The revenue guards had discovered among the rocks mutilated bodies in tragic positions, with glassy eyes protruding from their sockets.
Many of them were recognized as soldiers by the tatters that revealed an old uniform, or the metal identification tags on their wrists.

The shore folks were always talking of a transport that had been torpedoed coming from Algiers....

And mixed with the men, they were constantly finding bodies of women so disfigured that it was almost impossible to judge of their age: mothers who had their arms arched as though putting forth their utmost efforts to guard the babe that had disappeared.

Many whose virginal modesty had been violated by the sea, showed naked limbs swollen and greenish, with deep bites from flesh-eating fishes.

The tide had even tossed ashore the headless body of a child a few years old.
It was more horrible, according to Toni, to contemplate this spectacle from land than when in a boat.