Describe Gulliver's visit to the land of the Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels.

Gulliver
is exhausted when he finally reaches an island after his shipwreck and only wants to nestle down
in the soft grass and sleep his tiredness away. He 'slept sounder than ever I remembered to have
done in my life' and guessed it was for about nine hours because it was only just getting light
when he finally woke up. Naturally he tried to get up, but he found he was not able to lift
himself up from lying on his back because his limbs were tightly roped down to the ground and
even his long hair was tied down in the grass. There were also ropes drawn across the rest of
his body, from under his arms down to his thighs. Gulliver couldn't look anywhere but up as the
day warmed up and the sun got hotter and hotter, hurting his eyes. He heard a confusing sound
but couldn't look to find out what was causing it.

Then he must have felt
very tickly because something started to move gently around on his leg and soon he was able to
crane his neck enough to just make out 'a little creature.' Soon there were many of them, and
they began to shout at him in a strange language. Some even stabbed him in the sides with
miniature spears, and others fired volleys of arrows into him, causing him much pain. Gulliver
decided to stay very still until night time, but the attacks stopped when the Lilliputians saw
that he was calm and still. Instead, they started building a tiny stage of wood, and one of them
made a speech. Gulliver pointed to his mouth to signal that he was hungry and thirsty, and they
relayed hundreds of baskets of meat and hogsheads direct to his mouth and gave him a drink.
Gulliver then signals that he wants his freedom, but an important little man makes it clear that
Gulliver will be kept as a prisoner. However, they did soothe his wounds with ointment and they
released the tiny lines just enough for Gulliver to empty his bladder, which made the
Lilliputians scatter left and right as the torrent washed down among them.

It
seems that when Gulliver was discovered asleep on the ground, the emperor of the little men had
received an early warning and had decided with his council to tie him down while he slept and
that a machine should be prepared to transport him to the capital city.