CHAP. XV.] 
THE WARNING. 
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therefore condemned to death, but having some power¬ 
ful adherents in his village, Kamrasi had thought it 
advisable to employ the Turks to shoot him this task 
they gladly accepted, as they were minus seventy tusks 
through his conduct. Without my knowledge, a small 
party had started in open daylight to his village close 
to our camp, and on attempting to enter the fence, 
several lances were thrown at the Turks; the deceased 
rushed from the hut attempting to escape, and was im¬ 
mediately shot dead by three of the Bari soldiers. The 
hands were then (as usual in all these countries) am¬ 
putated at the wrists, in order to detach the copper 
bracelets; the body being dragged about two hundred 
paces from the village was suspended by the neck to 
a branch of the tamarind tree. All the slave women 
(about seventy) and children were then driven down 
to the spot by the Turks to view the body as it swung 
from the branch; when thoroughly horrified by the 
sight, they were threatened to be served precisely in a 
similar manner should they ever attempt to escape. 
Superlatively brutal as this appeared, I could not help 
reflecting that our public executions in England con¬ 
vey a similar moral; the only difference being in the 
conduct of the women ; the savages having to be driven 
to the sight as witnesses, while European females 
throng curiously to such disgusting exhibitions. A few 
minutes after the departure of the crowd, the tree was 
covered with vultures, all watching the prospective 
feast. * 
In the evening Kamrasi sent a number of women 
and children as presents to Ibrahim; altogether he had. 
given him seventy-two slaves in addition to those cap¬ 
tured in the various wars. There never was a more 
supreme despot than the king Kamrasi—not only the 
property, but the families of his subjects were at his 
* The woman, Bacheeta, ran away, and we never saw her again. 
Some time after, we heard that she had escaped to Fowooka’s 
people, fearing to he left by us, as we had promised, in Chopi. 
