into a Portuguese ship the great civilities of the captain.
• 4:57:20
  Speaker 1: The author arrives at England. I began this desperate voyage
• 4:57:26
  Speaker 1: on February fifteen, seventeen, fourteen fifteen, at nine o'clock in
• 4:57:31
  Speaker 1: the morning. The wind was very favorable. However, I made
• 4:57:36
  Speaker 1: use at first only of my paddles. But considering I
• 4:57:40
  Speaker 1: should soon be weary and that the wind might chop about,
• 4:57:44
  Speaker 1: I ventured to set up my little sail, and thus,
• 4:57:47
  Speaker 1: with the help of the tide, I went at the
• 4:57:50
  Speaker 1: rate of a league and a half an hour. As
• 4:57:52
  Speaker 1: near as I could guess, my master and his friends
• 4:57:56
  Speaker 1: continued 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 date 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.
• 5:01:33
  Speaker 2: Yards from me.
• 5:01:35
  Speaker 1: They 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, and,
• 5:01:54
  Speaker 1: getting into my canoe, shoved off. The savages, observing me retreat,
• 5:01:59
  Speaker 1: ran up after me, and before I could get far
• 5:02:02
  Speaker 1: enough into the sea, discharged an arrow which wounded me
• 5:02:06
  Speaker 1: deeply on the inside of my left knee. I shall
• 5:02:09
  Speaker 1: carry the mark to my grave. I apprehended the arrow
• 5:02:15
  Speaker 1: might be poisoned, and paddling out of reach of their darts.
• 5:02:19
  Speaker 1: Being a calm day, I made a shift to suck
• 5:02:22
  Speaker 1: the wound and dress it as well as I could.
• 5:02:26
  Speaker 1: I was at a loss what to do, for I
• 5:02:28
  Speaker 1: durst not return to the same landing place, but stood
• 5:02:32
  Speaker 1: to the north and was forced to paddle for the wind,
• 5:02:36
  Speaker 1: though very gentle was against me, blowing northwest. As I
• 5:02:42
  Speaker 1: was looking about for a secure landing place, I saw
• 5:02:45
  Speaker 1: a sail to the north northeast, which appearing every minute
• 5:02:49
  Speaker 1: more visible. I was in some doubt whether I should
• 5:02:52
  Speaker 1: wait for them or not. But at last my detestation
• 5:02:57
  Speaker 1: of the yahoo race prevailed, and turning my canoe, I
• 5:03:01
  Speaker 1: sailed and paddled together to the south and got into
• 5:03:04
  Speaker 1: the same creek. Whence I set out in the morning,
• 5:03:08
  Speaker 1: choosing rather to trust myself among these barbarians then live
• 5:03:12
  Speaker 1: with the European yahoos. I drew up my canoe as
• 5:03:17
  Speaker 1: close as I could to the shore, and hid myself
• 5:03:19
  Speaker 1: behind a stone by the little brook, which, as I
• 5:03:23
  Speaker 1: have already said, was excellent water. The ship came within
• 5:03:29
  Speaker 1: half a league of this creek and sent a longboat
• 5:03:31
  Speaker 1: with vessels to take in fresh water. For the place,
• 5:03:35
  Speaker 1: it seems, was very well known, but I did not
• 5:03:38
  Speaker 1: observe it till the boat was almost on shore, and
• 5:03:42
  Speaker 1: it was too late to seek another hiding place.
• 5:03:45
  Speaker 2: The sea.
• 5:03:46
  Speaker 1: Minute they landing, observed my canoe, and, drummaging it all over,
• 5:03:50
  Speaker 1: easily conjectured that the owner could not be far off.
• 5:03:56
  Speaker 1: Four of them, well armed, searched every cranny and lurking hole,
• 5:04:00
  Speaker 1: till at last they found me flat on my face
• 5:04:03
  Speaker 1: behind the stone. They gazed awhile in admiration at my
• 5:04:08
  Speaker 1: strange uncouth dress, my coat made of skins, my wooden
• 5:04:12
  Speaker 1: soled shoes, and my third stockings. Whence, however, they concluded
• 5:04:19
  Speaker 1: I was not a native of the place, who all
• 5:04:21
  Speaker 1: go naked. One of the seamen in Portuguese bid me
• 5:04:27
  Speaker 1: rise and asked who I was. I understood that language
• 5:04:31
  Speaker 1: very well, and getting upon my feet, said I was
• 5:04:35
  Speaker 1: a poor Yahoo, banished from the whinnams, and desired they
• 5:04:39
  Speaker 1: would please to let me depart. They admired to hear
• 5:04:44
  Speaker 1: me answer them in their own tongue, and saw by
• 5:04:46
  Speaker 1: my complexion I must be a European, but were at
• 5:04:50
  Speaker 1: a last to know what I meant by yahoos and whinnams,
• 5:04:55
  Speaker 1: and at the same time fell a laughing at my
• 5:04:58
  Speaker 1: strange tone in speaking, which resembled the neighing of a horse.
