% had seen: too many poor creatures, dragged mer-
cilessly before the Principal Keeper for punishment,
and often punished by him, for not performing ex-
travagant tasks — labour required of them, beyond
their ability :-»-Convicts, who,, in previous days, had:
been objects, apparently,, of their special regard, ,
and who now stood trembling on the verge of eter-
nity, from the mere brutality of their friendship : — -
ihad seen too many such instances, not to regard I
even their good nature, with the utmost concern,
Polyphemus loved Ulysses, with the same ardour,,
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that they love the Jearf vicious man among the con-
victs : their beckon is friendship, but their embrace
it death.
