for others to occupy.  To prevent this being offensive to those who occupied the Inquisition, there were flues or tubes extending to the open air, sufficiently capacious to carry off the odor.  In these cells we found the remains of some who had paid the debt of nature:  some of them had been dead apparently but a short time, while of others nothing remained but their bones, still chained to the floor of their dungeon.

In others we found living sufferers of both sexes and of every age, from three score years and ten down to fourteen or fifteen years—­all naked as they were born into the world!  And all in chains!  Here were old men and aged women, who had been shut up for many years.  Here, too, were the middle aged, and the young man and the maiden of fourteen years old.  The soldiers immediately went to work to release the captives from their chains, and took from their knapsacks their overcoats and other clothing, which they gave to cover their nakedness.  They were exceedingly anxious to bring them out to the light of day; but Col.  L., aware of the danger, had food given them, and then brought them gradually to the light, as they were able to bear it.

We then proceeded, said Col.  L., to explore another room on the left.  Here we found the instruments of torture, of every kind which the ingenuity of men or devils could invent.  Col.  L., here described four of these horrid instruments.  The first was a machine by which the victim was confined, and then, beginning with the fingers, every joint in the hands, arms and body, were broken or drawn one after another, until the victim died.  The second was a box, in which the head and neck of the victim were so closely confined by a screw that he could not move in any way.  Over the box was a vessel, from which one drop of water a second, fell upon the head of the victim; —­every successive drop falling upon precisely the same place on the head, suspended the circulation in a few moments, and put the sufferer in the most excruciating agony.  The third was an infernal machine, laid horizontally, to which the victim was bound; the machine then being placed between two beams, in which were scores of knives so fixed that, by turning the machine with a crank, the flesh of the sufferer was torn from his limbs, all in small pieces.  The fourth surpassed the others in fiendish ingenuity.  Its exterior was a beautiful woman, or large doll, richly dressed, with arms extended, ready, to embrace its victim.  Around her feet a semi-circle was drawn.  The victim who passed over this fatal mark, touched a spring which caused the diabolical engine to open; its arms clasped him, and a thousand knives cut him into as many pieces in the deadly embrace.  Col.  L., said that the sight of these engines of infernal cruelty kindled the rage of the soldiers to fury.  They declared that every inquisitor and soldier of the inquisition should be put to the torture.  Their rage was ungovernable.  Col.  L., did not oppose them.  They might