their limbs being dismembered first ~.nd thrown into the river to the crocodiles. A drink containing an opiate was generally given the victim to deaden the pain but often this formality was dispensed with. The victims were often cut to pieces at the place of trial with knives and their limbs thrown out to the vultures that almost con~ tinuously hover ‘round the huts and kraals of the savage tribes of Africa.

ttln some instances condemned persons were burned at

the stake. This form of execution is meted out at some of the religious dances or festivities to èome of their pagan gods to atone and drive away the evil spirits that have caused pestilences to come upon the people. The ‘victims at these times are tortured in truly savage fashion, being burned. to death by degrees while the other members of the tribe dance around and go wild with religious fervor calling to their gods while the victim screeches with pain in his slowly approaching death throes. Young girls, women, boys and men are often accused of witchcraft. One method they used of telling whether the victim accused was innocent or guilty was to give them a liquid poison made from the juice of several poisonous plants. If they could drink it and live they were innocent, if they died they were guilty. In most cases death was almost instantaneous. Some vomited the poison from their stomachs and lived.

tiThe Bakubas sometimes resorted to caimibéliala and