Captain Amaso Delano ("Benito Cereno") Timeline and Summary

Captain Amaso Delano, the captain of an American sealer, "The Bachelor's Delight", comes upon a Spanish ship in distress.
He brings aboard supplies, and sends his men back to his ship to get more water and food and help.
On the ship, he finds that many of the white Spaniards are dead; the slaves seem to be poorly controlled.
But Don Benito Cereno, the captain, assures him all is well; they've just had a bad passage.
Delano says, huh, okay.
He thinks something is wrong, then thinks it isn't, then thinks it is, back and forth.
Back and forth.
This goes on for a while.
Finally, the ship pulls up, Delano goes overboard, and Benito Cereno jumps over as well.
It turns out that the blacks had escaped and captured the ship; Babo, Cereno's servant, had been in control all along.
Delano orders the ship boarded, kills many of the black people and captures the rest.
Delano takes the former slaves to the authorities for trial.