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.