His body both before and behind, was covered with wounds.

His belly and thighs were almost cut to pieces, with running ulcers all over them; and a finger might have been laid in some of the weals.

He could not sit down, because his hinder part was mortified; and it was impossible for him to lie down, on account of the prongs of his collar." He supplicated the General for relief.

The latter asked, who had punished him so dreadfully?
The youth answered, his master had done it.

And because he could not work, this same master, in the same spirit of perversion, which extorts from scripture a justification of the Slave-trade, had fulfilled the apostolic maxim, that he should have nothing to eat.