Person

Boali

Woman whom the Commission of Inquiry questioned in 1904 about the loss of her foot.

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The Commission wrote that she said a capita, whose advances she had repulsed, shot her and cut off her foot to remove her anklet.

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Report of the Commission of Inquiry (1905) questioned by the Commission at Baringa Primary record 1

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The Congo: a report of the Commission of Enquiry appointed by the Congo Free State government (English translation, 1906), Commission of Enquiry of the Congo Free State, translated by G. P. Putnam's Sons (Project Gutenberg), 30 Oct 1905. Primary record
Reverend Mr. Harris at Baringa showed to us a person named Isekosu and the woman Boali, the former without his right hand and the latter without her right foot.
The woman Boali said that a capita, whose advances she had repulsed, shot her and thinking her dead, cut off her foot so as to be able to remove her anklet.

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