They kill slowly, on principle, by putting men in irons for entire weeks, exhausted men who cannot withstand the treatment. Everything is punishable: complaining of having found worms in the food, asking for water while burning with fever, not obeying an order quickly enough or carrying it out poorly, even when one can no longer stand, quoting the divine word, banished from this carceral hell, addressing a petition to the Rochefort district demanding an improvement in detention conditions… Spoiled, the meager, repulsive food, and the stagnant water, cause dysentery, which also kills, while the sick are left in the ship's hold in their own excrement, which finishes contaminating the air and their fellow detainees. […]
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