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SCENES IN A PRISON. 



CiiAP. vir. 



the rest. The soldiers of the garrison had been 

 called out, who fired several rounds of musketry 

 into the yard and the prisoners' cells, till the 

 rioters were rendered quiet, or at least disabled ; 

 when the soldiers rushed in and beat them with 

 wooden poles for some time. After this the whole 

 of the prisoners were loaded with extra manacles, 

 and those who had not been severely wounded 

 were forthwith submitted to the bastinado till they 

 could hardly walk. 



" The scene presented in the yard, and the cells 

 around it, was one of perhaps common occurrence 

 in Chinese prisons, but, it is to be hoped, not often 

 seen elsewhere. Four men were killed, and lay at 

 the door in a heap, just as they had been thrown 

 down ; one man had compound fracture of the 

 thigh ; three had compound fracture of the tibia, 

 the result of gun-shot ; others had fractures of the 

 leg and arm. On inquiring from these what had 

 caused their injuries, they said they were occa- 

 sioned by blows from the poles with which they 

 were attacked by the soldiers after the firing had 

 ceased ; several had received severe sword-cuts, and 

 others had bullet-wounds in various parts of the 

 body and limbs. About twenty were wounded 

 in the affray ; the remainder had the skin of their 

 backs, thighs, and legs beaten off by the bastinado ; 

 and the moans and cries that proceeded from all 

 parts of the yard were heartrending. The men that 

 had the compound fractures had not only chains 

 on their hands, and bars of wood chained to their 



