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the bulwark of the ship, which provoked them to such 
an extent that they all jumped over upon the deck, and 
returned the attack with compound interest, leaving him 
prostrate, calling aloud for help and mercy. 
The next morning, the six men who had been engaged 
in the attack upon the captain, were taken out of the 
ship to which they belonged, and sent to the town as 
prisoners, escorted by a guard of soldiers, by order of 
the Spanish governor, who also a day or two afterwards 
caused them to be severely flogged, giving them thirty 
lashes each ; and had it not been through my urgent 
interposition with him, these unfortunate men w^ould 
have been tortured with sixty lashes each, —inflicted too 
by the hands of one of those half Spanish, half Malay 
wretches, who enjoy the employment of lacerating the 
backs of these, I may say, innocent Englishmen ; who, 
after they had received their degrading punishment, were 
allowed to return to the ship from which they had been 
taken. But when they arrived on board, their old ship- 
mates could scarcely believe them to be the same men 
who only a few days before had been taken away by the 
guard, so depressed were they in spirit, and so dissatisfied 
were they with everything around, feeling as they said, 
66 for ever disgraced;” and to such an extent did the 
punishment which they had received work upon their 
minds, that not only were they almost useless during the 
remainder of the voyage, but the other portion of the 
crew became dissatisfied in consequence of the disgrace- 
ful punishment which their shipmates had received ; 
charging their captain with neglect in not refusing to 
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