M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-21

powerful devil ont OF the system and
the vital principle might be supposed,
when the patient was in q comatose
state, to have visited the abodes Of
the blessed, and obtained a new lease
of earthly life. HI
With the wounds of the Belooehees
| would have nothing TO do; for ex.
posed as they are to hardships and
constant accidents, the simplest treat
ment suffices. In cases OF mutilation,
they plunge the stump into boiling oil,
and suffer tar less than Europeans
would do from this hideous practice.
l never saw this actually done; but in
two cases came upon Branuis who
had just undergone the operation.--'
The first of these was among the
mountains to the northwest Of Las,
among the passes of which | was lost
and was seeking in vain to find way
to the plain below, where my tent
was pitched. About midnight, while
wandering about, unable to sleep from
the cold, got sight Of some camp
fires, and, advancing to them, mar
rcwly escaped being untimely slain
by the alarmed Brahuis. Luckily,
however, they were aware Of an ami
cable stranger being in their neigh.
borhood, and, after the first alarm, re.
ceived me kindly, increasing the fires,
giving milk, and all sitting up to talk
and smoke. One of these men showed
me his hand, from which camel had
torn two fingers a little after dark that
night, and which he had soothed with
boiling oil, in order to stop the bleed
ing and prevent modification. A
thin cloth adhered to it, and over this
was tied piece Of lambs skin. The
hand was a irightfu nin, but lie took
the matter very quietly, smoking,
talking and laughing with the rest,
as if nothing particular had happened.
The Brahuis, it must be remembered,
are Of Tartar race; and Of all men the
Tartars are the most insensible to pain,
and consequently the most frequent
and ingenious in the use of torture.
Terrible is the fate of the highly ner-
vous and sensitive European who, as
a foe, falls into their hands, to be
slowly hayed alive, like General Bek-
evitch, or, as q slave, to be tortured
during years. This insensibility or
/ indifference to pain was not confined
to the men with whom | met. One
terocious old woman, two Of whose
fingers had grown together from some
cause or other, wished me 20 cut them
asunder; and, on my decling to graft
| fly her desire, insisted on its being
done, and at last tauntingly asked iii
was afraid to smell blood. Neither
she nor her friends, however, would
themselves venture on the operation,
having, like all sayages, a great dread
ofunknown results; they wished some
one to undertake theresponsibility oft.
While such interesting female pa
tients were rather difficult to deal with,
from the effect ofyearS and griefupon
them in producing certain wildness,
and even blood.thirstiness OF disposi-
ton, the younger, tairer, and gentler
Of the sex, were quite as dangerous
and embarrassing, from the jealousy
with which their excessive curiosity
was regarded by their not indulgent
lords and masters; for the sword, to
use a Sindian phrase, is tied to the
strings Of the trowsers of the women
Of Beloochistan; Or, in other words,
their husbands possess over them alb.
solute power of life and death, and
often cruelty exercise it, from motives
of the most fancitul kind. The wife
OF Belooch, like the wife Of Caesar,
is expected to be beyond all suspicion,
mot that they are, however, } and when
her lord thinks otherwise--which he
is very apt to do without sufficient
reason, and not to do when he ought,
he has immediate and passionate
) recourse to his knife. This affords q
very sufficient reason why the traveller
r in the country should be cautious in
availiag himself of the almost unres-
trained opportunity which he has Of
conversing with married women.--
They are not confined or vailed, just
because the serious penalty which
they must pay for any imprudence or
unlaithfulness is judged more effec-
tive, as it certainly is simpler and
easier, method OF restraining erratic
! inclnations. and upholding conjugal
: virtue. And | am far from boing
certain that this Belooch system is at
all more cruel, considering the char
acter of the people. than that which
prevails i'll the state of civilization
That it is more effectual, is also a
doubtful point. At an encampment
) of Sumirs, who are, comparatively
speaking, rather timid race, got a
lesson on this subject. One young
woman of them was really beautiful,
although she had grown up in tho
jungle without even a tent to protect