Chapter 10
This chapter
focuses on the issue of hunger yet again. They decided, after what they collected
on the island was gone, to split the rations partially in half again. The
captain and mates decided it would be all but a death sentence to cut water
anymore, but they did, however, cut the bred to one and a half ounces a piece.
(pg. 163) I personally didn't see the
need for this. If they had stayed on the island to build up strength and supplies
then left with more provisions then they may have been in better shape. Also in this chapter the first two men died;
Matthew Joy the previously sick second mate and the extremely malnourished
African American Richard Peterson. Both of
these men had what the other crew members could spare tied to their legs and
were thrown in to the open ocean.
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