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THE WINDERMERE SERIES

GULLIVER’S
TRAVELS

By JONATHAN SWIFT

with illustrations by
MILO WINTER

RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
New York Chicago San Francisco

_Copyright, 1912, by_
RAND McNALLY & COMPANY

All rights reserved
Edition of 1936

Made in U. S. A.

THE CONTENTS

PAGE

_The List of Illustrations_ xi

_A Biographical Note_ 1

A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT

CHAPTER I

The Author gives some Account of Himself and Family—His first
Inducements to Travel—He is shipwrecked, and swims for his
Life—Gets safe on Shore in the Country of Lilliput—Is made a
Prisoner, and carried up the Country 5

CHAPTER II

The Emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the Nobility,
comes to see the Author in his Confinement—The Emperor’s Person
and Habits described—Learned Men appointed to teach the Author
their Language—He gains Favor by his Mild Disposition—His
Pockets are searched, and his Sword and Pistols taken from him 18

CHAPTER III

The Author diverts the Emperor, and his Nobility of both Sexes,
in a very Uncommon Manner—The Diversions of the Court of
Lilliput described—The Author has his Liberty granted him, upon
Certain Conditions 30

CHAPTER IV

Mildendo, the Metropolis of Lilliput, described, together with
the Emperor’s Palace—A Conversation between the Author and a
Principal Secretary, concerning the Affairs of that Empire—The
Author’s Offers to serve the Emperor in his Wars 40

CHAPTER V

The Author, by an Extraordinary Stratagem, prevents an
Invasion—A high Title of Honor is conferred upon him—Ambassadors
arrive from the Emperor of Blefuscu, and sue for Peace 47

CHAPTER VI

Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; their Learning, Laws, and
Customs; the Manner of educating their Children—The Author’s
Way of Living in that Country—His Vindication of a Great Lady 54

CHAPTER VII

The Author being informed of a Design to accuse him of High
Treason, makes his Escape to Blefuscu—His Reception there 67

CHAPTER VIII

The Author, by a lucky Accident, finds Means to leave Blefuscu;
and, after some Difficulties, returns safe to his Native
Country 77

A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG

CHAPTER I

A great Storm described; the Longboat sent to fetch Water;
the Author goes with it to discover the Country—He is left
on Shore, is seized by one of the Natives, and carried to a
Farmer’s House—His Reception there, with several Accidents that
happened to him—A Description of the Inhabitants 85

CHAPTER II

A Description of the Farmer’s Daughter—The Author carried to a
Market Town, and then to the Metropolis—The Particulars of his
Journey 100

CHAPTER III

The Author sent for to Court—The Queen buys him of his Master,
the Farmer, and presents him to the King—He disputes with His
Majesty’s great Scholars—An Apartment at Court provided for the
Author—He is in high Favor with the Queen—He stands up for the
Honor of his own Country—His Quarrels with the Queen’s Dwarf 107

CHAPTER IV

The Country described—A Proposal for correcting Modern Maps—The
King’s Palace, and some Account of the Metropolis—The Author’s
Way of Traveling—The Chief Temple described 120

CHAPTER V

Several Adventures that happened to the Author—The Execution of
a Criminal—The Author shows his Skill in Navigation 126

CHAPTER VI

Several Contrivances of the Author to please the King and
Queen—He shows his Skill in Music—The King inquires into the
State of Europe, which the Author relates to him—The King’s
Observations thereon 136

CHAPTER VII

The Author’s Love of his Country—He makes a Proposal of much
Advantage to the King, which is rejected—The King’s great
Ignorance in Politics—The Learning of that Country very
imperfect and confined—The Laws and Military Affairs and
Parties in the State 147

CHAPTER VIII

The King and Queen make a Progress to the Frontiers—The Author
attends them—The Manner in which he leaves the Country very
particularly related—He returns to England 155

A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB AND JAPAN

CHAPTER I

The Author sets out on his Third Voyage—Is taken by Pirates—The
Malice of a Dutchman—His Arrival at an Island—He is received
into Laputa 169

