yahoos

[pamnez]

The question is "In Gulliver's Travels, what form did the yahoo's take?"  Please can anybody help.

[Marsh]

,,,,,,,,YAHOO. My horror and astonishment are not to be described, when I observed in this abominable animal, a perfect human figure: the face of it indeed was flat and broad, the nose depressed, the lips large, and the mouth wide; but these differences are common to all savage nations, where the lineaments of the countenance are distorted, by the natives suffering their infants to lie grovelling on the earth, or by carrying them on their backs, nuzzling with their face against the mothers' shoulders. The fore-feet of the YAHOO differed from my hands in nothing else but the length of the nails, the coarseness and brownness of the palms, and the hairiness on the backs. There was the same resemblance between our feet, with the same differences; which I knew very well, though the horses did not, because of my shoes and stockings; the same in every part of our bodies except as to hairiness and colour, which I have already described.

From http://www.online-literature.com/view.php/gulliver/29?te rm=yahoo

[pamnez]

Thankyou marsh.  I did a lot of trawling through Google to find this answer. I came across the words 'Brutish Human' quite a few times but being easily confused, it just didn't  click. Once again, many thanks.