My wounds were then washed with salt brine, after which I was let up.

A description of such paddles I have already given in another page.

I was so badly punished that I was not able to work for several days.

After being flogged as described, they took me off several miles to a shop and had a heavy iron collar riveted on my neck with prongs extending above my head, on the end of which there was a small bell.

I was not able to reach the bell with my hand.