. The Baganda . price fora little ease and comfort. The men who guarded prisonersdedicated to the sacrificial places were sometimes lenientwith their charges; they would allow a man to go awayby night on parole, to visit his Jriends. and wouldindulge him in various ways if he made it worth theirwhile. Prisoners who were released by the guard to visit viii GOVERNMENT 265 their relatives rarely abused the confidence thus reposedin them ; they had given their word to return, andthey kept it; their purpose, in obtaining leave of absence,was to visit influential relatives, or friends, who mightinte
. The Baganda . price fora little ease and comfort. The men who guarded prisonersdedicated to the sacrificial places were sometimes lenientwith their charges; they would allow a man to go awayby night on parole, to visit his Jriends. and wouldindulge him in various ways if he made it worth theirwhile. Prisoners who were released by the guard to visit viii GOVERNMENT 265 their relatives rarely abused the confidence thus reposedin them ; they had given their word to return, andthey kept it; their purpose, in obtaining leave of absence,was to visit influential relatives, or friends, who mightintercede for them with the King. A more rigorous mode ofpunishing prisoners was to put both arms into the stocks, aswell as one leg. The log used for the arms was about two. FIG. 41.—STOCKS FOR ARMS AND LEGS, WITH PLANTAIN-FIBRE PADS WORNTO PROTECT THE ARMS AND LEGS FROM THE SHARP EDGES OF , AND COIL OK ROPE FOR BINDING PRISONERS. feet six inches long, and four inches in diameter ; holes weredriven through it at both ends for the hands to be passedthrough, and pegs were inserted to prevent the hands frombeing withdrawn. The weight of the log was heavy, andthere was the further discomfort that the hands were rigidlykept twenty inches apart from each other ; it was difficult forthe prisoner to eat, because, if he wished to lift the foodto his mouth, he could only do so by raising the log with 266 THE BAGANDA CHAP. The powers ofMessen-gers. The Queens and the Kings Mothers Courts. Treason. Homicide and murder. both hands extended. Two or three nights spent in thiscondition generall) proved fatal ; the log weighed so heav^ilyupon the chest. In later years the Arabs introduced the forkedstick for the neck ; this did not, however, meet with generalapp
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