Chains led from their fettered feet and their manacled hands to a sole-leather belt about their waists; and all except the children were also linked together in a file six feet apart, by a single chain which led from collar to collar all down the line.

They were on foot, and had tramped three hundred miles in eighteen days, upon the cheapest odds and ends of food, and stingy rations of that.

They had slept in these chains every night, bundled together like swine.

They had upon their bodies some poor rags, but they could not be said to be clothed.

Their irons had chafed the skin from their ankles and made sores which were ulcerated and wormy.