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Creepy story about a boat washing up in Barbados, filled with mummified corpses of African immigrants<\/a>. Some of the passengers wrote goodbye notes which, as you’d expect, are the saddest things in the world:<\/p>\n

I would like to send to my family in Bassada [a town in the interior of Senegal] a sum of money. Please excuse me and goodbye. This is the end of my life in this big Moroccan sea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Creepy story about a boat washing up in Barbados, filled with mummified corpses of African immigrants. Some of the passengers wrote goodbye notes which, as you’d expect, are the saddest things in the world: I would like to send to my family in Bassada [a town in the interior of Senegal] a sum of money. … <\/p>\n

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