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Show tion. Perhaps the most horrible of ' those Is a pit where prisoners wero tortured by vermin, which wore so numerous nu-merous and raveirouH that, In the absence ab-sence of human proy, they were fed on chunks of raw meat Wldo World Magazine. VERMIN PIT OF BOKHARA. The horrible deeds that once made Bokhara a byword are now prohibited prohibit-ed by tho Russian government Prisoners Pris-oners are not permitted, for Instance, to be dragged through the streets by galloping horses. Nor are they thrown from the top of the high lower called the Mlnar Katon. This was tho us-usual us-usual punishment meted out to evildoers evil-doers In the old days. Watched by thousands of spectators, the poor wretches were flung from that giddy height on to the Hagstom s beneath Bokhara has many chambers of horrors, hor-rors, unwholesome for western eyes to see and tho description of which would certainly be unfit for publlca- |