When the last of the survivors were finally picked up by two passing ships, less than half of the men were left alive, and some of them had resorted to their own form of cannibalism.
Когда оставшиеся в живых были подобраны двумя встречными кораблями, б́ольшая половина экипажа была мертва. Некоторые сами прибегли к каннибализму.