Dahomey as It Is

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Excerpt from Dahomey as It Is: Being a Narrative of Eight Months' Residence in That CountryDahomey, however, I was unable to follow up my design, but was condemned to be the recipient of savage honours and to sit an unwilling spectator of the notorious Annual Customs of the country, my feelings being grievously harassed by the thought that I had discovered one of the richest localities in Western Africa, while the polite imprisonment, as it were, to which I was subjected, entirely precluded my making any collection save the meagre one to be obtained in the spacious courtyards of my residence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.