
the rational Creatures? And, indeed, to avoid so monstrous and detestable a
Sight, was one principal Motive of my Retirement hither.
    Thus much I thought proper to tell you in Relation to your self, and to the
Trust I reposed in you.
    I do in the next Place complain of my own great Want of Judgment, in being
prevailed upon by the Intreaties and false Reasonings of you and some others,
very much against mine own Opinion, to suffer my Travels to be published. Pray
bring to your Mind how often I desired you to consider, when you insisted on the
Motive of publick Good; that the Yahoos were a Species of Animals utterly
incapable of Amendment by Precepts or Examples: And so it hath proved; for
instead of seeing a full Stop put to all Abuses and Corruptions, at least in
this little Island, as I had Reason to expect: Behold, after above six Months
Warning, I cannot learn that my Book hath produced one single Effect according
to mine Intentions: I desired you would let me know by a Letter, when Party and
Faction were extinguished; Judges learned and upright; Pleaders honest and
modest, with some Tincture of common Sense; and Smithfield blazing with Pyramids
of Law-Books; the young Nobility's Education entirely changed; the Physicians
banished; the Female Yahoos abounding in Virtue, Honour, Truth and good Sense:
Courts and Levees of great Ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; Wit, Merit and
Learning rewarded; all Disgracers of the Press in Prose and Verse, condemned to
eat nothing but their own Cotten, and quench their Thirst with their own Ink.
These, and a Thousand other Reformations, I firmly counted upon by your
Encouragement; as indeed they were plainly deducible from the Precepts delivered
in my Book. And, it must be owned, that seven Months were a sufficient Time to
correct every Vice and Folly to which Yahoos are subject; if their Natures had
been capable of the least Disposition to Virtue or Wisdom: Yet so far have you
been from answering mine Expectation in any of your Letters; that on the
contrary, you are loading our Carrier every Week with Libels, and Keys, and
Reflections, and Memoirs, and Second Parts; wherein I see myself accused of
reflecting upon great States-Folk; of degrading human Nature, (for so they have
still the Confidence to stile it) and of abusing the Female Sex. I find
likewise, that the Writers of those Bundles are not agreed among themselves; for
some of them will not allow me to be Author of mine own Travels; and others make
me Author
