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NYWJ.737.013
23 May 1737:32 (184)
London, March 7, 1737 . . . [Report on a Dutch visit to the
Hottentotts in Africa] and brought the criminal, attended
by all his friends and relations, to take their leaves of
him, in feasting, dancing, drinking, etc. and after they had
greatly intoxicated him, and made him dance till he was
spent, then they threw him into the fire . . . [9 lines] a
day being appointed, the Hottentotts came to see the
execution in great numbers; a scaffold was erected, and the
criminal was brought forth drest all in white, a white night
cap, and a minister attending him; after praying, singing
psalms, etc. the executioner brings to him a porringer of
burning brandy, . . . [10 lines].
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