"Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket", chapter 4, by Edgar Allan

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The picture used is a depiction of the Mutiny on the Bounty, from "The Chronicles of Crime; or, The New Newgate Calendar, Being a Series of Memoirs and Anecdotes of Notorious Characters Who Have Outraged the Laws of Great Britain From the Earliest Period to 1841. Volume I." London: T Miles & Co, 1841.

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