A LIVING DEATH.

North Otago Times, Volume XIV, Issue 542, 26 July 1870, Page 8 (Supplement)

A LIVING DEATH.

A correspondent senda the Pioneer the following ■ad and interesting particulars with regard to an inmd»»t of Cashmere rale : " Serer*l years ag*o," h* ■ays, "» oonspiraoy was formed by 10ms of hi* subjeots, mostly, I beliere, men of rank and influence, against the role of the Maharajah. The plot wae disoorered, asd the ringleaders either executed or imprisoned for life. In a barred wood** oage in ike gaard-room of the ■mall fort at Kargil, a place situated on the road running nearly east and west between Srinnggnr and Leh, the ohief town of Ladat, may be seen one of these political prisonerc. The unfortunate man hai passed elarea yeari of oftptirity in this ornel oage, which meararea abont 44 feet square, and is so diabolically oontrired that lie oan neither ait;, nor stand, nor lie at ease. He hat nortr, liioe hia inoftweration, boon ihoirn the amalleat mercy : no respite from his painful confinement haa been granted him; God's sun, the freah air, the sight of the common objects of nature hare been denied him : the four mud walls of his prison room «ra his horizon ; the sepoy who from time to time brings him his aoanty meal furnishes his oaly Oonnwtiog link with the liring world."