Why do the Lilliputians call Lemuel Gulliver Man-Mountain?

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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, the Lilliputians refer to Lemuel Gulliver as "Man-Mountain" because of his immense physical stature relative to them. The Lilliputians are a race of people who are less than six inches tall, and upon his arrival in their land, Gulliver is discovered as a giant prisoner.12