poison-bean

Updated: May 25, 2025

For 200 years they have had intercourse with Europeans, who, though slavers, would certainly neither enjoy nor encourage these profitless horrors; yet no savages show more brutality in torture, more frenzied delight in bloodshed, than they do. A few of their pleasant practices are The administration of Esere, or poison-bean; "Egbo floggings" of the utmost severity, equalling the knout;

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1