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THE BLACK TRAGEDY OF AMBOINA 225

with other historic documents. The reader also will re­
member that torture was even practised in cases of theft
on the vessels of the English East India Company. In
fact the system was too general to make any specific in­
stance a certain indication of unbridled brutality on the
part of those who practised it. Still, remembering in
what relation the English stood to the Dutch, recalling
the age of several of them and having regard also to the
source from whence the accusations against them eman­
ated, it must be considered that these cruelties at Amboina
carried with them a sense of indelible infamy.

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