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Blefuscu is located northeast of Lilliput, across an 800-yard (730 m) channel. [9] The only cities mentioned by Swift are Mildendo, [10] the capital of Lilliput, and Blefuscu, capital of Blefuscu. [11] However, the map showing Lilliput's position depicts the islands as considerably larger, approaching the size of Van Diemen's Land. [12]
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Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.
The map shows (from south to north) Point Monterey, Port Sir Francis Drake, Cape Mendocino, Cape St. Sebastian, Cape Blanco and the semi-mythical Strait of Anián, all locations on the Pacific coast of North America, and depicts Brobdingnag as a peninsula extending west into the Pacific to the north of the Straits.
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Many sequels followed the initial publishing of the Travels.The earliest of these was the anonymously authored Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput, [6] published 1727, which expands the account of Gulliver's stays in Lilliput and Blefuscu by adding several gossipy anecdotes about scandalous episodes at the Lilliputian court.
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Blefuscu: a land where all the people are tiny from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Enemies of Lilliput; Genosha: an island nation which was established as a mutant homeland in Marvel Comics; Houyhnhnms Land: a land where horses rule. The animalistic human-like creatures in this land are called Yahoos.