CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 517

!

works up a scenes and after placing his actors (the prisoners)

thereon invites his readers to

place themselves in the

same position, and these

without reflection arguing from their own feelings,

conceive that there was

immmence pruelty and

even to the

hardship, extent of warranting the. ultra comparison with the "Black hole of Calcutta.

It would be to an

Englishman's fancy a great cruelty and hardship to be

וני

D

511

necessitated to reside in the

ill adored hraol of the Hottentot or the runderground hut of the denizens of the Artic regions, while the native occupants would seem it equally cruel to be removed from their comfortable homes to the fancied luxury

of European dwellings

and

cleanliness, and so it is

with respect to the two prisoners confined ( it

it to the forty

бола

must be remembered in the winter season) in the room at the Cross Roads Station,

}