"With their usual amiability they set to work to torture us.

My companion's tongue they cut out at the roots, while, as I have said, they deprived me of my sight.

After that they turned us loose to go where we would.

We have wandered here, there, and everywhere, living on what we could pick up, and dying a thousand deaths every day.

It would have been better if we had died outright--but somehow we've come through.