Part 1. 
Travels into the h ev a sr. 
CHAP. LXXIX. 
Of Vmijhments in ZJfe in TEgypt. 
TH E ufual Punifliments in K3:ypt zYQ Beheading, which they dextroufly Punidiments 
perform : For the Sous-bajha finding a Robber, or any one that looks like i" ^g}pt. 
fuch, feifes him, and making him kneel, one of his Men cuts off his Head at 
one blow with a Shable, and yet not ftriking with great force neither ; but 
drawing towards him the Shable, and fo uliing the whole length of it, he ' 
never fails at the firft blow to fever the Head from the Body. Impaling is alfo a Impaling." 
very ordinary Punilhment with them, which is done in this manner. They 
lay the Malefador upon his Belly, with his Hands tied behind his Back, then 
they flit up his Fundament with a Razor, and throw into it a handful of Pafte 
that they have in readinefs, which immediately ftops the Blood ; after that 
they thruft up into his Body a very long Stake as big as a Mans Arm, lharp at 
the point and tapered, which they greafe a little before ; when they have 
driven it in with a Mallet, till it come out at his Breaft, or at his Head or 
Shoulders, they lift him up, and plant this Stake very ftreight in the Ground, 
upon which they leave him fo expofed for a day. One day I faw a Man upon 
the Pale, who was Sentenced to continue fo for three Hours alive, and that he 
might not die too foon, the Stake was not thruft up far enough to come out 
at any part of his Body, and they alfo put a ftay or reft upon the Pale, to hin- • 
der the weight of his body from making him link down upon it, or the point 
of it from piercing him through, which would have prefently killed him : In 
this manner he was left for fome Hours, (during which time he fpoke) and 
turning from one fide to another, prayed thofe that pafTed by to kill him, ma- 
king a thoufand wry Mouths and Faces, becaufe of the pain he fuftered when 
he ftirred himfelf, but after Dinner the Baflia fent one to difpatch him ; which 
was eafily done, by making the point of the Stake come out at his Breaft, 
and then he was left till next Morning, when he was taken down, becaufe he 
flunk horridly. Some have lived upon the Pale until the third day, and have 
in the mean while fmoaked Tobacco, when it was given them. This poor 
wretch carried the Scales and Weights, of thofe who go about tovifit the 
Weights, to fee if they be juft, and he had fo combined with fuch as had falfe 
Weights, that he brought falfe ones alfo with him ; fo that the Searchers not 
perceiving the change of their own Weights, thought the other to be juft. 
When Arabs, or fuch other Robbers are carried to be Empaled, they put 
them on a Camel, their Hands tied behind their Backs, and with a Knife make 
great gafties in their naked.%\rms, thrufting into them Candles of Pitch and 
Rofin, which they light, to make the ftuff" run into their Flelh ; and yet fome 
of thefe Rogues go chearfuUy to Death, glorying ( as it were) that they 
could deferve it, and faying, ifhat if they had not been brave Men, they would 
not have been fo put to death. This is a very common and ordinary Punilh- 
ment in lEnypt, but in Tm kte it is but very rarely put into pradtice. The Na- 
tives of the Country are punifhed in this manner, but the Turks are ftrangled 
in Prifon. 
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