These are not houses, they are garbage bins. He runs out. I thought I had arrived finally at a place of purity and cleanliness. By the King's decree, we permit no garbage out on the street. So we just keep it inside the houses.
People are very conscientious about it.
If they see a single dry leaf flying about anywhere, they pick it up, take in and keep it inside the home. Gulliver runs out of the house because he cannot bear the stench anymore. He runs to his boat and moves on. He moves on to another island and, as is his habit, he carries some food with himself. He is very hungry.