In the beginning of part 4 chapter 1, Gulliver stays at home for 5 months before he heads back out leaving his pregnant wife. He finally gets to be captain on his own ship, the Adventurer. The job they have to do is trade goods with people from the South Seas. His ship set sail on September 7, 1710. Many of Gulliver’s sailors died from a fever from the Tropics. He has to hire brand new people that kept him prisoner on his own ship. In May of 1711, a sailor told Gulliver that they were dropping him off. When Gulliver got off the ship he started exploring and sees an animals with long hair. After seeing the animal Gulliver sets off to find settlers and has an encounter with one of the animal. Gulliver hits the animal with the flat side of the sword and it roars. The roar brings other animals towards Gulliver. The animals try to attack Gulliver by defecated on him. Gulliver hides and a horse scared away the animals. Gulliver tried to leave, but one of the horses calls him back. The horses are so smart that Gulliver think they are magicians who transformed themselves into horses. The horses uses words that Gulliver can’t pronounce.
In part 4 chapter 2, the horse led Gulliver to a house with other horses. A horse looks at Gulliver and say, “Yahoo.” Gulliver goes to the courtyard where he sees the ugly creatures tied up. The horses compares Gulliver to the ugly creatures because they look alike. The horses test Gulliver by feeding him various foods. Gulliver refuses hay and flesh. The horses decides that Gulliver likes milk and gives him large amounts of it. The horses try to teach Gulliver their language. The horses don’t know what to feed Gulliver, so Gulliver suggests he can make bread to eat. Gulliver spends his first night in the straws between the house and the Yahoo stable.
In part 4 chapter 3, Gulliver spends most of his time learning their language. The master horse was interested in Gulliver because he thought he was a Yahoo. He thought he looked clean to be a Yahoo. Many Houyhnhnm came and saw Gulliver. One night when Gulliver gets ready for bed he takes off his shirt and exposes himself to the Master House. The servant thinks that Gulliver changes skins when he sleeps. Gulliver tried to keep himself covered up because he looks like the Yahoos under his clothes. Gulliver tries to explain clothes to the Master Horse. The Master Horse is impressed how pale and soft Gulliver’s skin is. The Master Horse agrees to stop calling Gulliver a Yahoo and to keep the secret about his clothes. Gulliver is finally able to tell the Master Horse how he arrived on the island. Gulliver tells the Master Horse that the Houyhnhnm in his country are the brutes and the men are the reasonable beings.
In part 4 chapter 4, the Master Horse doesn’t understand the idea of lying. Gulliver tell the Master Horse about the horses that are worked in his country. The Master Horse is disgusted that people actually ride the horses. Gulliver explains to the Master Horse how they break horses. Gulliver answers all the Master Horse’s questions about the Yahoo’s and people from his country. He tells the Master Horse that the Yahoos in his country are more like him. It takes Gulliver a very long time to explain his origins to Master Horse. Master Horse finally understood the idea of humans.
In part 4 chapter 5, Gulliver tells Master Horse about the English history. Gulliver tells Master Horse about war and he wants to know why humans go to war. Gulliver’s answers were ambition to conquer, corruption of the government, and differences of opinion. Master Horse says it’s lucky humans can’t do much damage to each other because their mouths aren’t designed for easy biting. Gulliver tells Master Horse how humans use weapons to hurt each other and Master Horse tells him to stop talking about because it’s too much. Master Horse asks about laws and Gulliver explain that abut lawyers and judges. Gulliver talks about precedent and lawyers. He tells Master Horse how lawyers have a private way of speaking. Master Horse tells Gulliver that it’s sad that they spend so much time training lawyers to be lawyers and not teaching to be wise and smart.
In part 4 chapter 6, Gulliver explains the concept of creed to Master Horse. He tells how England grows enough food to support its population. If they want luxury they must export what they grow. The luxury they want causes the English diseases. A group of people used fake potions to make people purge their insides. The people that created the potion made a profit on disease that they made people think they were sick. Master Horse ask what Minister of State is. Gulliver says it’s someone that didn’t have emotion besides power and money. Gulliver explains the qualifications to be Minister of State and how they bribed others to listen to them. Gulliver also explains about how some nobles are lazy and ignorant but still have authority over people in the country.
