... attached to the same chain, one would be dying and another already dead. The tumult they had heard was the frenzy of those suffocating wretches in the last stages of fury and desperation, struggling to extricate themselves. Men strangled those next them, and women drove nails into each other's brains. Many unfortunate creatures took the first opportunity of leaping overboard, thereby ... ...

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