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Show nonnoni i daUOjiet. SHOCKING THIXISDB. E.CIOLSAW. KIESDISIl AMAZONS. A letter from Paris, giving details of the a J ventures of Dr. liayol, the governor of ICoLonou, who was imprisoned im-prisoned by the King of Dahomey, appears In tbe YotA-dte Zatung. Ilr. Jiayol himself was not ill treat-cJ, treat-cJ, but was forced to wltncM the most horrible executions, and was cIoely watched night and day by thru! of the mrt important thief. lie was fnrced to bo preent at the execution of his secretary and his interpreter, and was a rpeUator of the sacrifice, at one time, of Ughty-fotw human being , and at another of lorty-two. The viitims were bound, mutilated in a horrible manner, and then. Hill alive, hung up by the heels. Then their bodies wire opened with lare, round knives and the intestines intes-tines taken out, after which the corpus as thrown into a "place of tkulls," where in forty-eight hours they ere reduced y blrus of prey to skeleton. Dr. Bayol wa every limecom-I limecom-I tiled tu view each corpse, while the executioners carefully turned the heads of their victims toward him. Upon one occasion he desired to bu oil nome negroes, w bom he recibniied as prttegts from i'orto Xovo, but the king angrily refused tu allow IL Kvery day bis dusky msjent dauced beforu the doctor, executing ateps and Jumps which wuuld have been hlgnly entertain inguuder other clrcumfitances. At thetu times tho Ling wore tandals and a sort cf Urecian cap on his head, and Ix A masons danced with him. The Amazons Dr liayol describes as very bends. One uay the doctor witne-sed a spectacle which he will never furgtt. At a sign from the kluxtxX) Amazons rushed upon a living ox, and tore It into pieces In a few eecondt; then marched cfT dngin?, while rive of their number belli the skin and head of their victim vic-tim aloft in triumph. In featal garments gar-ments they witnessed Irom the roofs of the neighboring huts the human sacrifices of the next day, and laughed heartily They always ap-pearperfectlyresigned,andgoquiet-Iv to death when their turn comes lhe king is very su-picious, and would not sign the letter written to the president of the French republic repub-lic Dr. I!a vol's return to tho coait was extremely dangerou, for he bail no pJo.jrott, and was therefore obliged, in spite of illntss, to march more than fifty miles in one da through country with which he was quite unatqutinted. On arriving at Kotonou he heard of the death of the king, whom, had he been still at Dahjmcj, he would have probably prob-ably been accu-ed of loisoning |