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" ... 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 287
by Johan Splinter Stavorinus - 1798 - 572 pages
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A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and ..., Volume 11

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...
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History of the Indian Archipelago: Containing an Account of the ..., Volume 1

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...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 78

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...
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A thousand notable things, embracing a collection of scarce receipts, &c. To ...

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...
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The Nic-Nac; or, oracle of knowledge, Volume 1

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...
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The Nic-nac: Or, Literary Cabinet, Volume 1

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...
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The Nest Hunters, Or, Adventures in the Indian Archipelago

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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