Anchored just "near the Moliemet Ali was the Sumatra, an Italian mail ship, on board which I had been a passenger a month-or so ago, and from her- main top one could look down on the Mehemet AH and see both sides of her, 'as weir as her decks. Just before. noon the.- men .were, brought .on deck piniohad 'with their arms behind' their lucks, ,-their hands before .them, and aukle irons eohfiaiug their feet so that they could barely walk. The crew of the ship had been called on Jdeck. The officers stood on the starboard side, fie crew on the port, the victims tit the main-mast. The officers were m the Haunting dress of their service, the men wore their cutlasses.. An officer read the findings— at least that is what we supposed they were— of the court-martial. This was a long and protracted oeremony. When he had done. some seamen went aluft and made fast to ,the mainstay near the mast two blocks. From this they rove two stout lines m different directions. These wsre carried over the side of the ship' ; arid weigKted wilh 'a-^ouuding lead about forty ;feef from the end. Then the lines were carried around the stem.oE ,tha-£hlp agdbrpught for ward, the leads sinking them under thei keel.; After that they were hauled on b ard, the leads detached, tho two men£ irere\tted{ side )by side; ,- andj)oth fast to thera, ; one rf rppe being tied to' the waist of 'on?, 'ipth'et 1 rope round the shoulders of "the 'the 'either.' ; The arrangement of ! the 'taokles wasito drag the men under, the ship : tfrom i either/ side i by hauling i on jthe. full or, gunning end; .of^^he.rope and the two wretches,', being led .to .the pde, were "shoved dverb'oafd. !They, both screamed as , they , foil ,• into the.ij.^afcer, and 'as the ■distance! from,,ithe<,gangway to the ■ surface .was quite* fourteen feet) they muat have been., more or less hurt. $1$ .tb l is, I.wa1 .wa^ 1 9nly the, beginning of their miseries. Tiie' men on piie side hauled'tauV'ine' ' rope 'kin'derneath' the ''ship)" and !y th'eh tne^'ortlerl'to' " walk 'iway!' 'was' given/' -'The band played a solemn tune something like the /' Carni val flf/JV[ei)iee ( ] m, moypment, .except the 'time was changed, ' and Stamp, stamp, stamp, ; went the men. 