• 5:05:03
  Speaker 1: I trembled all the while, betwixt fear and hatred. I
• 5:05:07
  Speaker 1: again desired leave to depart, and was gently moving to
• 5:05:11
  Speaker 1: my canoe, but they laid hold of me, desiring to
• 5:05:14
  Speaker 1: know what country I was of whence I came, with
• 5:05:18
  Speaker 1: many other questions.
• 5:05:22
  Speaker 2: I told them I was born.
• 5:05:23
  Speaker 1: In England whence I came about five years ago, and
• 5:05:27
  Speaker 1: 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 if 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.
• 5:06:23
  Speaker 2: Seen, and receive his orders.
• 5:06:26
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, unless I would give my solemn oath
• 5:06:29
  Speaker 1: not to fly, they would secure me by force. I
• 5:06:34
  Speaker 1: thought it best to comply with their proposal. They were
• 5:06:38
  Speaker 1: very curious to know my story, but I gave them
• 5:06:41
  Speaker 1: very little satisfaction, and they all conjectured that my misfortunes
• 5:06:45
  Speaker 1: had impaired my reason. In two hours, the boat, which
• 5:06:50
  Speaker 1: was laden with vessels of water, returned, with the captain's
• 5:06:53
  Speaker 1: command to fetch me on board. I fell on my
• 5:06:57
  Speaker 1: knees to preserve my liberty, but all was in vain
• 5:07:00
  Speaker 1: and the men, having tied me with cords, heed me
• 5:07:04
  Speaker 1: into the boat. Whence I was taken into the ship,
• 5:07:07
  Speaker 1: and thence into the captain's cabin. His name was Pedro
• 5:07:12
  Speaker 1: de Mendez. He was a very courteous and generous person.
• 5:07:17
  Speaker 1: He entreated me to give some account of myself, and
• 5:07:20
  Speaker 1: desired to know what I would eat or drink. Said
• 5:07:24
  Speaker 1: I should be used as well as himself, and spoke
• 5:07:27
  Speaker 1: so many obliging things that I wondered to find such
• 5:07:31
  Speaker 1: 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 getting to 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 alie from the meanest servant that
• 5:09:32
  Speaker 1: 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 till
• 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 Whinnams,
• 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 the 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 2: He said.
• 5:13:50
  Speaker 1: It was altogether impossible to find such a solitary island
• 5:13:53
  Speaker 1: as I desired to live in.
• 5:13:55
  Speaker 2: But I might.
• 5:13:56
  Speaker 1: Command in my own house and pass my time in
• 5:13:59
  Speaker 1: a manner as loose as I pleased. I complied at last,
• 5:14:04
  Speaker 1: finding I could not do better. I left Lisbon the
• 5:14:08
  Speaker 1: twenty fourth day of November in an English merchantman. But
• 5:14:12
  Speaker 1: who was the master? I never inquired. Don Pedro accompanied
• 5:14:17
  Speaker 1: me to the ship and lent me twenty pounds. He
• 5:14:21
  Speaker 1: took kind leave of me and embraced me at a
• 5:14:23
  Speaker 1: parting which I bore as well as I could. During
• 5:14:28
  Speaker 1: this last voyage, I had no commerce with the Master
• 5:14:31
  Speaker 1: 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.
• 5:16:15
  Speaker 2: To this hour.
• 5:16:16
  Speaker 1: They dare not presume to touch my bread or drink
• 5:16:18
  Speaker 1: out of the same cup. Neither was I ever able
• 5:16:22
  Speaker 1: to let one of them take me by the hand.
• 5:16:25
  Speaker 1: The first money I laid out was to buy two
• 5:16:28
  Speaker 1: young stone horses, which I keep in a good stable,
• 5:16:32
  Speaker 1: and next to them. The groom is my greatest favorite,
• 5:16:35
  Speaker 1: for I feel my spirits revived by the smell he
• 5:16:38
  Speaker 1: contracts in the stables. My horses understand me tolerably well.
• 5:16:44
  Speaker 1: I converse with them at least four hours every day.
• 5:16:47
  Speaker 1: 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 a 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 privincible design
• 5:18:00
  Speaker 1: was to inform and not.
• 5:18:02
  Speaker 2: To amuse THEE.
• 5:18:05
  Speaker 1: It is easy for us, who travel into remote countries
• 5:18:08
  Speaker 1: which are seldom visited by Englishmen or other Europeans, to
• 5:18:12
  Speaker 1: form descriptions of wonderful animals, both at sea and land.
