"Now, Sir, receive four hundred bastinadoes for your pains, and pay me 30,000 ducats; you will then take care in future how you give me advice."

And one of these did openly tell me the Dey had forbidden any stranger to be carried out of the town, on pain of having his vessel confiscated and being bastinadoed to his last endurance.

This is the end of most bastinados in the country.

The bastinadoes with which he had been treated were inflicted on his bare person, cold water being applied thereto, which made the punishment more severe.

But few have escaped the bastinado at one time or another; but in Persia this is not considered an indignity, even by the highest in the land.