He had got a whipping machine made and erected in front of the Episcopal church in the village of Bath.

It was a frame of a triangular shape, the base of which rested firmly on the ground, and having a perpendicular beam from the base to the apex or angle.

To this beam the apprentice's body was lashed, with his face towards the machine, and his arms extended at right angles, and tied by the wrists.

The missionary had witnessed the floggings at this machine repeatedly, as it stood but a few steps from his house.

Before we reached Bath, the machine had been removed from its conspicuous place and _concealed in the bushes, that the governor might not see it when he visited the village_.
As this missionary had been for several years laboring in the island, and had enjoyed the best opportunities to become extensively acquainted with the negroes, we solicited from him a written answer to a number of inquiries.