Edgar Allan Poe mentioned the saga of Polly in his 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.

On December 12, 1811, Polly departed Boston with a cargo of lumber and provisions (including salted meat) bound for the Virgin Islands.

Quantities of salted pork were recovered, and the survivors ate that raw until the cook managed to start a fire twelve days after the wreck, by using two sticks rubbed together.

[6] The supplies of salted pork ran out after forty days, and the survivors were forced to eat barnacles scraped off the hull, and the occasional shark and fish.

[1] The story of Polly is mentioned in an in-character footnote in Chapter 13 of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.