Gulliver had settled his little household entirely to his own liking. His master had a room built for him in their manner, about six yards from the house. He plastered the walls and floor with clay and covered them with rush mats of his own making.
He beat the hemp that grows wild there into a kind of ticking and filled it with the feathers of birds he had snared, to make his bed. He carved two chairs with his knife, and the sorrel nag helped with the heavier part. When his clothes wore out, he made new ones from rabbit skins and the skins of an animal called the nnuhnoh.
Gulliver writes that no one could prove two maxims better than he did. “Nature is very easily satisfied,” and “Necessity is the mother of invention.” His body was in perfect health and his mind at peace.