Also she said that the water was almost finished, and there was little food left for the slaves.

After this she came no more, and I suppose that she died also.
It was within twenty hours of her last visit that I left this accursed ship.

For a day none had come to feed or tend the slaves, and indeed many needed no tending, for they were dead.

Some still lived however, though so far as I could see the most of them were smitten with the plague.

I myself had escaped the sickness, perhaps because of the strength and natural healthiness of my body, which has always saved me from fevers and diseases, fortified as it was by the good food that I had obtained.