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John Bulkley and the Speedwell
John Bulkley and about 80 men left Captain Cheep on Wager Island, along with his two remaining supporters, and headed for Brazil. You have to imagine these are men who have battled typhoons, tidal waves, scurvy, shipwreck. They are then on an island for months starving. Many of them died of starvation in the party that was on the island. And now they have to get on this little boat, pack so tightly that they can barely move.