Fortunately for him the poor fellow died as a consequence of the flogging.
After that a dull, spiritless resignation settled down upon the remainder.

The most mutinous were quelled, and accepted their unspeakable lot with the tragic fortitude of despair.
Peter Blood alone, escaping these excessive sufferings, remained outwardly unchanged, whilst inwardly the only change in him was a daily deeper hatred of his kind, a daily deeper longing to escape from this place where man defiled so foully the lovely work of his Creator.

It was a longing too vague to amount to a hope.

Hope here was inadmissible.
And yet he did not yield to despair.

He set a mask of laughter on his saturnine countenance and went his way, treating the sick to the profit of Colonel Bishop, and encroaching further and further upon the preserves of the two other men of medicine in Bridgetown.
Immune from the degrading punishments and privations of his fellow-convicts, he was enabled to keep his self-respect, and was treated without harshness even by the soulless planter to whom he had been sold.