| 1834 - 630 sider
...boiler to boil him in, a hook to hang him by, and a sword to decapitate him ; also a shnri>-po!nted spike for him to sit on. His children were sometimes...respectable-looking, old, grey-headed man, and did not live long enough to gratify bis tormentors, death having put an end to his sufferings. His body was taken and... | |
| 1834 - 616 sider
...large iron cage, exposed to a burning sun, and obliged to proclaim to every one that the king of Siarn was great and merciful, that he himself had committed...respectable-looking, old, grey-headed man, and did not live long enough to gratify his tormentors, death having put an end to his sufferings. His body was taken and... | |
| 1857 - 498 sider
...Bangkok, and put him in an iron cage, exposed to the burning sun. In the cage with him were placed " a large mortar to pound him in, a large boiler to...with him. He was a mild, respectable-looking, old, gray-headed man, and did not live long to gratify his tormentors." So much for the customs of war in... | |
| 1881 - 434 sider
...large boiler to boil him in, a hook to hang him by and a sword to decapitate him ; also a sharp pointed spike for him to sit on. His children were sometimes...put an end to his sufferings. His body was taken and hang iii chains on the bank of the river, about two or three miles below Bangkok. The conditions on... | |
| George Blagden Bacon - 1892 - 366 sider
...large boiler to boil him in, a hook to hang him by and a sword to decapitate him; also a sharp pointed spike for him to sit on. His children were sometimes...with him. He was a mild, respectable-looking, old, gray-headed man, and did not live long to gratify his tormentors, death having put an end to his sufferings.... | |
| Paul Hattaway - 2004 - 484 sider
...with the prisoner a large mortar to pound him with, a larger boiler to boil him in, a hook to hang by, and a sword to decapitate him; also a sharp-pointed...His children were sometimes put in along with him' (Sir John Bowring, The Kingdom and People of Siam [Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1857, repr.... | |
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