The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1856-03-20

Cheerdtu,) and the 1nundai, which in the
same language is called Ginger.
The kite corresponds with The thumb
screw Of the European torture. 1t is a
wooden instrument somewhat like a lemon.
squeezer, between the plates Of whicl, The
hands, the thighs, lin women also the
breasts,) the ears, and other more sensitive
parts of the body are squeezed 10 the last
! point Of endurance, often to fainting, and
! even to permanent disablement. In many
places the Kite has been superseded 10y tho
moro simple plan of violently composing
the hands urder flat board, on which u
! heavy pressure is laid, sometimes even by
the poems standing upon it; or of compel
li"g the sufferer 20 interlacc his fingers, and
delivering him over to the iron gripc of the
poems, Tor policemen,) who sometimes rub
their hands with sand, in order TO give
them firmer gripe. In other cases the
fingers are bent back until the pain be
comes unendurable.
Ihe onandai Is more purely Eastern
torture. II consists in tying the victim in
n STOPPING or otherwise painful and unnat-
ural position, generally with the head for
cibly bent down 10 the feet, by rope or
cloth passed round the neck and under the
toes. The posture, however, is varied ut
the caprice of the executioner. Sometimes
the poor wretch is made 10 stand on one
leg, the other being fo,cihly tied up to his
neck. Sometimes the arms and legs are
curiously nterlaced, and the frame thus
violently distorted, is kept bound mp for
hours in condition little short Of disloca.
ton Sometimes heavy stone is laid upon
the back while thus bent; and it often hap.
! pens that the poems amuse themselves by
sitting astride upon the unhappy sufferer
who is undergoing annundaI. More than
one OF the witnesses depose 10 the inilic-
ton OF this torture under the fierce Indian
sun, upon puniber of defaulters placed
together IN rows, for two, three, four, and
even SIX hours; and this in the immediate
vicinity of the cutcheriy, or revenue Off,
Ger, and in presence of the tallsildar, or
native collector, and cf the assembled vii
layers.
These torturcs are often used simultane.
ousIy; the kittee being applied to mans
hands, ears, or thighs, while lie is actually
undergoing anundal.
Flcgging in various forms is also one OF
the ordinary instruments for the collection
of revenues. In most cases the defaulier
! Is hung up by the arms 20 tree, or to the
root Beam OF a house, rs preparation for
the lash, which consists either Of scourge
of leather thongs (caled corncche,rar, and
sometimes jerLund) or Of the tough fbres
! ot the tamarind tree, or Of the coir rope
/ Many witnesses complain II having been
| logged 10 lacera,ion.
/ Various other minor, but yet most dc
/ grading and painful, species Of violence. are
detailed. One Of them, MooCiusaoayy, con.
| sists in pulling the person about violently
/ 10y pinching the thighs, whether with tie
k'ttee or by the hand grpe. Another,
haIhoosdrdry, Is pulling - man about by
the ears. Occasionally man is held aloit
from the ground by the ears. by the hair,
and even by The mustachio; and the latter
torture, in some instances, is applied SO
sa'ageiy as 10 tear away Nc mus,achio hy
/ the roots. Sometimes u sort of baSiinalo
Is inflicted, sometimes violent blows on the
Sims, the ankles, The elbows, or other
highly sensitive points. Prolonged INNER
sion III the water tanks or the river: forci
bic compression OF the arms, the thighs.
and even the body, by tying coil Of rope
round them, and then applying cold water
50 rs To cause ii 10 contract and sink into
j the flesh; burning with hot iron; hanging
heavy stones round the neck tho stocks;
tying two or more individuals together bv
I the hair, So that every movement is attend.
cd with pain; placing q necklace of bones
or other disgusting or degrading materials
round the neck; these are few OF the mi
nor iuiliciiOns devised by these masters Of
the oriental schools Of torture. Ii we add
to these a few practices like those used at
home by amateurs of the turf or the ring.
for the purpose of reducing hesh;" such rs
starvation, prolonged deprivation of sleep.
compulsory driving up and down under 1.
brolng sun, forcing the unhappy wretches
10 run long distances, their hrnds being
tied 10 the axle Of u handy or county car
riage, we think the catalogue Of torture
will be admitted to be tolcrably complete.
And yet there are other devices, lhat
evince in their very conception IN amount
of hateful ingenuity which, however posi-
be in Ri individual, !; would he ditliea!,
to understand rs forming par, Of system,
were they not seriously detailed by The wit.
nesses examined before the commission.
viii it he credited, for example, lhat it is
not uncommon to apply to the most sen>i
tive parts fthe body, (encIosed in n cloth,
/ or cocoanut shell, or other similar recep.
tacIc,) biting insect or reptile, such rs the
pooilah, or carpenter beetle, and 10 leave il
To gnaw the flesh Of the miserable sufferer:
That 10y n further refinement OF cruelty,
meant to combine both pain and humilia
ton, the defaul,ers are sometimes tied by
the hair to the tail of a donkey or buffalo.
That they 0re occasionally hung up wiki
the head downward! And that il is an or.
binary practice to put pepper OF powdered
chilIies into the eyes or the nostrils, and lo
apply these and similar irritating drugs in
other ways too revolving to be even limited
aQ
After this description of the variou.