vesel
was then lying
at Taap cheang.
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Five
or sex
Chinese were in the hold when I was put there about
ten days afterward four of these because they cried and made
men were
a noise.
flogged I ales cries.
and I believe would also have been flogged, but
1 begged for mercy
flogged
wvere
ow
my
knees. The four
men
: one after the other, each being tied
with his hands spread out and
up by his quere
fastened to stanchions, his feet barely touching
floor.
One
was flogged
mar
more
the
but I do not know his name
severely
than the others, and was
struck with a piece of firewood, also kicked - when he was untied after being theirs flogged
he
fell down insensible, and vomited some blood-
he died in about the time it would take to eat
a meal of rice, after that he
was
"The clother of each of the
untied.
mew
flogged,
both jacket and trowsers were taken off before he
was
flogged. After the
man
that died had
on but
put bleeding the affect
been unfastened, his trowsers were, not his jacket - his back was of the blows he had received.
I remained on
board the vessel until I was removed into a
large ship. I saw two vessels alongside the large ship at the time I was removed on board, one I knew as Nr. 16 the other was Nr. 15%, that in
-
which I had been confined _ I was on beard No. 15 all the time. I identify the prisoner -
the first time I saw him was when I was removed
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