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Thank you for a fine riposte to that meandering longform writing.
It’s an excerpt to a book.
Found it slightly interesting the captain of the HMS Wager has the last name Cheap
FYI, this is a long excerpt (prologue and first chapter) from a nonfiction book y the author of "Killers of the Flower Moon" and "Lost City of Z," David Grann.
Fascinating. Built on a firsthand account by Lord Byron's grandfather? Everyone writing nautical and adventure fiction in the era would have been aware of this, though I had no idea. Kind of an early post-truth type situation as well. Just goes to show there's nothing new under the sun, as usual.
Going by popularity I think the mutiny on the Bounty leads the list, but the most macabre mutiny story that I have come across is the one on Batavia. The story and the bones are still being pieced together