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the charges brought againit them, together with the ſen- tence and their puniſhment, were fair and equitable. This they did, by laying their right hand upon the Alcoran, their left hands upon their breaſt, and their eyes lifred to- Sards heaven s" be judge Wen held thealcoran'ts their lips, and they kiſſed it. Theſe ceremonies over, the executioner proceeded on his buſineſs in the following manner:= Thirteen poſts, each about five feet high, had bcen previouſly ereded. To theſe the delinquents were faſtened, and their breaſts ſtripped naked. In this ſituation they remained a ſhort time in continual prayers, attended by ſeveral prieſts, un- tl a ignal was given by the Judge to the executioner; on which the latter produced an inftrument, much like the ſpring lancet uſed by farriers for bleeding borſes. Wuith his inſtrument, it being poiſoned with the gum of the Upas, the unhappy wretches were lanced in the middle of their breaſts, and the operation Was performed upon them all in leſs than two minutes.

My aſtoniſhment was raiſed to the higheſt degree, when I beheld the ſudden effe&s of that poiſon, for in about five minutes after they were lanced they were taken with a zremor attended with a /ub/urtus tendinum, after which they died in the greateſt agonies, crying out to God

and Mahomet for mercy. In ſixteen minutes by my watch,

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