 | Robert Kerr - 1813 - 586 pages
...with a most terrible instrument of torture, having at the ends of four cords irons like spur-roweis, so that every stroke made four wounds. When they lay...break their staves upon them. Thus cruelly mangled and hruised, they were carried away, one of them dying on the spot. Some would have excused themselves,... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Explorers - 1824 - 584 pages
...instrument of torture, having at the ends of four cords irons like spur-rowels, so that every strpke made four wounds. When they lay for dead, he commanded...bruised, they were carried away, one of them dying on the spot. Some would have excused themselves, by blaming the .stmbassador ; but the king said he had only... | |
 | India - 1855 - 864 pages
...before him, they receiving a hundred and thirty stripes with a terrible instrument having at the end of four cords irons like spur-rowels, so that every stroke made four wounds. When they lay for dead upon the ground he commanded the standers-by to spurn them, and after that, the porters to break their... | |
 | Philip Anderson - Bombay (India) - 1856 - 430 pages
...before him, they receiving a hundred and thirty stripes with a terrible instrument, having at the end of four cords irons like spur-rowels, so that every stroke made four wounds. When they lay for dead on the ground, he commanded the standers-by to spurn them, and after that the porters to break their... | |
 | Māndu (India) - 1879 - 138 pages
...caused to be whipped before him, they receiving a hundred and thirty stripes with a terrible instrument, having at the ends of four cords irons like spur-rowels,...every stroke made four wounds. When they lay for dead on the ground, he commanded the standers-by to spurn them, and after that the porters to break their... | |
 | Val Cameron Prinsep - India - 1879 - 448 pages
...to be whipped before him, they receiving one hundred and thirty stripes with a terrible instrument, having at the ends of four cords irons like spur-rowels,...every stroke made four wounds. When they lay for dead on the ground, he commanded the standers-by to spurn them, and after that the porters to break their... | |
 | Asia - 1886 - 990 pages
...receiving 130 stripes with a terrible instrument having at the ends of four cords irons like spur rowels, so that every stroke made four wounds. When they lay for dead on the ground, he commanded the standers-by to spurn them, and after that the porters to break their... | |
 | English fiction - 1876 - 728 pages
...his person he caused to be whipped before him, they receiving 130 stripes with a terrible instrument having at the ends of four cords irons like spurrowels,...every stroke made four wounds. When they lay for dead on the ground, hecommanded the standers-by to spurn them, and after that the porters to break their... | |
 | E. LETHBRIDGE , M. A. - 1876 - 484 pages
...before him, receiving one hundred and thirty stripes with a most terrible instrument, having at each end four cords, irons like spurrowels, so that every stroke made four wounds. When they lay for dead on the ground, he commanded the stauders-by to foot them, and after the porters to break their staves... | |
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... so that every stroke made four wounds. When they lay for dead on the ground, he commanded the standers-by to spurn them, and after that the porters to break their staves upon them. Thus most cruelly mangled and bruised, they were carried out ; one... 