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How did the cabin boy Richard Parker repeat the sad fate of his literary namesake?

In Edgar Poe's 1838 story "The Tale of the Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym" there is an episode when a ship is caught in a storm and four sailors are rescued on a raft. Having no food, they decide to eat one of them by lot - and this victim was Richard Parker. In 1884, a real yacht sank, and four people on one boat also survived. They probably didn't read that story, but they ended up eating a cabin boy named Richard Parker.

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