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Updated: May 11, 2025
It was an instrument of punishment reserved for the worst of criminals; and no torture was deemed so awful as that which it was capable of inflicting. 'What do you say to be put in this engine of punishment? asked the ambassador, pointing significantly to the bernicles. 'I have already told you, replied Louis, unmoved, 'that I am the sultan's prisoner, and that he can do with me as he pleases.
He was sad, and much more dejected than when he was in captivity and chains at Mansourah, bullied by the Saracens, and threatened with the bernicles.
'I am the sultan's prisoner, replied Louis, unmoved, 'and he can do with me what he pleases. On hearing this answer, the ambassadors intimated their intention of employing personal violence; and, one of them having stamped three times with his foot, the Eunuch Sahil entered, followed by the jailers, bearing that frightful instrument of torture, known as 'the bernicles.
And around the lake, one of the highest in the globe, were multitudes of pelicans, swans, gulls and geese, bernicles and divers.
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