2-701-135 - Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images

The Impaling of Some rebells?', Punishment: Massacre by impalement, from 'Beschreibung der Ost Indischen Kusten Malabar und Coromandel... als auch der Insel Zeylon...', pub. 1672 (engraving). A True and Exact Description of the most Celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel and also of the Isle of Ceylon; Father Philippus Baldaeus (1632-1672) was a missionary and representative of the Dutch East India Company in Ceylon for 10 years.