He choked with the blood from his tongue, lacerated with his teeth, and from his lungs, and went black in the face.

I saw his back.

It looked like roasted meat; yet he had only had eighty strokes.
"The punishments are bad.

Runnin' the gauntlet is one of them.

Each member of the crew is armed with three tarry rope-yarns, knotted at the ends.