China: 'Mrs Noble imprisoned in a Chinese cage', First Opium War, 1839-1842

'Our readers will not have forgotten the circumstances of the wreck of the Kite, East Indiaman, on the Chinese coast; and the fate of the crew, and the revolting cruelty practised by the natives on Mrs. Noble, the wife of the captain of the Kite, who was confined in a cage and carried about for six weeks'.

Sensationalist (and exaggerated) report in the The Illustrated London News (13 August 1842). In fact Mrs Noble was imprisoned in the cage for about two days.

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