In part 4 chapter 7, Gulliver realized he hates the Yahoos and love the Houyhnhnm. He decides that he wants to stay there forever. Master Horse tells Gulliver that the Yahoos have only enough reason to make their natural corruption worst. The nature of the Yahoos from Gulliver’s country and the Yahoos in Houyhnhnm Land. The Yahoos in Master Horse land love shiny rocks and the only animals that get sick. Master Horse tells Gulliver that Gulliver’s Yahoos have more art than their local Yahoos. The Yahoos in Houyhnhnm Land chooses the ugliest and weakest to be the leader. He tells about how both females and males fight equally with each other. Yahoo’s love to be dirty more than any other animal. Girl Yahoos like to seduce he male yahoos.
In part 4 chapter 8, Gulliver asks if Master Horse will let him watch the Yahoos and Master Horse says yes. Gulliver brings sorrel nag along to guard him. Gulliver observes that the kid yahoos are nasty but the older Yahoos are strong, but stubborn. Gulliver also notices that the Yahoos can swim. Gulliver decides to take a swim and the sorrel nag says he can. A young Yahoo sees Gulliver and runs to him to seduce him. Gulliver doesn’t know what to do and yells. The Yahoo runs away when she sees the guard. The Houyhnhnm think that you can only have an opinion about something you do not know. They are nice to their neighbors and strangers. When Houyhnhnm females have had a child of both gender they stop producing. They also don’t believe in mixing races. The children Yahoos are very disciplined with a strict diet. If one Houyhnhnm couple has two sons and another has two daughters, they’ll trade to make sure they both have one boy and one girl. If a Yahoo couple family loses a child, another Houyhnhnm couple has to have a child to give them.
In part 4 chapter 9, the Yahoos hold their four-year grand assemblies while Gulliver is there. They discuss if Yahoos should wipe off the face of the Earth. The yes answers say that the Yahoos are disgusted and have to be watched. The Houyhnhnms caught and tamed their children. Master Horse tells his kind that in Gulliver’s Land the horses are servants and the Yahoos are rational animals. Master Horse tells about how horses in Gulliver’s country are castrated to make them less aggressive. Master Horse suggest why don’t they do this to the young Yahoos in the land. The Houyhnhnms write poetry and only die of old age.
In part 4 chapter 10, Gulliver has everything he needs. He has shelter and all clothes he needs. He also has many friends. One morning Master Horse goes tell Gulliver that they voted that Gulliver should leave. Gulliver is sad that he has to leave because he loves it there. Master Horse gives Gulliver two months to get his boat ready to leave. Gulliver uses his telescope and finds a small island he can get to in his boat. The day Gulliver leaves everyone is there to see him off. Gulliver cries and kisses the hoof of Masters Horse before he leaves forever.
In part 4 chapter 11, it’s February 1517. While leaving in his boat , sorrel nag calls to Gulliver to take care of himself. Gulliver hopes no one is at the island he saw in his telescope. The fourth day he finally sees someone. They are around a fire naked. He sees a canoe and jumps into it but not before he did they shot him in the knee with a poisoned arrow. While rowing around Gulliver sees a European ship and decided to turn around because he doesn’t want to go back to the European Yahoos. The ship stops him and pulls him aboard. Gulliver finds out the ship is heading to Lisbon in Portugal. The captain of the ship asks where Gulliver is from and he doesn’t answer. Gulliver tries to jump overboard but someone caught him before he can. When Gulliver tells the captain about Houyhnhnm Land he doesn’t believe him. The captain makes Gulliver promise that he won’t try to kill himself on the way home. Gulliver promises he won’t. When they arrive at Lisbon, the captain insists that Gulliver stay at his house and borrow clothes. After 10 days in Portugal, the captain tells Gulliver he needs to go home to his family. Gulliver agrees and heads home. When Gulliver gets home his family is happy to see him but thought he was dead. Gulliver is disgusted that he had sex and had kids with a Yahoo, his wife and can barely stand being around them. Gulliver buys two horses and talks to them four hours a day.
In part 4 chapter 12, Gulliver claims everything he wrote down is true. He writes his memoirs to share his experience with people. Gulliver is told he must relate his experiences to a secretary of state to give England the opportunity to invade the lands he visited. Gulliver wishes the Houyhnhnms would come over and teach their virtues. Gulliver doesn’t want England to invade the lands because they don’t want to be invaded. Gulliver sit in the garden with his family trying to explain Houyhnhnm Land. After five years of being home, Gulliver can finally eat at the table with his wife. Gulliver said the only way he could be around English Yahoos is if they avoid the sin of pride.
Gulliver's Travels 