...a vertical sun: the intolerable stench of the corrupt corpses, the heaps of human heads and skulls; the awful stillness and solitude of the place disturbed only by the frightful screaming of voracious vultures as they flapped their sable wings almost in my face, all...

...a vertical sun: the intolerable stench of the corrupt corpses, the heaps of human heads and skulls; the awful stillness and solitude of the place disturbed only by the frightful screaming of voracious vultures as they flappod their sable wings almost in my face, all...

...sight to more agreeable objects, or even of moving hand or foot. The huge branches of the feteesh-tree, groaning beneath their burden of human flesh and bones,...of the place, disturbed only by the sighing of the seemingly conscious wind through the sombre foliage, or, at intervals, by the frightful screaming of...

...sight to more agreeable objects, or even of moving hand or foot. The huge branches of the feteesh-tree, groaning beneath their burden of human flesh and bones,...of the place, disturbed only by the sighing of the seemingly conscious wind through the sombre foliage, or, at intervals, by the frightful screaming of...

...stupidly gazed on the ghastly spectacle before me — the huge branches of the fetish tree groaning under their burden of human flesh and bones, and sluggishly...stillness and solitude of the place, disturbed only at intervals by the frightful screamings of voracious vultures, as they flapped their sable wings almost...

...stupidly gazed on the ghastly spectacle before me — the huge branches of the fetish-tree groaning under their burden of human flesh and bones, and sluggishly...stillness and solitude of the place, disturbed only at intervals by the frightful screamings of voracious vultures as they flapped their sable wings almost...

...the birds of prey ; the intense and almost insufferable heat of a vertical sun ; the intolerable odor of the corrupt corpses ; the heaps of •human heads,...stillness and solitude of the place, disturbed only at intervals by the frightful streamings of voracious vultures, as- they flapped their sable wings...

...the spot by the influence of a torpedo, and stupidly gazed on the ghastly spectacle before me, — the huge branches of the fetish-tree groaning beneath...of the place, disturbed only by the sighing of the unconscious wind through the sombre foliage, or at intervals by the frightful screaming of voracious...

...flesh and bones, and sluggishly waving in consequence of the hasty retreat of birds of prey; . . . the intolerable odour of the corrupt corpses; the...hollows which had once sparkled with living eyes'. 39 Next to the tree stood the King of Badagry's fetish hut, a court of ordeal, in which the King gave...

...flesh and bones, and sluggishly waving in consequence of the hasty retreat of birds of prey; . . . the intolerable odour of the corrupt corpses; the...me from hollows which had once sparkled with living eyes'.39 Next to the tree stood the King of Badagry's fetish hut, a court of ordeal, in which the King...