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which are not nice, when wandering
around the world but both Mac and I
were found to risk at throught and the
hurt of of this torture those poor watches
are undergoing.
These coffins men we were told could
consider themselves lucky that their coffins
allowed to remain out side in the open
air. Some few grams of persons, some
men are confined in similar coffins
in a dungeon under the jail where
in pitch darkness. Here they have to
remain one or two years and in some
cases for life. Even in winters the coffins
are left outside in temperature which
falls as low as -60 F. Of course,
the minutes often die, but what matter!
There are so many less charges for the
guarders to attend to.
The jail itself which is only a short distance
almost the Ministry of War and Foreign affairs
as a most awful looking structure from the out-
surrounded by a high strokeary of sharp railings
side, and if reports are true its interior of the
devices for permanent whirls it contains
are worthy its but efforts of Louis XI of France
That charming king had cages, not decent ones,
in which the prisoner could neither sit upright
nor lie at length. Nor did he prefer
in these
confined himself to members of his justiced
list of minerals could mediate upon their