Examines the story of the Batavia, a seventeenth-century Dutch East India Company treasure ship, which was shipwrecked during a mutiny led by Jeronimus Corneliszoon, an event that led to the slaughter of more than one hundred innocent survivors.

Map: The United Provinces c. 1628 --Map: Route of the Batavia -- Map: Houtman's Abrolhos -- Prologue: Morning Reef -- The Heretic -- Gentlemen XVII -- The Tavern of the Ocean -- Terra Australis Incognita -- The Tiger -- Longboat -- "Who Wants to Be Stabbed to Death?" -- Condemned -- "To Be Broken on the Wheel" -- Epilogue: On the Shores of the Great South-Land.