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first voyage liliput. gulliver, ships doctor on the anteope in shipwreked near van diemends land tasmania but mananges to make shore, where he falls unconcious. upon awakening, he finds himself a captive of humans only six inches tall possibly derived from philostrautuss account of the pygmies capturing the sleeping hercules. after learning the liliputan language and obeying the laws of his diminutive captors, gulliver is permited to tour the capital city of mildendo, which he finds a tiny republic of contemporany european cityes. gulliver becomes a nobleman of liliput when he single handedly carries of the entire warfleet of the hostile neighboring kindom, blefuscu, but gulliver champions a generous peace, which the lilipuian parliament approves. in disfavor at court because he put out a fire in qweens palace, gulliver visits blefuscu. here he finds a battered ships boat cast ashore. with the aid of blefuscar workers he refurbishes t...