For four months, the five castaways from the Grafton endured a grim daily life in the hut they had built in the south of remote Auckland Island ....
Holding, the only man with the skills to live off the land, keeping body and soul together, could have saved many more lives -- but no one listened to him, because he was "just" a humble seaman. As it was, the captain and first mate survived because they bullied him into giving them the food he had saved, and because they copied the little shelter he had made -- though they made sure their little huts were a "proper" distance away. It was shipboard ranking gone mad.
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Sounds like a smaller version of the attitude and decisions that doomed so many of the crew of the whaleship Essex. Bev
Interesting, a smaller version of the attitude and poor decisions made by crew of the whaleship Essex
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