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Image 1 of Dahomey. HANDBOOKS PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE HISTORICAL SECTION OF THE FOREIGN OFFICENo 105 D 6 G7 no 105 Copy 2 DAHOMEY LONDON PUBLISHED BY HM STATIONERY OFFICE 1920

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Image 3 of Dahomey. GrVnrA Tovaan oVee_ HsToriscxl se5Ticn HANDBOOKS PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE HISTORICAL SECTION OF THE FOREIGN OFFICENo 105 DAHOMEY LONDON PUBLISHED BY HM STATIONERY OFFICE 1920 eoi seV

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Image 5 of Dahomey. EDITORIAL NOTE ia U n In the spring of 1917 the Foreign Office in connexion with the preparation which they were making for the work of the Peace Conference established a special...

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Image 6 of Dahomey. It must be understood that although the series of volumes was prepared under the authority and is now issued with the sanction of the Foreign Office that Office is not to be...

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Image 7 of Dahomey. No 105J DahomeyJ TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE I GEOGRAPHY PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL 1 Position and Frontiers 1 2 Surface Coast and River System Surface 2 Coast 3 River System 3 3 Climate...

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Image 8 of Dahomey. TABLE OF CONTENTS ios PAGE c Forestry 27 d Land Tenure 27 3 Fisheries 28 4 Minerals 28 5 Manufactures 29 6 Power 29 C Commerce 1 Domestic a Principal Branches of...

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Image 9 of Dahomey. I GEOGRAPHY PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL 1 POSITION AND FRONTIERS The French colony of Dahomey extends for aljout 450 miles north from the Gulf of Guinea to the Niger It lies between 6...

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Image 10 of Dahomey. 2 GEOGRAPHY No 105 2 Surface Coast and River System Surface Dahomey falls into two wellmarked natural regions divided by a transverse watershed coinciding with 10 north latitude Lower Dahomey has a...

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Image 11 of Dahomey. Dahomey SURFACE COAST RIVERS 3 Near the Niger dunes are found and the country becomes Saharan in aspect Coast The coastline is about 75 miles long It con sists of a continuous...

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Image 12 of Dahomey. 4 GEOGRAPHY No 10S chief river of Togoland but all its headwaters are in French territory and one the Penjari Pindjeri draining the western slope of the Atakora is in Upper Dahomey...

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Image 13 of Dahomey. 5 Dahomey CLIMATE HEALTH RACE hottest portion of the earths surface but fresh nights are common at many seasons of the year The rainfall is lower and more regular than that of...

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Image 14 of Dahomey. 6 GEOGRAPHY No 105 Slave Coast race the Fongs or Jejs These remarkable people once constituted the population of the powerful independent kingdom of Dahomey whose achievements were only made possible by...

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Image 15 of Dahomey. Dahomey RACE POPULATION 7 living on the banks of the Niger They are fanatical Moslems Upper Dahomey like all the neighbouring regions of the western Sudan contains numbers of Hausas and Fulbes...

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Image 16 of Dahomey. Ho 105 II POLITICAL HISTORY Chronological Summary 1852 Portuguese and French claims to sovereignty at Whydah 186364 Brief French protectorate over Porto Novo 187576 Proposals to exchange French claims as part com...

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Image 17 of Dahomey. EARLY HISTORY 9 still regarded by France as a French possession The British Government however maintained the attitude that the forts in question like a fort formerly estab lished by Great Britain...

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Image 18 of Dahomey. HISTORY 10 Ho 105 In 1886 the colony of Benin was formally constituted and placed under a Resident Portugal however on the strength of a treaty of August 51885 made formal notification...

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Image 19 of Dahomey. Dahomey INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 11 Togoland renounced her own claim on Porto Se guro and Little Popo and agreed upon a boundary for the territories of the two Powers at the coast This...

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Image 20 of Dahomey. No 105 III SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONDITIONS 1 By decree of October 181904 Dahomey became part of the GovernmentGeneral of French West Africa Dahomey is included in the area in which under...

