Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448
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From these fastenings proceeded a long cord, the end of which was heldby a Japanese, and which, on the slightest attempt to escape, requiredonly to be drawn to make the elbows come in contact with the greatestpain, and to tighten the noose about the neck to such a degree asalmost to produce strangulation. Besides all this, they tied our legsin two places--above the knees and above the ankles; they then passedropes from our necks over the cross-beams of the building, and drewthem so tight, that ...we found it impossible to move. Their nextoperation was searching our pockets, out of which they tookeverything, and then proceeded very quietly to smoke tobacco. Whilethey were binding us, the lieutenant-governor shewed himself twice, and pointed to his mouth, to intimate, perhaps, that it was intendedto feed, not to kill us. ' After some hours, the legs and ankles of the prisoners were partiallyloosed, and preparations were made for removing them to Matsmai, whichseems to be the head-quarters of government for the Kuriledependencies of Japan.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
From these fastenings proceeded a long cord, the end of which was heldby a Japanese, and which, on the slightest attempt to escape, requiredonly to be drawn to make the elbows come in contact with the greatestpain, and to tighten the noose about the neck to such a degree asalmost to produce strangulation. Besides all this, they tied our legsin two places--above the knees and above the ankles; they then passedropes from our necks over the cross-beams of the building, and drewthem so tight, that ...we found it impossible to move. Their nextoperation was searching our pockets, out of which they tookeverything, and then proceeded very quietly to smoke tobacco. Whilethey were binding us, the lieutenant-governor shewed himself twice, and pointed to his mouth, to intimate, perhaps, that it was intendedto feed, not to kill us. ' After some hours, the legs and ankles of the prisoners were partiallyloosed, and preparations were made for removing them to Matsmai, whichseems to be the head-quarters of government for the Kuriledependencies of Japan.
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