The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 - English literature |
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Page 19
... labours continued at Trincomalee till the resources of the country were exhausted , and then , on his own responsibility , he carried the armament to Bom- bay , as being better able to supply its wants and nearer to the scene of ...
... labours continued at Trincomalee till the resources of the country were exhausted , and then , on his own responsibility , he carried the armament to Bom- bay , as being better able to supply its wants and nearer to the scene of ...
Page 40
... labour and ill - usage , terminating a servitude in which the wretched victim underwent almost every form of misery most terrible to human nature - cold , hunger , chains , scourging , sick- ness - superadded to the occasional horrors ...
... labour and ill - usage , terminating a servitude in which the wretched victim underwent almost every form of misery most terrible to human nature - cold , hunger , chains , scourging , sick- ness - superadded to the occasional horrors ...
Page 48
... , they were compelled by sheer force of the whip to render an amount of work at the oar which under no other system could have been extracted from human human muscles . The labour of a galley slave , 48 The Hugonots at the Galleys .
... , they were compelled by sheer force of the whip to render an amount of work at the oar which under no other system could have been extracted from human human muscles . The labour of a galley slave , 48 The Hugonots at the Galleys .
Page 49
... labour of the oar for half an hour at a time . Yet they were occasionally compelled to pull for ten or even twelve hours at a stretch . ' Nay , he adds that he had himself been forced to row with all his strength for twenty- four hours ...
... labour of the oar for half an hour at a time . Yet they were occasionally compelled to pull for ten or even twelve hours at a stretch . ' Nay , he adds that he had himself been forced to row with all his strength for twenty- four hours ...
Page 50
... labour that can be conceived , and takes more out of a crew in one hour than four hours of pulling at the ordinary rate , not to mention that it is im- possible to keep it up without sometimes getting out of stroke , and then the whip ...
... labour that can be conceived , and takes more out of a crew in one hour than four hours of pulling at the ordinary rate , not to mention that it is im- possible to keep it up without sometimes getting out of stroke , and then the whip ...
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