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he could not see the mill, and by a multitude of ques tions, occupied about two minutes of the time, until the glass had run down ; thus saving the poor creature any more flogging. When let go, she sunk on the ground exhausted, but managed shortly after to crawl away from the scene of her suffering. Dr. Lloyd and I went shortly after to that part of the mill where the women are kept ; the whole of them were in a state of profuse perspiration, and scarcely able to speak. We examined the legs of the mulatto woman, and found them shockingly bruised, the skin in one part about the size of a dollar torn away. The poor black girl had lost the skin off the bend of her arm, and was sufl^ering dreadfully from the cramp. In reference to the latter feinale, I observed the driver cut her across the naked ancles, leaving the mark of his cat visible. I spoke a few kind words, which greatly affected them. Thus then, it appears, that in Barbados wo men committed to the tread-mill are catted ad libi tum—the driver's feelings alone being the rule which governs him in the use of his scourge. During the whole time these scenes were transacting, the Barba dos Legislature were holding their Sessions within thirty yards of the tread-mill."