Oiled cloths were then put round them.

The child was at length tied to a heavy log.

Two or three days afterwards, the captain caught it up again; and repeated that he would make it eat, or kill it.

He immediately flogged it again, and in a quarter of an hour it died.

But, after the child was dead, whom should the barbarian select to throw it overboard, but the wretched mother?
In vain she started from the office.