This conclusion was not an original idea, but it was something he learned from the Houyhnhnms. This idea was the inferiority and disgust of the Yahoos. Granted, Gulliver was similar to the Yahoos, but that problem was quickly resolved. In fact, one of the first things he and the Houyhnhnms learned was that Gulliver was both similar to and greatly different from the Yahoos. Gulliver was bald and clothed compared to his wild counterparts [Swift, 245]. Additionally, Gulliver seemed smarter than the Yahoos and aware of the situation. The Yahoos, on the other hand, were illiterate and had no established form of communication [Swift, 241]. The Houyhnhnms realized that the two were different when this hairless Yahoo did not eat raw flesh when presented to them [Swift, 245]. From that moment on, the indigenous society welcomed Gulliver and began to cultivate his reasoning. Once Gulliver distinguished himself from the Yahoos, he quickly began criticizing them. After spending enough time with the Houyhnhnms and observing the Yahoos for himself, Gulliver believed that they really were as disgusting as the Houyhnhnms thought. Soon he hated the Yahoos, just like the Houyhnhnms. He knew he was superior to the Yahoos in many ways. But his ignorance was short-lived. That was until he was bathing in the river and a female Yahoo in the river tried to seduce him (272). This led him to the conclusion: "Females had a natural propensity to view me as a member of their own species." » (272) A realization so disgusting that he might have some correlation with these dirty animals changed his life. It was not the simple repulsion of the Yahoos but their comparability to humans. The Houyhnhnms also understood this. They came to the conclusion that the humans described by Gulliver were not far from