on the bed, and spurred them on their foreheads to wake them, and then whipped them with his horsewhip so that they both came into the kitchen bloody.
They then placed the two men on horseback, both on the same horse, each man's legs being tied beneath the horse's belly, and then their four legs tied together, one of the smugglers, Richards, threatening to shoot anyone who should mention anything that was being done.
They then set out, all on horseback, except two John Race, who had joined the party ; he stayed behind, not having a horse -and William Steele, who led the horse on which Galley and Chater were ; the roads being bad, their progress was very slow. They had not gone above one hundred yards before Jackson , who seems to have been a ringleader in the diabolical business, called out, " Whip ' em; cut ' em, slash ' em, d- n ' em," and then all, except Steele, set to lashing and cutting them over the head, face, eyes, shoulders, or wherever they could injure them most, till, unable to bear the anguish of this terrible punishment, the poor men rolled from side to side, till at last they fell with their heads under the horse's belly, in which posture their heads were frequently struck with the horse's feet. This happened at Wood's Ashes, about half-a-mile from the place where the whipping began. They were placed upright, and the same treatment continued to Goodthrop Dean, about half a mile farther, when they fell as -
