How did the japanese pirates treat gulliver and his crew members.what punishment was inflicted on gulliver and his crew by the dutch man?
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The largest of the two pirate ships was commanded by a Japanese captain who spoke a small amount of imperfect Dutch. He came up to Gulliver and after asking several questions which the latter answered with humility, the captain commanded that he should not die.Gulliver then made a very low bow and turning to the Dutchman said that he was sorry to find more mercy in a heathen than in a fellow Christian brother. It was this comment of his which angered the Dutchman and he made sure that a punishment was inflicted on him, if not death, which was worse than death to Gulliver. Gulliver's men were equally divided into both the pirate ships and his sloop new manned. As to Gulliver, it was determined that he should be set adrift in a small canoe, with paddles and a sail, and four days’ provisions; the last addition being upon the kind Japanese captain's insistence who provided them from his own stores and permitted that no man ought to search him. Gulliver got down into the canoe while the Dutchman stood upon the deck, loading him with all the curses and injurious terms his language could afford.
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