Note 28 — J
Reading edition
The Jettis, in Mysore, are said28 to have been sometimes employed as executioners, and to have despatched their victim by a twist of the neck.29 Thus, in the last war against Tīpu Sultān, General Matthews had his head wrung from his body by the “tiger fangs of the Jetties, a set of slaves trained up to gratify their master with their infernal species of dexterity.”30