How does Gulliver leave Brobdingnag?

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Illustration of Lemuel Gulliver lying on the ground, tied down by tiny Lilliputians, with crowds and small buildings in the background, from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. — Gulliver’s Travels Lemuel Gulliver in Lilliput, illustration from an edition of Jonathan Swift's *Gulliver's Travels*.

In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Lemuel Gulliver’s departure from the land of the giants, Brobdingnag, occurs when he is picked up by an eagle. The bird carries him away and eventually drops him into the sea, where he is subsequently rescued by people of his own size who help him return to England.12