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Shipwrecked

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The End of Captain Cheep's Authority

David Graham says that Captain Cheep was starting to feel like he was losing control over the men on the island. He began having problems with a sailor named Henry Cousins, who seemed to be constantly drunk. And then there comes a point where Cheep hears a fight outside his hut, and he accuses Cousins of muting - even though he wasn't committing muting. That was really in some ways the beginning of the end of his authority, said Graham.

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