The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 |
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Pagina 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 ...
Pagina 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 .
Pagina 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 ...
Pagina 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 ...
Pagina 55
... labour of the oar , he was employed in another department of service on board the vessel . It should be men- tioned here that had he been under sentence for any other crime than heresy he would now have been entitled to his discharge ...
... labour of the oar , he was employed in another department of service on board the vessel . It should be men- tioned here that had he been under sentence for any other crime than heresy he would now have been entitled to his discharge ...
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