I was so astonish’d with the sight of these things, that I entertain’d no notions of any danger to my self from it for a long while; all my apprehensions were buried in the thoughts of such a pitch of inhuman, hellish brutality, and the horror of the degeneracy of human nature; which though I had heard of often, yet I never had so near a view of before; in short, I turn’d away my face from the horrid spectacle; my stomach grew sick, and I was just at the point of fainting, when Nature discharg’d
