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Восьмое описывало телесные наказания, которым подвергали слуг на улицах города и во дворах господских домов, а девятое– орудия пытки, применявшиеся во времена рабства: кобылу, колодки, цепи и «инфантес» – завинчивающиеся кольца, дробившие большой палец.
The eighth, on the corporal punishments that he had witnessed being administered to bond servants in the streets and the public squares of the city, and the ninth, on the instruments of torture employed in the days of slavery: the rack, the stocks, the neck chain or gargalheira, metal balls attached to the ankles, and infantes, rings to crush the thumbs.
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