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the same manner on the camel; and having been carried through 

 the principal streets of Poonah, escorted by a strong guard, he 

 was for the last time led to a spot about a mile from the city, and 

 there ordered to dismount: one of his hands was then strongly fas- 

 tened to the end of a turban between twenty and thirty feet long, 

 and the other end committed to some Hallalcores, the lowest out- 

 casts of the Hindoo tribes, who contaminate all other castes by 

 their touch. It was then made known to the Telinga brahmins 

 that the cutwal was delivered up entirely to their disposal, cither 

 as a sacrifice to their vengeance, or an object for their mercy; on 

 which twelve brahmins of that tribe, in the most savage manner, 

 immediately attacked the fallen magistrate with large stones. The 

 Hallalcores who held the turban, by straitening it, kept him at full 

 length running in a circle, pursued by his relentless murderers; 

 who at length, by repealed blows on the head and breast, brought 

 him to the ground; and there, with an eagerness disgraceful to 

 humanity, though merciful to the prostrate object of their cruelty, 

 these brahminical murderers dispatched him by a succession of 

 large stones thrown violently on his head and breast. 



Such is the weakness of human nature, that on his murderers 

 approaching the degraded cutwal with huge stones in their uplifted 

 hands, this unfortunate man, who, when overwhelmed with misery 

 and disgrace, had incessantly called for immediate death, now rose 

 up, and as far as his cruel liberty in the length of the extended 

 turban permitted, attempted in vain to avoid the deadly blows in- 

 flicted by his executioners. 



Thus fell a brahmin, a foreigner, who for many years had been 

 invested with the whole criminal jurisprudence of the capital of 



