(English)
If slavery were abolished, all criminals would probably be put to death or mutilated.
CARDINAL LAVIGERIE
(Belgian)
King Wemba, near Tanganyika, finding the wooden drumsticks too harsh for his ears, cut off the hands of his slaves so that they might beat the drums with their stumps.
MR. J. A. MALONEY
(English)
The offender was lucky if he escaped with instant death, for Msiri delighted in diabolical refinements of cruelty. Quite minor crimes were punished by the lopping off of a hand or the docking of an ear. In fact Msiri practised mutilation almost as extensively as Kasongo.
MR. FREDERICK STANLEY ARNOT
(English)