In 1820 there was a ship called the Essex. It was a whaling ship that they used to hunt whales. When they were hunting the whales they were around the pacific oceans.
There was a 32 meter whale that they tried to hunt. He was a white whale called Moby Dick. The people on the ship wanted to kill him, but Moby Dick swam past and hit their boat with his head two times. So the boat sunk quickly with only 20 survivors.
They were on the boat for three months with no food and drinks. The crew were so hungry and thirsty and they couldn’t drink the sea water because they would get sick, They didn’t want to starve so they shot the youngest one and ate him his name was Owen Coffin.
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