HUMAN SACRIFICES IN DAHOMEY.
M. Bayol, ex-Lieutenant-Governor of the Southern rivers, who has arrived at Marseilles, haa given in the course of nn interview with a newspaper reporter a description of the horrible .scenes which he was. compelled to witness during his stay in Dahomey, when wholesale human sacrifices wore carried out. On one occasion alono two batches of victims were immolated, the (irst consisting of HI and the second of i'.i human beings. M. Bayol states that during the visit which he was constrained to pay to the dead bodies ho waded anklo deep in blood. M. Bayol maintains that it would bo folly on tho part of the French Government to give up Dahomey, as its interior is rich and fertile. He thinks that a few thousand men would be stiflicienb to hold it ; but says that the Dahorneyans fight like demons, and at Porto Novo they began iie attack on tho French with cold steel.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8306, 12 July 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)
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