Montezuma's Daughter Chapter 12 - Thomas Comes To Shore

In which the captive Englishman endures the horrors of a slave ship ravaged by plague, witnessing death and cruelty aboard before making a desperate, harrowing escape into the sea. Upon clinging to a floating barrel amid shark-infested waters, he is at last cast ashore into a strange and hostile land, beset by relentless insects and the lurking menace of crocodiles.