Describe gulliver's journey from london to lilliput
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Gulliver accepted an offer from a Captain Pritchard to sail to the South Sea on a ship called the Antelope. On their way to the East Indies, they were hit by a storm near Van Dieman’s Land (Tasmania.) Their ship was driven onto a rock and split in two. Gulliver and several of the crew made their way onto one of the ship’s boats, which they rowed away from the wreck. The boat was soon swamped by a huge wave, and Gulliver found himself swimming. Eventually, he wound up on the shore of an island, and laid down to take a nap. When he awoke, he was bound to the ground by “slender ligatures.” When he struggled to get up, he found himself surrounded by humans “not six inches high.” He was in Lilliput.
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The ship encounters violent storms, has bad food, and weakens the crew (twelve crew members die) when the ship hits a rock and is split. Six of the crew members, including Gulliver, get into a small boat and row until they are overturned by a "sudden Flurry." Gulliver swims until he is nearly exhausted, at which point he finds an island, comes across a patch of grass, and sleeps for what he estimates is more than nine hours.