Note 101 — Chapter XVI
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As we found from the gathering of the turkey-buzzards for a week afterwards, the corpses were thrown into the town moat, near the Komasi Palace; during the “Atto-year” their place is on the north of the enceinte. They are not disposed of, as Mr. Duncan says, “in a large pit, at a considerable distance from the town.” In all cases their skulls, which here are prized as much as by the Anthropological Society of London, are subsequently removed, and are probably afterwards exhibited as the trophies of heroic deeds.