 The most horrible tortures are resorted to for forcing confession of hidden wealth. The victim is put into a slow oven, or kept standing for weeks in a wooden dress ; splinters are forced between the flesh and nail of the fingers ; two fierce cats are...  Western Barbary: Its Wild Tribes and Savage Animals - Seite 86von John Hay Drummond-Hay, Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake - 1844 - 160 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John H. Drummond Hay - 1844 - 204 Seiten
...suffered for this, as well as myself." " Know, O Nazarene," he continued, " that our tribe are * The most horrible tortures are resorted to for forcing confession...trowsers, and the breasts of his women are twisted by pincers. Young children have sometimes been squeezed to death under the arms of a powerful man, before... | |
 | Sir John Hay Drummond-Hay - 1844 - 372 Seiten
...suffered for this, as well as myself." " Know, O Nazarene," he continued, " that our tribe are * The most horrible tortures are resorted to for forcing confession...trowsers, and the breasts of his women are twisted by pincers. Young children have sometimes been squeezed to death under the arms of a powerful man, before... | |
 | William Starbuck Mayo - 1850 - 462 Seiten
...and assistants, who flocked around him with their congratulations upon the imperial favor. * The most horrible tortures are resorted to for forcing confession...dress. Splinters are forced between the flesh and the nail of the fingers. Two fierce cats are put alive into his wide trousers; and the breasts of his... | |
 | William Starbuck Mayo - 1850 - 472 Seiten
...upon the imperial favor. * The most horrible tortures are resorted to for forcing confession of hiddcu wealth. The victim is put into a slow oven, or kept...dress. Splinters are forced between the flesh and the nail of the fingers. Two fierce cats are put alive into his wide trousers ; and the breasts of... | |
 | James Richardson - 1860 - 344 Seiten
...horrible tortures are freely resorted to for forcing confessions of hidden wealth. The victim is put in a slow oven, or kept standing for weeks in a wooden...dress ; splinters are forced between the flesh and the nail of the fingers; two fierce cats are put alive into his wide trousers, and the breasts of his... | |
 | James Richardson - 1860 - 334 Seiten
...horrible tortures are freely resorted to for forcing confessions of hidden wealth. The victim is put in a slow oven, or kept standing for weeks in a wooden...dress ; splinters are forced between the flesh and the nail of the fingers; two fierce cats are put alive into his wide trousers, and the breasts of his... | |
 | Sir John Hay Drummond-Hay - 1861 - 196 Seiten
...suffered for this, as well as myself." " Know, O Nazarene," he continued, " that our tribe are * The most horrible tortures are resorted to for forcing confession...trowsers, and the breasts of his women are twisted by pincers. Young children have sometimes been squeezed to death under the arms of a powerful man, before... | |
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