Gulliver was born in England.When he was only fourteen years old his father sent him to Cambridge to study medicine .He studied there for three years . When Gulliver left college he went on with his studies and became a doctor . He always wanted to travel . Gulliver became a doctor on a ship sailing both to the east and to the west indies.On May 4, 1699, he siled from Bristol for the south seas as a doctor of a ship named the Antelope. At first, everything went well but then there was a great storm. The ship came very close to the rocks and crashed into them . Some of the sailors and Igot a boat into the water. It was a small boat. When a big wave hit it, we all fell into the sea. He was swimming for a very long time and got very tired. Gulliver felt that he could not swim any longer. But the shore was not far away and soon his feet touched the ground. Gulliver walked oul of the sea to a beach - there wery no houses , there were no people. He was so tired that he lay down and fell asleep.
