melville and patrick o'brien.t as the boat rolled further and ser swallowing the deck, i began to wonder what you're probably all wondering now. what the hell was i doing in the gulf of pain? and my girl good stories. this one began in 1742. it then that a small battered brazil and on board were 30 men. their bodies wasted to the bone. one soon gave out as the last breath and but one of them rose with an extraordinary exertion of and he announced that they were the of his majesty's ship. the and that they had been shipwrecked a desolate island for months and after building this flimsy craft they traverse. some 3000 miles one of the longest castaway voyages ever recorded and were hailed for their engines, witty and for their courage. then several months later, another little boat washed ashore off the coast of chile. on the other side, south america. this boat was even more battered. it was just a dugout with sails stitched together from ripped blankets. on board were three additional survivors, a condition even wo

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