• 5:18:17
  Speaker 1: Whereas a traveler's chief aim should be to make men
• 5:18:20
  Speaker 1: wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the
• 5:18:23
  Speaker 1: bad as well as good example of what they deliver
• 5:18:26
  Speaker 1: concerning foreign places, I could heartily wish a law was
• 5:18:31
  Speaker 1: enacted that every traveler, before he were permitted to publish
• 5:18:35
  Speaker 1: his voyages, should be obliged to make oath before the
• 5:18:39
  Speaker 1: Lord High Chancellor that all he intended to print was
• 5:18:42
  Speaker 1: absolute truth, to the best of his knowledge. For then
• 5:18:46
  Speaker 1: the world would no longer be deceived as it usually is.
• 5:18:50
  Speaker 1: While some writers, to make their works pass the better
• 5:18:53
  Speaker 1: upon the public, impose the grossest falsities on the unwary reader.
• 5:18:59
  Speaker 1: I have peru used several books of travel with great
• 5:19:02
  Speaker 1: delight in my younger days, but having since gone over
• 5:19:06
  Speaker 1: most parts of the globe and been able to contradict
• 5:19:09
  Speaker 1: many fabulous accounts for my own observation, it has given
• 5:19:12
  Speaker 1: me a great disgust against this part of reading, and
• 5:19:16
  Speaker 1: some indignation 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 Whinnams
• 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 Rum Fortuna sinnenum fornixit
• 5:19:58
  Speaker 1: varanum etiam mendac qui improba finget. I know very well
• 5:20:04
  Speaker 1: how little reputation is to be got by writings which
• 5:20:07
  Speaker 1: require neither genius, nor learning, nor indeed any other talent
• 5:20:11
  Speaker 1: except a good memory or an exact journal. I know
• 5:20:16
  Speaker 1: likewise that writers of travels, like dictionary makers, are sunk
• 5:20:21
  Speaker 1: into oblivion by the weight and bulk of those who
• 5:20:23
  Speaker 1: came last, and therefore lie uppermost.
• 5:20:28
  Speaker 2: 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,
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  Speaker 1: and rather leave the judicious reader to his own remarks
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  Speaker 1: and application. I am not a little pleased that this
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  Speaker 1: work of mine can possibly meet with no censures. For
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  Speaker 1: what objections can be made against a writer who relates
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  Speaker 1: only plain facts that happened in such distant countries, where
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  Speaker 1: we have not the least interest with respect either to
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  Speaker 1: trade or negotiations. I have carefully avoided every fault with
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  Speaker 1: which common writers of travels are often and too justly charged. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: I medtle not the least with any party, but write
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  Speaker 1: without passion, prejudice, or ill will against any man or
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  Speaker 1: number of men whatsoever. I write for the noblest end
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  Speaker 1: to inform and instruct mankind, over whom I may, without
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  Speaker 1: breach of modesty, pretend to some superiority from the advantages
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  Speaker 1: I received from conversing so long among the most accomplished winnhems.
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  Speaker 1: I write without any view to profit or praise. I
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  Speaker 1: never suffer a word to pass that may look like reflection,
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  Speaker 1: or possibly give the least offense, even to those who
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  Speaker 1: are most ready to take it, so that I hope
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  Speaker 1: I may with justice pronounce myself an author perfectly blameeness
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  Speaker 1: 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 tals talents. I confess it was whispered to me
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  Speaker 1: that I was bound, in duty as a subject of
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  Speaker 1: England to have given a memorial to a Secretary of
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  Speaker 1: State at my first coming over, because whatever lands are
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  Speaker 1: discovered by a subject belong to the crown. But I
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  Speaker 1: doubt whether our conquests in the countries I treat of
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  Speaker 1: would be as easy of those of Ferdinando Cortes Over
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  Speaker 1: the naked Americans. The Liliputians, I think, are hardly worth
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  Speaker 1: the charge of a fleet and army to reduce them.
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  Speaker 1: And I question whether it might be prudent or safe
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  Speaker 1: to attempt the Brobyn Nagians, or whether an English army
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  Speaker 1: would be much at their ease with the flying island
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  Speaker 1: over their heads. The Whinnams indeed appear not to be
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  Speaker 1: so well prepared for war, a science to which they
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  Speaker 1: are perfect strangers, and especially against missive weapons. However, supposing
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  Speaker 1: myself be a minister of state, I could never give
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  Speaker 1: my 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.
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  Speaker 2: All 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: fattering 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 thecalcitrat 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.
• 5:25:16
  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.
• 5:25:27
  Speaker 1: They know not whither. At length, the boy discovers lad
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  Speaker 1: from the topmast. They go on shore to rob and plunder.
