The Golden Dagon Or Up And Down the Irrawaddi Being Passages of Adventure in
The Golden Dagon Or Up And Down the Irrawaddi Being Passages of Adventure in
Palmer, John Williamson, 1825-1906
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But in those three volleys the dacoits had done their worst. Our first discharge of grape cut many of them down, and sent the rest fly- ing in every direction. An old Peguan chief, with twenty men from the boats, armed with ship's muskets, chased them through the bam- 8* 178 THE GOLDEN DAGON ; boos and caught their Fra Diavolo. They brought the fellow down to the bank, and, having tied him to a tree, shot him dead ; then, decapitating him, they mounted his head on a pole and hoisted it in the b...ranches of the tree for a scare-dacoit. They would have burned him alive, and earnestly besought Captain Neblitt's consent to that picturesque addition to the programme. But we had neither the time nor the ferocity; so to their disappointment and disgust they had to content themselves with a more civilized and Christian style of thing. Be- fore returning to the ship they were ordered to burn the houses, a duty which they brilliantly performed, amid the outlandish glorification of their friends, male and female, big and little, and some astonishing gymnastics of a warlike character on their own part.
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