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The 'Fan Kwae' at Canton Before Treaty Days 1825-1844

Note 47 — OLD CANTON. (continued 2)

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Strangling is by means of a wooden cross driven into the ground to which the prisoner's neck and outstretched arms are secured. A more ghastly and ignominious death than beheading.

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