Note 297 — JUDAR[257] AND HIS BRETHREN.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
A Moslem prison is like those of Europe a century ago; to think of it gives goose-flesh. Easterns laugh at our idea of penitentiary and the Arabs of Bombay call it “Al-Bistán” (the Garden) because the court contains a few trees and shrubs. And with them a garden always suggests an idea of Paradise. There are indeed only two efficacious forms of punishment all the world over, corporal for the poor and fines for the rich, the latter being the severer form.