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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1249, 6 February 1896, Page 22

Of the execution grove at Coomassie, which has been destroyed by (he present expedition, Brackenbury, in his account of the war of 1873, wrote:—" We passed in by a patch through the reeds, striving to keep down the sickness that is stealing over us as the wellknown smell of decaying flesh grows stronger on our senses. And now the path opens and we try to take in details of the hideous sceue. A large open space, an acre or more in size, a dried up pond it might be, for there are signs as of a hollow now filled up. Filled up—with what ? Grinning skulls and fleshless bones below, and above bones not yet fleshless, skulls not yet deprived of their covering, and all the bodies—wo cannot say how many, seven we count, and the nearest a woman —bloated, swollen, discoloured, loathsome. Never a day passes but that foul grave demands fresh victims ; never a night but this king, with whom we are trying to make peace, does not offer fresh human sacrifices to the foul fetish and glut his taste for blood. With that sight in our eyes we leave the city of death, the place of skulls." The best and cheapest printing done atthe Mail office. The most expeditious printing done there alßo, as only the best of workmen »re employed,