Gulliver
winds up on the island kingdom of Lilliput by accident. He originally headed home to his family
after his three-year stint as surgeon aboard the good ship Swallow. But his
wanderlust soon got the better of him, and he headed back out to see for another six
years.
Towards the end of his latest voyage, Gulliver made the fateful
decision to take one last job aboard a ship called the Antelope. As it
sails through choppy waters off the coast of the East Indies, the Antelope
is buffeted by a violent storm in which twelve crew members die. Gulliver manages to escape in a
rowboat with five members of the crew. But the rowboat capsizes and Gulliver swims to the shore.
Exhausted by his terrifying ordeal, he flops down on the beach and falls asleep.
The next morning, Gulliver wakes up to discover that he's been tied down to the ground
and that six-inch tall men are crawling over his body. His adventures in Lilliput have just
begun.
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