He had also held the candle himself during the whole punishment.
He asserted that one candle and half of another were burnt out while it lasted.

He said also that, while the body lay in the waist, he had handled the abused parts, and had put three of his fingers into a hole, made by the double walled knot, in the head, from whence a quantity of blood and, he believed, brains issued.

He then challenged me to bring the man before him.
I desired him upon this to be cool, and to come to me the next day, and I would then talk with him again upon the subject.
In the interim I consulted the muster-roll of the vessel again.

I found the name of George Ormond.

He had sailed in her out of Liverpool, and had been discharged at the latter end of January in the West Indies, as he had told me.