They were short of water and provisions; three distinct diseases--namely, small-pox, ophthalmia, and diarrhoea in its worst form--had broken out while coming across among the poor doomed wretches.
On opening the hold we saw a mass of arms, legs, and bodies all crushed together.

Many of the bodies to whom these limbs belonged were dead or dying.

In fact, when we had made some sort of clearance among them we found in that fearful hold eleven dead bodies lying among the living freight.

Water! water! was the cry.

Many of them as soon as free jumped into the sea, partly from the delirious state they were in, partly because they had been told that, if taken by the English, they would be tortured and eaten.