No ship showed her white sails upon the broad expanse of waters that stretched, far as the eye could reach, in all directions.

Thus ten days passed, and our provisions and water were nearly exhausted.
Three of the passengers had become already very ill, and all of us were more or less sick from exposure to the rain and sea.

On the twelfth day, two of our number died and were cast overboard.

Others became sick, and by the time we had been floating about thus for the space of twenty days, only four of the twelve remained.

Most of them died with a raging fever.