The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 96: what you’re looking at

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$0: THE GIRE. FROW HONG-KONG. tween Bushire and Ispaham there had been a lange number of robberies. In some instances caravans and villages were looted, and even am Englishman wa3 stripped naked and beater with. sticky, ‘The reads were strewn with merehandise that the rebbers did: net want, and during one week it was admitted. that they seeured boaty amounting to: five hundred thousand, dollars. ‘Something had te be done: te check the manaudera,” writes an enterprising correspondent, for a London. paper, traveling at the time in Persia. ‘‘The governar efi Shiraz, Ruhkn-ed-Dowleh, decided to strike: terror inte the hearts of the people, and tha methed he chose wae the revival of ‘gatehing,’ a hideous: form. of execution which has: been in abeyance for forty years. “To ‘gateh’ a. victim a hollow pillar ie eveeted over a hole about two feet deep. bata this. well the prisomerr ia put, sometimes with his head downward. amd at. others with his head stickime out of the tep. Plaster off Paris ig then emptied in, and between each basketful water is poured down the well Tlse ‘gataly’ timen swella; and the. circulation stops as, ri hardens, causing the mast intense agony. “For his ‘horrible example’? the governor did nos select men who had been engaged in the robberies. In his artless: Persian way he considered that. ‘gatching’ anybody would serve: as: an: @bject lesson to his subjects; comicbooks.com