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Mr. Gleig says , ' His labours continued at Trincomalee till the resources of the country were exhausted , and then , on his own responsibility , he carried the armament to Bom- bay , as being better able to supply its wants and nearer ...
Mr. Gleig says , ' His labours continued at Trincomalee till the resources of the country were exhausted , and then , on his own responsibility , he carried the armament to Bom- bay , as being better able to supply its wants and nearer ...
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It was a gradual death from excessive labour and ill - usage , terminating a servitude in which the wretched victim underwent almost every form of misery most terrible to human nature - cold , hunger , chains , scourging , sick- ness ...
It was a gradual death from excessive labour and ill - usage , terminating a servitude in which the wretched victim underwent almost every form of misery most terrible to human nature - cold , hunger , chains , scourging , sick- ness ...
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... they were compelled by sheer force of the whip to render an amount of work at the oar which under no other system could have been extracted from human human muscles . The labour of a galley slave , 48 The Hugonots at the Galleys .
... they were compelled by sheer force of the whip to render an amount of work at the oar which under no other system could have been extracted from human human muscles . The labour of a galley slave , 48 The Hugonots at the Galleys .
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The labour of a galley slave , ' has become proverbial , and not without reason ; but probably very few of those who use the illustration realise its force . It is observed by the writer of this narrative that by stress of torture men ...
The labour of a galley slave , ' has become proverbial , and not without reason ; but probably very few of those who use the illustration realise its force . It is observed by the writer of this narrative that by stress of torture men ...
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This stroke is the most severe labour that can be conceived , and takes more out of a crew in one hour than four hours of pulling at the ordinary rate , not to mention that it is im- possible to keep it up without sometimes getting out ...
This stroke is the most severe labour that can be conceived , and takes more out of a crew in one hour than four hours of pulling at the ordinary rate , not to mention that it is im- possible to keep it up without sometimes getting out ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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