Barry Vermillion wrote:
>
> >John Hyett wrote:
>
> >And I take it the Indians were too civilised to inflict such punishment
> >on their fellow humans...
>
> The Kichai of north central Texas (until c. 1850) usually ate their captured
> enemies.  If a tribal member was banned, they were promptly killed if seen
> again.
>
> Barry

That still sounds better than locking a man in a 6ft x 6ft cell in pitch
darkness, deprived of both light and sound for several days until his
spirit was broken and madness was the result. In Port Arthur they built
the insane asylum next to the "model prison" for good reason.
John