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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder Anatomy Drawing and musings from Patty MarxOn January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majestys Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure filled galleon known as the prize of all the