 English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole.  Macaulay's Essay on Lord Clive - Page 54by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 186 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...of the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and narrow. The space was only twenty...natives of England by lofty halls and by the constant waving of fans. The number of prisoners was one hundred and forty-six. When they were ordered to enter... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1861 - 752 pages
...Even for a single European malefactor that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close arid narrow. The space was only twenty feet square. The air-holes were small and OD« structed. It was the summer solstice — the sea~ son when the fierce heat of Bengal can scarcely... | |
 | John Garrett - India - 1865 - 366 pages
...the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and narrow. The space was only twenty feet square. The air holes were small and obstructed. It was the summer solstice — the season when the fierce heat... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 300 pages
...of the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and narrow. The space was only twenty...natives of England by lofty halls and by the constant waving of fans. The number of prisoners was one hundred and forty-six. When they were ordered to enter... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and narrow. The space was only twenty...natives of England by lofty halls and by the constant waving of fans. The number of the prisoners was one hundred and forty-six. When they were ordered to... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and narrow. The space was only twenty...natives of England by lofty halls and by the constant waving of fans. The number of the prisoners was one hundred and forty-six. When they were ordered to... | |
 | Elizabeth Spooner - 1867 - 170 pages
...of the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and narrow. The space was only twenty...natives of England by lofty halls and by the constant waving of fans. The number of the prisoners was one hundred and forty-six. When they were ordered to... | |
 | Wonders - 1870 - 264 pages
...having captured the small English garrison of Fort William, at Calcutta, shut them up in a small prison, only twenty feet square. The air-holes were small and obstructed. It was the summer solstice, when the fierce heat of Bengal can scarcely be endured by Englishmen even in the loftiest and coolest... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 732 pages
...the Black Hole. Even for a single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and narrow. The space was only twenty...natives of England by lofty halls and by the constant waving of fans. The number of the prisoners was one hundred and forty-six. When they were ordered to... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1873 - 494 pages
...single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and naiTow. The space was only twenty feet square. The air-holes were small and obstructed. It was the summer. The prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows,... | |
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