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Ways to Punish Captives

     One torture was to tie the victim in ropes and drag his body along the barnacles on the bottom of the boat. Another way was to maroon people. It may seem like a mild punishment, but it was not. Sailors were left on islands populated by dangerous or cannibalistic natives and were given little or no food, supplies, or water. Yet another way consisted of cutting open the captives chest and nailing one end of the chest to the floor of the ship. The prisoner was then forced to dance until all off his guts had fallen out. A common form of torture was flogging. The whip usually used was a particularly vicious type called the " Cat-O-Nine Tails. It was a whip frayed at the end into nine separate strings. Finally, the most simple punishment was to throw the prisoner off the ship.