On May 4, 1699, on a journey to the South Seas, Gulliver is on board a ship by the name of Antelope leaving Bristol, England. As the ship begins to sail, it encounters a violent storm that sinks the ship. Gulliver swims to an island of the Lilliputs and falls asleep. As Gulliver begins to awaken, he finds himself strapped down and cannot move as the people of Lilliputians are all across his body. The Lilliputians stand about about six inches in stature. Gulliver struggles to get loose and finally breaks the strings that strap his left arm. He loosens the ropes tying his hair so he can turn to the left. As Gulliver succeeds in losing the ropes, the little people fire a number of arrows into his hand and combatively attack his body and face.
