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  “My rigging”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 6.

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  “My ship’s company”: Report from Cheap to Richard Lindsey, Feb. 26, 1744, JS.

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  “resolution not”: Captain Murray’s report to Admiralty, July 10, 1741, TNA-ADM 1/2099.

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  “Lost sight”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 5.

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  “lag designedly”: Thomas, A True and Impartial Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas, 24.

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  “on some desolate”: Walter, A Voyage Round the World, 106.

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  “This was the”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 7.

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  CHAPTER 7

  “rheumatism” and “asthma”: Report from Cheap to Lindsey, Feb. 26, 1744, JS.

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  “cut and run”: This is another nautical term, which derived from when a captain, to hastily escape an enemy, would order his men to “cut” the anchor cable and “run” speedily downwind.

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  “My attachment to”: Campbell, The Sequel to Bulkeley and Cummins’s “Voyage to the South Seas,” 20.

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  “Let the fate”: Report from Cheap to Lindsey, Feb. 26, 1744, JS.

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  “stubborn defiance”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 7.

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  “We can’t be”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 9.

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  “condition the ship”: Ibid., 39.

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  “I would have”: This and subsequent quotes in scene, ibid., 9–10.

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  “a very great”: Ibid., 8.

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  it was “impossible”: Ibid., 10.

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  “I saw the”: Ibid., 11.

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  “Sway the foreyard”: Ibid.

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  execute a jibe: seamen then used the term to “wear” when referring to jibing.

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  “I was taken”: Report from Cheap to Lindsey, Feb. 26, 1744, JS.

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  “dreadful beyond”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 18.

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  “In this dreadful”: Ibid., 10.

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  “Six foot of”: John Cummins’s court-martial testimony, April 15, 1746, TNA-ADM 1/5288.

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  “full of water”: Report from Cheap to Lindsey, Feb. 26, 1744, JS.

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  “bereaved of all”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 12.

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  “My friends”: Ibid., 13.

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  “made a scene”: George Gordon Byron, The Complete Works of Lord Byron, 695.

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  “Providentially we”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 14.

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  CHAPTER 8

  “willfulness, negligence”: Rodger, Articles of War, 17.

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  “contrary to my”: Report from Cheap to Lindsey, Feb. 26, 1744, JS.

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  “We expected”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 13.

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  “sign of culture”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 17.

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  “We now thought”: Ibid., 14.

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  four vessels: For the estimated size of these transport boats, see Layman, The Wager Disaster. For more detailed descriptions of the making and design of these boats, see Lavery, The Arming and Fitting of English Ships of War, 1600–1815.

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  “Go and save”: Campbell, The Sequel to Bulkeley and Cummins’s “Voyage to the South Seas,” 13.

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  “Don’t mind”: Ibid.

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  “if the people’s”: John Jones’s court-martial testimony, April 15, 1746, TNA-ADM 1/5288.

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  “He gave his”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 15.

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  lifted the barge: Bulkeley wrote that the barge was freed first, but other accounts indicate that it was the yawl.

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  “We had several”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 13.

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  “We have good”: Ibid., 14.

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  “I was forced”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 16.

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  “We helped him”: Campbell, The Sequel to Bulkeley and Cummins’s “Voyage to the South Seas,” 14.

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  The castaways huddled: Bulkeley and the carpenter, Cummins, joined the group a bit later, because they had been on the ship gathering supplies.

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  “It is natural”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 17–18.

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  “faint, benumbed”: Ibid, 18.

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  tangled, marshy grass: My descriptions of the island are based not only on the accounts of the castaways but also on my own voyage to the island and extensive exploration of it.

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  “Our uncertainty”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 18.

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  “certainly lost”: Campbell, The Sequel to Bulkeley and Cummins’s “Voyage to the South Seas,” 14.

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  “Some were singing”: Ibid.

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  “Damn ye!”: Ibid., 15.

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  “like a parcel”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 14.

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  CHAPTER 9

  “We had most”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 19.

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  “The very sea”: Ibid., vi–vii.

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  “seized with the”: Ibid., 20.

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  “the soul”: P. Parker King, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, vol. 1, 179. In his quote, King is borrowing a line from the poet James Thomson.

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  “Being strongly”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 21.

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  “hideous spectacles”: Ibid., 26.

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  “It rained so”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 14.

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  “impossible for us”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 25.

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  “to contrive something”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 15.

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  “murmurings and discontent”: Ibid., 18.

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  “things began”: Ibid., xxviii.

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  “we might probably”: Ibid., 21.

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  “always acted”: Ibid., xxiv.

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  Presence of mind: Ibid., 212.

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  “The wood here”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 53.

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  “large kind of”: Ibid., 51.

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  “the only feathered”: Ibid.

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  “As if to”: Anne Chapman, European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, Before and After Darwin, 104–5.

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  “The woods were”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 52.

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  “very large”: Ibid., 53.

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  “As for food”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 15.

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  “scarce to be”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, vi.

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  “a scene”: Ibid., 32.

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  CHAPTER 10

  Minnesota Starvation Experiment: For more information on the experiment, see Ancel Keys, Josef Brozek, Austin Henschel, and Henry Longstreet Taylor’s study, The Biology of Human Starvation; David Baker and Natacha Keramidas’s “The Psychology of Hunger,” American Psychological Association 44, no. 9 (October 2013), 66; Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex; and Todd Tucker’s The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science.

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  “How many people”: Quoted in Todd Tucker, The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science, 139.

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  “I’m going”: Ibid., 102.

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  “how thin”: Quoted in Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea, 171.

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  their environment: When Charles Darwin later visited Patagonia, he marveled at how the “inanimate works of nature—rock, ice, snow, wind, and water—all warring with each other, yet combined against man—here reigned in absolute sovereignty.”

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  “every man”: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, 91.

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  “mutinous assemblies”: Rodger, Articles of War, 16–17.

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  “My first care”: Report from Cheap to Lindsey, Feb. 26, 1744, JS.

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  “The difficulties”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 27.

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  “Found several”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 19.

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  “Got out several”: Ibid., 17.

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  “By the Captain’s”: Campbell, The Sequel to Bulkeley and Cummins’s “Voyage to the South Seas,” 21.

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  “in our situation”: Ibid., 29.

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  “blown up”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 18.

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  “They were so”: Ibid., 16.

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  “the most frugal”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 27.

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  “Our stomachs”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 58.

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  “expressed the greatest”: Campbell, The Sequel to Bulkeley and Cummins’s “Voyage to the South Seas,” 19.

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  “If it had”: Ibid., 21.

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  “a good and”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 55.

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  “I had the”: Campbell, The Sequel to Bulkeley and Cummins’s “Voyage to the South Seas,” 31.

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  “This poor stuff”: Ibid.

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  “punts, cask-boats”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 47.

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  “in quest of”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 48.

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  steamer duck: Charles Darwin compared the way this type of bird scurries across the sea to how “the common house-duck escapes when pursued by a dog.”

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  “the velocity”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 51.

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  “This is a rich”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 30.

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  “Providence made”: Ibid., 174.

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  “careful in writing”: Ibid., 14.

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  “irregular habitations”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 99.

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  “a kind of village”: Ibid.

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  “Hunting all”: Quote extracts come from the journals of Byron and Bulkeley.

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  “Ill humour and”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 35.

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  “The store tent”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 27.

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  CHAPTER 11

  “It freezes”: Bulkeley and Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, 17.

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  “Their clothing”: Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 33–34.

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  “cur-like looking”: Ibid., 137.

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  “It was evident”: Ibid., 33.