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Excerpt from Dahomey and the Dahomans, Vol. 1 of 2: Being the Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey, and Residence at His Capital, in the Year 1849 and 1850
Dahomey overrun the kingdom of Ardrah, that lay between his capital and the sea coast, and seized in its chief town a Euro pean factor. This European captive, and agent for the English African Company, Mr. Bulfinch Lamb, though carried cap tive to Abomey, was well and kindly treated by the dark monarch, and so far allowed his liberty, as to be permitted to correspond with his superior, the com mandant of the English fort at Whydah. It is in a letter from Mr. Lamb to the English commandant that we obtain the earliest sketch of this little known people; and so curious is this early description, and yet so truthful to the present habits and manners of the people, that it has been deemed advisable to reprint it in the Ap-? pendix. It is more than curious to note how little this military despotism has changed in two centuries and a half, not withstanding all the progress that has been made on the African coast by European enterprise and intelligence.
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Dahomey overrun the kingdom of Ardrah, that lay between his capital and the sea coast, and seized in its chief town a Euro pean factor. This European captive, and agent for the English African Company, Mr. Bulfinch Lamb, though carried cap tive to Abomey, was well and kindly treated by the dark monarch, and so far allowed his liberty, as to be permitted to correspond with his superior, the com mandant of the English fort at Whydah. It is in a letter from Mr. Lamb to the English commandant that we obtain the earliest sketch of this little known people; and so curious is this early description, and yet so truthful to the present habits and manners of the people, that it has been deemed advisable to reprint it in the Ap-? pendix. It is more than curious to note how little this military despotism has changed in two centuries and a half, not withstanding all the progress that has been made on the African coast by European enterprise and intelligence.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Frederick Edwyn Forbes
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ISBN - 9780364894941
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Page Count - 265
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Frederick Edwyn Forbes
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