52 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

summoning the drummer to his presence, and grossly censured him {or not having performed his duty with greater severity.

The time having arrived for the infliction of the second punishment the prisoner was brought forth to receive it, he was stripped of his clothing and secured to a vehicle as before, when down came the knotted lash; again and again it fell with increased vigor, tearing the quivering flesh from the bones, which together with his blood, were scattered round as the lash was whirled in the air so as to descend with greater force. Thus the agonizing punishment of I I7 lashes continued to the end, after which the prisoner was removed to his prison cell, from whence, after the elapse of a few days only, he was brought forth a corpse, and interred in a cemetery near by.