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Image 21 of Dahomey. IV ECONOMIC CONDITIONS A MEANS OF COMMUNICATION 1 Internal a Roads Paths and Tracies Considering its present state of development Dahomey seems to be fairly well provided with roads Two lines of...

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Image 22 of Dahomey. 14 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS llo 105 Datori on the western frontier right across the Atakora and middle Niger zones by Makha and Kandi to the Niger at Ilo The next to the south...

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Image 23 of Dahomey. 15 Dahomey ROADS RIVERS AND LAGOONS Attieme in the dry season to Vodome Wadome The Weme is about 300 miles in length but even when it is at its highest it is...

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Image 24 of Dahomey. 16 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS No 105 though in places the channel is narrow and intricate and there are some dangerous shallows such as Beshe Flat where there is only a depth of 6...

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Image 25 of Dahomey. RAILWAYS 17 DahomeyJ also proposed to bring Jugu the head of the Route de lOuest and a caravan centre into connexion with the eastern districts by a branch line from Paraku 120...

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Image 26 of Dahomey. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS 18 No 105 while the receipts amounted to 1154734 francs the deficit was thus 137995 francs The finances of the steam tramway on the other hand are controlled by the...

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Image 27 of Dahomey. Dahomey POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS PORTS 19 Great Popo a little east of the Mono river is built on a narrow strip of sand between the sea and the lagoon It has a...

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Image 28 of Dahomey. 20 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS No 105 central offices of the chief Government departments the Bank the Chamber of Commerce and many of the principal commercial houses The town is lighted by electricity but...

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Image 29 of Dahomey. DahomeyJ PORTS SHIPPING LINES 21 shipping may be unable to regain its former percentage of the total trade The bulk of the trade flows through Kotonu on account of its loading facilities...

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Image 30 of Dahomey. 22 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS No 105 services calling monthly at Whydah Kotonu and Great Popo Their mail steamers passed Kotonu twice a month and would call to take up passengers if there were...

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Image 31 of Dahomey. w LABOUR VEGETABLE PRODUCTS 23 l the colony are indolent and cowardly and the immi grant Yorubas settled among them are attracted to i trade rather than to manual labour The fighting...

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Image 32 of Dahomey. 24 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS oios the character of the soil in different districts but are very dependent on the rainfall The natives extract the oil from the pericarp by primitive methods which prevent...

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Image 33 of Dahomey. 25 Dahomey VEGETABLE PRODUCTS oranges bananas limes guavas and sugarcane occur in various parts Besides the plants which are indigenous or widely cultivated various experiments are being made in the introduction of...

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Image 34 of Dahomey. 26 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS lo 105 cocoa plants The Guinea kola Cola vera is being introduced to supplant the less valuable indigenous variety but is not as yet plentiful Rubber is extracted in...

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Image 35 of Dahomey. Dahomey STOCK CULTIVATION FORESTRY 27 b Methods of Cultivation Native methods of cultivation are still primitive and a good many mistakes are made through rashness and inexperience The wastefulness of the natives...

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Image 36 of Dahomey. 28 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS No 105 may be occupied and built upon by the permission of the LieutenantGovernor under certain specified con ditions Vacant lands or lands apparently without an owner are also...

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Image 37 of Dahomey. Dahomey MINERALS MANUFACTURES TRADE 29 5 Manufactures There are no considerable native industries in Da homey In the north cloth is woven and dyed though less of this will be done as...

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Image 38 of Dahomey. 30 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS No 105 visit Gurma They bring an inferior sort of salt potash leather goods ostrich feathers native stuffs horses donkeys and sheep and carry back kolanuts cloths and sometimes...

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Image 39 of Dahomey. Dahomey TOWNS FOREIGN INTERESTS ETC 31 being J K Vietor Co and Noltenius Paul both of Bremen and C Goedelt of Hamburg Great Britain has taken advantage of the gap left by...

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Image 40 of Dahomey. 32 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS No 105 41761415 francs in 1912 In 1913 the total was 31629877 francs which dropped to 25486196 francs in 1914 a Exports Quantities and ValuesThe total value of the...

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