Adam Ewing Timeline & Summary

Aboard the Prophetess, Adam Ewing is returning to San Francisco from a business trip in Australia.
The ship is undergoing repairs in the Chatham Islands, where Ewing meets Dr. Henry Goose. Ewing and Goose two strike up a friendship.
Ewing tells Goose about an Ailment he believes he has, and Goose diagnoses it as a parasite. Goose starts a dangerous treatment to rid him of the parasite.
Back aboard the Prophetess, Ewing discovers a stowaway in his cabin—an escaped slave by the name of Autua.
With Ewing's help, Autua earns passage on the ship.
Ewing's journal cuts off mid-sentence, only to pick up nine parts of the book later, right where it left off.
The Prophetess makes a pit stop in Bethlehem Bay, a quaint little ocean hamlet of missionaries and slave traders (or are they the same thing here?).
Thankfully, the ship doesn't stay there long.
On the next leg of their trip, Ewing gets more and more ill from Goose's "treatment."
Notice our quotes there? Goose has been trying to kill Ewing this whole time.
Autua steps in at the last minute, scares off Goose, and saves Ewing's life, taking him to a nunnery to nurse him back to health.
Having been saved by a slave, Ewing vows to devote himself to the Abolitionist cause.