 Although he found water various times, it was never in consistent supply and during a prolonged period of drought, he began drinking the blood of green turtles and seabirds, as well as his own urine, water found inside the bodies of dead turtles, and even the urine inside the bladders of those turtles.He likely died of thirst after about six months.A similar punishment was meted out two years later to two boys from the Dutch East India Company ship the "Zeewijk", shipwrecked off the west coast of Australia.