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exposed him for six hours to a burning sun, forbidding any 
person to give him water to drink ; and finally, this same servant 
adds that for five consecutive days the same questions were again 
and again put to him, and they being followed by the same reply, 
he was again submitted to the same torture. 
“ 3rd. On the sixth day, the said Grovernor-Greneral had the 
said servant brought before him, and informed him that if he did 
not declare in writing that you had ordered him to carry on the 
slave trade, he would place with him in his prison five Albanian 
soldiers, and subject him to treatment unfit for publication; to 
which your servant replied that he would prefer to be placed at 
the mouth of a loaded cannon and die rather than submit to it. 
The Pasha then despairing of obtaining from him the avowals he 
desired, again gave him a new application of the ‘ courbatch^ 
and spitting in his face, had him thrown out of his divan, and he 
thus obtained his liberty. 
“ 4th. The same servant declares that the so-called Paki Ma- 
hommed, your Arab secretary, was carried away from his house 
at Halfaya by five soldiers, with a pronged fork round his neck, 
and dragged to the feet of the Pasha, by whom he was examined, 
aud was then put in prison. 
‘‘ Such, Sir, are the explanations furnished by your native 
hunter as to the events which have passed at Khartoun after 
your departure, and we trust that they may help to enlighten 
the persons called on to judge the grave case between you and 
His Excellency the Grovernor-Greneral of Soudan. 
“ We have the honour to be. Sir, 
“ Yours truly, 
“PEED LAPAEGUE, 
“Mr. THEODOEE HE HEUGLIN, ' 
“ Aulic Counsellor of His Majesty 
“ To Mr. John Petheeick, the King of Wiirtemlerg. 
“&c., &c., &c.'’ 
