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The Scurvy of Cape Horn
The wager and the other ships kept heading south along the coast of South America. Once they went ashore to fix a broken mast and saw armadillos, the sailors called them hogs and armor. And once, a sailor on board the wager wrote that they nearly hid a whale. Eventually, it was time for the ships to turn west and enter the waters around Cape Horn.