Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah: Written Previous To, And ...
Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah: Written Previous To, And ...
Elizabeth Hamilton
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D 2 ( 4« ) this cruel ceremony was performed as a p unifhment upon a foldier,. for the trifling crime of purloining a few rupees from one of his officers. Doubtlefs; thought I, the morals of the people muft be very pure, in whofe eyes fo fmall an offence can feem worthy of fo great a punifti- mcnt. While I yet ruminated upon the fcene which I bad witneifed, I was called to the tent of an officer, who had, ever fince my arrival at the camp, treated me with great kindnefs. I had not long converfe...d with him (for he fpoke very good Mhors) when feveral of his brother officers caihe to vifit him. They con- verfed in their own language, and ap- peared, from the frequent burfts of laugh- ter which efcaped them, to have entered upon a very pleafant topic. I was unwill- ing to lofe the knowledge of a diicourfe, which feemed to produce fo mCch mirth j and applied to my interpreter for informa- tion. He told me the fubje£i of their mer- riment, was the dijhotwur of one of their own countrymen, a Chief of rank and eminence, whofe wife had fuffered the torch of her virtue to be extinguilhed, by the vile breath of a feducer.
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