Montezuma's Daughter Chapter 11 - The Loss Of The Carak

In which the narrator, disguised and resolute, embarks on a perilous voyage aboard a Spanish carak bound for Hispaniola, only to suffer a dreadful shipwreck that leaves him adrift with a handful of survivors before being cruelly captured and confined among a wretched cargo of slaves. Amidst the horrors of sickness and despair in the ship's hold, he grasps the bitter reality of his imprisonment and the dire fate that awaits those around him.