After Gulliver sails to the East Indies again, pirates attack his ship. One of the pirate grows angry because of Gulliver's remarks and sends him out to sea on a small boat. Gulliver is able to find an island, and he sets a camp here. However, he soon notices a landmass located right above the island, in the sky. He shouts up to its inhabitants, who lower the island and allow him into their kingdom: Laputa.
After Gulliver's ship was attacked by pirates, he is marooned near a desolate rocky island, near India. Fortunately he is rescued by the flying island of Laputa, a kingdom devoted to the arts of music and mathematics
