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What are the different people called in Gulliver’s Travels?

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In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), the narrator Lemuel Gulliver encounters different races as he journeys to remote parts of the world during four adventures. He meets the tiny and arrogant Lilliputians, the giants of Brobdingnag, the scientifically minded Laputans, the immortal yet aging Struldbruggs of Luggnagg, the rational Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos. The Houyhnhnms are a race of intelligent horses who have no words for deception or evil. The Yahoos are greedy and humanoid, and Gulliver is at first mistaken for one of them.