Gulliver escapes from Lilliput by, first, visiting Blefuscu. He is treated very well there, and the king does not seem nearly as warlike and unreasonable as the emperor of Lilliput. Gulliver learns of the plot against him in Lilliput, that he has been branded a traitor and that the emperor and his vicious advisers have devised a way to execute him for his crimes against the state (which include such charges as urinating on the palace to put the fire out as well as Gulliver's refusal to decimate the Blefuscudian fleet when asked to do so by the emperor). He is essentially granted asylum in Blefuscu, and the king there provides him with resources to repair a boat he finds offshore. It is in this boat that he eventually escapes this land of tiny people and makes his way home, back to England.
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