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Immediately out of the shed where the rest of the condemned were waiting, I saw a tall man walk out be- tween two others as leisurely and composedly as if he had been going to his dinner. It was one of the young fellows with whom I had spoken so short a time before. The last act 198 THE ATTACHE AT PEKING LET . of this horror is consummated in the Pit of tfie 10, 000 (Wan Jen K'eng) by the wolves and foxes, a pit in the Chinese city where the bodies of executed criminals are thrown. Rich people'...s bodies are bought back by their families that they may receive decent burial. I was glad to see that the execution was conducted far more mercifully than one is led to suppose by certain writers. It is true that this is not the " Ling Chih, " or dis- graceful slow death, which is the punishment of parricide 1 and high treason. But an Eng- lishman who has witnessed that assures me that the criminal he saw so executed was put out of his misery at once, and that the mutila- tion took place after death and not before.
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