SPICY ISLANDS. 169. 



was the foundation of the tragedy. He was feized, and put 

 to the moft exquifite tortures that hell itfelf could invent; 

 and in his agonies anfwered the artful interrogatories in the 

 manner the Fifcal could wilh. Our countrymen, and the eleven 

 foreign foldiers underwent the fame horrid torments, which 

 were continued at intervals during eight days. The means 

 are too dreadful for the humane pen to recite, or the humane 

 ear to bear. The conflancy of the poor fufferers was often 

 overcome ; they made fuch anfwers as they thought would 

 fooneft free them from the rack, and which they recanted as 

 foon as the torture ceafed. They were then recalled to their 

 torments. At length the record of examination was read, and 

 the greater part were relieved by a fpeedy execution : thofe who 

 were reprieved could drag but a miferable life, with mangled 

 bodies or diflocated limbs. The fufferers, before death, were 

 confronted with each other, Englijh with Indians : both be- 

 wailed their infirmity, for accufing the other under the prefTure 

 of torture, and mutually exchanged forgivenefs. A full account 

 is given of this horrid tranfadion by the ingenious Cctnpbel *, 

 in his colledtion of travels ; we could well excufe his fpeaking 

 ■to our eyes by a mofl horrible print. The foreign foldiers f, 

 from good authority, he fuppofes to have been Koreans^ an 

 adventurous naval people even in that early time. 



The name of the caftle, after this cruel deed, was changed to Victoria 



Castle 



Vi£lbria. Dampier was fliewn the place into which the bodies of 

 our unhappy countrymen were thrown, for the favage Dutch did 

 not think them worthy of the rites of burial. The natives who 



* Vol. J. p. 877. t Vol.ii. p. ICG7. 



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