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an accomplice of All's in the murder of the women 

 and children. He was heavily ironed in an or- 

 dinary manner, but had as much liberty as the 

 room afforded. As far as I could learn from 

 inquiry, this man could have had no possible in- 

 ducement to commit the offence with which by 

 All's confession he was charged, and accordingly, 

 and perhaps, also, from his being a person of 

 greater importance than the other prisoners, no 

 tortures had been practised upon him, and he was 

 only detained to give time for the examination of 

 the proofs against him, which were none, excepting 

 All's confession. 



We then descended the stairs, and were about 

 to leave the prison, when we found there was a 

 horror as yet unseen by us — another unfortunate 

 Albanian, in quite as bad a state of emaciation and 

 suffering as those I have attempted to describe. 

 Under a tree, in the court-yard, and fastened to 

 it by chains round his legs, and a rope round his 

 body, stood a man, looking, if possible, worse than 

 any of the four we had previously seen, whilst 

 another cord proceeded from his body to a picket 

 in front, by which means he was kept constantly 

 in the same position, and could not move to the 



