Yet For All This He Never Shed A
Tear, Neither Once Turned His Head Aside, Nor Stirred Hand Or Foot; But,
When We Asked A Question, He Would Put His Tongue Between His Teeth, And
Strike His Chin On His Knees To Bite It Off.
After using the utmost
extremity of torture in vain, I made him be again laid fast in irons,
when
The ants, which greatly abound there, got into his wounds, and
tormented him worse than we had done, as might be seen by his gestures.
The king's officers desired me to shoot him to death, which I thought
too good a death for such a villain; but as they insisted, we led him
out into the fields and made him fast to a stake. The first shot carried
away a piece of his arm, bone and all; the next went through his breast
near the shoulder, on which he bent down his head and looked at the
wound. At the third shot, one of our men used a bullet cut in three
pieces, which struck his breast in a triangle, on which he sunk as low
as the stake would allow. Finally, between, our men and the Hollanders
he was shot almost in pieces.[125]
[Footnote 125: This monster might have graced the holy office! He must
have delighted in cruelty, or he could not have devised such horrible
torments, and given a recital of them. The Dutch at Amboyna did not
inflict more savage tortures on the English.
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