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Page 70
... months , three months in an iron gang for absconding ; and in a month after , on the 14th of August , fifty lashes more for absconding from that iron gang . The appetite for crime which this severity might punish , but could not deaden ...
... months , three months in an iron gang for absconding ; and in a month after , on the 14th of August , fifty lashes more for absconding from that iron gang . The appetite for crime which this severity might punish , but could not deaden ...
Page 71
... month , after thirty - six lashes , for absconding - receiving in the course of the previous twelve months no less than four hundred lashes . Where was the use of this application of the lash to a being who shewed so pertinaciously his ...
... month , after thirty - six lashes , for absconding - receiving in the course of the previous twelve months no less than four hundred lashes . Where was the use of this application of the lash to a being who shewed so pertinaciously his ...
Page 466
... month with rations , it is better for him to engage them rather than to employ white labour . But how is it , we would ask , if these men are “ just hired for twelve months " that Captain TOWNS can afford to go to the immense expense of ...
... month with rations , it is better for him to engage them rather than to employ white labour . But how is it , we would ask , if these men are “ just hired for twelve months " that Captain TOWNS can afford to go to the immense expense of ...
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