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“he kept quiet how his friend Cozens had gripped his hand after being shot;how the dog that he found was slaughtered and eaten;and how some of his companions had turned to cannibalism.In 1768 Byron published his own ver. –The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron Containing an Account of the Great Distresses Suffered by Himself and His Companions on the Coast of Patagonia from 1740 till Arrivl in England 1746”

“One warship with five hundred men had vanished. Another, with seven hundred, had sunk. Because of delays from the weather, the three remaining warships had run out of food—sailors had started catching rats and selling them to one another for four dollars apiece. Most of the seamen had eventually starved to death.” – Spanish Armada

“Not only did these vessels have to traverse some of the roughest seas on earth; most of the men attempting to pull off this feat were already near death. “The greatest part of the people on board are so regardless of life that they really appear quite indifferent whether they shall live or die,” Bulkeley wrote

“A British captain who passed by the island nearly a century later noted how the fierce squalls beat down from the ever-present clouds that engulfed the surrounding lonely heights, and called it a place where “the soul of man dies in him.” - the ship finally crashed near some stone and shrubs island of a Chilean coast.. wet, cold, hungry, sick, crazy, in winter…

I wanted smth about sailing and found this gem — recently popular about 1740/42.

“As Samuel Johnson once observed, “No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.” — logical that it’s also easy to earn while being unattainable (roaming in the mid of nowhere)