Houyhnhnms are a fictional race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satirical 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels. The name is pronounced either or. Swift apparently intende
Gulliver in discussion with Houyhnhnms (1856 lllustration by J.J. Grandville).
Houyhnhnms driving a herd of Yahoos, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gulliver Taking His Final Leave of the Land of the Houyhnhnms, Sawrey Gilpin, 1769