CHAPTER II

The Humors and Dispositions of the Laputians described—An
Account of their Learning—Of the King and his Court—The
Author’s Reception there—The Inhabitants subject to Fears and
Disquietudes—An Account of the Women 176

CHAPTER III

A Phenomenon solved by modern Philosophy and Astronomy—The
Laputians’ great Improvements in the Latter—The King’s Method
of suppressing Insurrections 187

CHAPTER IV

The Author leaves Laputa—Is conveyed to Balnibarbi—Arrives at
the Metropolis—A Description of the Metropolis and the Country
adjoining—The Author hospitably received by a Great Lord—His
Conversation with that Lord 194

CHAPTER V

The Author permitted to see the Grand Academy of Lagado—The
Academy largely described—The Arts wherein the Professors
employ themselves 201

CHAPTER VI

A further Account of the Academy—The Author proposes some
Improvements, which are honorably received 209

CHAPTER VII

The Author leaves Lagado—Arrives at Maldonada—No Ship ready—He
takes a short Voyage to Glubbdubdrib—His Reception by the
Governor 216

CHAPTER VIII

A further Account of Glubbdubdrib—Ancient and modern History
corrected 221

CHAPTER IX

The Author’s Return to Maldonada—Sails to the Kingdom of
Luggnagg—The Author confined—He is sent for to Court—The Manner
of his Admittance—The King’s great Lenity to his Subjects 228

CHAPTER X

The Luggnaggians commended—A Particular Description of the
_Struldbrugs_, with many Conversations between the Author and
some Eminent Persons upon that Subject 233

CHAPTER XI

The Author leaves Luggnagg, and sails to Japan—From thence he
returns in a Dutch Ship to Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam to
England 244

A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS

CHAPTER I

The Author sets out as Captain of a Ship—His Men conspire
against him, confine him a Long Time to his Cabin, and set him
on Shore in an Unknown Land—He travels up in the Country—The
_Yahoos_, a strange Sort of Animal, described—The Author meets
two Houyhnhnms 249

CHAPTER II

The Author conducted by a Houyhnhnm to his House—The House
described—The Author’s Reception—The Food of the Houyhnhnms—The
Author in Distress for Want of Meat is at last relieved—His
Manner of Feeding in this Country 257

CHAPTER III

The Author studious to learn the Language—The Houyhnhnm his
Master assists in teaching him—The Language described—Several
Houyhnhnms of Quality come out of Curiosity to see the
Author—He gives his Master a Short Account of his Voyage 265

CHAPTER IV

The Houyhnhnms’ Notion of Truth and Falsehood—The Author’s
Discourse disapproved by his Master—The Author gives a more
particular Account of himself, and the Accidents of his Voyage 272

CHAPTER V

The Author at his Master’s Command, informs him of the State
of England—The Causes of War among the Princes of Europe—The
Author begins to explain the English Constitution 279

CHAPTER VI

A Continuation of the State of England under Queen Anne—The
Character of a first Minister of State in some European Courts 289

CHAPTER VII

The Author’s great Love of his Native Country—His Master’s
Observations upon the Constitution and Administration of
England, as described by the Author, with parallel Cases and
Comparisons—His Master’s Observations upon Human Nature 297

CHAPTER VIII

The Author relates several Particulars of the _Yahoos_—The
great Virtues of the Houyhnhnms—The Education and Exercise of
their Youth—Their General Assembly 305

CHAPTER IX

A grand Debate at the General Assembly of the Houyhnhnms, and
how it was determined—The Learning of the Houyhnhnms—Their
Buildings—Their Manner of Burials—The Defectiveness of their
Language 311

CHAPTER X

The Author’s Economy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms—His
great Improvement in Virtue by conversing with them—Their
Conversations—The Author has Notice given him by his Master
that he must depart from the Country—He falls into a Swoon for
Grief, but submits—He contrives and finishes a Canoe by the
Help of a Fellow Servant, and puts to Sea at a Venture 318

CHAPTER XI

The Author’s dangerous Voyage—He arrives at New Holland,
hoping to settle there—Is wounded with an Arrow by one of
the Natives—Is seized and carried by Force into a Portuguese
Ship—The great Civilities of the Captain—The Author arrives at
England 327