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Title: "Round the world." : Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Fogg, Wm. Perry (William Perry), b. 1826
Subjects: Voyages around the world
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which these deeds were avenged ?For every English victim a score of nativessuffered death. The horrors of blowingprisoners from the mouth of cannon havenever been half told. When all civilizednations were shocked at the barbarity ofthese proceedings the perpetrators becamecautious about mentioning the subject tostrangers. On the railway between Cawnpore andLucknow I met a guard, who was an offi-cer in the army during the mutiny, andfrom whom, by judicious questioning, Idrew some particulars on this eubjact. Herelated among other things the method ofexecution. It was a string of helpless mentied in front of a cannon, a few pounds ofpowder, and that was all. A very simplemethod, you see, said he. Did they sub-mit quietly? I asked. Oh, yes, they areall fatalists in their religion, and sometimesdidnt need to be tied; but I remember onekeen-eyed fellow, who cursed me as I wastying him up, and said he would come backas a crow and pick out my eyes. Howmany do you think were executed here and
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163 at Delhi ? Oh, many thousands. Wemade short work of them. Sir, I caught adozen or more Si&hs one night trying toescape from the camp with stolen cartridgesia their knapsacks. We blew them topieces the next morning. These stories ofdeliberate barbarity were related, as he sup-posed, to a sympathizing auditor, with per-fect sang froid. Theae atrocities were notconfined to rebels taken with arms in theirhands, for very few prisoners were taken;but whole villages were arrested on suspi-cion of aiding and abetting, *hd thou-sands executed with a mere form of trial. I heard often in India of the splendidloot at the capture of Delhi; and inmarching through the country the soldierscculd hardly set eyes on a native prince or aHindoo palace without exclaiming, Whata place to break up!7 What a fellow toloot! It is plain that the Danish- Anglo -Saxon still has the taint of the old sea-kingrobbers in his blood. It was a maxim of the Portuguese Jesuitsthat men who live long among Asiatics s

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