The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25


 who was never content to stay long at home, and whose love of adventure was not ouenched by his remarkable ex- periences in Brobdignag, Lilliput and other wonderful countries upon whose shores fate and the vicisstudes of tra- vel cast him. Gulliver set out on his last voyage in September, 1710, going as captain of the Adventure, a stout merchantmen of $50 tons-a good size for a vessel in those days.
 The Adventure was bound for the West Indies, and her business being completed there, Captain Gulliver was under orders to proceed around the Horn to the South Seas, there to trade with the islanders and make such dis coveries as he could. Yellow fever breaking out on board his ship, how ever and taking off most of his crew he was obliged to put into Barbadoes and the Leeward Island to recruit more men. From these islands he collected gang of ruffians and cutthroats, fu- gitives from justice and buccaneers who mutined, imprisoned Gulliver took charge of the ship and sailed for the pirates rendezvous on Madagascar. In & remote part of the ocean they put the captain ashore upon an unknown island and sailed away. Thus marooned upon an unknown coast, Gulliver made his way toward the interior of the country, resolved to give himself up to the first native he should meet
 The island was divided by long rows of trees, not planted, but growing nat
 ,sl,,, ,,Fe s- and several fields of oats. Gulliver fell upon a beaten path and saw the prints of human feet and some of cows-but mostly of horses. Then suddenly Gulliver came upon party of those Yahoos which have since because of his narrative, been so well known. These people were shaped like human beings, but were of bestiai and revolting appearance Their only GOV ering was a prop of thick hair which grew ---..s>>r,- -ss4eir bodies. The men had boards liks goats and the nails of their feet and hands were long. They seemed of great strength and moved with marvellous agil- ity, climbing trees like monkeys and some times moving along the great bounds. They seemed almost devoid of intellect and chattered in strange, harsh lan- guage. Upon the whole" says Gulliver, T thought I had never beheld in all my travels so disgusting an animal"
 He tried to avoid them, but the Yahoos saw him and surrounded him threaten ingy. They would probably have torn him to pieces had he not put his hack against 8 tree and kept them at bay with his drawn hanger Suddenly they all ran away, and looking to see the cause of their alarm, the captain saw a horse walking gently toward him. 'The horse" says the veracious traveller, "started little when he came near me- but, soon recovering himself, looked full in my face with manifest tokens of wonder. He viewed my hands and feet( waking round me several times. I would have pursued my journey, but he placed himself di- rectly in the way. and we stood staring at each other.
 At last I reached out my hand toward his neck with the intention of stroking 1t. But the horse seemed to treat my advances with disdain, shook his head, bent his brows and softly raised up his right foot to remove my hand. He then neighed three of four times, but with such different cadences that almost fancied he was talking to him self in some language of his own. An other horse came up and the two greet ed each other with great formality, raising each his right foot and striking the right forefoot of the other They also neighed several times in different tones and with various sounds which were almost articulate. Then they went several paces off and walked up and down conversing together, evident ly concerning me, toward whom they looked from time to time.
 l was filled with astonishment, but could have no doubt that these remark able animals talked together in a lan- guage of their own-that they reason ed and that they possessed an intelli- gence such as I had before supposed to exist only in human beings. How immeasurably superior they seemed to the filthy creatures whom I had first met and who bore the form of men. I concluded that they must be magicians who for some reason had changed them selves into horses, and, seeing a stranger in the way. had resolved to divert themselves with him
 So I said: "Gentlemen, if you be con- jurers--as I have good cause to believe you can understand any language I then told them the story of my mis- adventures and begged that one of them would allow me to ride upon his back to the nearest town. The two creatures listened with great attention while spoke, and then engaged in serious consultation. I plainly observed that their language expressed the passions very well and the words might witt little pains, be resolved into an alpha bet more easily than the Chinese. could frequently distinguish the word "Yahoo" and I endeavored to practice the word upon my tongue, though al the time I did not know what it might mean.
 As soon as they were silent I boldly pro- nounced the word aloud at the same time initiating, as nearly as I could, the neigh ing of horse. At this they were both visIbly surprised. and one of the horses. a