english: Herman Melville, who used this story as research for "Moby Dick," wrote years later, and from dry land, quote, "All the sufferings of these miserable men of the Essex might in all human probability have been avoided had they, immediately after leaving the wreck, steered straight for Tahiti.
non_english: Herman Melvil, koji je istraživao ovu priču za roman ‚‚Mobi Dik", je godinama kasnije, na čvrstom tlu napisao: ‚‚Sve patnje ovih unesrećenih ljudi sa Eseksa mogle su se izbeći da su oni, napustivši olupinu krenuli pravo ka Tahitiju.