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Updated: May 19, 2025
The garrucha or strappado and the garrotes, combined with the water-torture and the rack, represented the survival of the fittest in the natural selection of torments concerning which the Holy Office in Italy and Spain had such a vast experience. He gives an elaborate and epicurean account of his commissariat during the successive seasons of his sojourn in the neighbourhood.
Martin Hillyard continued to draw fine straight lines westwards from the northern coast of Mallorca to the mainland of Spain, some touching the shore to the north of Barcelona, some striking it as far south as Almeria and Garrucha. When he had finished his map-making he handed the result to José Medina. "See, señor! Your feluccas cut across all the trade-routes through the Mediterranean.
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