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See also:GANGUE, or CANG , the See also:European name for the See also:Chinese Kia or Kea, a portable See also:pillory, carried by offenders convicted of See also:petty offences . It ccnsists of a square wooden See also:collar weighing from 20 to 6o lb, through a hole in which the victim's See also:head is thrust . It fits tight to the See also:neck and must be worn See also:day and See also:night for the See also:period ordered . The offender is See also:left exposed in the See also:street . Over the parts by which it fastens slips of See also:paper bearing the See also:mandarin's See also:seal are pasted so that no one can liberate the condemned . The length of the See also:punishment is usually from a fortnight to a See also:month . As the cangue is 3 to 4 ft. across the convict is unable to feed himself or to See also:lie down, and thus, unless fed by See also:friends or passers-by, often starves to See also:death . As in the See also:English pillory, the name of the See also:man and the nature of his offence are inscribed on the cangue . |
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