We came up; Huckstep ordered him down, and secured him upon my horse by tying him to my back.

On reaching home he was stripped entirely naked and lashed up to a tree.

Flincher then volunteered to whip him on one side of his legs, and Goldsby on the other.

I had, in the meantime, been ordered to prepare a wash of salt and pepper, and wash his wounds with it.

The poor fellow groaned, and his flesh shrunk and quivered as the burning solution was applied to it.