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Ep. 455: The Wager with David Grann

The MeatEater Podcast

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The Legend of John Bokely

There's nothing to eat on the island. There were some muscles along one of the beaches, but they gradually exhausted that supply. The celery cured their scurvy because it had some vitamin C in it. A midshipman named John Byron was only 16 years old when the voyage set sail. He would later go on to become the grandfather of the poet Lord Byron.

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