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After this I came home and went towards that side of my own compound from which I heard the noise come and then I made a hole in the straw wall of the prisoner’s hut, thro’ which I saw Saumah tied up and hanging by the hands and feet from the roof, so that her back and her posteriors touched the ground. She appeared to be dead. Her eyes were shut & she did not appear to breath, she made no noise.
I did not mention this at that time to my husband, - he