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  Speaker 1: They see a harmless people are entertained with kindness. They
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  Speaker 1: give the country a new name. They take formal possession
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  Speaker 1: of it for their king. They set up a rotten
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  Speaker 1: plank or a stone for a memorial. They murder two
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  Speaker 1: or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple
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  Speaker 1: more by force for a sample, return home, and get
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  Speaker 1: to their pardon. Here commences a new dominion, acquired with
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  Speaker 1: a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the
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  Speaker 1: first opportunity, the natives driven out or destroyed, their princes
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  Speaker 1: tortured to discover their gold. A free license given to
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  Speaker 1: all acts of inhumanity and lust. The earth reeking with
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  Speaker 1: the blood of its inhabitants, and this excretable crew of
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  Speaker 1: butchers employed in so pious an expedition is a modern
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  Speaker 1: colony sent to convert and civilize an idolterous and barbarious people.
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  Speaker 1: That this description, I confess, does by no means affect
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  Speaker 1: the British nation, who may be an example to the
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  Speaker 1: whole world for their wisdom, care and justice, implanting colonies,
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  Speaker 1: their liberal endowments for the advancement of religion and learning,
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  Speaker 1: their choice of devout and able pastors to propagate Christianity,
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  Speaker 1: their cautions stuck in their provinces with people of sober lives,
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  Speaker 1: and conversations from this the Mother Kingdom, Their strict regard
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  Speaker 1: to the distribution of justice, in supplying the civil administration
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  Speaker 1: through all their colonies with officers of the greatest abilities,
• 5:27:07
  Speaker 1: are as strange as to corruption, and to crown it
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  Speaker 1: all by sending the most vigilant and virtuous governess, who
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  Speaker 1: have no other views than the happiness of the people
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  Speaker 1: over whom they preside, and the honor of the King
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  Speaker 1: 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 dispute may arise concerning the two
• 5:28:02
  Speaker 1: yahoos said to have been seen many years ago upon
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  Speaker 1: a mountain Winnham Land. But as to the formality of
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  Speaker 1: taking possession of my sovereign's name, it never once came
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  Speaker 1: into my thoughts, and if it had yet, as my
• 5:28:17
  Speaker 1: affairs then stood, I should, perhaps, in point of prudence
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  Speaker 1: and self preservation, have put it off to a better opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Having thus answered the only objection that can ever be
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  Speaker 1: raised against me as a traveler, I here take a
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  Speaker 1: final leave of all my courteous readers, and return to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy my own speculations and my little garden at Redriff,
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  Speaker 1: to apply those excellent lessons of virtue which I learned
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  Speaker 1: among the Whinnams, to instruct the yahoos of my own family,
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  Speaker 1: as far as I shall find them dosable animals to
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  Speaker 1: behold my figure often in a glass, and thus, if possible,
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  Speaker 1: habituate myself by time, to tolerate the sight of a
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  Speaker 1: human creature, to lament the brutality to Hinnems in my
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  Speaker 1: own country, but always treat their persons with respect, for
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  Speaker 1: the sake of my noble master, his family, his friends,
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  Speaker 1: and the whole Winnhum race, whom these of ours have
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  Speaker 1: the honor to resemble in all their lineaments. However their
• 5:29:19
  Speaker 1: intellectuals come to degenerate. I began last week to permit
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  Speaker 1: my wife to sit at dinner with me, at the
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  Speaker 1: farthest end of a long table, and to answer, but
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  Speaker 1: with the utmost brevity, the few questions I asked her,
• 5:29:36
  Speaker 1: Yet the smell of a yahoo continuing very offensive. I
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  Speaker 1: always keep my nose well stopped with rue, lavender or
• 5:29:43
  Speaker 1: tobacco leafs. And although it be hard for a man
• 5:29:48
  Speaker 1: late in life to remove old habits, I am not
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  Speaker 1: altogether out of hopes in some time to suffer a neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: Yare who in my company without the apprehensions I am
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  Speaker 1: yet under of his dear teeth or his clause. My
• 5:30:03
  Speaker 1: reconcilement to the arhu kind in general might not be
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  Speaker 1: so difficult if they would be content with those vices
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  Speaker 1: and follies only which nature has entitled them to. I
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  Speaker 1: am not in the least provoked at the sight of
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  Speaker 1: a lawyer, a pickpocket, a colonel, a fool, a lord,
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  Speaker 1: a gainster, a politician, a hormonger, a physician, an evidence
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  Speaker 1: 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 Huynhams,
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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,
• 5:31:00
  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
• 5:31:08
  Speaker 1: ya whos, among which they were not able to distinguish
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  Speaker 1: this of pride, for want of thoroughly understanding human nature
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  Speaker 1: as 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
• 5:31:25
  Speaker 1: rudiments of it among the wild ya whos. But the
• 5:31:29
  Speaker 1: Huennums 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
• 5:31:41
  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
• 5:31:47
  Speaker 1: the society of an English ya who, by any means
• 5:31:51
  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