Book/Printed Material Dahomey and the Dahomans; being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence at his capital, in the year 1849 and 1850. Volume 1
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Image 1 of Volume 1- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 2 of Volume 1 ciassLIt Book Qckl 1- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 6 of Volume 1 DUO KING OF DAHOMEY LONDON 0011100 4 C 051- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 7 of Volume 1 DAHOMEY AND THE DAHOMANS BEING THE JOURNALS OF TWO MISSIONS TO THE KING OF DAHOMEY AND RESIDENCE AT HIS CAPITAL IN THE YEARS 1849 AND 1950 BY FREDERICK E1 FORBES COMMANDER R...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 8 of Volume 1 LONDON SPOTTISWOODES and SHAW New street Square- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 9 of Volume 1 PREFACE WHILE conversing one evening on board Her Majestys ship Cyclops with the Hon Captain Hastings he remarked that great benefit might accrue from the visit of a naval officer to the...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 10 of Volume 1 iv PREFACE the Commander in chief whose pendant be was about to join The Commander in chief received the offer of my services and at the same time a request from Mr...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 11 of Volume 1 PREFACE V and had seen the state of the slave trade in its advanced systematic stage and had con sidered the horrors of that division of it disgusting enough I have visited...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 12 of Volume 1 Vi PREFACE a ruthless banditti and how changed the scene The old would be rejected if brought to market they are sacrificed the whole nation are transported exterminated their name to be...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 13 of Volume 1 PREFACE vii honest man had a better chance of success than a cruiser has of a slaver there now The trade is destroyed and the people have receded from their evil habits...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 14 of Volume 1 Via PREFACE of the cruisers could well equip and man two of these launches and so line the coast that no ingress or egress could take place unknown I do not blame...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 15 of Volume 1 PREFACE ix by themselves would grace any counting house in this country and whose minds expanded by education have made them bold enough to declare that the old super stition of the...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 16 of Volume 1 PREFACE is curious to find that the dynasty has lasted two centuries Many of their customs are strangely at variance with the horrors of others The forms and ceremonies of polite society...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 17 of Volume 1 CONTENTS OF VOL I INTRODUCTION CHAP I Dahomey and its Neighbours Page 1 CHAP II The Dahomans and their Manners 13 THE JOURNALS Journal of a Mission to the Court of Dahomey...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 18 of Volume 1 Xil CONTENTS OF VOLUME I Page Reflections on the Slave Trade and the Means for its Repression 131 The Animal Kingdom 156 c 168 APPENDIX A Letter from Abomey in 1724 181...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 19 of Volume 1 ERRATA Vol I page 81 line 3 from bottom for siloes smith read silver smith 83 line 5 for sodesque read royal master 93 last line for Haiberg read Harvey 171 line...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 20 of Volume 1- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 21 of Volume 1 DAHOMEY AND THE DAHOMANS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I DAHOMEY AND ITS NEIGIIBOURS As the king of the slave trade and its mer chants the Dahoman monarch has become a word of common use...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 22 of Volume 1 2 DAHOMEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS over if it does not possess the entire land that lies between the coast thus cut off be tween the mouths of these rivers and the bases...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 23 of Volume 1 DAHOMEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS 3 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...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 24 of Volume 1 4 Early his tory of Dahomey DAHOMEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS The narrative commenced by Mr Lamb is carried on in separate works by Captains Smith and Snelgrave until the time when the...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 25 of Volume 1 DAHOMEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS 5 count of Ahadees reign carried down the Dahoman annals to the time of the son and grandson of that detestable savage From this period the history was...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 26 of Volume 1 6 DAHOMEY AND ITS NEIGIIBOURS and its territories and in daily intercourse with and even dependant on Europeans for its prosperity and its revenues The rise of the military kingdom of Dahomey...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 27 of Volume 1 DAHOMEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS 7 expeditions and the addition of wasted countries the necessary but far from coveted consequence Although for two centuries at least Dahomey has been a military nation it...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 28 of Volume 1 8 Abeah Keutah Lagos and Benin DAHOMEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS rates Dahomey from its great rival mon archy of Western Africa the kingdom of Ashantee Time alone can develope the consequences to...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 29 of Volume 1 DAHOMEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS 9 the central emporium of commerce from Yorihbab Bornou and all the other coun tries neighbouring on the banks of the Niger Lagos itself is a most important...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 30 of Volume 1 10 DAHOMEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS to the slave trade in Lagos cannot be ex aggerated A fort on the present position occupied by the slave barracoons would prevent any transportation from the...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 31 of Volume 1 DAIIOMEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS family becoming numerous one of the younger branches founded a city on the Jackwaw creek connecting Lagos and the Benin river and the king of Warree having died...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 32 of Volume 1 12 DAHOMEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS was Ardrah whose capital Allandah still remains It is difficult if not impossible to decide what is the actual extent of the kingdom of Dahomey It may...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 33 of Volume 1 13 CHAP II THE DAHOMANS AND THEIR MANNERS MOST travellers are forcibly struck with the rapid improvement in morality which in barbarous equally with civilised coun tries characterises the interior of a...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 34 of Volume 1 lopulation of Daho mey 14 THE DAHOMANS AND THEIR MANNERS the Dahoman port the personal depravity of the slave merchants has destroyed the inborn honesty and chastity of the natives and the...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 35 of Volume 1 THE DAHOMANS AND THEIR MANNERS war he levies in all about 24000 men and an equal number of commissariat followers Thus he moves on his war march with nearly 50000 of both...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 36 of Volume 1 16 The attack on the Attah pahms THE DAHOMANS AND THEIR MANNERS and every cunning secrecy and ingenuity is exercised to take the enemy by surprise Thus at Okeadon in 1848 one...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 37 of Volume 1 THE DAHOMANS AND THEIR MANNERS have discomfited the Dahoman army Had the Attahpams stood they would with ease have conquered the merciless invaders After the destruction of a town notice is sent...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 38 of Volume 1 18 TIIE DAHOMANS AND THEIR MANNERS The royal salute profusely displayed and of which one of the following Journals affords the first de scription ever given to the world That which is...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 39 of Volume 1 THE DAHOMANS AND THEIR MANNERS 19 cupied by preparations for war serving out powder balls or gun stones small ironstones and much palavar on war subjects Before going to war the king...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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Image 40 of Volume 1 20 THE DAHOMANS AND THEIR MANNERS being that they harboured the Attahpams In the Attahpam or northeast direction Dahomey has no territory To the west Katoo is a possession not by conquest...- Contributor: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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