 | Oriental Translation Fund - 1831 - 474 pages
...deed of the beautiful Mii yiuy at the end of the first book of his history. them up to the mast-head, and left them hanging nearly an hour, then lowered...punishment, 'till they died or complied with the oath. October the 20th, in the night, an express-boat came with the information that a large mandarine fleet... | |
 | Yung-lun Yüan, Karl Friedrich Neumann - China Sea - 1831 - 198 pages
...the following cruel manner : their hands were tied behind their back, a rope from the mast-head rove through their arms, and hoisted three or four feet...from the deck, and five or six men flogged them with three rattans twisted together 'till they were apparently dead; then hoisted * Yuen tsze reported the... | |
 | Buddhism - 1831 - 482 pages
...the following cruel manner: their hands were tied behind their back, a rope from the mast-head rove through their arms, and hoisted three or four feet...from the deck, and five or six men flogged them with three rattans twisted together 'till they were apparently dead ; then hoisted * Yuen tszc reported... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Brigands and robbers - 1833 - 344 pages
...the following cruel manner : their hands were tied behind their backs, a rope from the mast-head rove through their arms, and hoisted three or four feet...from the deck, and five or six men flogged them with three rattans twisted together till they were apparently dead ; then hoisted them up to the mast-head,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Brigands and robbers - 1833 - 346 pages
...their arms, and hoisted three or four feet from the deck, and five or six men flogged them with three rattans twisted together till they were apparently dead ; then hoisted -them up to the mast-head, and left them hanging nearly an hour, then lowered them down, and repeated the punishment,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Brigands and robbers - 1833 - 220 pages
...arms, and hoisted three or four feet from the deck, and five or six men flogged them with three ratans twisted together till they were apparently dead ; then hoisted them up to the mast-head, and left them hanging nearly an hour, then lowered them down, and repeated the punishment,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1830 - 624 pages
...in the following manner; —their hands were tied behind the,r backs, a rope from the mast-head rove through their arms, and hoisted three or four feet...punishment till they died or complied with the oath. On the 1st of Nov. the fleet sailed up a narrow river, and anchored at night within two miles of a... | |
 | Brigands and robbers - 1846 - 586 pages
...following cruel manner : their hands were tied behind their backs, fl rope from the mast-head rove through their arms, and hoisted three or four feet...from the deck, and five or six men flogged them with three rattans twisted together till they were apparently dead ; then hoisted them up to the mast-head,... | |
 | Hunt Janin - History - 1999 - 236 pages
...comply were treated cruelly: "Their hands were tied behind their backs, a rope from the mast-head rove through their arms, and hoisted three or four feet...from the deck, and five or six men flogged them with rattans twisted together till they were apparently dead; then hoisted them up to the mast-head, then... | |
 | Stephen Brennan - History - 2007 - 808 pages
...the following cruel manner: their hands were tied behind their back, a rope from the mast-head rove through their arms, and hoisted three or four feet...from the deck, and five or six men flogged them with three rattans twisted together 'till they were apparently dead; then hoisted them up to the mast-head,... | |
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Three or four of them refused to comply, for which they were punished in the following cruel manner : their hands were tied behind their backs, a rope from the mast-head rove through their arms, and hoisted three or four feet from the deck, and five or... 