[1] By the time the ship's longboat, its largest boat, had been lengthened, over forty additional men had died of starvation, disease, or internal strife.
When Bulkeley and most of the remaining survivors set out for Portuguese-controlled Brazil, in the longboat, and two other surviving boats, they only had two weeks of food.
[1] Bulkeley was able to arrange for passage of the survivors back to Europe, and when they arrived in Britain he and the ship's carpenter, John Cummins, published an account of their voyage that sold widely.
Bulkeley was never charged with mutiny and following Cheap's acquittal for losing his ship, emigrated to the Colony of Pennsylvania where his book was re-published in 1757.
[3] Bulkeley, with John Cummins, wrote an account of this experiences A voyage to the South-Seas, in the years 1740-1 (1743), which was published with the long subtitle, "A faithful Narrative of the Loss of his Majesty's Ship the WAGER on a desolate Island in the Latitude 47 South, Longitude 81:40 West: With the Proceedings and Conduct of the Officers and Crew, and the Hardships they endured in the said Island for the Space of five Months; their bold attempt for Liberty; in Coasting the Southern Part of the vast region of Patagonia; setting out with upward of Eighty Souls in their boats; the Loss of the Cutter; their Passage through the Straits of Magellan; an Account of the incredible Hardships they frequently underwent for Want of Food of any Kind.