The sun., 1912-07-07
common penalty. The list Of horrors
nigh, be continued indefinitely. but
enough has heen said to show its nature.
WnMEN ARE YIl-rINS

common penalty The list OF horrors
nigh, be continued indefinitely. but
enough has been said to show its nature.
WOMEN ARE VICTIMS.
No woman's honor was safe. though
admittedly features of the tribal life
Moral offences were perpetrated often
under circumstances of fendish in
genuity. For some reason one ~ the
women offended her master and he at
once had her hung UP and scourged.
Every old person was remorselessly
slaughtered To stop them giving the
younger generation good advice. To
avoid leaving the traces of np.ging
a System was adopted Of tying the VIC
tins arms fastening the bodies together
and holding them under the surface Of
the rivers. They were usually dragged
out half dead and sometimes acttAlly
drowned Even when confined IN the
stocks they were treated with unspeakable
barbarity. 4 man would go around with
death rnercifully released him. Indeed
the whole country reeked with slaughter
INDIANS FLoGGED TO DEATH.
Here are some Of the passa ges from
the official report:
Ind ans we're frequently nogged to death
Cases were reported to me where men or
women had died actually under the lash
hut this seems to have been intreuGent
r-a'hs due 10 horging generally en,ued
some days aftcrward In many
| cases where men or women had been :,
cruelty tiogged that the wounds putreied
! the victims were shot by one of the ra-
cionales supervisors acting under the
! orders Of the chief of the section. or even
| by This individual himself.
At one station | wa informed bv Q
British subject who had himself Oli~r
| rog ced he Indians that he had seen mot her,
hogged on account of shortage OF rubber
| by their little sons These hoys were
| held to he TOO small TO chastise and 80.
! while the little hoy stood terrified ant
| crying al the sight. the mother would b.
beaten gust a few strokes" to make hin
! into better worker. Men and wom-I
would he suspended hv the arms Otter
twisted behind their backs and tied torethe
VI the wrists. and in thi. aRonizing posture
| their feet high above the ground. they wer,
| .courged On their nether limbs and lowe
| back The implement used for fogsini
| was invariably stpd strip or sever,
strips plated together. of dried tapir hide
sufficiently stout to ou' IA human body I,
! pieces
! Deliberate starvation was again an,
again rasorted 10. but this not only wher
II was desired merely to irighten but wher
the intention was to Kill. Men and woneI
were kept prisoners in the station stock
until they died of hunger No foo
was given 10 the Indians and one maj
related how he had seen Indians thus bsin
starved 10 death in the stocks "scrapin
up tho dirl with their fingers and eating it
Men. women and children were coniine,
to the stocks for days. weeks and o't-i
months. The overlapping beam migh
press so tightly on the confined ankle tna
| he flesh would be cut bIt even withou
| this added torment the long confinement
| in this cramped position must have becn,n
well nigh unendurable As an adi-
punishment the legs of a man or womu
would be distended and confined 80, era
holes apart in the stocks a distance IN
| tolerable 10 b" borne Tor any length OF ,iins
since 1t Was almost yard at the extrem
ties. . Fully 30 per cent. of the entir
population bore traces of rogging.
sEEs INDIANS BURNED ALIVE
One of the Witnesses declared that he ha
seen Indians burned alive more than one.
II Was alleged, and | am con, inced wit
truth. that during IA period of close on 81
years one Spanish half caste had directl
killed many hundreds 81 Indians mel
| women and children.
Al another station the man in chars
OF the section, in order 10 inspire terr,
and yet leave no trace on the bodies of h
victims, had dev ised u new method of pui
, ishment for those who did not bring
enough rubber. Their arms we're tied b,
hind their backs and thus plnioned the