... post stuck in the ground. At the top of the post, about ten feet from the ground, there was a kind of little bench, upon which the body rested. " The insensibility or fortitude of the miserable sufferer was incredible. He did not utter the least complaint,... Voyages to the East-Indies - Page 287by Johan Splinter Stavorinus - 1798 - 572 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Pinkerton - 1812 - 1030 pages
...the fufferer was lifted up thus impaled, and the poft ftuck in the ground. At the top of the poft, about ten feet from the ground, there was a kind of...fpike was rivetted into the pillar ; the hammering and lhaking occafioned by it, feemed to be intolerable to him, and he then bellowed out for pain ; and... | |
| John Crawfurd - 1820 - 580 pages
...the sufferer was lifted up, thus impaled, and the post stuck in the ground. At the top of the post, about ten feet from the ground, there was a kind of little bench, upon which the body rested. " The insensibility or fortitude of the miserable sufferer was incredible. He did not utter... | |
| 1820 - 612 pages
...was lifted up, thus impaled, nnd the post stuck in the ground. At the top of the post, about ten feel from the ground, there was a kind of little bench, upon which the body rc'sk-d. The insensibility or fortilnde of the miserable sufferer was incredible. He did not utter... | |
| Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 pages
...the sufferer was lifted Up, thus impaled, and the post stuck on the ground. At the top of the post, about ten feet from the ground, there was .a kind of .little 'bench, upon which the body rested. The insensibility or fortitude of the miserable sufferer was indredible. He did not utter the... | |
| 1822 - 430 pages
...lifted up, thus empaled, and tha post stuck in the ground. At the top of the post, about ten fe«t from the ground, there was a kind of little bench, upon which thg body rested. The inseiifcibility or fortitude of the miserable sufferer was incredible. He did... | |
| 1823 - 442 pages
...the sufferer was lifted up, thus empaled, and ih« post stuck in the ground. At the top of the post, about ten feet from the ground, there was a kind of little bench, upon which the body rested. The insensibility or fortitude of the miserable sufferer was incredible. He did not utter the... | |
| William Dalton - 1863 - 474 pages
...the sufferer was lifted up thus impaled, and the post stuck in the ground. At the top of the post, about ten feet from the ground, there was a kind of little bench, upon which the body rested. " The insensibility or fortitude of the wretched man was incredible. He did not utter the least... | |
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