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together, they fitted close to her neck, and the poor girl, 

 while wearing this instrument of punishment and disgrace, 

 was working with the rest. On another occasion I saw a 

 boy, apparently about fifteen years of age, with a rough, 

 heavy, iron collar on his naked neck. It seemed to be 



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formed by a square bar of iron about three quarters of an 

 inch thick being bent round his neck, and the two ends then 

 joined together. Yet he was working with a number of other 

 boys and men employed in carrying fire-wood to the beach 

 for the shipping. Another slave whom I saw working near 

 the same place had an iron collar round his neck with two 

 or three pointed iron spikes, six or seven inches long, fixed 



