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" she jumped over-board and swam ashore. She also, in the same manner, expressed, that she was ill on board, her hair cut off, and an operation on the back performed: I examined the part, it had been scarified, but not according to the English mode of cupping,... "
Caraboo: A Narrative of a Singular Imposition Practised Upon the Benevolence ... - Page 22
by John Mathew Gutch - 1817 - 66 pages
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Caraboo: A Narrative of a Singular Imposition, Practised by a Young Woman of ...

John Mathew Gutch - Impostors and imposture - 1817 - 82 pages
...intimated, that she was on board a ship, and so ill-treated, that when she came within sight of laud, she jumped over-board and swam ashore. She also, in...performed: I examined the part, it had been scarified, bat not according to the English mode of cupping, or to any European manner with which I am acquainted...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 29

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1851 - 706 pages
...hail been ill on her journey, and had had her hair cut off, and an operation on the back of her head performed. " I examined the part; it had been scarified,...the incisions are extremely regular, and apparently effected with the caustic, a mode of cupping adopted in the East!! " Caraboo wanted but such grave...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 22

American periodicals - 1851 - 606 pages
...had been ill on her journey, and had had her hair cut off, and an operation on the back of her head performed. " I examined the part ; it had been scarified,...mode of cupping, or to any European manner with which lam acquainted ; the incisions are extremely regular, and apparently effected with the caustic, a mode...
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Remarkable Women of Different Nations and Ages

Women - 1858 - 348 pages
...on her journey, and had had her hair cut off, and an operation performed on the back of her head. " I examined the part; it had been scarified, but not...the incisions are extremely regular, and apparently effected with the caustic, a mode of cupping adopted in the East!!" Caraboo lacked only such grave...
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