Robert Evans
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All 350 of the crew were assembled on deck to witness Newton's court-martial and flogging.
The captain was determined to make an example of him and so discourage any other malcontents from thoughts of desertion.
He was stripped and lashed to a grating.
Give him the first dozen.
The cat-o'-nine-tails swung, repeatedly lashing his bare back until his white skin was red with lacerated flesh.
His audience watched in sickened silence.
One young marine fainted.
Lash after lash pounded his torn back.
Eight dozen strokes in all.
Stripped of rank and degraded to his original position,
His former comrades now dared not even acknowledge that they had ever known him and were forbidden by the captain to have any communication with him.
So this fucks him up.
This leaves.
Yeah, this does some damage to our right.
Can you imagine?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's a lot of lashes.
Yeah, right.