The English mail steamer,RMS Rona, which was transporting 137 convicts to Australia, came across an an unidentified ship stranded on a sandbar off Bijourtier Island. A party sent by the Rona to investigate and if necessary help, discovered a zombie with a broken back, who was dragging itself across the ship’s deserted decks. When the sailors from the Rona tried to help, the zombie bit a finger off one of the sailors, and was subsequently decaptated by the cutlass of another. The wounded seaman was taken back to the ship, and given a drink of rum, with the Ronas' surgeon promising to look him over the following morning. That night, the sailor turned in his bunk, and attacked his mates. The frightened captain ordered the hold boarded up, with the result being that the convicts were trapped i