Note 350 — THE PORTER AND THE THREE LADIES OF BAGHDAD. (continued 3)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
When a woman is bastinadoed in the East they leave her some portion of dress and pour over her sundry buckets of water for a delicate consideration. When the hands are beaten they are passed through holes in the curtain separating the sufferer from mankind, and made fast to a "falakah" or pole.