How does Gulliver put out the fire in the empress’s palace?

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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 novel Gulliver’s Travels, Lemuel Gulliver extinguishes the fire that breaks out in the empress’s palace by urinating on it. Although this act successfully saves the palace, it causes Gulliver to fall out of favor with the Lilliputian court, eventually leading to his flight from the island.12