this boy is demonstrating how the inmates would be lashed as a form of punishment. She explained how, if a prisoner who had been issued with 25 lashings, fainted after only 13, the Doctor would step in to call a halt to the proceedings. Handfuls of salt would then be rubbed into the open wounds and the man would be stretchered off to the Hospital wing to recooperate. Once he was fit, he would return to receive his final 8 lashings.