the sailors , for their part , were as dissatisfied with the light sentence as the aviators were with the brutality ; poor martin , set to tanning hides with the harness-master for punishment , was more wretched with guilt than from his punishment , and spent every spare moment at blythe 's bedside ; and the only person at all satisfied with the situation was yongxing , who seized the opportunity to hold several more long conversations with temeraire in chinese : privately , as temeraire made no effort to include laurence .