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300 people survive a shipwreck. That should have been the miracle. but It wasn’t. Weeks later, over 100 of them were dead. Not from hunger. Not from thirst. but From murder. This happened in 1629. A Dutch ship owned by the Dutch East India Company crashed near what is now Australia, on a chain of empty islands called Houtman Abrolhos. The ship was destroyed. Nearly 300 survivors reached shore. No trees. Almost no water. Nowhere to escape. Then the commander left to find help. And he d