The Galapagos Tortoise

Captain Pollard ordered his men to stop off at the Galapagos Island so they could farm for tortoises, because true to form, whalers were a virus that consumed everything in their path. The Essex crew disembarked and collected 180 tortoises for the rest of the voyage. They stacked them like boulders in the hull. And then the turtles that they couldn't stack. Just imagine the end this fucking crew of whalers just hauling off with a bunch of sacks and just getting all the turtles and taking all the turtles away.