Rare, candid shot of a Houyhnhnm, as described by Jonathan Swift in 1726 in "Gulliver's Travels Part IV: A Voyage To The Country Of The Houyhnhnms." Swift correctly predicted that Mars has two moons (a fact that was not discovered until 1877, when astronomer Asaph Hall observed Phobos and tiny Deimos), so he must have known something. Or, again, possibly not.BACK TO HOME PAGE  |