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fastened to handcuffs so that the range of movement of their hands was very narrow, while fetters were on their ankles.
Corporal punishment is usually inflicted with a short stick on the back of the bare legs above the knee. The prisoner is held with his face to the ground, and the
blows, rapidly given, cause a deep discoloration of the skin, which breaks if the punishment is unduly prolonged. Persons convicted of minor offences are sometimes .loaded with a board (the cangue) 26 or 28 inches square, and weighing about 27 lbs., which is carried about
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