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CHAP. VI. 
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 
MODES OF PUNISHING SLAVES. 
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 
