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| Picture No | 10269352 |
| Date | 1891 |
| Description | After an execution in Senegal in the French Sudan, 1891 |
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After the French had executed the native prisoners, due to sanitation concerns it was judged prudent not to bury all the bodies in situ. Instead, the corpses were tyed to rowboats via their ankles, which were rowed some kilometres downstream, away from Bakel.
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| Source | Unattributed engraving. in L'Illustration, 11 April 1891 pages 316-7 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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