Episode 521: The Tragedy of the Essex Part II - A Belly Full of Blood
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The Essex and the Whale Boat
In March, a ship named the Surrey out of Australia volunteered to go out and pick up three men that they'd left on an island. Scattered amongst them were more bones as if the whale boat was in the words of one sailor, the seagulling layer of a ferocious man eating beast. Their skin was covered in sores. Their eyes had sunken back into their skulls and their beards were caked with salt and blood. The men were brought aboard and given food and water. And after coming to their senses, they told the tale of the Essex.
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