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THIS IS VERY INTERESTING BOOK ABOUT A PERSON WHO IS A SAILOR SET A VOYAGE FROM BRISTOL,MAY 4 ,1699, HE SET A VOYAGE TO SOUTH SEA.WHILE HE WAS TRAVELLING A VOILENT HURRICANE ARRIVED AND DRIVEN THEM TO NORTHWEST DIEMEN'S LAND.BY AN OBSERVATION THEY WERE FOUND IN THE LATITUDE OF 30 DEGREES AND 2 MINUTES SOUTH.TWELVE OF THEIR CREW WERE DEAD BY A IMMODERATE LABOUR AND ILL FOOD;THE REST WERE IN VERY WEAK CONDITION.THEIR SHIP WERE DESTROYED. THEY FOUND IN WATER. THEY WERE SWIMMING IN THE WATER.GULLIVER SMIMS A MILE GULLIVER FOUND HIM IN SEA SHORE HE FELT TIRED AND WEAK.HE DRANK ABOUT A PINT OF BRANDY. THE GRASS WAS SHORT AND SOFT SO HE SLEPT SOUNDER.WHEN HE WAKE IT WAS JUST DAYLIGHT .HE ATTEMPTED TO RISE ,BUT WAS NOT ABLE TO STIR;FOR AS HE HAPPENEDTO LIE ON HIS BACK,HE FOUN HIS ARMS ND LEGS ARE STRONGLY FASTENED ON EACH SIDE TO …show more content…
HE FELT SOMETHING ALIVE MOVING ON HIS LEFT LEG, WHICH,ADVANCING GENTLY FORWARD OVER HIS BREAST, CAME ALMOST OVER HIS CHIN;BENDING HIS EYES DOWNWARD, AS MUCH AS HE COULD,HE PRECIEVEDTO BE A HUMAN CREATURE,NOT SIX INCH HIGH,WITH A BOW AND ARROW IN HIS HAND, AND A QUIVER AT HIS BACK.IN THE MEANTIME HE FELT AT LEASTFORTY MORE OF THE SAME KIND(AS I CONJECTURED THE FOLLOWING THE FIRST.AFTER HE KNOW THAT THESE ARE LILLIPUTIANS AND HE IS IN LILLIPUT.HE KNOWS THAT THEY WILL TAKE HIM TO THE EMPERROR.THE EMPERROR COMES TO HIM AND SAID THAT "DON'T KILL HIM HE CAN BE USEFULL TO US.AFTER SOMETIMES THERE WERE A WAR BETWEEN BLEFUSCUNS VS LILLIPUTIANS.WHEN GULLIVER KNOWS THER IS A WAR BETWEEN THEM.HE QUICKLY GOES TO THE EMPERROR AND SAID HIM THAT"I CAN HELP YOU IN THIS WAR" SAID GULLIVER.THE EMPERROR REPLIED THAT"YOU CAN HELP US IN THIS WAR"REPLIED EMPERROR.GULLIVER QUICKLY PICK FOUR ROPES AND TIED IT WITH EVERY SHIP AND TIEDING EVRY SHIP HE THREW IT AWAY ALL THE BLEFUSCUNS IN THAT SHIP DIES.THE LILLIPUTIANS WINS THE WAR BY GULLIVER.GULLIVER REPAYS THE KINDNESS TO EMPERROR.GULLIVER BECOMES THE HERO OF THAT WAR.BY A SOS HE GOES BACK TO HIS PLACE WHERE HE HAD

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