t exquisite tortures.

4. If they kill a Turk, they are burnt.

5. Those christians who attempt to escape from slavery, and are retaken,
suffer death in the following manner, which is equally singular and
brutal: the criminal is hung naked on a high gallows, by two hooks, the
one fastened quite through the palm of one hand, and the other through
the sole of the opposite foot, where he is left till death relieves him
from his cruel sufferings.

Other punishments, for trifling crimes committed by the christians, are
left to the discretion of the respective judges, who being usually of
malicious and vindictive dispositions, decree them in the most inhuman
manner.

In Tunis, if a christian slave is caught in attempting to escape, his
limbs are all broken, and if he murders his master, he is fastened to
the tail of a horse, and dragged about the streets till he expires.

Morocco and Fez conjointly form an empire, and are together the most
considerable of the Barbary states. In this empire christian slaves are
treated with the greatest cruelty: the rich have exorbitant ransoms
fixed upon them; the poor are hard worked, and half starved sometimes
murdered by the emperor, or their masters, for mere amusement.

_An Account of the Persecutions in Spanish America._

The bloody tenets of the Roman catholic persuasion, and the cruel
disposition of the votaries of that church, cannot be more amply
displayed or truly depicted, than by giving an authentic and simple
narrative of the horrid barbarities exercised by the Spaniards on the
innocent and unoffending natives of America. Indeed, the barbarities
were such, that they would scarce seen credible from their enormity, and
the victims so many, that they would startle belief by their numbers, if
the facts were not indisputably ascertained, and the circumstances
admitted by their own writers, some of whom have even gloried in their
inhumanity, and, as Roman catholics, deemed these atrocious actions
meritorious, which would make a protestant shudder to relate.

The West Indies, and the vast continent of America, were discovered by
that celebrated navigator, Christopher Columbus, in 1492. This
distinguished commander landed first in the large island of St. Domingo,
or Hispaniola, which was at that time exceedingly populous, but this
population was of very little consequence, the inoffensive inhabitants
being murdered by multitudes, as soon as the Spaniards gained a
permanent fo