Note 66 — Chapter XXII · BODILY INJURIES

For its occurrence in modern Persia, see Polak, Persien, i. 256, 329 sq.; in Fez, see Leo Africanus, History and Description of Africa, ii. 470. The Koran (v. 42) orders theft to be punished by cutting off the hands of the thief, but this punishment is now seldom practised in Muhammedan countries. Among the lower races I have met only with a few instances of punishing the offending member. In Ashanti intrigue with the female slaves of the royal household is punished by emasculation (Ellis, Tshi-speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast, p. 287); and the Kamchadales burn the hands of people who have been frequently caught in theft (Krasheninnikoff, op. cit. p. 179).